TTTE OMAITA SUNDAY BEE: JANTJATlY 2, 1910.
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Enoch Wishard's Great Victory Over
Eoyal Flush.
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NEW TORK, Jan. l.-The London din
patch printed a few daya ago about the
English -thoroughbred having shown such
ba temper at various times attracted the
attention of an old time trainer who sat
in the Hoffman House rotunda and re
marked to half a dozen listeners:
"I notice that Ladas and a few other
' bad -tempered ones were mentioned as
having wanted to savage their jockeys
and attendants at different times, but I
saw. nothing about Royal Flush and some
other English horses that were brought
out here and were cured of temper, or
at any rate so much improved that they
would be considered fairly tolerable at
home. This horse Royal Flush was a
mighty sprinter, but It took half a dozen
men to saddle him In the paddock, and he
was liable to run amuck at the post or
during a race and hurt some tnan or horse
.seriously.
"Enoch Winhard, the American trainer,
.who la now in this country, was training
for Drake In England, and he saw the
possibilities of converting Royal Flush.
The owner and trainer of the big brute
were pretty well disgusted, and though the
horse was worth big money If he could
be handled they knew that the stewards
of the Jockey club were seriously consider
ing the barring of the horse from partici
pation in all races run under. their Juris
diction because of his savagery. It was
therefore a golden opportunity not to bo
lost when Wlshard offered $2,600 for the
horse, taking the odd chance that he could
pick up a few races after the application
of a thorough system of whip breaking, at
which art the western horseman is an
adopt.
"Tou should hear Wlshard tell of how he
conquered the horse. He had him brought
to his quarters at Newmarket. The big
stallion arrived there full of flaht and was
put in a special box stall about twenty
four feet square.
"The box was cleaned of everything,
but a light litter and the horse was fas
tened to the wall on either side. Wishard,
armed. with a new coach whip, entered,
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vujri nuaa sucn a tnorough
drubbing that there wasn't a spot on him
from ears to tali which .did not show the
severity of the punishment At the start
the horse fought savagely and roared his
defiance like a lion, but in the end he
. yielded, as they all will, and fairly squealed
for mercy.
"The bruises were treated with a cooling
lotion and the following day, whip In hand,
Wlshard 6nce more went to the stall and
was prepared to renew the punishment.
It was not necessary, however, and that
day two of the youngest boys in the train
er's employ , made the horse's toilet while
Wishard lay In the straw and looked on.
"The horse knew his master and was
tranquil. Within ten days after purchas
ing him Wishard took Royal Flush to the
'paddock in a halter vlthnui a otimi
saddled and bridled the hitherto savage
stallion without assistance. The English
trainers and racetrack, habitues were
amazed and they were still further sur
prised when Roval Flush c&nterl tni.
ably to the post and won his race In a
cantor.
"He won many 'other races, too about
$20,000 In all for his owner before he woat
wrong that autumn and had to be thrown
out of training. It Is true that in bring
ing Royal Flush to. this country the per
son who had him in charge became care
less and the horse bit one of the man's
thumbs off as cleanly as though it had
been, chopped away by a butcher's, cleaver,
'but it Is not recorded that he subsequently
gave much trouble during the time he was
in the stud In California and Kentucky."
"Metuchen was a pretty bad proposi
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purely American and his bad temper could
not be laid to the rubbing and drumming
the English give their horses. Metuchen's
original name was C. H. Qlllock and he
waa bought by Mike Dwyer for a fancy
price when he waa 8 years old.
"I had heard of some of his tantrums
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that he had Hardy Campbell's hair turn
ing gray, but none of us expected that he
was such a devil as be turned out to be
subsequently. It took all the Dwyer force
of stable hands, headed by Trnlner Camp
bell, to get Metuchen out of his box at
Oravesend the first time they wanted to
stsrt him.
"As for going to the paddock, there waa
no question of that at all. He simply
wouldn't have It and the weight and the
Jockey had to be taken over to the stall.
