The daily sentinel., 1910-07-16

I 10 MS Olu time 1rlendS In this city,
where it began. From time to time
/ The Sentinel has given lengthy art
icles on his wonderful winnings and
1 the races that his horses have run
and won.
! Lately at the Latonia track, famous
the world over, Bedwell got into trou-
| BILE over his horse Nadzu. The board
of stewards of the track have taken
| exceptions to Bedwell doping his
/ horses. The article below tells some
/ of the history OF Bedwell and his
/ winnings
! 1t is not truthful i'm stating that
/ Bedwell is a Denver man. Guy Bed
well started his racing career right
| here in Grand Junction and here is
where he won first honors He never
| knew anything about horses of any
consequence until he came to Grand
Junction. The article given below
only tells a small portion of his rae
ing history, but il is most interesting.
The ruling off of II. c. Bedwell
and his string by the Latonia Judges
has created one of the most profound
turf sensations in years. All over
the country horsemen are discussing
the probable outcome of the case of
the Denver horseman and Eastern
newspapers are devoting columns of
space TO the now celebrated case. The
Philadelphia Record in a recent issue
tells of Bedwells career and under
the caption Rise and Fall of a
Horseman" has the following to say:
"A slim young man whose physic-
ian had advised him to get out of the
drug business and seek an open-air
pursuit, invested a few hundred dol
lars in a few broken-down racehorses
and tried his hand at the racing
game, He had theories of his own
in regard to training horses and he
proceeded to put them in operation.
! The horses he purchased had all at
one time or another been of some
ability Age and the wear and tear
of the race course had broken down
their stamina and he had been able
to buy them for a song.
When they made their first ap-
pearance at the Empire City track
some years ago no one paid much at
| tention TO them as they cavorted to
the races in bright green silks stud
ded with large yellow balls. The
/ layers of odds offered large prices
/ against their chances of winning. The
| slim young man who had just left
/ the drug business invested the rest of
| his small capital in backing these
/ relies of better days There was no
small sensation among racing folk
| when the superannuated thorough
/ breds, running like 3-year-olds in the
height of their powers, dashed from
the barrier displaying their old-time
speed and staying ability that they
had long since lost.
Green and yellow Wins.
The green and yellow silks came
home in front time after time, while
the young man gathered green and
| yellow of different texture. In a
short time the former druggists en-
tries were no longer neglected by
betting folk. and the odds offered on
them We're no longer written in two
fingers, The owner entered his
horses in selling races and soon be-
came the most successful owner of
platers on the turf.
AS time went on IL was seen that
this success was no mere flash in the
pan. One of his horses was Prince
Ahmed. a 6-year-old son of King
Hanover-Percita. a former stake
horse. The rejuvenation of this horse
was striking. He not only won races
at Empire City-this occurred last
summer-but he hung up new fig
ures for six furlongs and a mile.
There was a horse called Belleview
which. under the skillful handling of
a boy named Taplin, brought with
him by the owner, used to come from
behind large fields in the last part of
a race Just when he had been COM
pletely forgotten and close like a
whirlwind to nose victory from the
leaders.
There was the -year-old bay mare
Keep Moving, once a stake horse. but
turned out by her former owner. that
under green and yellow silks beat
selling platers with monotonous fire.
Quency. There were sprinters like
Madman and Right Easy and distance
horses like NadZu that were dropped
into a race every now and then when
least suspected of having winning
chances, only to cop,
His rivals in the game used to
put their heads together and ponder
"On what meat do these horses feed
that they have grown so great?'
Hailed From Denver.
They were nonplussed. The sue
cessful young man was H. G. Bed
well. and he hailed from Denver
Colo. One day a newspaper reporter
asked him the question that had per.
.
What was the secret magic of his
success? and Mr.. Bedwell answered
with perfect frankness:
i feed them with certain
amount of a drug-arsenic-eve
day. 1t builds them up and makes
race horses out of them
That was the alchemy that the
young man had learned in his drug
business. Ii was simple enough.
There is strict rule against the ad-
ministering of drug or a stimulant
to horse prior 20 a race. but Bed
wells method OF including a stimu-
liant as steady article of diet was
never questioned. And SO his horses
went on winning races. If by chance
an owner attracted by the success of
Bedwell horse and his small price.
tried to buy him after selling race