The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-21

ever in New York racing fans
and socialites are won't to gather.
cause it concerns racing and q
socialite. Jim Hamilton, of War
renton, Va, first told this tale to
Benjamin Ladd Cook, racing stew
ard at Narragansett, and Ben re-
layed it to a horseman on his
way back to the Big Town.
It seems that Bill Norton. train
er of the second string of Mrs.
John Hay Jock" Whitney's big
stable. was racing his charges at
the beautiful Woodbine course in
Toronto. Down in Virginia a law
suit was about to be tried, and
Norton was a necessary and i'm
portant witness. So Jock Whit
ney sent his huge Bellanca plane
up to Woodbine to gather in Nor
ton and hurry him back to or
Virginny.
Whirling over Toronto, the
giant craft landed in Woodbine's
velvety center field. During a
brief wait for Norton quite a
crowd gathered round for a close
up of Jocks air palace. In the
throng were two young apprentice
jockeys, attached to a leading
Canadian stable. One of them
asked a track policeman who
owned the plane. That worthy
grouched, Jock Whitney"
Jockeys Whisper
The lads circled the Bellnaca,
eyed it from propellers to tail
At length one of the kid jocks
mudged the other and whispered
Gee, that Whitney must be
some jock. He sure muSt've
rode a lot of winners to be able
to own bus like this"
At Narraganssett, Narise looks
best in first, Ste. Louise in
second, Quick in third, Our
Mae in fourth, Discovery in
fifth, Sun Appolo in sixth, Met
tie in seventh, Last Romano
in eighth, Condescend in ninth.
At Saratoga Lady Sage in
first, Poppyman in second, Bull
Fighter in third, Postage Due
in fourth, Miss Merriment in
fifth, Walter H. in sixth.
At Lincoln Field, Doran in
first, Sister Vinie in second,
Field Day in third, Back Log in
fourth. Ted Clark in fifth, Lady
Federal in sixth, Shalot in
seventh, Battaille in eighth,
Boiling Point in ninth.
At Dade, Indiana Flyer in
first, Golden Beam in second,
Bay Angon in third, Jildac
Rose in fourth, Fair Rochester
in fifth, Probationer in sixth,
Ben Machree in seventh, Major
Smyley parlays a hundred
straight, same to place on Our
Mae, Discovery and Ted Clark.
The great campaigners of olden
days seldom travelled about the
country as our modern Iron
horses" have to. Logan and
Bitten and King Crab were noted
campaigners of 40 years ago, run
ming often and winning frequently
Logan and King Crab both rank
high in the list of race-winning
horses.
But Logan saw California only
once, Bitten and King Crab
never went to the Coast. Logan
never raced in Cuba nor Mexico:
he didn't see British Columbia
nor New England nor Florida. MOI
did the other pair. In fewer
words, with the exception Of
Logan'S campaigns in New Or
leans and one in California, the
racing map of those old timers
was bounded by st. Louis. Ken
lucky, Washington md Maryland
Chicago, Eastern Canada ano
New York.
Contrast those records with the
travelling done by DR.. Clark anc
Seth's Hope. Originally regis
tered as Sammy by Harry Payne
Whitney, his breeder, DR.. CLARK
came out in Man O. Wars year
16 summers back, and he cam
paigned every season until he wa!
IS. Many horSemen had him ir
their stables, and those stable!
were on racing grounds as far
flung as British Columbia, Man
itoba, Quebec, Cuba, New Orleans
Tia Juana in Old Mexico, Sar
Francisco, Kentucky and Chicago
as we'll as most of the Atlantic
Coast. And DR.. Clark made re
turn trips to many of those sec
tors. In the course of his travels
he earned more than 100000
captured A races and a flock o,
seconds and thirds.
Seth's Hope raced in almos
as many communities as DR.
Clark, is now IL years old. anc
at last accounts was still in &C
ton.
Friend DOpeS 1t
A statistical-hound friend o.
mine once doped it out tina
whereas neither Logan, Kint
Crab, Britzen nor any other old
timer ever travelled more thar
$4,000 miles with Claude anc
Tim Murphy both attaining tina
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