FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1906. THE KENTUCKY FARMER AND BREEDER 3

Los Angeles, Cal., March 4, 1906. Brooks ordered J. M. Glass, the track The Kentucky Racing Association which had a value of five hundred dol- The management of Ascot Park decided superintendent, to soak the track on the offers three stakes for its spring meet- lars greater than now applies. on Wednesday last .to extend the meeting night before the three-corner- race be- ing, to be held at Lexington April 23 to A telegram to the manager of The days, closing up 17th Hand-zarr- a, just three it on the tween Bearcatcher, iCruzados and May 1, inclusive. One of them is for Kentucky Farmer and Breeder from day of Ireland I should say of March. the latter being Van Meter's prop- s, three-year-old- s Mr. M. president But for the recent scandals brought up by erty. He claimed that Bearcatcher's another for J. Winn, of the Amer- some disgruntled horsemen and shown to best races were run on heavy tracks and and the third for three-year-old- s ican Turf Association, on last Saturday be without any serious foundation, that Handzarra needed a dry track at and upwards. The entries close Mon- stated that the Association at its there was a probability of fifteen days least. He also claimed that he went to day, April 2. To each stake a thousand monthly meeting at New Orleans had extra being given. But in view of the George Rose, who is the second largest dollars is added; each has an entrance just-- confirmed the dates originally unfavorable comments made by the Times stockholder in Ascot Park, and got him see of ten dollars, with fifty additional granted the Lexington track and that and Express, the directors of the associ- to countermand Mr. Brooks' order. When to start. The stake is the meeting would be held here April ation concluded merely to round out the Glass was put upon the stand, under oath, very properly called the Senorita, in 23 to May 2, as previously announced. up on week, ending it a Saturday instead he denied having received any instructions compliment to Capt. Brown's stock It is in accordance with this announce- of a Wednesday. from Brooks, except to make the track to farm in this county. It is run at sour ment that the stake entry blanks are The '"scandal" came an ending on as fast as possible, as he wanted to see gotten Wednesday last by a session of the Jockey the track record broken, is such a thing and a half furlongs, with weight con- being out. The stakes will close Club directors, who acquitted Mr. James could be done. As Mr. Brooks and Chief ditions compelling a penalty of three on Monday, April 2, and with the en- W. Brooks of any and all charges made Glass have never been on very good pounds to the winner of a sweepstakes, thusiasm and sentiment that all horse- against him as manager, and Mr. Edward terms and have barely spoken for the past five pounds to the winner of two sweep- men feel about the Lexington track, Jasper of any and all charges against him two years, this testimony of his disposes stakes, and allowing maidens five there can be little doubt that an excel- as official handicapper. John J. McCaf-fert- y pretty effectually of Mr. Van Meter's pounds. The Phoenix Hotel Stakes is lent entry list will be secured. was year ad- supended for one for charge, as well as of the gentleman him- a renewel of that "well known classic, ministering dKigs to the horse called The self. I certainly do not expect to see him year, as past, will Subscription List. Huguenot, and Charles E. Durnell was here again. and this in times it no doubt offer a correct line on the About $400 has been subscribed suspended for a similar term for racing Garnett Ferguson was one of the wit- report the horse 'Alderman Batt two races in his nesses examined also. He testified that he Kentucky Derby, which is run a week since the of subscriptions last training shoes and getting him well beat- was the owner of the horse Bearcatcher; later at Louisville. It is at a mile and week, and there will no doubt be othei en, so that on his next outing he got 25 that his horse ran his best races on a dry a sixteenth. Non-winne- of a race subscriptions within the next several to 1 against him and won the race with track; that he had notified Mr. Brooks of $1,500 in 1906 are allowed five days. A full list of those subscriptio-- j the greatest ease. The three judges were that he would scratch his horse is the pounds, of a race of $1,000 in 1905 or as they have thus far come in sollows: present at the investigation Messrs. track should be muddy on the day desig- 1906, ten pounds, and maidens fifteen Phoenix Hotel Company $fc00.00 Hamilton, Cole and Pomeroy. The first nated for the race, and gave it as his pounds. The Distillers' Handicap, for Lexington Railway Company .... 400.00 named of these gentlemen got hold of belies that his horse never could have won Lexington Brewing Company .... 