Ha had to be snared with a long pole
through a ring In the halter and held by
two men while others Jumped In and sad
dled htm, the brute squealing like a pig
all the while and kloklng to beat the band.
"I forget now who was riding for M(ke
then, but when the door of the stall was
opened and Metuchen bounded forth he
only touched the ground In the very high
est places and his antics on the track,
where he was finally driven by a corps of
men and dogs, were never equalled by a
thoroughbred in the vicinity of New Tork.
He did everything but stand on his head
and finally snapped the . leather martin
gales with his teeth as though they were
tissue paper. As for racing, he would
have none of It, and Dwyer gave him up
In disgust.
"The Dwyers had a 'couple of birds long
before Metuchen's day," said another by
stander. "It was a fight between Jimmy
McLaughlin, who was riding for them at
that time, whenever they wanted to work
or race Fanlque, while you remember the
story that Onondsna, once owned by them
and afterward so ) to Milton Young, was
so savage that his eyes had to be put out
In order to do anything with him. This
happened before the horse was sent to the
stud In Kentucky."
"Coming down to recent years," com
mented another, "there have been some
pretty savage thoroughbreds racing on the
tracks around New Tork. One, day In the
Bpring of 1904, at Aqueduct, a Oold, be
longing to Billy Oliver, savaged little
Ogllvle, and the only thing that saved the
lad from losing a foot was the steel stir
rups, which the brute bent as though It
were so much wire.
"AH Gold had never shown any disposi
tion to be worse tempered than any other
stallion of the Rayon d'Or family. He
would kick and take care of himself in a
Jam at the post, but he was not considered
dangerous to the poklngs or to other
horses in the races in whloh ha took part.
"On that particular day the horse had
drawn second position and Ogllvle was on
the rail astride a filly owned by Mr. Rich
ards of Boston. Without any premonitory
warning the stallion, with a roar, sprang
across the Intervening spaoe of perhaps
fifteen feet, and before Starter Fitzgerald
or any of his crew could realize It the
stallion had seized the right foot of the
boy in his teeth and was mangling it with
all the savagery of a wild beast.
"The boy gave one sharp cry of fright
when the horse grabbed him and was then
still." Fitzgerald sprang from the stand
and, picking up a heavy crop belonging to
on of his men, dealt the horse a terrific
blow back of the ear. The stallion halt
closed hlB eyes and swayed as though he
was about to fall, but It took two addi
tional blows to make him release the foot,
"Picking the boy up In his arms the
starter carried the now almost unconsci
ous Jockey to his wagon and hurried him
to the care of the track physician. The
foot hung limp and every bone and liga
ment was broken or torn; In fact, the mass
was pulp. The stool stirrup was bent as
though It had been subjected to the most
terrific pressure, and there In no doubt
that Ogllvlo would have lost his foot but
for It.
"As It was that boy was In the hospital
from the middle of April until the begin
ning of October, and that he is able to
walk around today la due simply to the
skill of the surgeon who treated him at
St. Mary's hospital and saved the foot
after half a dozen intricate operations."
The case of the English Jockey Otto
Madden, ,who waa savaged' while on the
way to the post. Is paralleled lu this coun
try. Old timers will recall that Jugglor,
the pride of Guttenburg, took the then
diminutive Spider Anderson, who was rid
ing Fides, the apple of the elder Belmont's
eye, out of the saddle in front of the stand
at Gravesend and after shaking him as
a terrlor would a rat dropped him upon
the tiack. The combative disposition of
horses in races has on more than one oc
casion caused casualties. It was the at
tempt of St. Leonards to seize the horse
next to him in a race at Sheepshead bay
that caused the death of Pop Barrett, one
of the cleverest lightweights ever seen In
America.
The big son of St. Blaise crossed his
legs in his futile effort to reach his nearest
competitor anj he fell, hurling Barrett be
neath the feet of a big field of colts and
fillies. . The little chap was as delicate
as a girl anyway and when they picked
him up there was a smile on his warm
face and a scar across his temple where a
flying foot had brushed away his life.
