The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-03-30
odd Poison
Races Today.
In Mexico
Exterminator. At Age OF
Eight, Sent After $4,000
- Coffroth Handicap


Z @Twenty-one horses are sclsduled
NSs face Starter Mars Cassiday, Dr.,
: Sunday afternoon at the ii Juane
: race track when he springs the bar
: EieF for the C0ffr0th handicap Mt
: enc and one-quarter miles, richest
aH-age purse In the history Of the
western turf. with $4,000 added,
the winning owner 10 to receive
Z approximately $4,000. Combust0r,
with Frey mp. Will carry 90 pounds,
: the lightest handicap. and Exter-
: ssminator, with $50 pounds, has the
: h'aviest impOst.
I TIA JUANA, Mexico, March 2e.-
1 From Belmont Park to Tia Juana
: everybody knows Exterminator as Old
: Bones or old Poison. You pronoufice
: II ggith an icnate softening of the
Z vofEsl for ~ ever an animal achieved
: character and became beloved public
= figure in this county, that animals
: name is exterminator-old Bones, Old
: Poison.
Sunday afternoon, at the age of s,
: Old Bones will shoulder burden of
Z 100 pounds, the highest impost In the
-5Nce.. and hike mile and quarter
: h the great $4,000 Coffroth handicap
\: race. He is not far behind the dis
!: tinguished Zev, last years derby win
.sner and 3-year-old champion, in the
.smatter Of earnings, even now. Whether
.she wins or loses, Sunday afternoon, he
: yet come along to surpass Jews
Agate, and then retire to q Ken
elysium of succulent grass and
. yt1le cool shade OF trees by a running
brook, through with responsibility,
Through with training, through with
!: af Loves Old Poison
:. Willis sharp Kilmer, heir to the pat
.ent medicine fortune, owns Old Poison,
Hats a sentimental horseman and has
: Thought of retiring Exterminator sew
/: :eral times in the past, but always the
/. game old gelding has shown willing
ness and ability to come back for one
more race-and then one more. 1t is
Exterminator's spirit, his sporting
eagerness to do his best as long as he
As able to scuff the loan of a race
Track that endears him first to- XIII
mer: The winnings have not been ex-
actly unwelcome, but KiImer would not
have been pauper even II Old Poison
had never won a race. So 1t isn't a
business friendship that holds them to-
gether. 1t wasn't any sordid thought
for the future winnings of Old Bones
that caused Kilmer to repel offers for
him long time ago.
Little Chief, the horse that will carry
the next highest burden in the Coffroth
race, Is owned by interests which have
no sentiment. about racing. He beloigs
to the RancocaS stables and the Ran
cocGs stables is merely the racing name
of Harry Sinclair, the oil millionaire
whose name has figured so frequently.
of late in the Teapot Dome affair in
Washington. The general manager Of
the Rancocas' firm Is Sam HiIdreth
who Is not exactly the sort Of a ms.
to weep for any horse.
When Old Bones runs, Kilmer will
always be at the stable before the race.
at the trackside during the running
and back at the stable again for the
cooling out, after the winners color,
have gone up the mast. -
Different with Sinclair
When Slnclair's horses run he NAV
or may not be at the track. When his
colt zev won the derby last spring
sinclair did not take enough interest
In the matter, which was purely a bust
ness transaction after all, to attend
the running. When zev won one az
the great stakes OF the season at Bel
mont Park, New York, Sinclair was "a
hours, out at sea, bound for Europe.
other horsemen, who love the game
and love their horses, can't understand
Sinclair or Hildreth, who is SO coldIy
calculating, so business-like, about
these things.
So when Old Poison goes to the post
sunday against Little Chief, Osprey.
Martingale, Runster and Dunlin, sthe
moment VIII be fraught with soinethinr
finer than the mere excitement ~ q
big moment. There will be men wait
ing with radio head-sets fixed to their
ears In every region of the United
states where the horses run, waiting 10
near what Exterminator has done
5000 Old Bones, good Old Poison.