The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-06
ROYAL RACE HORSES ID BE SEEN IN SOUTiEi Races Begin in Cuba De-
 cember 15
  THE HILDRETHS QUIT Harry Payne Whitney Ships 32 of His Yeariings to England-Heri- dity in Horse Breeding
 Profession
THE HILDRETHS QUIT
ny JAMES DocKEPAIL


 winter months and a good many Aneri- can dollars will go to our Spanish American neighbors during the next few months. If the American book makers who will attend the races there have ordinarily good luck however, there will be reasonable usufruet ot Cuban and Mexican to come home at the end of the season.
 H. D. Brown has made a positive an nouncement that the sport will begin at the Cuban track December 15 No fixed date has been announced for the closing of the sport, but it is assured that a meeting of good length, prob- ably 100 days, will be planned.
 II was the original intention to have the races over new course, and to that end, Mr. Brown obtained con siderable tract for the construction of the track The work has progressed nicely, but it was found that it could hardly be brought into condition for the coming season, and a change has been made to the old course, which can readily be brought into first class mod- ern condition for the sport. As a mat ter of fact, the track right now is fit
 
 to enlarge the grandstand considerably, and to that end skilled workmen will be sent over to do the work. With the early competition of the Florida East Coast railroad into Key West. Havana, the Cuban racing cen- ter, will be of much easier access to the horsemen. This road will not be com pleted in time for the opening in De- cember. but the promise is that trains will be running all the way to Key West in January, which would make it an easy way to come back from the winter resort. The steamship transpor- tation with Havana is excellent, and the arrangements that have been made for the shipping of the horses to the meeting makes the trip as simple s one almost would be d trip from New York to Chicago.
 For time it was feared that the Havana racing project would not come to a head this year. There have been other racing ventures on the isl- and that were anything but successful, and for that reason it took a man of some courage to go back to such .l territory. Brown realized the mistakes that were made in other years and he Is convinced that the sport can ha made to pay we'll One mistake and a fatal one, that hurt racing in Cuba was that the sport itself was a secondary consideration, and it was conducted largely to afford a game on which bets could be laid. Brown takes the other view-just as he has done in his other ventures with such marked sue cess. He believes that if the purses are of sufficient value, good horses will be attracted
 This will of necessity mean good sport, and good sport will always at tract good crowds
 ". P Burbridge is associated wit, Brown in the Cuban racing, and il was he who brought the news from Havana that the final arrangements had been made to secure the track. The gover- nor of Cuba is in hearty accord with the coming meeting and has granted a long concession. He Is of opinion that the sport will attract a number of desirable American visitors to Ba- vana and will in many ways be of di- rect value.
 Heartstone, Surfeit and Gold Blade. three of the four two -year-olds now in the stable. will be olsposed Of The only one that will be retained is Pug gins, winner of seven races
 Novelty, Fitzherbert, Shannon Zeus an~ others will make up the balance of the shipment.
 Since the ban has been placed on racing i'll the Empire state there has been no incentive for men and means to own and race large establishments with the consequent result that the majority Of wealthy owners have traus- ferred their breeding studs and racing stables to the other side Hildreth ts one of the last to go. It has been hIs intention to take this step for the past year and to go across without his horses. aud If the sport look ed good to him over there, to acquire stable by purchase. He even went so far as to offer his horse at auction about six h11f httxy hand, With the result that the sale was declared off.
 In the minds of those capable of Judging, no doubt exists but that Htl- dreth, all things being equal, will prove the greatest exponent of Americau framing ideas applied to the thor eughbreds, that has ever visited a for elgn race course. No man was ever given credit to be a better conditioner, and if any animal possessed ahy class he certainly brought it out.
 Thirty-two yearlings. the pick of Harry Payne Whitney's Brookdale es- taDlishment in New Jersey: were shipped on the Atlantic transporf steamer Minnewaska to England. That past master of training, James Rove. selected and prepared the first. Com 9etent horsemen predict brilliant fi- ture for the collection, the members os which are eligible to English classics
 John Schlosser, for many years fore man of the Whitney, Haggin, and other important stables, had charge of th, youngsters and will assist Trainer An. crew J. Joyner in their preparation for racing al Newmarket sf1s
 Americas famous sres and matrons are represented in the shipment Col leetiYoiy and individually these iuye- niles are superior to any ever sent across the ocean before They arc bred to run fast and to stay There fore 1t is safe to predict that they Will earn iaurels next season. and bar ring incidents, should prove forp,ilhi. Tn their three year old engagements, which include the Derby and Oaks.
 or the twenty-two yearlings twenty were foaled at the Castleton Stud in kentueky They are part of the lot purchased by Mr. Whitney from MT. Keene a few months back.
 All men who breed fast horses or nave anything to do with them believe in the influence of hereditary and therefore swing toward blood lines or, all horses they figure on purchasins.. AS result they do not overlook prep- tal Influence which frequently carries T great deal of weight In the progery. especially in the case of young trotters.
 The men who play the prenatal influ- ence gig in the horse breeding corl- biiations are the real deep thinkers.
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