Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-03-16 | Page 17 | Madden Reflects on Long Career Holds Record for Big Money Sales

Madden Reflects on Long Career 1 44 4 4 i 4 44 Z Holds Record for Big Money Sales II 11 V AV W. V. V If n. Having HayIng retired as a public breeder of thoroughbred race horses John 12 g. Madden can now pause and look over O tho the record which he ho made during durin I the past thirty years in the annals o of tho the American turf As 45 a dealer racing owner and breeder his success in In Inthe the language ua o of ot Dominie Dominic Sampson has been prodigious No magician from hither Barbary over met him on tho street and led Jed him like Alad Aladdin ln to the th en enchanted enchanted en- en chanted lamp of oC easy fortune as all nil that thal came came- his way can be traced to toc c constant 0 n S ta n t a application ppl i ca tb n c quick u I dc t thinking h I a kIng ln and skillful management backed cd b by a thorough knowledge of ot the thc business In which he h played so Be prominent a a. part Madden first attracted attention Inthe in inthe the racing world at the lie Cleveland grand circuit me meeting tins in 1887 when he started d the gray Iray gelding Class J Leader ader and gave him a record of 2221 lI H lie was a rather weak teak reed to lean on on but buthis buthis buthis his fallings failings taught his athletic owner what to avoid old In subsequent purchases In 18 1830 O Madden appeared again on the firing Iring line with the Electioneer mar mare 5 Suisun which to o all appearances had the M. M and M. M at Detroit won when tho the race raCO was as postponed and Waller Walter Wal Wal- alter al ter ler E. E landed tho the event tho the following da day Ho no was also ready to make an another another another an- an other bid for tho the event the next year ear with Wyandotte but the tho Indiana bred trotter died from rein an attack of oC colic a afew afew few days das before tho the race raco was called In the lie interval Madden had also given Iven the public notice of oC his operations as asa asa a a. dealer b by paying 3 for lor Robert McGregor Abbie V Y was his next prominent p performer performer per per- r- r former and while Turner was racing her on tho the grand rn circuit Ma Madden de decided de de- to go so over to the gallopers It was sa not long before he made a place for himself h li In that sphere his thorough thorough thorough thor thor- ough knowledge of et balancing and fitting fitting fit fit- ting Uns giving him an nn opportunity to tomake tomake tomake make good with horses which others had discarded ed This with that un- un definable quality of being able to se select select select se- se lect futuro future champions in the rough soon carried his name Into the list lint o of winners While Hamburg was hl his greatest selection tho the laurels won by Yankee King iCing James Janice Plau Plau- dit Sir Martin Salv Star Shoot hoot Tho Thu Finn Ogden and a host I of ot others other which ho bred brell raced or owned will be recalled so long as aJ racing rae rae- ing folk refer to the leading leadin horses of or their da day But even ovon with them thom the limit was not reached as the ho returns for tor the past two years shows that Madden Madden Mad Mad- den en sent out from Hamburg Hambur Place fj 17 his nearest rivals in that r re respect respect re- re being Harry Harr Payne Whitney with 2 ii and August Belmont Delmont with Notwithstanding hi lila his success as a breeder of ot race horses John E. E Madden Madden Mad Mad- den has always ha had a fondness for the trotters and whenever cr ho started one it was vas found in the first flightS flight In lOG 1006 he won the Kentucky futurity with SIlIca and had Brighton read ready to tomake tomake tomake make a n bid the following year wh when n nho I ho went amis In 1008 he ho made mado a n. sweep with Hamburg Belle Delle her three winning heats in the Charter Charier CharterOak CharterOak Oak purse at Hartford being the tho best beston on record up to that date The followIng following follow follow- ing Lag year ear she al also alJo o defeated Uhl Uhlan n in 01 Qi i. i tho ho worlds world's race raco record Her sale for tor 5 also gave o the tho world an idea as al to the tho value of or a a. good trotter trot trot- ter Cr while her campaign was followed h by tho the splendid serial of ol races won by and Soprano in tho the same colors I After ACter the they w were re sold for Cor export to Europe tho the progeny of oC the little band ban 1 of trotting bred mares marcs at Il co began be nn to appear on the tho turf All Allot of ot them were speed marvels the group roup Including Brighton B. B Nancy anc ron Margaret Parrish Straight Sail as aswell well as the flying 2 olds car Walnut Tree and Periscope Among Amons who have hae alwa always been willing to bu buy or sell racing speed for Cor the high dollar doUar John Madden ladden will wll I always alwa's find a place I Jace He lie has in all probability sold more race horses for big monc money than any man nh who has ever been identified with the industry in Kentucky and it Il is Just I possible his two sons will succeed him him in the business One of or them Edward who was a leading all aU around athlete at Princeton is now a a. captain In the arm army of cC occupation while his brother Joseph after doing his bit in the war var I Is now at al the same university