The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17
TURFMEN ABROAD ARE
AMAZED AT WHITNEY
Americans Lavish Expendi-
tures for Racing i'll England
Astonish Britons.
HIS WINNINGS MEAGER
Boxing Promoter Intends to
Pull Off Bout Behind
Closed Doors.
HIS WINNINGS MEAGER
sY RICHARD DAHLGREN.

Special to The Tribune.
LONDON, Dee l6.-Earry Payne
Whitney is standing wonder 10 The
Esglish racing world,
Andrew JOINER. the well-known
American trainer. who has charge of
Whitney s horses ut Balaton Lodge
Newmarket, has been good enough 20
send me list of thirty-two yearlings
that recently arrived from America
Th.rty.two is an enormous number OF
horses for one man TO send into tram.
ing at one time. Truly. the rich Ameri-
can does things on big scale, and our
poor iuk9s and so forth, TO say nothing
Of such paupeys. by comparison. IT'S j.
B. Joel AMI Sir Ernest Cassel, can
never hope TO compete with Whitney
! wonder what he spends u wear on his
loTses-tiiose for racing. polo and hunt
lug. As matter of fact. believe ne
loves racing least OF the three, and yet
his racing bill must come 10 tens OF
thousands OF pounds u year.
On the top Of that Whitney has the
finest stud farm in America, and as
those he bred last year were no1 up 10
much. he never hpsitatcd about buying
en- bloc Il valuable lot from j. II.
Kccnc He gave n very large sum Tor
\
him anything between $250.000 and
s5G0.0D0 a wear, it would probably be
within ;lIc mark.
He, nays all his EMPLOYEES well. even
magniiicently. The stable lads mt New
market are better done than their
less fortunate members OF the fra
torniiy, and ii is rumored that .loyncr
has salary Of $4,000 year with, of
course. Baluton Lodge and all its ex.
pcnScs found for him.
Ia 1909. which was Whilney's first
wear on the English turf with Joyucr
AT Newmarket. thc season 5 winnings
Tcrc $4,000. LAST year thev were SO,
o00. and this year they are so poor. con-
siGering al things. that Whitney s
name docs moi como into tho first score
What wretchcd return for so large an
OUTLAY. II is u platitEdo TO say that
wealth alone will not command success
on tic turf though 10 he sure il is II
very big help, and Whitncv's eS-
prrjencc in 1911 is case in point He
will have 10 meet big deficit, but that
ne does al chcerfully is more than
proved by ,hc magnificcncc Of the scale
on which he approaches the season OF
1919
Whitney o Winnings Meagcr.
Ii is fine thing 70 know that the
scaut1- reward has not discouraged him,
as II woul,l have done many an English
owner could name lie Knows. al any
rate. that II is not the fault of his
ahlc trainer. for the best trainer in the
world--as, indeed. Joyncr may bc-can-
not win races with horses that arc too
slow. Md that he has had to deal wit h
a loi Of bad horses this year is certain.
One such thai he recently said good-
bve To is Reiriun. who has now taken
M his quarters at Whitney s hunting
box in the Midlands. We are not sorry
10 lose to old imPostor, who "could
but wouldn 4.
II his racing costs him fortune, 50
also docs Whitnev's polo. He practi-
callv supports hrst-clsss polo out of his
own big AMI deep purse. and the Inter
national cup, which for wears reposcd
at Nottingham. would not now. he in
America had there been no Whitney
10 play AMI captain the American team.
.Ioyncr once remarked to me, with n
very hiG sigh. that he feared his ey.
reIlent master was keeucr on polo than
on racing IT nay be so. and set a
man must surely be keen, rs VIC under
stand it 10 send no fewer than thirty
two wcIl-bred ycarlings from America