Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-21
PLUNGER BET
 IN BIG SUMS
Late Theodore Walton Was a Unique Figure Around
 Turfnen


 There died in New York City a few days ago at a good old age a vell-known man, who in the most strenuous days of turf speculation, fairly earned the title Of 'plunger. When Theodore Walton passed away figure once stalwaTt on bo;k the American and English turf went to his account.
 There are still alive and in good health many who recall the tate Mir. Walton and his spectacular days on the local race course aud in England. It was he who really won fortunes on Irlquois and Fox hall in the Epson Derby. the Grand Prix at Paris, and the two greatest English betting events. the Cesare- witch and Camtridgeshire. This was just about 80 years ago--to be ex- act, the year 1SSl-the year made famoas by the performances abroad of American-bred horses, whose sn- periative merits, particularly thcNe of Foxhall. b we not been approach ed by any one Of the many AGerirau horses which hay # perlod been sent abroad at various times.
 This might be ccnHaeret is q TO flection on the merits or all the horses since bred in America. lie that as it may, not m % years ha-e there Teen two such Aneric 3n-bred horses as well able 10 hold t',eir own in Eneland and France as were lro- oquos and FoxhaIl in 1881. let neither NIT. Pierre Lorillard nor James R. Keeue. ressner1ve owners of these two colts. benefitel ny the betting on them to ans eNtent, Tor H was "Petey" Falr0r as he Was best known to Americans, wh. se e culiar talent for seeking out eaiiy informatjon cua r7 ger tho cream Of tfo 'n'S tu' the Derby and FoxhaI for his vic tories.
 Got Archer to Ride II.
 MT. Walton had marie the acquain' tanee of Fred Archcr. who mad rid den Troguois as a 2-yc9r oh in lS>oi and as the racip.r seaso1 of 1881 drew on he suggested that Archer be engaged to ride the American colt This was of itself a great 2d- vantage to the Yankees" and when his victory at Epsom was flashed to all parts of the world en- thusiasn ran high in this country, ana it was declared, so much did il mean to the prf4e of Americans, that Afr. Lorilard could that year have been elected president or the United States.
 Irouuois was trained by an Amer fcan. Jacob Pincus, now in inls country, and he is the only nan Wno has as yet scored in the great race with an American colt. When NIT Whitney won the Derby it was with an Fnglish colt. VolOavowski, leased from his breeder. I ady Feux, ana trained bv the Yankee trainer, John Hugirs. When Richsrd CroEer won the Derby 1t was with Orby, one ot whose rarents. Ar7ne, was an Eng fish stallion. and the mother, Rhooa B., an American mare
 The late Mir. Walton provoked the ire of Sir John Astley one day at an English course, and was accused by that huff sportsman of anticipating owners in speculation. The incident aroused international interest, and it was then patent that the Ameri- can plungers career O nthe English turf could not last much longer. In 1889 he had taken to England the welI-known mare, Girofie, by Leam- ington, owned bv Otto Donner. q sugar refiner. trained here by 'Enh" Snedeker, and ridden by Billy Donohue, who accompanied the mare to England. But she was failure in England, as was the career Of Don ohre as a iortev. thorgt many years later he went hack to England to train for Mrs. Langtrv, after having done well in sinilar capacity in France ho~ Charles Pfiser, an Amer ican florseman-