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Show SHI1I1 LIGHTS IF What Is Heard in and About tho Places Where Racing Men Congregate. WHO WILL CUT A FIGURE IN THE COMING SEASON 'interesting Statistics Regarding Regard-ing tho Winnings of Kcene the Past Forty Years. BY HILLARY H. OLMANN. By Leased Who to The Tribune NEW YORK. Feb. 12. According' to our dope, Kltz-Horbcrt, the star or tho HJldreth stable, will prove the shining light of the American turf in tho 1910 season. But notwithstanding the fact that FItz-lIerbcrt haa boon posted at top weight for the three big races of . tho cast the' Brooklyn, Suburban nnd Brighton Brigh-ton handicaps Ballot, the Keeno horse, Is only three pounds under Fltz-Horbort, and tho form of Ballot Is somewhat of a mystery. King James Is on equal terma with Ballot. The weight sheet Is usually looked upon ut this time a Indicating tho form In which horses will run later in the season. According to llandlcanper Vosburgh, the horses stand with Fitz-Ilerbert Fitz-Ilerbert at the top and others In tho following fol-lowing order: Ballot, King James, Alaskette. Hilarious, Prlscllllan, Joo Madden, Mad-den, Firestone, Olamuala, Restlgouchu, Big Chief. Helmet. Mnltble, High Private. Pri-vate. Stanley Fay, Fayette. Czar, Boggs, DInna Ken, and so on through a list of seventy. In my mtnd, Sweep will be a contender with FItz-Herbert for the turf honors, and wo must not forgot Jack Atkln. Sweep won tho futurity last season sea-son and In form shows up very well now. on oiu Bciunngn course The old Bennlngs racecourse near Washington Is llvollor than It has been for many days. Jt has been the custom of many Maryland and Virginia stablo owners to send their horses to Bennlngs for the finishing touehes In tholr training, olther late In the winter or early In the spring. Among tho stables already ot Bennlngs are those of William Garth, fifty horses; Woods Garth, ten horses, and Theodore Coles, the trainer of High Private. High Private Is the -l-ycar-old son of Oddfellow and Commenn. In California last year some of the Judges ranked High Prlvato along with FItz-Herbert. FItz-Herbert. Hugffins Forsakes Texas. John Hugglns, the veteran trainer, has forsaken the wilds of Texas, where he has been hunting wildcats and mountain Hons, to begin work getting the American Ameri-can string of Harry Payne Whitney In shape for the coming season. Whllo Mr. Hugglns took no part In the affairs of the turf .last season he Is an expert trainer. He trained for Herman Duryca In tho heyday of eastern racing nnd before be-fore that had charge of the European stable of Pierre Lorillard. Last year In England, whero Mr. Whitney met with phenomenal success, A. J. Joyner was trainer for the stable. Mr. Whitney will compete seriously on our own turf this year, and his farm at Brookdale, N. J., contains some very promising horses. Odom Will Figure. George Odom, the erstwhile Jockey and former resident of Columbus, Gn., Is going go-ing to cut some figure In the east this year. Odom has an extremely good-looking strinc of two-year-olds, not counting Bonnie Kelso. Nimbus, Traveler and Trance. Odom owns all his horses outright, out-right, having purchased the majority of them last summer. Then has been some doubt about Traveler and Trance, as both havo been crippled, but they aro showing up well, with more of the stiffness gone now. Trance Is a daughter of Bon Brush and Fair Vision, and two years ago could beat anything on the track, save the very highest topnotchers. She broke down last spring at Plmlico. The Blue Ridge stud of II. T. Oxnard is well represented In the Odom string. He has three colts by Hawkswlck, a son of St. Simon and a full brothor to Chadwlck: a colt by Islington, Is-lington, a colt by Sir Dixon out of Ashes, a filly by "Woolsthorpe and a colt by Monsieur do IOrmo out of Lndy-In-Waltlng, All these youngsters arc untried. un-tried. Tholr future Is before them. About Eddie Dugan. Eddie Dugan, who will be ono of the star riders upon the American tracks this year, and who will go abrood to ride either next year or the following year, started life as a flve-dollar-a-weclc A. D. T. messenger in Oakland. Cal. Dugan had the benefit of the turf wisdom of bis brother, Willie Dugan, who knew the racing game from tho ground up. Eddie has earned nearly a quarter of n million of dollars In the saddlo and Is good for many years to come yet. Ho aspires lo own a stable ot bis own some day. After riding for August Belmont he will