The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-04
BY O'NETL SEWER.

Samuel c. Hildreth accomplished
the job OF putting Harry h. Sinclair
out in front OF the other winning
owners OF the American racing sea
son OF 1921 without landing even
one of the Countrys $4,000 and
$4,000 stakes and in spite OF the
fact that his most highly regarded
spring racing asset--the 3-ycar r-old
Inchcapc--failed to train.
BY dint of painstaking effort Hi
dreth managed to get Inchcape 10
the post at Saratoga I'm August In
condition 10 win an overnight race.
hut as a stake horse the S15O,0OO
son OF Friar Rock was failure
The handsome sum Mr.. Sinclair paid
for lnChCape can ever be recovered
in purse winnings. II he is to earn
his purchase price InChcape must
do II as stock horse. Inchcape
has navioula trouble.
Purchase, another star OF which
IIildreth expected much in the
spring, was only an Indifferent rae
ing proposition. Purchase won a
couple OF overnight handicaps over
the short threc-quarter course at
Yonkcrs, I'm July. and then disap-
peared from view. Hldrodth found
II impossible to make him stand for
one or two Of the great fall specials
W. NANAall'' lAIliNl - ear -bllE ana
over. 1t Is improbable that either
Purchase or lnChCapo will be again
recalled from stud service at Ran
COCas farm, the old dOmlCile of tho
one-time famous Pierre Lorillaryl
stud. now the home Of the growing
breeding establishment Of Mr.. Sin
clair. Lucullitc failed 10 race at all
and Grey Lag, the biggest money
winner of the RauCocas stable. was
n A fhEataFrh hI. loo
late autumn.
IL was because Grey Lag fell lame
just after his arrival in May at
Louisville, whittier ne had been sent
In David Lcary's charge TO start in
the renewal OF the $1,000 Kentucky
derby, that one Sinclair horse
missed winning one of tho big
stakes. Grey Lag worked splendid
ly for tho derby. and later in the
season he trimmed Black Servant.
the horse the derby winner, Be
have Yourself. beat a short head
only at Churchill Downs.
Believed In Grey Lag.
Hildreth is sure that in May Grey
Lag could have beaten any 3-yenr-
old In America. The Star Shoot colt
did beat everything he tackled in
June and July in eight successive
stake renewals. II Norwich had not
come to racing, ITildreth would have
had SIS, 900 stake winning 2-ycar-
old In kai Sang, n fast and courage
Gus son OF The Finn, But Norwich
came to racing, 80 Kai Sang had to
play second fiddle to a second Man
o War throughout the year.
training accident prevented Kai
Sang's starting in the Belmont Park
Futurity renewal and he did not
t,aln wen after this accident for the
Maryland Futurity inaugural. which
Norwich won. Hildreth bought a
first class and well engaged 2-ycor
oid prospect I'm the spring in Play
fellow, an own brother OF Man o.
war. But he found after he had
had Playfellow in charge for "A week
or ten days that the Fair PLAY colt
vas a ctihbcr. He demanded that
gIanes y. Johnson, the developer OF
fIaytoilow. take the colt back and
return the $4,000. Sinclair. at
Hlldreth's suggestion, paid for him
When johnson refused Hildreth
insisted that Sinclair sue for the re-
turn OF the money and he registered
vow that PlayfellOw would never
start under the Rancocas silks. by
sucking to this extraordinary reso-
Iuuon Hildreth deprived the Ran
cocaS stable Of the services Of n colt
mat might have won $4,000 or
more
Displays Shrcwdness.
IN the face of a series Of such mis-
adventures TO have earned with the
N"ncocas horses that stood training
matter of S264. 900 I'm stakes and
purses. displacing from the leader
thIp or the winning owners the
nowerful stable ofs Harry Payne
whitney which, at the beginning OF
Inc year was full Of well engaged Q
ana 3-ycar-olds Of class, required
consummntc training skin and
shrewd mahagcmont.
Hildreths ability as a horseman
was not more conspicuously dis
played than through the season past
even in the seasons In which he was
campaigning Fitz Herbert. Joe Mad
uen, King James, Novelty and Resti-
gOuChe,
Bitter resentment was often voiced
ny the patrons Of eastern racing al
mo manner IN which Hildreth took
duVantage Of the Jockey clubs ar
ehaic selling race and scratch rules
10 further his gambling enterprises
IN the Playfellow matter the attitude
Jt the Sinclair establishment which
Hildreth inspired was widely ques-
TONED, The avidity with which Hi,
dreth sought in the early summer tc
" w NHt J-gtdf-blu game by buN'
lng every horse that looked as
! though II might get In the way OF
Grey Lag brought down on tho Sin.
clair stable much unfayorable criti-
eism.
Deserves Prestige.
Hlldreth deserves the restored
prestige that has come TO him be,
cause OF success this year with the
sinclair horses. And IL Mr.. Sinclair
VIII restrain his impulses TO over,
step the bounds Of racing propriety
IN the directions l have indicated
lludreth win next season win for the
sinclair establishment popularity
mat will be second TO that Of nj
other American racing stable.