The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-17
WHITNEY IS WONDER IN RACING WORLD Spends Much Money in the
 English Races
  HE LIKES POLO BEST Racing Statistics of Close of Season Coming In-De Crespigny At tends Boxing Test Case-Bir-
 mingham Stops Fight
HE LIKES POLO BEST
By RICHARD DAHLGREN

Ky RICHARD DAHLGREN
 London. December 16.-(Special) )-Mr. Harry Payne Whitney is a standing won- der to the English racing world.
 Andrew Joyner, the well known Ameri- can trainer. who has charge of MT. Whit ney's horses at Balaton Lodge, Newman
 ket, has been good enough to send me a list of g yearlings that recently arrived from America. Thrry-two is an enormous number of horses for one man to send into training at one time. Truly. the rich American does things on a big scale, and our poor dukes. and so. forth. to say noth- ing of such paupers, by eohparison, as Mr J. B. Joel and Sir Ernest Sassel, can never hope to compete with MT. Harry Whitney I wonder what he spends a year on his horses-those for racing. polo and hunting As a matter of fact, I be- leye he loves racingl least of the three and yet his tracing bill must come 10 tens of thousands of pounds a year.
 On the top of that Mir. Whitney has the finest stud farm in. America, and as those he bred last year were not mp to much, he never hesBated about buying en bloc a valuable lot from Mr. J. R. Keene. He l say that his racing costs him anything between s250,0aD and $5eo.09o year, 1t would probably, be within the emark.
 He pays all his employees we'll. even magnihcently. The stable lads at New market are better "done'' than their less fortunate members of tlse fraternity, and 1t is rumored that Joyner has a. salary of s15,G0o a year. with, of eourses Balaton Lodge and all it's expenses found for him.
 In 1909. whaeh was MT. IMP. Whitneys first year on the English turf with Joyner at Newmarket, the seasons winnings were s45,o00 Last year they were $70.00e, l and this year they are so poor, consider ing all things. that MT. Whitney's name does not come into thesfirst score. What ! a wretchsd return for so large, an out | layi It isA a platitude to say that wealth | alone will not command success on the turf. though to be sure it is a very big | help and Mir. Whitney'ss experience in 1911 | is a case in point. He will have to meet ] a big deficit, but that he does so cheer | fully is more than proved by the mag nificence of the scale on which he ap- breaches the season of 1912.
 It is fine thing to know that the scanty | reward has not discouraged him, as it | would have done msny an English owner | I could name. He knows at any rate that | it is not the fault of his able trainer. for | the best trainer in tfle world-as, indeed. | Joyner may be-carmot win races with ! horses that are too slow. And that he has had to deal with a.lot of bad horses this year is certain. One such that he re- gently said good-by to is Deirium, who has now taken up his quarters at Mir. Whitnev's hunting box in the Midlands We are not sorry to lose the old impos- tor who "could, but wouldn't"
 If his racing costs him a fortune. so also does MT. Wffitneys polo. He practically supports first class polo out of his own big and deep purse and the International Cup. which for years reposed at Fur lingham, would not now be in America had there been no MT. Whitney to play and captain the American team. Joyner once remarked to me, wdth a very big sigh that he feared his excellent master was keener on polo than on racing. It may be so. and yet a man, must surely be keen, as we understand it, to send no fewer than s2 well bred yearlings from America to England, stable them and have them trained under the best possible cir curnstances and enter them for the races on a lavish scale and altogether regardless of expense The g youngsters include r colts 12 fllies and three gelddngs.
 It has been usual to have the geldings rredominate but the practice for the first time has been discontinued and the change may be all the better. MT. Whitney Is a wonderful man in his way. He is not often in England. He comes in August for a weeks shooting on thesgrouse moor he rents in north Yorkshire, and a pretty penny it costs him. Then he sculrries back to New York, and will be here again this winter for some hunting with our crack packs One may well wonder what fun he gets out of his costly racing ventures
 Yet our turf would sadly miss him were he to withdraw now. Long may he and his trainer remain with us and flourish.
 With the end of the flat racing season come the usual flood of statistics more orr less interesting Lord Derbys position at the head of the list of winning owners was practically assured by the break down of the 2000 guineas and derby win ner, Sunset Up to that period MT. J. B. ]. Joel apepared to possess as good a chance of being at the top of the list as the head of the. house of Stanley. The amount of stakes won by Lord Derby, s205,000 compares unfavorably with the colossal sum garnered in by the Duke of Portland in 1889 His grace's winnings that year amounted to $3G9 29O. The years 1888 and 1889 witnessed the institution. notably at Leicester, of several mammoth prizes Many of these fell to the share of Dono- van, and thus he is able to retire after two years on the turf with the immense sum of s275,700 to his credit. He was only beaten three times and won IS races, in-