Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-26
AMERICANS FIND
BRITISH RACING
HARD To BEAT
Belmont Alone Had Much Luck on
English Turf This Year,
Paddock Gossip.
By r. G. B. Fitzhamon.

ONDON, oct. Aby-hmcric8n Fuch
seems TO be at low ebb on tho
British turf Just now, and II
begins to look as II this viii! be
poor racing season for owners and
horses from mo United States. Au-
gust Belmont probably will he the
only American to finish tho year high
mp in the Est Of winning owners. A
prominent position Is assured 10 him
by virtue Of hir grand 4-year
Tracery, which has won two OF the
richest stakes OF the British turf
Considering the number OF horses
he has In training at Newmarket,
spite of being presided over most
ably by Trainer Jack Joyner, has won
comparatively little money in stakes
and purses. Unfortunately, Meeting
House. Mr.. Whitney's best 3-year- old,
broke a blood vessel when the season
was at its height Meeting House Is
well-known, big limbed colt, with
great depth of chest. He is by Voter
out OF MONDAY, and with good luck
no would have been a credit to the
late James r. Keene, who bred him.
Tough Luck for Others.
Herman b. Duryea, William Astor,
w. K. Vanderbilt, Charles Carroll
Clarence Mackey, James b Haggin
and Richard Croker have not won
enough stake money among them TO
make a poor owner envious.
When Mr.. Cookers horse, Silver
Roi. finished first for the Marlborough
handicap at the CurraEh-Greland's
most famous race course-the former
Tammsny chleftaln could not collect
the stakes nor his bets, because his
horse promptly was objected to as not
qualified TO run in that race Not
only was the objection sustained, but
the stewards severely reprlmanded
Russell, Mr. Croker's authorized
agent
Louis Winans is another whose
American bred horses. mostly sent
over by John e. Madden, of Lexng-
ION, Ky, have Jared poorly this sea
son. But among the lesser lights
from the United States Emil Herr
and Oscar Lewisohn can be mention
ed as faring pretty well.
Eierz Is a much wiser turfman than
when he furnished the money and
Bolts Durnell the experience at the
time OF their entering into a racing
partnership at Chicago twelve years
sgo. when they startled the Ameri-
can turf by buying Sam Hildreth's
great winning stable that included
tho mighty McChesney, Lucien, Ap-
pleby, Federal VulcAin and other fre-
Quent winners.
After Small Game.
Herr Is not seeking big game over
here. He is content to make selling
races his hunting ground and every
now and then he puts over something
ttyy VT T.
two year ODDS are his specially He
has picked up two or three that were
weeded out of Whitney's stable, and
after winning selling purse and
nice bet he passes them on as coon az
their best form Is exposed and the
betting odds get too short. His lat
est venture is Lady Colonist. a smart
looking American bred two year-old
FLY, by James r. Haggin's celebrated
race horse Africander. winner in 1903
OF both the Suburban Handicap and
the Lawrence Realization Stakes.
This flly was among a big patch OF
yearlings sent over from Kentucky
last winter by Haggin TO the New
market December sales. She was
picked up as a bargain for $500 by
Trainer Joseph Buffers, who had been
handling Keene's and Kohler's horses
over here up to the time when those
two spoItsmen passed away. She
beat an all-aged field Of platers over
seven furlongs recently, and Emil
Herr snapped her up FOR 81. 800 Ken
tuchians VIII remember her dam, q
msre named Busy Lady
Tons of kale.%
Oscar Lewisohn, OF course has
hons OF money" with which to bat
tie Dame Fortune, but his turf ven
ture in England began very modestly
last fall by purchasing at the sales
half q dozen American yearlings at
very moderate prices. The first time
he started one of these-it was at
Kempton Park recently-it won most
Unexpectedly, and he was not elated
over its surprising victory Though
not such q heavy plunger as his
brother Jesse used 10 be when es-
corting AIRY fairy lillian Russell to
Sheepshead Bay Brighton Beach and
other race tracks around New York,
Oscar likes 10 bet n few thousands,
and he is said to have felt chagrined
when this colt OF his turned up trumps
so Unexpectedly.
Some of the wise lads Of the pad
dock are limiting that II was a beat
race and designed as a "come-on" &c
whet the betting appetite of the
wealthy American.