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,
Bv +. G. B. Fitzhamom.

r ONDON. oct. 25.-Americsn luck
seems to be at low ebb on the
British turf Just now, and it
begins to look as if this will he a
poor racing season for owners and
horses from the United States Au-
gust Belmont probably will be the
only American to finish the year high
up IN the list Of winning owners A
prominent position is assured to him
by virtue of HIS grand 4-year- old
Tracery, which has won two of the
richest stakes of the British turf
Considering the number OF horses
no has in training at Newmarket,
Harry Payne Whitneys stable, in
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 Swear old.
broke blood vessel when the season
was at it's height Meeting House is
q well-known. big-limbed colt with
great depth of chest. He is by Voter
out of MONDAY. and with good luck
he would have been A credit to the
late James r. Keene. who bred him.
Tough LUCK TOR Others.
Herman B. Duryea, William Aston
w. X. Vanderbilt Charles Carroll,
Clarence Mackey. James r. 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 Curragh-Ireland's
most famous race course-the former
Tammany Chieftain 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 reprimanded
Russell, Mr.. Croker's authorized
agent
Louis Winans is another whose
American bred horses. mostly sent
over by John E. Madden of licking
ton. KY, have Jared poorly this sea
son. But among the lesser lights
from the United States Emil Herr
and Oscar Lewiston can be mention
ed as faring pretty well.
Herr Is much wiser turfman than
when he furnished the money and
Bolts" Durnell the experience at the
time of their entering into racing
partnership at Chicago twelve years
ago. when they startled the Ameri-
can turf by buying Sam Hildreths
great winning stable that included
the mighty MCChesncy, Lucien, APP
pleby, Federal Vulcan and other fire.
uuent winners.
After Small Game.
Herr is not seeking big game over
here He IL content to make selling
races his hunting ground, and every
now and then he puts over something
pretty nice. Shifty American bred
TWO -year-olds are his speciality He
has picked up two or three that were
weeded cut OF Whtney's stable, and
after winning n selling purse and
nice bet he passes them on as soon as
their best form is exposed and the
betting Gods get too short. His lat
est venture Is Lady Colonist, a smart
looking American bred two-year- old
i'Ny, by James r. Haggins celebrated
race horse Africander, winner In 1908
of beth the Suburban Handicap and
The Lawrence Realization Stakes
This tllly 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 5000 by
Trainer Joseph Buffers, who had been
handling Keenes and kohler's horses
TWO sportsmen PASSED away. She
beat an all-aged field of platers over
seven furlongs recently, and Emil
Herr snapped her up for 81 500 Ken
tuckians will remember her dam, a
mare named Busy Lady
Tons of kale.T
Oscar Lewisohn. of course has
IONS OF money" with which To bat
xie Dame Fortune, but his turf ven
rure in England began very modestlY
last fall by purchasing at the sales
half dozen American warnings 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 heavy plunger as his
brother Jesse used To be when es-
corting airy fairy Lillian Russell" to
Sheepshead Bay. Brighton Beach and
other race tracks around New York.
Oscar likes to bet few thousands,
and he is said TO have felt Chagiined
when this colt Of his turned up trumps
so Unexpectedly.
Some of the wise lads Of the pad
dock are limiting that IL was a beat
race and designed as a come on" &c
whet the betting appetite OF the
wealthy American