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Show I I I Game Gelding Housed at Livery f ... iSlablo Down at Little j V Rook. GRAVESEND WINNER "WORTH BIG MONEY CViII Be Shipped to Belmont Park in April for Thor-I Thor-I v ongh Training, i .Tribune Special Sporting; Service. LITTLE TvOCK, Ark., Dec. S Thou- ' Fnnds of those metropolitan race- " goers who went into firs of rapture ( at the spectacle which Salvidere made I of his opponents when lie won the, Uonnio Champion slakes at Gravescwl ' on September 22 learned witli amaze- i ment how tho enmo golding has l)ccn ' forced lo oecnpy quarters in a liver- stable in Liltle Rock because of the ; until, condition of the slablinpr at that, i noiirsc. i Salvidero is valued by his owners, , Thomas Hitchcock. Jr.. and John F,. ' Wndden, at. $100,000. He is insured at j a large .figure. It is said $50,000, upon which a premium of 6 per cant is paid, is the amount of the insurance, making ; an additional $3000 to the cost of ; .-wintering the gelding and gradually j getting nim ready for the big stake's R to be run early in 1907. ij Thorcis not a doubt that, he will be j entered in all four of the big handicaps. beginnng with tho Metropolitan and I ending with tho Brighton. These two, with the Brooklyn and the Suburban, Su-burban, will he worth about. $S0jJ00 i to tho winner. It is, of course tin- I I likely that Salvidere or mid other '. I named horse will -win all four of these I races, but should he win onn or two of n them the value of cither would be ! about $30,000. Add to this his engage- fj ments in the regular three-year-old r stakes to be run on the big tracks in j. 3007, and it can casllj- lie seen that Hi given a good winteriug and ordinary jkTJ Juck, this son of Bclvidere is worth at l Deast $50,000 on account of his eugage- 1 I mcnts alone. 2 1 But after his racing career ends, the Hfi'y future of Salvidere will ultimately be RFf exaetly that of the cab horses whose : flfh company he is now enjoying. TJnfcrhi- Jlffl ' lately for the good ol the turf. Snlvi- Hfl4 j derc is a gelding, and like thousands of I mtfl other good racers, his merits will not bo tmM ! transmitted to posterity. This will also f 3f n f I50 tne (lcsfciny f JRoseben, also a gcld- f Jffj The fact that John Madden sent Sal- 'Imfi videre so far south as Little "Rock, ' I I instead of wintering at Aiken, S. 0., r ; In ( or Lexington, or at tho Metropolitan ;ljf ; tracks, makes it appear as if he had ('fj,j planned an early campaign for the , lijl gelding. A racer coming to the North i'k. Ojfu from the Southwest has tho Northern ,fjl! horses at; a great disadvantage. This ! Rf : ."was one reason whv Boundless won the ! W World's Fair Derby at Chicago in JS93. lltf Cnrrying out his plans. Madden will tj Bhip Salvidere to Bclitiont Park in Jjljil 'April, nnd there make ready for the TWL' Metropolitan handicap, Being a geld- titf? nff SaIvillerc W'1 be easior to fit than j If V Sf he were an entire horse. Taking r 11 L JSysonb' as a line, any good three year- .' I I old should be dangerous in the Metro- ' ,jf x I j)olitan. Sysonby did not win, but he Se ' vas tho best horse, and his dead heat M I -j ,-with Eace Kiug, conceding him much ,11 1: ."weight, was a great performance, j 1 ; f fl I After the Metropolitan tho big rhreo- ' I .11 .year-old stakes, such as tho Withern jj . j 'and Belmont, will engage Madden 's at- l H i i. tcntion. There is much less competi- ll P, ' lion in the three-year-old stakes than jfiif !for tho valuable handicaps, and practi- jjijl a j cnl horsement do not fear to run with Ijjl If ' three-ycar-olds in the former, notwith- ttjll t standing it means cnrrying much higher ml I .iwoight. M i ' After Belmont Park will come the ST a J .Brooklyn handicap, the Suburban and JiBv itho Brighton, Long before July 'JJII. j comes around tho best Eastern stables ujj ; prill be ready, but their great trouble LWlfi .-will be that Salvidere and Madden 's iTll I four-year-old, the Quail, will both havo I 'an advantage over the Kcene, Whitney', fifll s I 'Haggin and Dnryca stables. |