New-York tribune., 1918-11-24
Yankee Trainer Now Owns
General Knight-White
buys Miss En-
BY Frank S. Cooke

among the luminarics that make up the
sporting armament. Competition which
characterized the racing this year was
reflected in the eagerness of patrons
of the light harness horse in securing
what they deemed to be the best pros
poets.
While there were some notable
transactions in the instance of tried
and true race horses, interest centred
in the yearlings which come from the
great breeding establishments of Ken
lucky and Indiana nd always appeal
to Eastern horsemen.
When it comes to bidding on one
he wants, nobody has anything on that
shrewd Yankee trainer Walter r. Cox.
Evidently he knew thing or two about
General knight, bay yearling by
Moko out of Sibyl Knight, for he had
to pay $6,o25 for this precocious baby
trotter.
Moko. the sire of this colt, is the
sire of The Real Lady, the champion
two and three year old trotter, and of
many others, also of the dam Of The
Harvester, former stallion champion.
Sybil Knight is by Prodgal, great
broodmare sire, and her dam, Red Silk,
is of the famous Silk family and the
dam of seven, including Helen Hale.
Ben Whites Purchases
The wonderful yearling Miss EN-,
that trotted in 1928 few months ago,
was bought by Ben White for S5,5U0,
and it is hinted that she will be in the
Pastime Stable. Miss En- is by j. NAL
colin Forbes and her dam by AXworthy.
White also bought for $4,000 Great Ex-
out Of Miss Busy, the dam of Busy's
Lassie, 2:O4A, and counted one of the
best of the young Paters anywhere.
Ben White figures as one of the COM
paratively recent additions to the list
of great trainers and drivers. For years
it was known that he was clever, but it
was not until the sickness of W. j.
Andrews that he was given full rein.
and then he fairly bounded into proml-
nence, driving the late Lee Axworthy
to the stallion championship in 1854.
The success achieved by White this
year is one of the bright pages in the
chronicles of the turf. The three out
standing two-year-old trotters and win
ners of all of the juvenile classics were
trained by White, who is from East
Aurora and pupil of the master. Ed
F. Geers: This trio consists Of Brusi-
loft, 2:08A; Princess Etawah, 2:09 "a,
and Periscope, 2:10A.
In addition, White won the Kentucky
with the roam gelding Easton, and in so
doing he established a new worlds rec
ord Tor three-year- old geldings when
he stepped home the second heat in
2:06k. With the three-year pacing
flly Edna Early he gathered in several
events, and her record mile, 2:07l4. is
ho hnc a,-fn c,1pn Of fbn fC,.
the age and gait.
During the Lexington meeting White
started three youngsters and all of
them were successful. Princess Etawah
won the junior division of the Kentucky
Futurity, Brusilotf captured the Lex
ington Stake and Easton the Kentucky
Stake. an achievement that is without
duplicate.
More Than Twenty in Stable
Whites stable for 1919 will number
upward of twenty at the present rate.
At He left sixteen at Lexington when he
Vwent to the New York SALE intending
to ship them this week to Macon, Ca,
for their winter work.
Among the record horses in the lot
are Volga, that took a three-year-old
record of 2:041a, was hurt during the
year, but has so entirely recovered that
she is counted among the great pros
PNNIo 1Vl lViO. men LHeIe are GGlnCCSS
Etawah, Brusilof, Kathleen Gale,
2:O64 and Easton and Edna Early are
to join him soon. The others are most
iy yearlings and two-year-olds
Under the time allowance rule
Volga, whose record was made in 1916,
will be in the :O7 trots next year.
Since her retirement Volga has become
matron. having a foal by Lee Ak
worthy. The story of Volga is UNIQUE.
ralafaH hu Eropt n of
delphia. Mr. Ellis knew the Happy
Mediums in the days of the road races
IN his section, and he did not like them,
so that for years he refused to believe
Peter the Great the sire that he was
proving himself.
Finally Mr.. Ellis relented, paid some
thing like $4,000 for Volga, and gave
equal shares in her to his three as
sociates in the Pastime Stable as a
peace offering for what he had said
about Happy Medium, grandsire of
Peter the Great.
When racing Volga never was beat
en- as two or three year old She
won $25,645 In the two years, rivalling
her ilustrious brother, Peter Volo. as
trotter of speed
Early Shipments to ThomasyilIe
Early shipments to Thomasville have
been made, the first one taking num-
Der of the Pastime horses, and the
next the personal property of H. K.
Devereux, who is one of that syndi-
cate. Several other carloads will fol-
low, so there will be more than ordi-
nary activity in the Georgia training
camps this winter.
One of the Devereux trotters that is
apt to step into fame is a three-ycar-
old gelding with the plain name AL
DGrC. tnat not cOrsiN ara1
early in the season, having been pre-
sented to Albert Hall, of New York, by
Mr.. Devereux. However, Albert trained
on, and at Lexington he trotted in
2:07E for Guy Lee, showing then that
he was up to a mile in about 2:O5.
Late meetings on the half-mile tracks
served to introduce some very nimble
trotters, one of which is Elden Todd.
2:14A, that is counted to be eligible
for high society next year. Bi Shively
won a corking race with her at Cleve-
land, one of the sort by which the
Canadians took home stock of good
Yankee money Eden Todd is by Ken
tucky Todd, 2:08%, and out of double
producing daughter of Orc Wilkes.
Announcement is made that the an
nual meeting of the stewards of the
Grand Circuit will be held in Philadel
phia during the second week in Janu-
airy. One of the features will be a din
ner for horsemen, and it is expected
that 500 will attend.
1t is not possible to forecast any