It n ade some of the veterans who knew
Danny . Maher smile when they read an
extract from an English Journal the other
day about the patience shown by the
American In handling Bayardo and his
diplomacy in getting the crack British 8-
year-old to go the post by taking him
around by the Rowley mile back of the
stands and out of Bight of the crowds.
When Danny was riding in this country
he was not noted for his sweetness of
tt-mper. The great rider as a small boy
had a violent temper, as his full black
brows meeting across the bridge of his
strong nose would Indicate. The drubbing
he gave Banastor in the Suburban when
the horse wheeltd at the start will never
be forgotten by those who saw It.
Every person muBt admit that Maher
had strong provocation, for . the cunning
horse would apparently be under full head
way and like a flash he would dig his
toes in the ground, whirl to the left and
go the wrong way of the track. With the
present system of starting In vogue, when
Banastar was running the horse would
be left at the post nine times out of tea.
Maher was beside himself when the horse
whirled on that memorable day at Sheeps
head Bay and he beat the liver-colored
chestnut son of Farandola until he waa
covered with bumps as big as hen's eggs
everywhere the Jockey could reach him
with the whip.
When he went to England Maher was
warned that the turf authorities there
were particularly severe on riders who pun
ished their mounts unnecessarily, and he
did not offend the first aeason he rode
abroad. The next year, however, he al
most lost- his license for this fault, and
the warning he received has had a whole
some effect apparently.
, There ia no Jockey who has made a
nore consistently brilliant record abroad
than this modest young man from Connec
ticut, and that he won a victory over his
naturally quick temper Is not. the least of
his achievements, and horsemen on both
sides ef the water will learn with, regret
that he la becoming too heavy to ride, and
will hardly be seen In the saddle after
1910, if during that period. Maher Is about
the age when McLaughlin and Garrison,
who also came from Connecticut, had to
give up active work In the saddle. All
three boys came from Hartford, and It Is
doubtful if any cttr in the world has ever
produced three such famous Jockeys. It la
also noteworthy that all thrse wr
brought out and practically developed uj
the Daly a. Bill and Mlk V
NEW METIIOD OF BREEDING
Horses to Be Bred on Lines of Col
ored Charts.
SOME ACTUAL RESULTS SHOWN
Boathall System and What ft Demon,
atrates Sprarralat, the Derby
Wine f 10O6, Cited as.
an Instane.
Breeding cIassIc winners according to
what Is shown In colored charts Is one of
the latest fads of the turf abroad lust now.
-and from a scientific standpoint it has at
tracted the attention of the men Interested
In the production of the thoroughbred
This chart plan Is the "Invention of w
Southall. who was for many years agent
ror sir Tatton Sykes, and though he has
used the systfm for some time for his own
personal guidance It Is only lately that
others have recognised the utility of the
scheme.
What directed attention mnaMv .
Souihall charts waa the case of Spear
mint, winner of the Derby In 1WT and the
colt who made the present record of 2:3fi
foi the course. As a I-year-old he was
not figured even In the mediocre class,
yet the Southall charts showed him to be
far and away the best of the vounntm-B
In training. That the charts were the best
Indication of the animal's true form was
en-phasized the following season when the
Dig .psom race came around.
To describe these charts on f)flntt Ik tint
an easy task, because the colors they show
aro the essential feature. The charts are
fan-fchaped, and each generation Is set
down in a semi-circle, of which there are
seven, so that in the outermost there are
he names of sixty-four sires and slxty
fcur dams. All these tracing In tail male
from Whalebone through Camel and
Touchstone are colored
through BIrdcatcher and Stockwell . pale
pu,K, through BIrdcatcher and Isonomy,
together with all other
Whalebone and Whisker, deep pink. The
lines rrom King Fergus through Blacklock
are dark blue, through Orvllle green, from
Tramp red, from Gohanna ann natmr,
brown, and from Salt ram and all other
lines or eclipse chrome yellow.
