The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15
Chances Bettered Because Ma
 her Will Be the Mount
ENGLISH TURF CLASSIC
kerd Rosebcrry Pays Jockey $25,OO0 for the Ride. Win or Losc-Story of the Three Big Pllngers
 of Today
By BERT E. COLLIER


 son's stars is the bay stallion Telemachus n.11so, owned and being trained by Y. L.. ehuler of that city. Shuler raced Tele- machus a few times. last year and he took the record in winning race at the new track at North Randall, Lon Me- Donald having the mount behind him In the race In this race Shuler got his checks down on the horse and cleaned up handsomely on the result Telemachus was well placed in his other races and quit the season still eligible for the 2;12 class. His owner is now naming him for all the rich stakes 10 which he is eigi- ble, among them the s10,00o 2:11 trot at Kalamazoo, and if the horse is as good as his owner and friends think him he is placed to win a small fortune.
 Telemachus is a son of Onward Silver C2:O514). one of the best stake winners of the grand circuit about ten years ago. Although sold for export to Europe at the beginning of his stud career, he left enough colts behind to show that he is the making of a great sire. One of them, Spanish Queen (2:0O, won the M. & M. Pennsylvania. Empire State, Burdick and other rich stakes of 1908 and next to Al len Winter (s:oel) was the leading money winner of the year.
 Shuer is one of the old guard of driv- CTS. One of the star trotters which he raced back in the early nineties was the seldinf Green Leaf t2:10AD, one of the real good trotters of his class. But the crowning achievement of his career was with Sterling McKinner (20SA).
 Shuler purchased this horse for few hundred dollars. as he had been pro- nounced counterfeit by more than one trainer. The Hoosier reinsman got into the confidence of the Son of Mckinney staled him through the Great Western circuit of 1907 and then when race time came around proceeded to clean up, fin ishing the season the leading money win ming trotter of that circuit.
 When the statisticians of the turf com pile the incidents of moment anent the s.sport of kings, during the present year, it will be found that these will have played very prominent part. First and foremost and particularly ontstand- ing is the giant Neil-Gow. Lord Rose berry's grand Derby candidate and win ner of the 200 guineas. By the illus trious sire Marco, out of the good race mare chelandry, the colt Is bred in the purple and of extreme derby quality. However, his one severe drawback has been his inherited disposition, that of a confirmed bolter. In fact, until Lord Roseberry decided to put Up Danny Maher, the American jockey, it was thought that the colt was hopeless rogue Possessing that rare quality so ,,, u-o4 p,o rtd Mahar has been able to coerce the colt into ron- ning kindly. or to use the vocabulary of the turf critic-"straight as a die.' It was because of this fact and the spon- taneous enthusiasm aroused by the colts splendid victory in the Guineas. that Lord Roseberry immediately retained Maher to ride Nell Cow in the Derby at the un- precedented salary of $25,0o0-win or lose Even in these times of frenzied finance the enormity of such a retainer is al- most sufficient to turn the heads of the mediocre lot of riders of which the Amer ican turf of today can boast of. True, Lord Roseberry is a very rich man, who races for the mere pleasure of seeing his colors carried to victory. Expense with him is secondary consideration, while the gambling end Is only incidental After all, this must be the true interpretation of sport. Returning to the running of the Guineas 1t might be mentioned that Minoru, car- rying the royal colors of King Edward VII. of England, captured the events in 190e then came right back and won the Derby Because of this fact and also that Neil Cow met and defeated almost every really formidable factor for the Derby in the Guneas-it is little wondered that Lord Roseberrys candidate is now point cd to with confidence as the probable winner of the turfs greatest olassic--the English Derby. s8
 Taking a slant at the speculative end of the game in America today, 1t can be stated with postiveness that the three other characters-Phillie Hyams, Tom Shaw and Joe Yeager-represent about all that Is left of the plunging element. These three men live to gamble on their opinions they will stake anything and everything that they possess. During the recent winter meeting at Jacksonville, Fla., all three were particularly promi- nent. Each one had his share of the call cium and run of good or bad luck. Of the three Philip Hyams. the Australian plunger, is probably the nearest approach to the "Pttsburgh Phil school than any except possibly Grammar. s rsSNhg
 Hyams has several good traits in his makeup, probably the most commendable of which is ability to take his medicine, During the long winter grind have known the Australian to bet on "dead ones," and before the horses went to the post for Hyams to know that they were lobs Yet there wasn't the faintest sem bIance of a 'holler' from the midget. From those close to Hyams 1t was learned that at one stage of the Moncrief meet ing he was $4200O loser. This only seemed to stimulate the Australian, for during the last 15 days of the meeting it Is said he all but got out.
 Quite the reverse of the present-day plnneer is found in Tom Shaw. The elongated bookie, favored many. times iwth the proverbial ''ace," could yell longer and louder than any gambler ever heard when asked to drink few of the gall dregs. As an instance. po'nt to the defeat of the smart Ally. Isabel Casse. Shaw knew, as did almost every good judge at the race track, that the youngster was a near-frst-class racer. The first time that Shaw bet. Isa- bel was all but left. My. what a yell Everybody on the race track was thief except Tom Shaw. It is said that Shaw lost 21.00O to the race.
 The Inspector General incident, when the latter was still at the half-mile ground when the nefd was dispatched. is still green in the memory of the D. 0. P Shaw took $1600 in bets on this horse from r.. J. Pons alone. and when nll bets were declared on the bookie threw 17 fits. two caniptions and immediately hauled down his slate-refusing to>book onathe balance