San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-09
East Prepares to Make
Strong Bid for Golden
Jubilee Running of Ken
lucky Classic This Year;
Some "reminiscences OF
this Turf Feature.

( of May. contemplates with satisfac
ton and confident assurance Derby
history of the last ten seasons. With.
in these ten sc sons the East has
won eight Derbys. Regret bore the
silks of Harry Payne Whitney in
1915. George Smith won for John
Sanford. of Amsterdam. in 1916
Omar Khayyam for Frederick John
son and C. n. G. Billings in 1917
| Exterminator for Willis Sharpe Kill
mer. of Binghampton in 19iS. Sir
| Barton for Commander ]. Il. l.. Ross
IN 1919, Paul Jones for Raj Parr and
}. ). Cosden, of Baltimore, in 1920
Norwich for Benjamin Block in 1922
| and Zey for Harry +. Sinclair in
| 1923. The only Western victories
| of the period were Old Rosebud in
| 1914 and Behave Yourself in 1921.
| Old Rosebud bore the silks of W. L.
Apologize, an old and popular sports
| man of Louisville: Behave Yourself
the green and white of Edward Riley
Bradley, of Lexington. OF the eight
victories recorded for the East, Re
grets was the only success of a gen.
timely eastern-bred horse. Regret was
bred by Harry Payne Whitney in
Jersey. The other winners were Ken
tuckians or outlanders. But the ma
tivity of the horse does not seem to
count in these American racing rival
ries. 1t is the place of residence of
the owners and whether they patron
ize regularly the Eastern or the Ken
lucky game.
The victory of Exterminator, which
has since become q distance running
champion and is now at Tia Juana
training for renewal of the $4,000
COffr0th handicap, winning which
March 30 will increase his earning
to $2S9,000 or 100000 and put Linn
in front of Iev, now the greatest
American money cleaner, was record
ed an eastern victory, rs conse-
quence of one of the casualties OF
training that are inseparable from
racing and its chief fascination.
Mcdaniel Bought "Old Bones.-
Henry Mcdaniel, the same who is
training Exterminator at Tia Juana
for the impending Coffroth. which
will be the second richest special for
three-year-olds and over of the last
twelve months North American rae
ing, took Sunbriar, the crack two
year-old of the season of 1917, to
| Kentucky in March, 1918, to ready
him up for the forty-fourth Derby.
Sunbriar galloped brilliantly for a
while, but, contracting a deep cold
some two weeks before Derby day,
he had to be thrown out of training
Mr.. Kilmer, at Lexington at the time
was keenly disappointed when Nc
Daniel broke the news TO Rim.
Il must win this Derby" he al
lowed to Mcdaniel. at is IN to you
TO find the winner and buy him."
"What do you want to pay?" asked
Mcdaniel.
II want the Derby winner" was
the Binghampton sportsmans ultima
tum.
Mcdaniel has been impressed by
the uniformly good work for the
Derby over the old Lexington course
of an angular but not unprepossessing
gelding by McGec in the stable Of
j. c. Milan, one of Kentucky's en-
terprising young horsemen. The
morning after his colloquy with Kill
mer, he asked Milan to let him see
that gelding work again. Milan
obliged day or so later and Nc
Daniel was more profoundly impress
ed. He wanted TO know how much.
When Milan said $4,000 Mcdaniel
laconically informed him that he had
sold horse. Mr.. Kilmer was not
sure Mcdaniel had bought wisely.
The angular MCGEE gelding had done
no more under the name of EXter-
minator the season before than win
a couple of overnight races in Ken
lucky. His name did not figure in
the big stake returns. Esoba and
Viva America, two-year-old stake
W ners of 1917. looked mighty dam
gerOus. But Exterminator's Derby
victory and subsequent successes vim
dictated abundantly McDaniePs saga
city. Milan berates himself as a
sucker of suckers whenever he con-
templates "Old Bones" record.
Kind Words For Sunbriar.
But great as EXterminator has
proven himself to be, there can hard
ly be a doubt but that Sunbriar
would have beaten him in the 1918
Derby if he had trained. Sunbriar
was as good a mudder-the forty
fourth Derby was run through heavy
going-as he. Campaigning two years
with Exterminator in the Kilmer
stable. Sunbriar was always Old
Bones L.dster. At Saratoga in Au-
gust. 1918, Sunbriar won a renewal
of the Delaware handicap galloping
a mile in ] :36 Is, and later defeat
ed Jobren, winner of revivals of the
Suburban handicap, Belmont stakes,
Latonia Derby and Lawrence Realiza-
ton and the accepted three-year-old
champion, in a revival of the Travers.
IN n Ia trim ha tnla
in September he turned a mile in the
amazing time of "a flat, shading
by four-fifths of a second Roamer's
recently-establishe time record for
America. American racing probably
never developed a faster horse than
Sunbriar. He was English bred. a
son of Sunridge, the sire of the cele-
brated English. stock horse, Sun
star.
Harry Payne Whitney has had
many Derby disappointments, notably
Thunderer, Dominant, Upset, Wild
air, Tryster, Prudery, Enchantment.
But to have sent to the post the only
female winner of 40 years Derby his
tory should be sufficient for the rae
ing glory of any sportsman. Regret,
| daughter of BrOomstick and Jersey
Lightning, beat a smart field in 1915.
She was great or she could not have
won Kentucky Derby. Unlike
those other great mares of American
racing, Miss Woodford, Firenze,
Briar Sweet Imp, Artfui, Beldame
and Flying Fairy, which have failed
as producers, she seems destined for
unusual stud success. She has already
J given racing winners of class in