300.00 three-year-ol- upwards, is like- the blacksmith's books who did the plating the race except under exactly such condi- and Col. Milton Young, McGrathiana for Mr. Durnell's horses, anji, when the tions as prevailed on that day. wise the renewal of a classic that has Stud 150.00 case of Alderman Batt came before the been associated with the Lexington J. N. Camden, Jr., Hartland Stud.. 100.00 board, Col. Hamilton asked: Complaint of Boots. course for many years. It is run at Col. E. F. Clay, Runnymede Stud.. 100.00 "Mr. Durnell, did you have Alderman one official weights T. C. McDowell, 100.00 Now as to Mr. Charles T. Boots, owner mile and the will Ashland Stud Batt plated for his race of December C. F. McMeekin, Oakland Stud 100.00 of Borghesi all the sons of imp. be announced by the handicapper three 21?" and other Leland Hotel 100.00 Brutus. In his complaints against Mr. days before the race is run. Winners "Yes, Stoll & Co 100.00 sir." Jasper, handicapper, and Mr. Brooks of others than a selling purse, aster the "And did you have him plated again on the Stoll & Hamilton 100.00 as well, he places himself in a most anom- announcement of the weights, will be the 2'th, when he ran one?" Home Construction Co 100.00 last but alous position, as he has won "Yes, the three penalized five pounds. Hendricks Bros 100.00 sir." most valuable handicaps run here and "And then," continued Col. Hamilton, Bluegrass Traction Company 100.00 an of weight. "you plated on each of them under increase Comparison With Last Year. G. D. had him the 26th, when The Riverside Handicap, at one mile, was Wilson 100.00 he won long It will be remembered that last year L. March 100.00 at such odds?" run on 9th day of December won E. "Yes, sir. the and sour stakes were given Leonard Hotel 50.00 by Mr.' "Boots' horse Borghesi with 103 the three that "Well, Mr. Durnell," said Hamilton, Combs Lumber Company 50.00 pounds in saddle. On 3rd day of are offered this year, with an addition- the account your the the Phoenix Hotel Cigar Stand 50.00 "here is of blacksmith February same horse won the Ascot al, stakes, known as the you, his own handwriting, the J. D. Purcell 50.00 against in and Handicap (the most valuable of all races Lexington Stakes. Under this arrange- all marked paid. The only charge for Hinde & Baker, Millcreek Stud 50.00 run at this meeting) with 108 pounds, ment the Lexington Stakes was for plating any horse in your possession Lexington & Eastern R. R. Co. . . . 50.00 for to wind up the story, lugged off and, the colts and geldings and Graves, Cox & Co 50.00 the last week in that month is for plating Cup, 118 Ascot two miles, in 3:27, with the Senorita Stakes for C. & Co Alderman Batt on December 26th, when pounds up. F. Brower 50.00 Now where does that man's sillies. The same amount of money & Co he won, showing most conclusively that he grievance rightfully originate? My own Smith, Watkins 50.00 ran the two prior races was added last year as this, except in Hagyard, Bryan & Shannon 50.00 in his training belies is that Borghesi could have won the shoes." the case of the Phoenix Hotel Stakes, Barnes & Hall 25.00 Ascot Handicap with 115 and the Cup with Fate of Others Undecided. E. T. Graves 25.00 122, even is he is not a big horse. Re- This settled Mr. Durnell, and sworn ty's horses, racing in name of J. A. Reed Hotel 25.00 the member that Hermis is less 15 the affidavits of three veterinary surgeons, to than Wernberg, are standing idly stalls, Kaufman, Straus & Co 25.00 hands high and yet holds the best Ameri- in their effect they sound of hero- Durnell stable is also in a con- Bluegrass Commission Co 25.00 the that traces can record for a mile when weight is con- and the drug to in of desuetude," the Kearns & Brandt 25.00 ine a used simulate horses sidered. My prediction is that Mr. Boots dition "inocuous while body of Huguenot of M. & Co. to R. H. Anderson, Tea's Over Stud.. 25.00 the The on the day that will be persona non grata at entire stable H. Tichenor is Durnell took him out of selling race, hereafter public at on Victor Bogaert 25.00 a this place, just as he is at Oakland and be sold at auction the track to get evidence against his owner, was 10th of month. The stable of C. J. H. Wilson & Bro 10.00 Ingleside.. He will not be ruled off, but the this sate of McCaffer-t- y. T. contains only Lexington Drug Company 10.00 what settled the John J. will be quietly informed that his horses Boots is still here, but disposition sour A prevailed on Tues- Fred J. Henitz 10.00 Just what will be made are not needed here any more; and the horses. rumor of T. Boots, Van Meter and day to effect Mr. Boots had John B. Payne 10.00 Charles Frank eloquent and emphatic words of Mr. Ed- last the that Harry McDaniel groundless Borghesi $10,000 to Barney Schrei-be- r, King & Metzger 10.00 for preferring ward Duke will be quoted: "Take 'em sold for charges against Manager Brooks, has not and on the following day the rumor F. T. Justice & Co 10.00 yet transpired, something home." to Lexington Roller Mills Co '10.00 but that will The man for whom I feel sorry in this was partially contradicted, the effect to of meeting Adolph Spreckels was pur- R. Lee Cassell 10.00 be done them at the end the (and may add only one of that the real very matter I the of is evident to me. A gentleman well lot) Harry McDaniel, chaser, but I have no confirmation racing the is who trains report. Total $3,330.00 versed in matters at the North Tichenor stable. have known him either to me yesterday: the I . said many years and have always sound him not to quar- a Mr. Paul J. Rainey, the young Cleveland "This association can afford and polite as he is capable. Bannockburn as Sire. rel owner of any large stable or truthful That Barney Schreiber good colt in turfman who owned the unfortunate Yan- with the he should have allowed himself to be led has a with his needs horses and E., by Bannockburn, out of Miss kee Consul, will not be deterred