The Washington herald., 1911-10-29
TROTTER AND PAGER
Prince George Sold to New Yorker for Fancy
Sum-Racing Season of 1911 Virtually
...N ). = Oper-Other Gossip

as we had twelve months ago Every
year shows a deficit IN this respect. Not
over 30 per cent of men who own speed
care to race their horses away from
home; at least no farther away from
home than Forestville, Upper Marlboro,
Rockville, and Laurel
The maintenance OF a large racing
stable is a financial proposition that only
men OF large means should tackle, and
the place for men of large means is on
the Grand Circuit, where the purses and
stakes are large enough to warrant the
purchase Of horses of extreme speed. No
other kind will do on the big rings. The
small owners sphere of activity should
be confined to the half-mIle tracks, and
he will do we'll not to wander very far
from his own fireslde at that. II a man
owns an R. T. c., or a Charley Mitchell
or has reason to believe he owns one, the
place for that horse Is In the hands OF a
Murphy or Cox or men OF that caliber.
where the rewards are equal to the ex-
pense, and sometimes much greater.
Tne man who owns one or two horses
can have a lot Of fun II he goes about It
in the right way, and not be financially
to the bad at the end Of the season,
provided he has the right sort Of horses.
II he Is capable OF teaminE his own
mount, his enjoymest OF horse ownership
will be the keener. Followers Of half
mile rings must not be too ambitious
II they break even at the end Of the
season they. should consider themselves
in luck. If by a stroke OF good luck q
horse owner makes q pot Of money In q
race he will be wise II he puts the same
in bank and keeps 1t there. The man
who broke the bank at Monte Carlo never
went back. He knew when he had
enough. The men seized with the desire
to get rich quick should not follow horse
racing. They should follow the lead OF
the J. Rufus Wallingfords and Black
DAVIS Of finance by making a quick touch
and getting away with 1t.
Washington horses are about all nicely
tucked away in winter quarters. As far
as learned, only W. E. Miller. the South
Washington horse owner, has engage
ments. Mr.. Miller races at Leonardtown
tomorrow and on Tuesday. Mr.. Miller's
string consists Of Alice NJ, Boski, and
Axis, and II is reported that his stable
has won more money than any other
Washington-owned stable. John Morris
Berka is retired for the season without
lowering her two-year-old record of
2:27 IA, and will be raced again in 1919,
One Of her best races during the season
of 1911 was at Laurel week before last at
the close of the meet at that point, when
she was second three times to the fast
mare Ethel Lynn in good time for the
track. She got on well In each heat and
showed to flattertng advantage. Berka is
still as sound as the day she was foaled,
and If carefully prepared next spring and
summer should easily be 2:15 or better
race mare. Mr.. John Morris, her owner,
has patience to burn, and then some
more, and is determined to give the
daughter Of Bingara all the time she
needs to make good.
+ Mr.. Morris mare Berka is not the only
ing to report. The greatest three-year-
old race gelding of the year-and John
Dickerson, driver Of the other great
three-year-old. Atlantic Express, thinks
the greatest that has thus far appeared
is afflicted with the same disease as
Berka. He, too, scores slowly, and, like
Berka, IS a strong finisher. The Thomp-
son colt, at Lexington, in the champion
stake for three-year-olds, in the first heat
in which he was beaten by Atlantic Ex-
press, was separately timed the last half
of his mile in 1:01 "a, almost a two
minute clip. Atlantic Express trotted the
official last half in 1:03 which shows
what an equine cyclone that son OF Peter
the Great and Tillie Thompson is.
Debate is growing hot over the ques-
tion as to whether the Kentucky Futurity
shall in the future be a two-in-three or a
three-in-five contest, as has been the
habit for many years past. Opinion in
regard to the matter is divided. Senator
]. w. Bailey has long contended that the
rule should be changed to a two-in-three
race, and made the public statement
that he would decline to enter his young
sters in any future Futurity that required
colts AMI FLIES to race according to ex-
listing rules. Mr.. Hervey, editor Of the
Horse Review, better known by turfmen
as Volunteer" has for some years past
fought persistently against the change.
The arguments put UP pro and con by
Senator Bailey and Mr.. Hervey are the