Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
POT OF MONEY ON A RACE
ReoOllections of a Big Killing on a
Chicago Track.
MoIL1E MCARTY PRIZE WINNING
Raid Of Lucky aIdw and Calf
fornia Bunch Yields 5000
How the Race Was
Run.

Run.
The late Lucky Baldwin, who spent a
fortune I'm preparing his Santa Anita stock
farm, probably never felt more proud OF a
horse than he did Of his Mollie McCarty
Two Of the first mares that he secured
for stud matrons were Clara d. and Jennie
b.. Then he paid a stiff price to Theodore
Winters for the great little mare Mollie
McCarty after she had been beaten by
Ten Brock at Louisville, took her back
east the following summer and won the
largest bet of his turf career with her at
Chicago.
Mollie McCarty's whole life was a ro-
nance, a part Of which could be written
by Mathew NJ. Allen, who trained the mare
for Winters as a 2, 8 and 4-year-old. With
her Allen won the $4,000 purse at San
Francisco in November. 1876, at four-mile
heats. Mollie being only an understood g.
year-old at the time. BY Monday-Hennie
Farrow, Mollie McCarty traced to noted
four-milers through both sire and dam.
Monday, raced by Francis Morris OF
Throgs Neck, N. Y, was by Cotton, out
of the great four-mile mare Mollie Jackson,
raced by Captain T. g. Moore, while Nc
Carty's dam Hennie Farrow, was fhe
dam Of the four-mlle Privateer, who, after
whining a four-mile race at Jerome Park,
fell after passing the finish apparently
dead. But after the vets had worked
over him a half hour he got up and walked
to his barn.
Monday and Hennie Farrow were taken
to California by Winters shortly after he
purchased Norfolk at Paterson, where that
great colt won the Jersey Derby. Like
Norfolk, they made the Journey from New
York by sea, via the isthmus Of Panama,
and reached the Winters ranch in Yoto
county, in good shape. There Mollie Nc
Carly was foaled in 1878.
On Eastern Tracks.
After Mollie had beaten everything on
the Pacific coast her owner was about to
retire her to the stud, as he did not care
to go into an eastern racing campaign.
But Bud Doble, son-ln-law of Baldwin, per-
suaded Winters to lease him the mares
run .njng qualities for the season of 1878
and that summer she was matched to run
against Ten Brock at four-mile heats in
Louisville.
The race took place on July A. 10000
spectators seeing the great match. The
temperature was fierce, 102 in the shade,
and both horses felt 1t keenly, the mare
the more of the two, for after leading In
the final heat for three miles she col
lapsed, and Ten Brock distanced her In
slow time.
Both the Harper and Doble parties, how
ever. had an interest in the gate re-
celpts, which helped to stand off the
losses of the Californians over the mares
defeat, and they evened up tina score by
a victory at Minneapolis a few weeks
later on their way back to the coast.
At Hamllne Park the Twin City Jockey
Club track, Mollie McCarty, in the Min
~neapolis cup, two miles and a quarter, de-
feated the best horses in the northwest.
The mare did not run any more that
year uS70 and was shipped to California
in October. The next spring Baldwin
bought her from Winters and entered her
in the Latonla, Garden City and Saratoga
cups, as well as other long-distance events
in the east.
Mollie trained so well hat spring,
though then a six-year-old, that Baldwin
and Doble determined on a coup with her
at Chicago and shipped her east early in
June. They went direct to the Windy
City, lodging her Latonia cup engage
ment, for several reasons, one being that
a win there entailed a penalty in the Chi
cage event.
Preparing for the Race.
At the Chicago Driving Park track Mol
lie McCarty did everything that was
asked Of her in impressive fashion, and a
week before the race showed her trainer
two miles in $3.50, As this was half a Sec
ond faster than the record at the dis
lance, held by General Abe Buford's III
fated McWhirter, Baldwin, Doble and
Trainer L. r. Martin were in ecstasies
and began to look around for a first-class
jockey for the mare.
George Howson, who had ridden Mollie
in most, of her races up to that time, had
grown so heavy he no longer was avail
able.
1t was a pity, as he understood the
game little mare thoroughly and she him.
In this dilemma Martin wired to New
York to his old friend, Charles j. Foster,
editor of the New York Sportsman, to get
them a first-class jockey of unquestiOhable
honesty.
Foster secured for the Californians Ed
ward Feakes, then riding for Milton San
ford, Colonel Pudyear and others. He
had proved his ability to hold his owr
with George Barber, w. Lakeland, w.
Hayward, Robert Swim, James Rowe,
George Evans, w. Donohue. Palmer, Hen
messy and all the best riders of that day.
Feakes reached Chicago two days before
the race and gave Mollie her final work
a stiff two-mile gallop. Then he wired
Editor Foster: 'She can't lose"
Foster created a decided sensation al
the Sportsman office and about half Of tbs
force wanted to go to Chicago to Sc,
the race.
Rival
Across the track from the Baldwin sta
BILE was that of Grimstead and the ut
most confidence was placed on its noted
bay mare, Janet by Lightning-Kelpie.
Janet, unbeaten as a 2-year-old, won
many races as a :, 4 and 5-year-old. and
at 8 years old was as sound as a dollar
and like her famous antagonist from Cali
tornia, as good as she ever was at any
age when most racers are through with
their turf labors.
Janet had shown her proves at all dis
tanoes up to three miles, and her form In
the west had been so brilliant that sprine
that a big Kentucky delegation was OF
hand prepared to support her heavily
Ten Rroeck's jockey, Walker, came viii
Janet, so the Grimstead stable was wei
served in this respect.
Henry Vlssmann's Solicitor, a big brown
4-year-old, by Enqulrer-Sallie, also wa
looked on as a factor. He had raced i'm.
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