in his trainer. It into this between Durnell and Horace of too. not big auarrel Lynah. victory, yes- quest of turf honors by the lamentable lots them, Is it does have McCafferty is regretted by many and by He won his fourth of can not stalls to terday, Stakes, at death of the promising son of Sempro-niu- s. fields starters it rent none as much as himself. in the Santa Monica bookmakers at $20 per race; and you five furlongs, Allerion being second and He will campaign a select string know, as well as I do, the bookies are third. We had watches on on the Eastern tracks this year, as last, that Might Have Been Prevented. Kilter three the track's principal source of revenue. the race in the timers' stand. Mr. E. R. under the name of the Tippah Farm Sta- Hence I predict that all these penalties Some of this trouble might have been Smithmade it 1:00, Mr. Ryan stopped on ble. The well known Lexington trainer, will be remitted at the close of the meet- prevented, to my notion, had the gov 1:00, and my watch, which does not split, J. W. May, who prepared Highball for ing. Is they were not afraid of offending erning body of Ascot Park "taken the made it 59 seconds, so we hung out his various victories, will again be in owners, why did they not rule off Dr. bull by the horns" in the earlier stage of 1:00 as the corrected time. In any event, charge of the string. There are the three-year-old- s, Leggo for crooked running here? You the game and got the two principals in it was a very fast race, for the winner Heaslip and Toots Mook, and know, as well as I do, that he does not this warfare together, saying to them in was the only one to carry 118 pounds, as the following two year-old- s: Chestnut belong to either Charley McCafferty or un$ istakable language: against 110 on Allerion and 111 on the colt by imp. Deceiver Lydia II.; chestnut to G. W. Wilson, in whose name he won "Look here, now. You two fellows are Holland colt. The winner is a very hand- silly bySt. Leonards Veva (half sister the Ascot Derby of 1905. He belongs to making a great deal of trouble and it may some chestnut colt with a narrow blaze, to Delhi); chestnut colt by Gold Heels Adolph Spreckels, who is good for at not end here. , You are liable to drag, oth- and has a most mechanical way of han- Sister Tenny; bay colt by Belvidere imp. least twenty-fiv- e entries to the stake ers into your,', quarrels and this club will dling "himself. He got off fourth in a Lucasta (half brother to Lux Casta); races here in every year. Is he had be- be the real,J3iffei?er in the long run. We field of six and made all the running aster chestnut colt by Sir Dixon Kismet (half longed to me or to you nothing would have trouble" 'enough already with two the first furlong had been traversed. In brother to Whimsical); chestnut silly by luie saved him from life-lon- g expulsion." cranky newspapers sighting us at every the last furlong he merely cantered and imp. Mirthful Brune. The Sir Dixon "So you think that these rulings made stage of the game and we don't want any could have easily covered the distance in Kismet colt is at the Lexington track in here against the two McCafferty brothers, more. Either patch up your differences 59 seconds had he been urged at all. I am the stable of Jack Baker. The remainder Charles Durnell, F. T. Wood and others and end this incessant bother right here particularly pleased at the success of this of the string is at Memphis, having been will all be rescinded before the opening and now, or else take yourselves and colt for the sake of his sire, who was shipped from here several weeks ago. of another meeting do you?" your horses away from our track." an ideal race horse in any country. The 'I certainly do. They need their horses In my humble belies that would have race was worth over $1,900 to the win- It is stated that Barney Schreiber, the here and can not get along without them," ended the row at once, for McCafferty ner. This is the best showing made for Missouri breeder and turfman, who has he replied. knew he could ,not race his horses at several years by any horse from the Blair had a most successful winter season in "Then they will have to get along with- Oakland, and Ascot Park was the only Athol branch of Stockwell blood, in Amer- California, will race an extensive string out the services of Col. Archie Hamilton place in California where they could earn ica at least, although it has been at the at the Eastern trades the coming sum- as presiding judge," was my answer, "for their hay and oats. There would have head of affairs in Australia for several mer. It is his present plan to ship Dr. he is a man who is slow about imposing been an immediate cessation of hostile seasons through Lochiel and Clan Stu- Gardner, the three-year-o- son of Ban- punishments, but when he does hand them movements and the. sport would have art. Is others of Bannockburn's get do nockburn Uarda, to Memphis for the out he expects them to stand." been the cleaner and. in every way the as well hereafter, we may expect the Tennessee Derby, come from there to Lex- better for it. As it is, Mr. Brooks and handsome brown horse at Woodlands ington, then on to Louisville for the Ken- Van Meter's Charges. Mr. Jasper have been sully exonerated, to occupy a very prominent place among tucky Derby, and from Louisville to go Frank Van Meter charged that Mr. but the talk is not yet ended. McCaffer- - our native sires. HIDALGO. East.