The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-24
EXTERMINATOR MAY SET NEW
RECORD FOR RACE WINNINGS;
IRON HORSE TO MEXICO NOW

VIII be good bet that he will have
reached Isinglass' worlds record of
S291,275 before the finish of the
season OF 1923. Isinglass, an Eng
lish horse OF the early nlneties, es-
tablished his record in Ii winning
races. He started only IL times all
told, but among his II winning
races were a couple OF $4,000 af-
IA RS. Exterminator has never won
more than $4,000 in any single
race. His Kentucky derby the one
of 1918, was a $4,000 added money
affair. 1t netted him S14.700.
Being a gelding. Exterminator has
no stud career ahead. He can only
be useful as race horse, and it is
the ambition of Mr.. Kilmer that
he not only beat the record of Isin-
glass, but set a mark no other
thoroughbred will ever reach.
Possibly he will do that. Because
of his soundness and eyenness OF
temper he looks like a horse that
might race on through his tenth or
eleventh. year. And the American
racing public is roofing that he do
all Mr.. hllmer hopes he may do. He
has become an institution in Amer
lean racing. His career is an Amer
lean racing epic. No other horse
this country has developed has had
one like IL. Possibly none in the
future VII ever approach it, He has
raced over all distances and in go
ing Of every sort. lie has travelled
far and wide. Right he has never
lodged meeting with any man 5
horse. Too often he has raced unfit
against first-Class opponents and
suffered defeat in consequence Of
poor condition.
Has Beaten Great Horses.
Mr hilmer regrets KeenIy that
Externinator could not have met
Man o. War in October, 1920, after
the great Fair Play colts victory at
Windsor in the $4,000 Kenilw0rth
park cup, over Sir Barton. Col.
| Matt j. Winn, the director Of Ken
lucky racing, offered $4,000 for a
/ race between EXterminatOr and Sir
| Barton in October. 1920. Mr., Kill
mer was willing to race EXtermina-
/ tor Man o. War sidesteppCd. The
/ expert consensus at the time was that
| Man o. War would have beaten EX-
/ terminator in race of one mile and
4 half, two miles or two miles and a
quarter. He might not have but If
! he had not, he would not have suf-
Man O'War would have beaten Elk
fered in prestige. Man O War ex-
every great horse Of the last five
! years racing.
/ Old Bones is sound al the finish
OF his sixth season OF racing because
he was not crowded as a 2-year-o old,
, He started only four times in his first
season. a fair chance for normal
development was given him at his
plastic age. He might not have been
so successful IL the great horses he
has been beating, had been handled
I'm their first seasons as he was
4 handled, This is something the
spOrtsmen Of today would do we'll
TO bear in mind.
wonderful versatile horse is old
] Bones At Hot Springs, at the begin
\ ming Of his third season, he stepped
three-quarters OF a mile through
slow going in 1872 and fraction
on the 18TH Of last April, this dis
/. tauce-ruuning hero took the Splinter
Billy Kelly. on in the $1,000 Hartford
handicap, a sprint Of three-quarters
Of mile, and beat him easily, not
withstandiug Billy led him into the
Havre de Grace homestretch by q
couple Of lengths. Any Jocky car
ride EXterminator who viii sit still
and let him rock along. He has had
many tra!ners-Cal Milan. his de-
veloper Henry Mcdaniel. William
! Mcdaniel william Huston, william
( Knapp and Eugene Wayland--anL
r made them all look good.
I At His Best Last Spring.
1 EXterminator was never greater
perhaps than he was in Kentuckl
last spring. After he had beer
$ beaten by Boulface IN a renewa! OF
s The Philadelphia handicap. a rae,
% of one mile and a sixteenth, Havr'
4. de Grace, and had turned the tables
!. on that smart son of Transvaal II
: the Pimllco spring handicap. h,
g ! iourneyed across the divide 10 s'ar
I In the Clark and Kentucky handi
1 caps at Churchill downs, In tn