Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-28
HORSE RACING HAS
SUCCESSFUL YEAR
Gallant F0x-Sande Combina-
ton Makes Turf History
During Season.
MEXICAN turf history can boast

~ no more successful season than
~ that which Is so fast drawing
to close. Records were shat
tered like so many panes Of glass in
almost every line-interest, attendance
and prize money won.
From the standpoint Of money won,
the greatest horse that ever stood on
racing plates swept up from, over and
beyond the opposite horizon in Gallant
Fox, the 3-year-old son of Sir Gallahad
TII-Marguerite, that smashed the
world record earnings of the illustrious
zev by amassing q total in two years
of racing of more than $341 600.
Coupled with the fame of Gallant
Fox was the name Of Earl Sande, a
jockey who stands as close to the heart
strings Of sentiment among racegoers
in America as any that ever booted
winner home Sande, returned to the
saddle after a more or less disastrous
venture as owner and trainer Of his own
stable, made small fortune through
the game and exceptional Gallant Fox.
He rode this champion of champions in
all his races and tested the dregs of
defeat but once in many stake starts.
Sande rode some few other winners.
most important of which was Petee
Wrack in the Suburban Handicap. But
Gallant Fox furnished the bulwark of
his rehabilitated fortune.
Gallant Fox Beaten Once.
Gallant Fox, beaten but once In the
Travers. placed himself on pedestal of
Man o. Wars prominence because Of
his brilliant accomplishments. In many
ways he accomplished more than Man
o. War, as a 3-year-old, met only one
older horse and that in the match race
at Windsor against Sir Barton, q cripple
that never should have been allowed on
the track. In the Travers. Of q mile
time rival, the crippled Whichone, that
he had beaten in the Belmont. Which,
one broke down In the Travers from a
blind quarterback imperfectly repaired
But he broke down only after Workman
and Sande had driven their charges
through mud knee deep for more than
a mile at q speed which would have
been called fast on pasteboard track.
Jim Dandy, the rank outsider, 100-to-
shot, found the champion spent and
ran over him in the stretch.
Gallant Fox was the only horse out
side of Sir Barton that won the Freak
ness. Kentucky Derby and Belmont. Sir
Barton won the Withers. in which Gal
| liant Fox did not start. Had he done so
undoubtedly he would have won, as
Whichone was able to win on one of his
| bad races. The blind quarterback was
evidently bothering him. Gallant Fox.
which had made his debut by winning
the Wood Memorial from Crack Brigade,
which he again foiled In the Preakness.
took the Dwyer of a mile and q half
before he moved to Chicago to nose out
Gallant knight in q sensational finish
of the Arlington American Classic of q
mile and quarter. After dropping the
Travers to Jim Dandy he took the Sara
toga Cup (all ages) OF q mile and three
quarters. He won the Lawrence Real
ization of Q mile and f1ve~eighths, q
| 3-ysar-old event, at Belmont Park in
the Fall and finished out his racing
| career by taking the Jockey Club Gold
Cup of two miles (also weight for age)
In hollow fashion. This race gave him
his world record in earnings.
jamestown Led Juveniles.
The 2-year-old situation was far
more elouded. George D. Widener's
jamestown. q son of the fleet ST..
James, that had been a champion in
his juvenile year, but which as q g.
year-old broke down early in the sea-
son, after winning the Paumonok
Handicap from Zev, is generally con-
coded the 2-year-old title because of
at Belmont Park. jamestown was
beaten but once Top weight in the
rich Hopeful at Saratoga. he was nod
ded out by @. A. Cochran's Epithet
after he had shaken off repeated chal-
| lenges from j. e. Widener's Novelist
and Harry Payne Whitney's Equipoise
In the matter of deeds accomplished
Euuipoise was perhaps the best 2-year-
old of the season. He raced from early
ElII -
Pimlico and during that time he side
stepped nothing. His defeats might
all be written off at the shrine of hard
luck. Twice the unbeaten Wander Pool
took the honors from him. In the
Aberdeen Equipose threw Sonny Work
man at the post In the Youthful at
Jamaica Equipoise, which came from
far back to lead Wander Pool home
by half dozen lengths. was disquali-
fed for an alleged foul near the quar-
ter pole.
Wander Pool Unbeaten.
The 2-year-old situation then was
befogged by many possibilities for ar
gument. Wander Pool goes into history
as the only unbeaten Juvenile that
raced with consistency throughout the
season. He did not meet the class of
horses conquered both by Equipoise
and Jamestown, or Epithet, the Hope
full winner, that started in very few
races. And then there was the Green
tree Stables Twenty Grand. a colt
good enough to set world record for
2-year-olds in stepping mile in 1886
fiat to beat EquipoiSe a head in the
Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes. Equi-
poise returned the compliment in the
Pimlico Futurity.
No doubt as to the best handicap
horse of the year. The honor belongs
to Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Sun Beau,
which Is now being pointed for the
Aguascaliente Handicap, worth 100000
to the winner, sum which, If won will
boost the lifetime earnings Of this son of
Sun Briar far beyond the record figures
of Gallant Fox.
Sonny Workman, who will ride G. v.
Whitney's horses in 1881, was the OUT
standing jockey among big time riders.
From the standpoint of money earned,
sunny Jim" F1tnsimnons was the
leading trainer of the metropolitan
circuit. Such, naturally, might be ex-
peCted with such q champion as CAL
liant Fox. But in the matter Of win
ners Tommy Murphy, former trainer Of
the Greentrees Stable, led with Al.