probably prob-ably sign with some American millionaire million-aire owning a stable abroad. Kecrte Winnings. Interesting statistics show that in the pnst forty years the two and three-year- olds owned by .Tames R. Kceno have won moro money than those of any other stable. sta-ble. Domino, owned by Mr. Keene. won 51S0.0S5 In 1893, while two years later Sysonby of the Keeno stable won $111,000. Not only did the master of Castloton Stud own tbeso two great racers, now dead but not forgotten, but ho also owned Colin, the second largest monov-wlnnlng monov-wlnnlng two-year-old of the la3t forty years, he having to his credit at that age a total of $135,951. Of tbeso threo biggest money-winning horses known to the American turf owned and raced by one man, only one of these, Colin, was bred by Mr. Keene. He purchased imp. Optimc, tho dam of Sysonby, after the great maro had been bred to Melton In England, and the colt was foaled after Jhe mare had arrived In this country. Domino, the other horse that won a fortune for-tune for Mr. Keene. was bred In thlr country by tho late Major B. G. Thomas and purchased by Mr. Kr.cne as a yearling year-ling for $3000. The following year Domino Dom-ino established the American record for money winners, and It has never been touched by cither a two-year-old or a three-year-old. Sysonby's winning record as a three-year-old, established In ll)0ii. is by far the grcatost amount ever won by a horse of that age on the American turf, the nearest approach to It being made by Hanover in 1887, when the crack son of Hindoo won $89,S37. Ort Wells Still on Eartb. , Tou all remember Ort AVella? Perhaps many of you thought that Ort "Wells had cashed In or that his racing days were over. But not. so. The name of this racer appears among tho entries for the Brighton Mile, although he Is nine yoars old and somewhat stiff from disuse. In 1905 Ort. Wells won tho Brighton Mile and slopped the dlstanco on that occasion occa-sion In 1:.'!8 1-u, beating Beldame nnd Dolhl easily. Beldame, at that time the cream of August Belmont's uLablo. had won the Suburban, while Delhi of t ho Keeno stable bad won tho Brooklyn Handicap. Hand-icap. John A. Drake was very fond of Ort Wells, and It required the strictest attention of Trainer WIsbard to hoc that Mr. Drake- did not feed the horso too many sweetmeats. ; Mexico to Compete. Don Alberto Terrazas, one of the founders found-ers of Terrazas park at Juarez. making mak-ing preparations to ship the bc3t of his string to tho eastern tracks of the United States. Thus the colors, white with green stripes and red cap the colors of the Continued on Following Pao. SHINING LIGHTS OF THE AMERICAN TURF B Continued from Preceding Page. Republic of Mexico will frequently bo j seen upon several of our eastern courses ' this year. Don Alberto says that he feels lH under obligations to race a good stable IflH of two-year-olds In the east after tho IB manner In which eastern turfmen have BH paid their respects to Juarez. Max HIrsch jH was engaged by Don Alberto as trainer ''H and commissioned to purchase a starter !tH for tho string. Twelve likely two-year- 11 olds were brought from the A. B. Spreck- IJ els slock farm in California. f "VVbat Turfmen Say. j Tho Shcepshcad Bay track', or rather ( ijB the Coney Island Jockey club, will hand (H over 5250,000 to owners In stakes, purses ItH and over-night races this year. This UH sum will exceed the Saratoga track sum IIH by $25,000. The spring race meeting at Lexington. Louisville and Lutonla look somewhat , jlB promising. A great deal of interest was 'M stirred up outside of Kentucky over somo 'Kn agitation against the state racing com- jHt mission for the work of and future of 'H the Kentucky racing commission may bo ' 11 the means of having other commissions ; 11 of similar natures installed In other SH states sonv time. :DH Another turfman who has planned an ' extensive campaign In tho east this year J IM Is II. G. Bedwell. Mr. Bedwell has bcea t flH doing very well at Junrer; and has mado tlH arrangements to ship his string cast at ifll the end of the Juarcx meet. UH From all accounts. Jockey Vincent iH Powers will not rldo In the cast thin 11 summer, but will probably ride for Baron 1 iH Rothschild cither in England or upon the continent. Powers's work was nothing 'IH short of phenomenal at Jacksonville. ! Powers was In bad odor in the ea-t hint year and was only reinstated on con- (lit Ion that he would not rldo upon an i Hi eastern track again. |