The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-22
Sports Parade

NEW I0RK-Charles S. How
ard has ut last learned that no
man can keep on throwing sew
ems forever.
Into every life some snake
eyes and box cars must fall.
This time year ago Howard
was Midas in a tweed suit.
Everything he touched around
race track brought him gold.
Old line stables had been trying
for years to win such races as
the Santa Anita handicap, the
Brooklyn. the Suburban. the
Pimlico Special and other clas-
sic stakes. They couldn't be-
lieve that any one man-with-
out so much as even a breeding
farm of his own-could come up
with three such horses as Sea-
biscuit, Kayak II and Sorteado.
Then, three months ago, when
he added Midland to his string
for n paltry $4,000 and won
$4,000 of this sum back the
first time he sent the Oregon
bred to the post, he appeared to
have both the three year-old and
handicap championships under
his control.
But things happen fast in rae
ing and now Howard, who must
have wondered why these things
hadn't happened before, can
realize the feeling OF Alfred
Vanderbilt when Adventurer was
killed in a fall; how William
Zeigler, jr., was effected when
FL Chico stumbled and had to be
destroyed; how J. II. Louchheim
grieved when Pompoon died sud
denly of a rare intestinal all
ment, and how J. A. Manfnso
suffered when his Aneroid was
burned to death in fire In Ken
lucky a month ago.
Howard first felt the bad for
tunes OF racing luck when his
Argentine amber. Sorteado,
broke a suspensory ligament in
New York just a week after he
had run to a new American rec
ord for a mile and a half.
But when Seabiscuit was sent
into retirement after winning
the last Santa Anita, Howard
still had a double-barreled threat
in Kayak II and Midland. The
former, four-year-old champion
Of 1899. had been entered for
almost every outstanding stake
in the East and the West this
season, and despite his defeat by
Challedon last November he
looked ike a good bid for the
title of ''horse of the year"
Today Kayak Is sick and all
ing In a barn at Pimlico and he
won't run for ut least two more
months, II then. He developed n
sudden cough and fever, and
Howard was forced Ia declare
him from such races as the
Brooklyn and Suburban handi-
caps.
With Kayaks sickness the
once invincible stable was cut to
a single horse-Mioland, who
had won the San Juan Capis-
tr8ho, run fourth in the Ken
lucky Derby and second in the
Preakness before ever reaching
his top form. Today he is gone,
too, at least until 1941.
Howard sadly announced that
yesterday. He said the stretch
running son Of an imported Ger
man sire had bolted while work
ing out at Pimlico. thrown his
exercise boy and then stumbled
on a concrete walk. Howard did
not detail the colts injuries, but
he did say that he was badly
hurt and can not be sent TO the
post again this season"
Now the San Franciscan has
not a single top flight horse in .
year when any good thorough
bred could make a lot Of money
and a lasting reputation. Bime-
lech has been beaten twice-bofh
times by horses not rated the
equal Of Midland.
Challedon won't be back 10 the
races in the handicap division
until late summer at least and
Kayaks only opposition there
would be Eight Thirty.
So the man who walks up 10
a mutuel window isn't the only
gambler in racing. after all.