Show RACING RAGING DAYS ARE OVER FOR Four Four- Year Old Year Old Dies at SheePShead Sheepshead Sheepshead head Bay From Queer Blood Disease WON FORTUNE FOR OWNER I m ice o of or f I III 11 I k Cloo- Cloo u- u Fr Forget ts 1 the it Turf Another J I Piece Meet o of Haul I buick ck for tur It 1 l ice Krone clue 1 17 Sheepshead Bay Ilay Now New York June James II It Keenes Keene's great cat of the tho English h stallion stal stal- year old son SOl Engl lion lon Melton and anc admitted by hy all al to tobe tobe be he the lie hl host best sl horse that lint great groat sire ever sent to the races races died at time the Keen barns arns at bay lIay track late Into this af afternoon after having ha been heen lii I fortio for two iwo months with wih a constItutional blood lood disorder that some soune veterinaries diagnosed ding ding- Mr Keeno no nosed u as horse leprosy and unit ec his trainer Jimmie Howe however however how how- ever claim It I was nothing of the lie sort orl although U h they decided to lo define derne Iho tho disease ase and an autopsy will viii wi bo be le held hell anc to determine Just what caused the lie tl colts colt's death cois coi's In Imi the tho loss of if the tho colt coll lh Mr I s srun run o of hard hare luck lucie which set et in II when he lie lost his young stallion Domino has thus continued as ho refused an nn offer urel of made by h John W. W Gates of oC Chicago for Cor the colt coil only last win ter ler At the tho time Mr Keene stated staled that thai he purchased SY nh with wih tho the mILl- mILl uH- uH the lie mate malo purpose of mit placing him at al head of his Castleton Castelon stud but he lie haul hai III Intended I I eel racing him for a couple coullie of rears years at nt least least Great Promise as us Colt I was Imported in b by Jy Mr Keene Keeno and from the tho day he was foaled Coaled he lie S' S gave ve every promise of greatness great great- ness hess ness He lie made mado mate his first appearance as a year two at the Iho Brighton Beach meeting two years ago next month antI and In that thai start showed he hue was sas destined for record turf performances by hr galloping a field of nr clever colts colls cols to lo death and winning In a common canter canter can cnn ter leI b h by ten men lengths hs Nearly seventeen hands high built hull hullIn in proportion ho lie towered away over o overall overall all al of his age agE an and his solid sold brown wn b coloring coloring coloring col col- oring made him conspicuous no 10 mailer what class cla li ho Il was In Taken raken to 10 Saratoga he ho won on the Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Sara Sara- toga special under the Keene Keeno colors from a f field hl of cracks In imi the easiest fashion ash iou I imaginable never neve having having been heen let down Ho lie won momi two more races at tho timo Spa and amid nHI was as brought back to the lie bay hay hailed as ns the probable winner of the Futurity for COl which ho lie was an overwhelming over over- whelming favorite In this race however ho he ho encountered lerell time the best besl fill filly the lie American turf IHS lias mis seen the lw lla days Miss Woodford Wood Wood- Hl ford rord and a n. Artful a leI or of r Hamburg from the tho stable table of Harry Payne Whitney and anel she he beat him him in iii record time tinie over tho the course coure Tradition finished ahead of him In this i race lacu also as when ho lie saw that his I mount mOl ll was beaten Dave who had the tho 11 mount cased easel the big brown up This was sas first and amI wily only olly al on the tho turf lurf Took All Au l J Classics I Next Year ear earlie He lie Je soon afterwards was discovered to bo hI from a slight attack of distemper listen hier which hi felt undoubtedly hail had a abad abad ahal bad hal effect on him In iii the tho Futurity and anc ho lie was retired for lie tho season Coming Comin out nut last year as a year three h ho he won ever every ono cue of the lie big turf lurf classics of or thai lint age including the Lawrence Lavrence Realization In Imi none of these races did he lie encounter anything thai hint could make mak him him run anel ho lie carried crushing crushing weight Imposts as though the they lie wore were were fea feathers liters Ills His first start that lint season was In the Metropolitan Belmont park arl where when ho mot met an all l all aged cd field and amid who had hal the thic mount permitted him hini to e e cleat clear to lo the lie outside rail rai at al tIme the homo home turn when he lie had hac the Iho 11 winning sinnIng lead and this permitted Race nace King to get et along alonS and m make lw It I a dead heat heaL This was the lie only Oily time however that thai anything got gol close cloe to lo him that year anti and ho he 11 root met and d and man many other oilier cracks o of his ns age HI Oil 01 All Al Rook Books Ho lie went Into win winter leI quarters as sound as a dollar and earl early this spring was made malle the lie favorite ite In iii the tho win winter leI books hooles for all al of or the lie big spring handi handi- caps While being prepared el for the Brooklyn U handicap he lie was as taken Ill I wih a blood disease and anel was declared out o of all al o of his engagements engagement Everything Every Every- g fr thinS thing possible was done domie cone for him and antI antII It I had been hoped to f save ve hIm him for fOI or the stud at al lem least t. t He lie le was Insured with Lloyds for fon Singularly enough his conqueror In he In I 1904 Artful who ho won the lie Brighton handicap lost lat year ear eai Is also on the shelf anti and emil only Saturday was vas declared out of all her ni spring engagement engagements engage engage- bouts ment and sent soni home borne to tu time tho Whitney farm arm to be hc turned out fo for the year |