Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-14
BY WALTER E. ERLER.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

hNAAS A0Soi hOA SAiN ~
when they read that the bay t~rotting
mare, Lady Bryan, at one time owned
by George A. Oil, jr., of this city, and
who was raced so successfully by Irv-
ing G. STEELE during the season of 1909,
was purchased by the Russians.
1t had been expected that the mare
would come back to this city yet. The
foreign buyers apparently thought
more of her for a brood mare than local
horsemen did as a racing proposition.
OF course, the mare had been anything
but a success for Tommy Murphy, yet
some were of the opinion that she could
be Strengthened out and put into a con-
dition to race again.
During the season of 1908, as a A.
year-old, this mare was started ten
times over the half-mile tracks in
INDIANA. She won eight of her starts,
ing a record of 2:24T in a winning
race at C~ovington, Indiana. Very nhtur-
ally. when the following March she was
consigned to the Lackey sale, she was
ana as buyers from all parts of the
country were after her, the bidding on
sale day was spirited. George Oil and
irving q. STEELE were among those pres
ent from this city, and Mr.. Oil succeed
ed in buying the mare for 49, 800.
The following spring she was trained
over h Olympic Park track, and while
In her early training she Shove moth
ing sensational, she did, however, in
the racing, season which followed be-
come the best trotter racing over the
half-mile tracks in this country. She
made a strenuous campaign extending
over a period of more than four
months, and in eighteen starts was
behind the legal tender but once. OF
THESE races she won nine, and many Of
these were $1,000 stakes, in which the
little bay mare was called upon to meet
the best horses racing over the half
mile tracks.
In sever of her races she won the
second division of the purse, and in
summary. She took her present record,
2;12A, at Augusta, Ga, and on two
other occasions equaled that mark in
a race. Late in November, before STEELE
shipped her home from the South. he
drove her a public exhibition owe a
half-mi1e track in 2:10, and she was
doubtless the m~ost-talked-of horse
that had been racing in the bushes
that season.
Grand circuit horsemen from far and
near were after her, and Mr.. Oil finally
sold her to Harry Gleason for $500,
and she was Immediately placed In the
hands of Tommy Murphy. Great things
mile tracks the following season. yet
in the stable of the Poughkeepsie trainer
the daughter of Cecilian Prince was a
dismal failure. She never got to a place
where she was fit to race for him. She
had a rather uncertain hind wheel, which
doubtless. handicapped Murphy, yet while
she was in the stable of the local trainer
this same leg caused him a heap Of
anxiety, but he kept her racing, and
what is more important, getting the big
end of many of the 1000 events.
Tommy Murphy admitted that the mare
was a mystery to him and that he could
not get her number. She was a rather
high-strung thing when in the STEELE sta
BILE. but he got on well with her. Many
good horsemen who knew the mare best
We're of the opinion that he could have
taken her to the big tracks next year
let the foreigners steal her for $500, which
II she was anywhere near sound wasn't
the price Of her tail.
1t is, however, too late now to cry over
spilled milk, as the mare left New York
Saturday bound for far-off Russia, yet II
does seem like a pity that she should not
of |. G.. STEELE or some other trainer to
make good in her native land. 1t is, Of
course, possible that any other trainer
would have done no better than did
Tommy Murphy, or perhaps not as well,
but there are many who are firm In their
belief that the mare had n chance to
make good and was at least worthy of
another effort to get her to the races
and give her a record where she was ca
pable of going.
While but two horses came to this CITY
as a result of the recent Garden sale"
there is at this time every Indication that
several new performers will be seen in
dcllOH over the local tracks next season. |
Not unlike local horsemen generally, the
local contingent did not look for horses
to be so high, and when they went to the
sale with $500 or 1000 with which to mr.
chase a certain animal, and the horse
brought double what they had expected,
1t was in a measure, at least, d~iscour-
aging.
One local enthusiast bid up to 81. geo on
the bay pacing stallion Branham Baugh-
man, $2:05A, Fred Ballantine went to
Si:S7S on the little black trotting stallion
Centrevtlle, 2:19A, and George STENCIL
tried to buy Essie H. Kay at private sale
What the local men bid for these partic-
ular horses looked like about the right
price for them other than at a time of
inflated values. yet they hive come to the
conclusion that in order to get the right
KIND OF matinee and racing material they
VIII nave to get their Ideas up on values
and will doubtless attend the midwinter
vendue prepared to part company with
a larger bank roll than they have sep
arated themselves from in former years.
One or two local enthusiasts have horses
in view of which they have been trying to
prices which have prevailed at the Gar
den has sent the asking price of all worthy
material sky high, and it is indeed hard
to buy a horse that has a chance to
make good for a reasonable amount of
kale. In a manner this condition Is in
deed encouraging. as 1t demonstrates that
On the other hand. 1t seems like robbery
TO those who are trying to buy horses
TO throw up about double what they did
4 year or two ago for what appears to
be very, much the same class of material,
It would appear that there are more
horses than ever being raised in this coun-
try, but the added number Of amateur or
CARNATIONS each year and the youngsters
broken down 70 all time in trying to
make futurity winners out of the Hba-
bies, y will doubtless continue to keep
prices high for some time to come.
Charley Mitchell to star.
One or the stars of the coming mid
winter sale will be the chestnut trotting
gelding Charley Mitchell, winner of the
1~ransylvanla, owned by Louis Neidhardt.
Of Jersey City In the Kentucky classic
the son of Marvellous took a record of
2:04A. and while this record robs him Of
much of his earning capacity on the grand
circuit next year the free-for-all ~trotters
available will have troubles of their own
in handing this fellow anything, provid-
ed, of course. he keeps sound and has all
of his speed.
Tommy Murphy will not train the Neid-
hardt horses next year as the entire out
fit has been turned over to A. S. Rodney.
who raced the stallion Baden, 2;l6k, for
him over the half-mile tracks and at
Syracuse this season. Very recently MIR,
fKeidhardf uurPhaSad a green mars n !