Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-07
RALPH SAGE WILL
TRAIN A PUBLIC
STABLE NEXT YEAR
Has Established Winter Quar-
ters at Head OF The
Speedway.
nv WALTER E. ERLER.

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to learn that Ralph Sage the
local trainer and one of the very
best conditioners in this country mas
established himself n winter quarters
in the old Meyer Brothers barn, at the
head Of the Speedway. This Is one OF
the best winter barns III this vicinity,
and MIR. Sage will probably have IL tull
of fast horses in the near future. AT
present he is jogging three, OpheHa
Direct, Ben Dot and the black trottlng
mare, Ann Boyd. Sage trained these
horses over the Weequahic Park track
during the past season, and they were
perhaps individually and collectively
one of the best outfits in training IN
the metropolitan district. Should no
misfortune befall them, they Will De
heard from in no uncertain manner
during the racing season of 1911.
In Ophelia Direct Sage has a strictly
high-class young pacing mare that VIII
bear watching. During the past season
she trained a mile in 2:11, and horse
men capable to judge tell me she could
have beaten 2:15, had she been allowed
to do so. While she got considerable
drilling during the past season, size
was in the hands of a careful, capable
man, and is today as sound as the day
on which she first saw daylight, and
win probably race well and keep sound
next year.
Ophelia Direct is owned by Charles j.
Farr, OF Bayonne, and it is his present
intention to have Sage race her for the
long green next season, and she Will
very likely be staked at Goshen, Nine
ola and at Trenton. where the manage
ment has determined to open some
$1,000 early-closing events for the 1911
meeting.
Ben Dot. another PAGER, also he'll prop
erty of Mfr, Farr, would appear to have
a chance next year under the Sage
method of training. While this gentle
man has in the past been somewhat OF
a disappointment to his owner, he did
all that was asked of him during the
past season. and his raine believes he
can win a lot of races and race him to
a low record mex year.
For the trotting events it is believed
that in Ann Boyd, owned by w. L.
Burkhardt, of Irvington. Sage has the
best green trotter in sight h~ereabouts.
While the mare is only a four-year-old,
Sage went along very slowly with her
during the past season, yet she worked
the easiest XII of a mile in 2:21, and
could unquestionably have beaten 2:2o.
Sage started her at the Westfield meet
ing for educational purposes. when she
demonstrated to her trainers entire
satisfaction that she would race, and
race well. and horsenen generally be-
iieve her to be a sure enough 2:15 trot-
ter next year. Like her stable COM
panions, she will be started for the
legal tender and should be no small
part of the outfit when Mr.. Sage gets
to the races.
The three-year-old trotting stallion
Grown steel is expected to arrive in a
day or two, and he will spend the win
ter i'll %Irvington. Mr.. Sage worked him
II mile in 2:4t during the past season.
He was. however, troubled with an
-aiiing leg ard has been running out
since that time.
OrmonhaIi Attracting Attention.
The ~2-year-old bay trotting colt Or
monhall. recently purchased by Cliff
Woodruff. is attracting a lot of the
most favorable that I have
heard among horsemen generally in a
long while. l was told yesterday by
who ought to know that he was
one of the very best individual 2-year-
Odds in the city. that his manners were
those of a mature horse and his action
very near perfect. All of this is not in
the least surprising when one looks at
his breeding. He is bred to be good
and il would. indeed. be queer il he
did not exhibit a lot of quality.
He was sired by Ormonde, 2:0S&. who
took his record the past season and is
one of the highest class t~rotters in this
country today. and but for an ailing leg
which made the necessary preparation
impossible would surely have taken a
record Of 2:05. He is a half brother to
that wonderful old chestnut gelding,
Country Jay, who during the past sea-
son rs a 1~5-year-old took a race record
of 2:05A. Ormonhalfs dam Is Maggie
Hall, a half-sister by Mok to Walnut
Hall, 2:0SM. sire of The Harvester, 2:01,
champion trotting stallion of the world,
and a stallion that viii yet trot a mile
better than . minutes. Ormonhall is
surely bred as good as the best, and
the pleasant things | have heard about
him we're. in a measure, TO be looked
FORE Cliff Woodruff. his owner and
trainer, is a good, careful man and