The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19
Joyner ShowerS Praise
on Our Young Stations
Veteran Trainer Says Hourless and Omar Khayyam
Are Splendid Specimens and If Looks Count for
Anything Man O. War Will Make Good.

Great horses as a rule look the part.
Man o. War does. and so does his sire.
Fair Play A. j. Joyner who saw the
latter In Kentucky recently. pronounced
him tho finest looking stallion in that
state. Joyner knows Fair Play and his
qualities better than anybody else. as he
trained the son Of Hastings when he was
at the zenith of his powers as a race
horse. He has always declared that
Fair Play could beat his rival Colin over
a distance of ground.
There is a trainer of thoroughbreds
In the United States whose opinion is
entitled 10 greater respect than that of
Mr.. Joyner. as he has had wide expe-
rience in his profession both here and
abroad, where he was most highly re-
garded by the turf authorities and the
followers Of racing in general Two other
stations which impressed Mr.. Joyner
were the former rivals Hourless and
Omar Khayyam He says that Hourless
has grown into splendid horse and that
his first crop of foals are most prom
Using. Omar Khayyam has developed
into fine type of the thoroughbred
sire and Is also attracting the attention
of the breeders of the country. He also
had a good word TO say for the full
brothers Ambassador and Brown Prince.
the latter recently imported from Eng
land by syndicate composed of Messr5.
Miller, Johnson and Headley. ,
While many of the best Of the Amer
lean thoroughbreds which have achieved
distinction have been remarkable for
some special quality. there are excep-
lions enough 10 Justify the old saying
that good horses come In all shapes and
sizes Joyner had one OF these in the
brown horse Waterbury by Watercress,
and he has always maintained that the IL
favored giant--he was almost II hands
high and very loosely made-was a race
horse OF greater powers than the general
public suspected, though his races as a
four-yesr-oid were EXTREMITY good.
'Waterboy was as good n horse for
his looks as this country has produced.
said the trainer one afternoon recently
at the offices Of the Jockey Club, "al-
though he went through enough to kill
an ordinary horse. He was among the
lot of youngsters sent from California
by j. b. Haggin to Charlie Littlefield,
Jr., TO break In the autumn OF 1900. tic
was most unprepossessing In the
back and with his neck put on upside
down. When he was going slow his
gait was rough and awkward. He only
ran once as two-year-old In 1901.
Dfslocnted n Pefvis.
"It was at Sheepshead Bay. and
Johnny Schlosser, who was my foreman,
came 70 me after the event and said he
liked the way the big colt ran past him
up the chute. had no idea at the time
that / would ever have anything to do
with Waterboy. Charlie Llttlefield died
the following year. however. and Sidney
Paget. for whom / was training, en-
tered Into a partnership with Mr.. Hag-
gin. The colt had shown pretty fair
form In his three-year-old races but
unfortunately ne dislocated his pelvis In
the last of them. This is an injury 10
the hip bone. and II was thought that II
would interfere with his racing career.
With the hope Of saving the colt for the
stud he vas put in sings for three
months. He was wreck when he came
but OF them, but went sound on trot
and was finally put back into training.
when the weights for the Suburban
Handicap Of 1903 were announced
Water5oy got IN with liz pounds. We
all thought that he had royal chance
to win with that impost. There was
winter betting In those days on the big
handicap. They offered 100 20 against
Waterboy and I sent Bud Renaud OF
New Orleans $3.50 20 place on him. lie
got 10 all on ut 100 10 !. The next
spring Waterboy trained in way that
made us happy. and as the day OF tho
race approached our hopes OF winning
grew stronger.
unfortunately however, Il raIned tho
day before the race. Waterboy was not
a good mud horse. and though / stood
to win q big bet I was In favor of
scra tohing him Mr.. Paget wanted TO
run, and we agreed 20 let Mr.. Haggin
decide Mr.. Hagrin took my view Of
the sitGatlon and the horse was kept In
tho barn. Africander won the Suburban
that year after hard fight with Her