The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-15
/ ALKING
IT OVER
BY DANIEL
NEW YORK Feb. IS

NEW 1OItFNt IEO. "
ID AGING on big time tracks,
N which keeps sweeping out the
scavengers and beating of the buzz
yards, has an increasing allure as
the seasons roll along. Attendance
at the Metropolitan courses shows
a steady climb. But while our
thoroughbreds maintain the speed
standard. the human side of the
sport is losing in its romantic ap-
peal, and the glamorouS old turf
types are passing out of the pic
ture. That fact is brought home to
me by the news that while Edward
Riley Bradley is convalescing from
his recent Illness, he may be re-
garded as having retired from ac-
tive superintendence of his big
stable and the Idle Hour farm, as
well as the world-famouS Beach
Club at Palm Beach.
Sam Hildreth. Jimmy Rowe. then r. 7.
Wiison-aII gone within recent months.
And now Bradley sits on a beach chair
VH Eoiu Quasi anu uAfNthS VI
Bubbling Over and Behave Yourself, his
Kentucky Derby winners. and Blue Lark
spur. which was cheated out of the rich
prize last MAY by the muddy going. He
dreams of the naughty nineties, when he
/. made book at the 1T. Louis. Memphis and
Hot Springs tracks; Of the Spanish war
DAYS in old st. Augustine. where he start
ed his first club devoted to games of
chance.
Bradiey's Beach Club venture made It's
bow to society in 1900. You may have
seen the layout at Monte Carlo. You may
have been thrilled BY Canheld's in New
York and Saratoga. but YOUR education as
a cosmopoilte has not been thorough I'M
less you have been at the Bradley insti-
tuition at Palm Beach. There wealth and
fashion have had their meeting place for
many years. with Bradley always in at
tendance. The limit on piay rises as you
ascend the staircase.
BRADLEY, who is 20, links this
ID era of decreasing turf theatre"
with the thrilling times Of beta
million" Gates. Drake. and Pitts
burgh Phil-the golden days of the
famous plungerS. Bradley was a
figure on the turf when the world
hailed the amazing exploit of Sal
vator, 1857, for the mile straight
away under 40 pounds. And he
was among the first to acclaim the
immortal Man O War.
But to Bradley. the best OF them all
was BubblinE Over-in his estimation the
greatest thoroughbred he vet has owned.
His prize chuckle has to do with the
derby triumph of Behave Yourself. He
has another starter. Black Servant. and
would have won a fortune had that entry
come home first.
The jockey on Behave Yourself was told
10 make the early running and then let
Black Servant win. But in the last fur
long that boy on Behave Yourself began
to build for himself a glorious vision. He
saw himself acclaimed by that wild crowd,
riding past the stand with the floral
hoTsesh" raining his winning smile And
ne forA-- all about Black Servant. and
won that race.
AAG Gil OIlicI CLit1lIleII, DIdQley
H. is exceedingly Superstitious.
He has an ineXplicable fondness for
the letter B, and every horse he
has owned in recent years has had
a name starting with B. Bradley
has had something akin to horror
of stories about himself He has
refused interviews and statements.
and always has made the same old
comeback. write about my horses.
and not about me-"