The New York herald., 1920-01-04
NEWS AND VIEWS OF HORSES AND HORSEMEN
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and get few minutes off with Guy James
10 study the market.
Bates and James are the Pierpont Nor
gans OF the trotting turf. Tney watch the
market as closely as Henry Clews II IL
looks good TO them, they sell When there
is a sag in any of their favorites, both Of
them are very apt to have. an order IN a
brokers office before the Stock exchange
opens. Betting on races is a lost art with
that pair.
Guy James drifted up the road to
Granite State Park on the coolest day
ever saw in New Hampshire. His father
was a horseman in Waterville, Me Be
fore coming to Dover. Guy worked for
everybody from ..Hod" Nelson To Henry
litter Sometimes on pay day he had TO
shake dice with himself 10 see if he would
be paid or chased IL he asked for II. /
had seen him around and decided that he
could not work for me. He decided that
he would J started him hauling hay
from the depot The weather was so cold
that the frost snapped the heads off half
Of the nails in the race track fence, but
Guy kept busy without saving word.
''IIe convinced me that he would work
and | gave him a couple OF horses. Since
then he had Margaret Druien and Lu
Princeton. What they did is evidence that
Guy James knows his business and he is
lltI 10 lne Quilt. ilhC t'iN No'NhNN u eAA~
men, as long as he wants 10 remain.
Martin Doyle and Walter Parker are
another pair They have been with me
fifteen or sixteen years. Doyle had Esther
w Any man who could get along with
her and not lose his temper Is entitled 10
pension. She was fast trotter and a
game one but would jump. There were
DAYS when / felt like taking her out back
of the barn and humping her few times
for smiling the beans as she did in 1912
in the Charter Oak Purse at Hartford.
"That was enough to stall an Indian,
still DOYLE led her away as cheerfully as II
she had won everything on the race track.
He watched her as If she was prize
youngster in a baby show.
Natural Love for Horses.
Parker has that natural love for horses
which they seem to detect on sight. Night
is the same as day to him. II there is any
thing to be done. His report on the condi-
ton of a horse on the morning of a race
or the day after is always o. *. He has
chaperoned a number of clever ones, in
Guiding Worthy Prince. who was better
horse than many people gave him credit
for when he was chasing Peter Scott and
Judson Girl. This year he will lead out
Daystar for the big futurities.
'ln the spring Joe Riley will be back for
the ninth or tenth season. Joe Is a little
does a lot OF thinking and saves his
money. Some people say that can drive
a hard bargain, but + am as reckless as
Coal Oil johnny when compared with
Riley. His work is like his habits, as can
be seen in the careers of Harvest Gale
and McGregor the Great. A few people
think that Riley will have a chance to
do up a two-minute trotter next summer.
/ If he does ii Will be done properly.
J 10 Trna al and Princeton could
have touched the two minute mark If they
had been prepared for time records, and
know that Mignola can trot in 2:0l He
is one of the fastest .trotters ever trained
Doloff took care of him. lie made q good
job of it, No one ever saw horse race
as he did after the sick spell which almost
carried him off last June.
'Mignola is rather peculiar. and like all
old horses notional When turning 10 score
ne was at times inclined to be wlful.
never let him know that ] noticed il. Nd
one ever crossed him and Dooff jollicd
him along. He made him think that he
was the best trotter on earth and he was
rot far wrong. A quarter in thirty seconds
Mt the end ct a mile was easy for him
until his foot hurt him. II you do not be-
lieve it, ask John L. Dodge what happen ed
when he tried to catch him with Holly
rood Naomi at Cleveland. 1t was a case
of 2:05 horse trying to pass one OF the
two-minute kind. The judges did not
think so. They declared the bets off. said
few unpleasant things to Mr.. Dodge and
ordered the men in the betting ring TO give
him his money back after 1t was lost.
All Going to indianapolis.
The men | have named are going &c
/ Indianapolis with me. together with Dave
Sand. Jimmy Britt and Boxer. sand has
been on the pay roll ten years. He has
\ had Busys Lasse for four Some days
think he has been taking the faith cure
/ In order to keep up hope. Lasse did not
win a race in 1919 and only one in 1918
Under the new rules she may have q
chance. but | doubt il. When horses get
accustomed to being beaten they act as
If they were lost when out in front. Look
up Miss Perfection's races at Lexington
last autumn. She trotted in 2:05 wher
Early Dreams won. The following week
Tommy Direct and The substance beat
her easily IN 2:Osia.
Britt is "a new man with me. He knows
his business. Frank Dewey is sample
of his work That horse was in bandages
all summer. Stl he started in sixteen
races and made his record OF 20l& at
Atlanta the last time out.
''If the railroads would let me ship Riley
and Britt by weight | would save con-
siderable in the course OF year, but they
would get ii all back on Boxer. How he
got that name Is more than I know. His
father tagged him Thomas Mennx. He
is an iron moulder by trade. but the horses
keep calling him in summer n rough
and tumble one that is always looking
for a scrap is Boxers delight, while he has
a way of making dainty feeders eat.
Probably he tells them few things
like he passed Ralph Lasbury when he
placed Earl. Jr, in my stable after Feter
Scott vyas sold During his first visit
Ralph told Boxer that he would give him
s25 when the gray horse won his first race
$50 for the second and 500 for the third.
Fine sad Boxer. but give me sl'
now would rather have that than a
hundred may bes
These are tho mon TO whom 7 owe the
most of my success. They are the big
cogs i'm the wheel. and when Stoughtor
Fletcher made me proposition to go e
Laurel Hall stipulated that tnoy should
go along. ! consider them part of my
/ ao,,fnnnont and a trainer who does not