Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-07
Gathered Around the Winter Stables

this country with a change to win the
money in his class here is the one, and
that this is a well-known fact was evil
laughed at a man who offered him sl0,0 600
worth of legal tender for the son OF
Bingara.
Rodney. who last year raced him for
Mr. Nejdhardt. giving him a record of
2:1S& at Goshen, and later over the heavy
track at Syracuse he was barely beaten
that Rodney took too strong a hold on
tho cables for the stallion to win.
OF course hears various opinions re-
garding this horse or any other In circu-
lating among owners and trainers. and
some will tell you that either Bistan or
the dead stallion Border Guard could
have beaten Baden over a half-mile rae
last year; yet to me neither horse had a
chance to beat him.
l spent most of the past season on the
half-mile tracks n saw all of the best
but. one horse who had anything on
Baden. and that was the ringer Jack
London; Had these met, / think he could
have. given the chestnut gelding a great
run for his money. / also believe that he
car beat the black stallion Sir Thomas
Upton doing anything In the world. OF
course. the latter horse will this year
have the advantage of being trained BY
Billy Andrews; yet 1 do not believe that
he VIII ever see the day that he will beat
Baden.
ANOTHER that will be felt out for a trip
down the big line is the local mare, Pattie
Ash, owned by Walter Gulick. This mare
Will GO into the stable of Tommy Murphy
on April /. There are some who believe
she cannot fail TO make good. During the
past season she was raced extensively
over the half-mile tracks, and while she
avoided a record she was second in 2:lS,
yet II she does not make a heSp more
P~oughkeepsie this spring she will be
among. the number who need another good
Wintering.
Pattie Ash is a big sIashing.gaited mare.
inclined to be a trihe willful, yet she has
never had the advantage of a first class
trainer, being driven in all of her races
last year by her owner, who has a number
Of things to learn about racing horses.
| saw her in two, and in those her driver
did not appear to be over fond of riding
in a gang and was inclined to 20 the over
land route while the mare was over anx-
ious to mix It up and get into a place
where she had a look in.
This method, of course, put her at a
disadvantage and acted as a heavy handi-
cap, and 1t is, of course, possible that she
Is with a good man behind her a very
much better horse than many believe her
to be.
The prospects for a brilliant season
over the metropolitan half-mile tracks
were never better, nor We're there ever, to
my recollection, a better lot of horses IN
the various training stables.
Trainers Never More Hopeful.
Jack Phllllps, Eddle hupe
Smith and State Post, who are the MAR
squeezes' over the half-mile tracks close
to home, never had such a bunch of good
horses that appear In every way worthy,
The black gelding Belle Vara Boy, PIC
pacing, in the H~ollenbeck outfit, has beer
put TO trotting, and before he went into
winter quarters Eddie drove, him q mile
at Mineola right at 2:20. This indicates
that he will this year make good as z
trotter and be "a most useful horse in the
green classes. Space does not permit of g
description OF all the good things in sight
at this time; yet. as the few weeks o.
idleness tina remain will soon slip away
it will be but a short time when horse
men may see for themselves.