The members of the Woodpecker branch
of the Herod family are colored purple,
those of the Highflyer branch pale blue,
while the descendants of Matchem are
light oak. By this time It is possible to
tell at a glance what blood predominates
In a pedigree and also whether the chief
strain in a mare has Its complement in the
sire. Southall has colored the pedigree of
ail sires at the stud at the present time,
so that he has only to color the pedigree
of any given mare and place It alongside
those of the sires In order to find out
very quickly which will make the best
mate for her; that is leaving all other con
siderations aside.
How far It will be possible to bring those
charts into general use cannot now be
determined, but the only obstacle that
might be In the way Is the expense. A
practical solution of the difficulty would be
to publish a volume giving the colored
chart of all available sires, bound in such
a manner that additions and removals
could be easily effected, and In that way
it could be kept up to date. Were the
charts arranged in that way it would b
quite a simple manner for an owner to get
his mare colored, and then he could
quickly decide which sire , would be the
most suitable mate, that Is so far as the
best strains of blood would be concerned.
In case of the failure of this plan the
only other method would be for the owners
to put themselves In communication with
Southall, who would, no doubt, supply all
the material necessary. - One English
breeder who has mated his horses accord'
Ing to Southall's plan Is elated over the
result, and a string of youngsters which
have classic engagements will be' closely
watched for the next year or two. Speak
ing of his. charts, Southall says:
"I am hoping that the more skillful
mating of our mares will In the ' neai
future somewhat check the 90 per cent
of wasters which annually appear before
the starter. It Is a fact, which I em
phatically affirm, that hundreds of our
brood mares. If Judiciously mated, are cap
able of producing dlstingufShed winners In
stead of offsprings destined to finish at
the tall end of selling races horses worth
1,000 or more Instead of 50, or something
under, and dear at that Our best sires
are frequently visited by unsuitable mares,
with results that might readily be ex
pected. In 1908 nine of the get of, St. Simon
started in thirty-two races without scor
ing a win between them, and, similarly,
there were twenty by St. Frusquin who
ran unsuccessful 108 times, nineteen by
Gallinule, 87 times; twelve by Cyllene, 46
times, and nine by Volodyskl, 42 times.
One doctrine that Is often wrongly re
commended Is the constant change of
sires for a mare. Kb advice could be more
Irrational. It Is one of the faults of our
present methods of breeding and entirely
at variance with the grand old practice of
former days, which I wish to assist in re
storing. "Now as to the value of Inbreeding,
let it be understood that It is not a new
system of breeding winners. It Is merely
a ' means whereby the experience gained
by" generations of breeders may be readily
applied with less risk of failure. A study
of the pedigree of the best and most suc
cessful horses reveals the correctness
of the century old theory that Inbreeding
to certain well defined families Is the most
promising method of procedure. I can
not stop now to give examples. There are
scores of them. Count Lehndort In his
book gives a list of over a 100 well known
animals Inbred to ancestors removed from
one to six degrees, and shows that those
most successful were Inbred at the fourth
or fifth degree. But this principle can
surely be usefull applied to famtllea a
well as to Individuals that la to say, to
potent strains of Vjlood. The late Joseph
Osborne laid down the general rule that
where the pedigree of sire and dam most
assimilate, there the success of their pro
geny had been most pronounced. The
Winners of the Seasons Har
ness Classics.
JULY J7 J. of C, Detroit George Gano, Star Patchen and Hoosler Prince.
JULY. 28 M. and M., Detroit Margin, Marie N. and Ulna.
Al'tl. 4 2:14 I rut, Kalamasoo Margin, Judge m and L'l Victress.
AUG. 17 Queen City stakes, Buffalo The Harvester, Genteel H. and Beatrice
' Bllllnl.
Al'O. tl American Derby, Read vllle Baron Alcyon, Axtator and Kaldar.
