El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-13

the split heat record of Ora and Min
shoot Of 2:05 IA, 2:OR 81, 2:05 IA.
The racing scene has now shifted to
Saratoga, where mythical lid" and Sc
ductive surroundings lend perpetual as
pect of every day being a holiday. Here,
also. it is said, the 1910 renewal of the
Futurity, Americas richest turf event,
viii De run and won for the first time.
Hitherto this much priced classic has
been decided at the Sheepshead Bay.
Parluous times, and confiscatory legis-
lation, is the excuse given by the
writer's informant.
At Empire City the ponies helped give
the memory brokers a terrific drub-
bling. w G. Yanke, the California band
leader, will be remembered by the lay
ers for many years for the trouncing
he has handed out to their already
flattened bank roll. This is the first
around Gotham, and he cut it wide
enough to make up for past neglect
Those in position TO know, assert that
1T is safe figuring that Yanke cleaned
up over $4,000 within the past four
weeks. This is big money these parlous
days. But Yanke is a big player. His
days of dondling with the white chips
are past. Now it is nothing else than
stack of blues with the limit taken
off
One of the particular coups that
Yanke had hand IN was the winning
of Schoolmarn in~-the KnickerbockeF
stakes. The daring westerner saw the
miss knock the track record into 4
cooked hat few days before she won
the stake, and when the oddsmakers
Lung up Is TO 1 against her IT just de-
lighted Yanke to death. He IS cred
tied with having trotted up and around
the places where the memoSites are to
be found lounging. getting down about
$4,000 at top prices, and then went into
the stand and saw the Bennett fiHy
come home with the change When
Pharaoh trimmed a field of classy
2yearolds. Yanke was right there with
a small bundle of 40 TO 1. In addition
to horses outside his own stable,
Yanke has gathered in much ''kale' on
his own runners, Jupiter Joe and The
Hague. These two have the habit of
getting home I'm front only when Yanke
is there with the big wagers. When ne
hesitates they lose.
1t was only recently that the stew
ards Intercepted Yanke over the poor
race of Jupiter Joe, and he gave them
one of the cleverest excuses ever heard:
THE horse has a sore mouth and will
not answer the Bit" 1t was good work
and he got away with it.
Yanke belongs to the crowd that en-
tered the racing game because their
earnings came along too slowly. It was
only a few years back that he led an
orchestra in q small hotel in Frisco.
Getting acquainted with horsemen, he
soon Joined the band Of regulars, and
is now on the pinnacle. OF course it
will be only matter of time when his
coin will melt. But in the meantime
Eanke has Travelled all over the<country
and had a good time. One can always
get job in q band, is his motto, but
swinging the baton is harder work than
collecting after beating>a long shot.
Apparently w. S. Vosburg, the Off
cial weight adjuster of the Jockey club.
holds the same opinion as the writer
as to the merits Of Sir Martin and Fitz-
herbert, and wishes to see it tried out.
As 2yearolds Sir Martini was much the
better colt. When Ballot was in Eng
land racing against English horses. his
lire against Sir Martins performances
this season was very clearly drawn. In
the Saratoga handicap Mr.. Vosburg
adjusts the weights on logical terms
and the basis of the Ballot-Sir Martin