Show BARNEY SCHREIBER i lARGEST HORSE OWNER OVNER St Louis Jan be the owner of more thoroughbreds than any man In the United States and possibly than any man manIn manin In the world is the height attained In Inthe inthe the turf world by the erstwhile dry goods clerk Barney Schreiber of Kansas City It is now claimed by Mr friends that with his brood mares seven stallions and 25 racers ready or soon to be ready for the turf ho Is the owner of the largest number of pedigreed pedigreed greed horses the property of anyone any one man And this has been brought about In six sixteen teen years by the tho craze for betting on onI horse races which was at Its zenith about 1892 1592 to judge from the plethoric size of I Goodwins Guide of that year In which were chronicled many thousands of races carried on on all sorts of race tracks tram from the three furlong sand dunes nt at St StLouis StLouis I Louis Mo to the magnificent domain at Morris Park and from to Decem December ber in all sorts of weather It Is a curious tact fact that mU breeding farm In the suburbs of St Louis and his fj head of race racehorses racehorses horses have been secured to his firm possession pos possession session by the day In and day out year In and year out winning performances ot of Jack Atkin son of Sam the latter a neg neglected neglected racer on the California turf about ten years a ago o a horse of oC beautiful br breed ed edIng lag Ing and outlines but because of feet an Inconsistent performer and who twive got his rider Claude Burlingame ruled oU off the turf because of defeats which the jockey was held to blame for but which In all probability were duo due to the horses own inability |