SEPT. Charter Oali, Hartford The Harvester, Bib Douglas and Uenteel H.
KKPT. T Nutmeg stakes, Hartford George Gsno, Rollins and Hal Raven.
SKPT. 15 Empire stakes, Syracuse Penlsa Maid, Jack McKerron and Alice
Roosevelt.
-SRPT. 14 M. and M , Milwaukee Ross K . Luke Vernon and Oscar Wilde.
BE FT. 21 Hosier Columbus, Columbus Penlsa Maid, Jack McKerron and
Margin.
SEPT. 21 Kentucky Stock Farm, Columbus Baroness Virginia, Vito and
Csarevna.
SEPT. 28 Buckeye. Columbus Penisa Maid, Margin and Jack McKerron.
SEPT. 2 Horse Review Futurity, Columbus Three-year-olds, Ciarevna,
Soprano and Captain George; 2-year-olds, Native Belle, Eva Bellini and
Eva Tanguay.
OCT. T Tran.ylvanla, Lexington Penisa Maid, Bob Douglas and Marls N.
OCT. 6 Kentucky Futurity, Lexington Baroness Virginia, Csarevna and
Bertha C,
OCT. 12 Walnut Hill cup, Lexington Penisa Maid, Margin and Jack McKerron.
The
late Sawry Cookson of Neasham hall, who
bred four Oak winners In sixteen years,
the first and second for the dorby in JS61,
the first and second for the Bt. Leger In
1863, proceeded on the line that the horse
should return the best strains in the mare's
pedigree.
"It is fairly obvious that the accepted
strains must be 1 those which descend In
the tall male. No doubt there have been
numberless Instances In which the mare
has been the more potential factor In pro
ducing high class offsprings, but even so,
are most likely to be transmitted to future
generations in tall Wle, simply because the
sires most freely used are the horses who
have come to the front on the race course.
At a rough guess I should say that at least
three times out of four the sire Is the
propotent agent.
"As to the case of Spearmint, whose
chart Is worked out to the seventh re
move, a peculiar Interest attaches to It,
because when Spearmint was a yearling
and still at Sledmere It was possible to
pronounce him the best youngster bred
and reared by Sir Tatton Sykes for many
a long year; that Is to sav, the best 'on
paper.' The chart showed you at a glance
that the predominant lines of blood those
of Touchstone, Stockwell and Melbourne
are ideally balanced in sire and dam.
Bayardo's chart is also splendidly balanced,
and that of Mlnoru likewise. Lemberg's
does not strike one quite so favorably,: be
cause in Cyllene there Is no response to
the Blacklock blood that Is so conspicuous
a feature in Gallcla's pedigree. Of course
there is Oalopin again in Mother Selgel,
the dam of Miroru, but It is not in the top
line, as In the case of Oallcia.
"In. the center of Mlnoru's pedigree there
are four converging lines of Touchstone,
strongly supported by Stockwell and Ster
ling, with a dash of Highflyer. Dark
Ronald again comes out well, for the
Blaoklock, Touchstone, Stockwell and Mel
bourne blood on the dam's side has Its
exact counterparts on the sire's. It will,
be remembered that Abe Bailey bought
the yearling half brother to Dark Ronald,
by Symington, at Doncaster. According
to the colors the youngster should turn
out to be a good one, for not only does
Symington return the Blacklock blood in
liberal quantity, but also a strong dose
of Tramp. Roseate Dawn has been pur
chased by Tanner and sent to the stud.
Here we have a horse with "a preponder
ance of BIrdcatcher and Touchstone blood,
with important streaks of Blacklock and
Sweetmeat (Herod) on the dam's side, A
mare bred on the same lines as Mother
Selgel would suit him very well.
"Nowadays the science of breeding pos
sesses an almost Irresistible fascination for
even those who have only mastered its
first principles. Like ell other sciences Its
depths are unfathomable. Keen, alert and
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