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Show KING OF RACING ISJ.UAGGIN Owner of 15(10 Steeds With Pedigrees. Affectionately Styled th Colossus of American Ameri-can Turf. At One Time Haggin Did Not Know How Many Horsos He. He Owned. REGISTERED with the Jockey club, which owns the official Stud Book, are about 7000 thoroughbred tho-roughbred brood mares, and of that number about 1500 arc owned by one man. There may bo better known men in the racing world than Jam oh Bt Haggin, but they are very fow In number. num-ber. This patriarch, true Colossus, Is today tho possessor of more thoroughbreds thorough-breds than any other man in the world. He owns some 1500 mares, sixty stallions, stal-lions, 500 yearlings, and poBslbly 600 horses fit to train or actually In training train-ing In various parts of the United States. Even in England there are more than 100 racers bred by Mr. Huggln several years ago and sent across the ocean when a yenr old to be sold at publlo auction. They have done very well there, ono, Watershed,- having won the famous Cambridgeshire handicap in the colors of tho late Mr. Whitney, while the ill-fortune which awaited the sportsmanlike effort of the same gentleman gen-tleman In sending tho 350.000 Nasturtium Nastur-tium to run for the Derby was Bhared by Mr. Haggin, who owned an equal share of the horae. Many people say that Mr. Haggin could not at once say Just how many horses he. does own. Very few race-goers seem to realize how great a part Mr. Haggin has taken In the development of the high-mettled racer In America. Improvement has been going steadily forward since the first Derby winner, DIomed, was brought here; but no one man has done so much as the subject of this article in the number and the class of racers, especially of rocent years. How few stop to think that whenever Irish Lad wins Mr Haggin Is brought forward Into publicity because he owns that great horse's aire, Candlemas. Haggin's Turf Triumphs. When Africander, the most formidable formida-ble opponent of his own age that Jrlsh Lad met last year, Won the .suburban, carrying 110 pounds, or seVen poundB more than Irish Lad .had up when he won the Brooklyn handicap, much of the honor of that victory was shared by the colt's breeder, Mr. Hnggln, who Imported his sire, Star Ruby, from England Eng-land about ten years ago, and placed him at the stud at Rancho del Paso, California, after the horse had won the famous Thornton stake, four miles. In easy manner, running in the name of G. B. Morris. While the mnBscs enthusiastically Il cheered the game victory of Hamburg Ifll Bolle in last year'B Futurity, few re- )' 111 mombered that, though running m the :IH name of Sydney Page, she was actuallv h-IH owned by Mr. Haggin. who leased hor 4 11 running qualities for two years to Mr. 'WM Paget In the summer of 1902. I IfjH Again, when the Lawrence Realiza- ' r .aHI tion of 1903 was run at tho beautiful f iS grounds of the Coney Island Jockey " 1 club on July 7 last and Africander won ' ;3 the greatest race of his career In tho i'Sll opinion of many shrewd Judges, not $ alone was the winner bred by Mr. Hag- i J IH gin, but the second and third colts, ' iflHI Golden Maxim and Savable. were also I the produce of his stallions and mares. ' 'flill It was one of the most glorious episodes $ ifl In the career of any breeder to see colts , ' S bred by him, and perhaps In their ba- 'S by days actually fondled by him, come ; '$ out hi the pride of their strength and 1 set 30,000 people ablaze with enthusi- ' 8 asm by achieving the greatest raca '(til ever run. ft ll Owns Ton Establishments. f jfl But these are only a few. of the tri- 1 1 11 umphB of almost weekly occurrence. ' 4 lH either in the height of the racing sea- J ll'l eon on the Jockey club tracks or at the 3 S iH California eourscB In winter, whero f hardly a race Is run in which the ma- h J Jorlty of contestants are other than - jH Rencho del Paso bred racers. . ' Q At least ten racing establishments i 11 were at the time within the last two ' 1 years really owned by Mr. Haggin, ( fl IH though the racing qualities of the horses 1 a lH were leased for one or two seaaohs to l the men in whose names thy ran, nnd )i J jH in accordance with the wlHe rules of r jfl'H the Jockey club all the leases or con- I I tlngoncles are duly recorded with tho governing body of the turf. I -M Thus at one time a year ago several , . jH of the leading winning owners, such os ' a Sydney Paget, Walter Jennings, G. B. l .S Morris and others, were winning with I H horses owned by Mr. Haggin and leased to these men. Frequently these , J 'H racers met in the same race, and very . a 'H often one or the other would win by a M -M small margin. , Notwithstanding the fact that ono H $ man owns the horses, there is no room 'H for any feeling of discontent o.-i the j, RS 'H part of the public, for competition Is S keen to the limit, and each lessee Is to 1, iH all Intents and purposes The owner, and 'ilTI upon the success of his horses depends 'a his ability to retain control. Tho terms ftug H are said to be 50 per cent of the win- lUf'S H nines after all expenses are paid. J'' |
