Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-21
HAMBURG BELLE At
BR|GHTWOOD TRACK
Trainer w. J. Andrews Arrives
With the John E. Madden
String of Standard
bredS.

The great track star. Hamburg Belle,
and a notable retinue OF standard breds
has arrived at the Brightwood Driving
Club stalls. This stable, the property or
John L. Madden. has just come to Wash
ington from the Lexington farm of their
owner. William j. Andrews, the well
known trainer, who is under contract with
Madden to train his horses. came down
from his home in Buffalo, n. Y. and has
assumed command of his charges.
The horses have been on the farm all
winter and just as soon as the weather
opens up a bit will be put through their
PAGES. Mr.. Andrews will keep the horses
here about a month or until the opening
Of the trotting season on the big tracks
In the north. Mr.. Andrews regards the
Washington climate as ideal in the spring,
especially for the working out of horses,
and expects to bring his string here every
year To prepare for the years big work.
In the Madden string at BrighiwOod are
Hamburg Belle, whom Mr.. Andrews an
ticipates is on the eve of his best year.
But be this as it may, the famous mare
could we'll afford to rest on her present
laurels. She is one of the prizes of the
driving track and is the pride of the
habitues of the sport.
Brighton is another luminary in the
Madden constellation at Brightwood. This
fve-year-old stallion is by Moco, out of
Silicon, full brother to Sillico- The lat
ter is the horse that Madden sold two
years ago for $4,000 after winning the
kentucky futurty with him. Brighton
made a record of 2.12 last fall.
Nancy McCarren, by McCarren, out of
Nancy Hanks, is a three-year-old mare in
Mr. Andrews string. Nancy McCarren
h
which she bears. AS a two-year-old she
was good enough to step a mile in lisa.
Big things are expected OF Sister
Francis. She is three ear-old, by Wal
nut Hall. cut of Silicon, and has been
clocked at 2.15.
Then there is a two-year-old Ariel La
burn. with prodigious pedigree, whose
grand sire. Jack Laburn, was in the habit
of doing a quarter in thirtyfive seconds.
y candidate for green stakes IN the
Madden string is a horse by Director,
with a pacing record of 2.15 over half
mile track.
Interesting as the horses are to the
world of sport. Trainer Andrews is equal
thirty years Mr. Andrews has been train
ing and driving horses on the great tracks
of the country. He has during that
time been identified with the best Of
standard bred strings and has been in a
large degree responsible for many of the
notable track records that have made the
trotting and pacing horses of this coun-
try famous the world over.
1t has been said that the horse bug
was inoculated in Mr. Andrews early In
life. Soon after getting out of swaddling
clothes he set about sowing wild oats.
At twenty years of age Andrews began
to life and systematically applied him.
self to the profession of training race
horses. His first work of Importance was
as trainer for Cicero J. Hamlin for four
years Then for three years he had
charge of the Lang stock farm after
which he went with William Simpson
who conducted the Empire City farm
E. II. Hartman. the great railroad
magnate, took Andrews under his wing
as trainer Of his extensive stable of
standard breds. Mr. Andrews conducted
his blooded equine affairs for six years.
or until Hartman became so busy con-
solidating railroad systems that he had
to let down on his racing activities. Mr.
Andrews has since exercised the func-
tions of a public trainer, and is now
under contract to pilot the string of
John e. Madden.
Mr.. Andrews has contributed nightly
to the uplift of the American turf. He
is regarded as a driver par excellence
Among his more snowy performances was
the time when he drove Mascot a PAGER
a mile at 2.04. This was at Terre Haute
mo. in 1897. II was a big day for An
drews at independence, Iowa. in 1889
when he drove Belle Hamlin and Justina
as a double team to hign-wheeled We
hicie In 2-13- II was Andrews who held
the ribbons when the PAGER John r. Cen
try negotiated a mile in two minutes
and half second
That Mr.. Andrews has succeeded so
we'll I'm the horse game is not regarded
as unnatural He comes from a section
of the country where for many wears
the breeding and driving OF fast trotting
and pacing horses has been an occupa-
ton that has but melowed as time ad-
vances. That section has been RESPONSE
Die Tor the horse speed ~ the entire ma
ton. In 1860 there was foaled in Orange
county, y. y. Rysdyk Hamiltonian
whose get has furnished to the Ameri-
can turf world the real horses of class
Mr. Andrews is confident that the com
ing season Will be ii notable one for
record smashing Trotting races are in
creasinS in popularity, he says. and this
conc'e on would be realized the sooner
were scoring dispensed with. He ia
one or the disciples of handicap racing
III this Is not possible OF realization GEN
orally he thinks it a good plan to got
them away from d walking start saw
about twenty-five feet from tha wire
frequent scoring not only hurts many
good horses chances, but also spoiis the
amusement or the spectators A false
alarm was never popular in any ayoca-