Show GOSSIP of TURF I IBy By BERT E COLLYER C I I II I A trotter which Is being well weB touted by hy the as ns likely I to bo ho ono one of tho the seasons stars Is tho bay stallion 2 ll 1 1 D Downed owned and being trained by b V Y L I Shuler of that hint city Shuler ShinIer raced a few limes times last year car and I Ibo ho bo took tho the record In a n winning winnia race at tho the now track at North Randall I Lou McDonald having tho mount be behind behind behInd hind him In tho the race raco In this race raco I Shuler got his checks down on the I horse and cleaned up handsomely on the re ulL was well vell placed In his other othor races laces and quit the tho season still eligible for or Iho tho 2 12 class His owner oner is IR now naming him bun for fOl all Iho tho rich stakes stales to which he ho Is eligi eligible ble among thorn thom tho lie trot at and If the tIme horse borse Is aa as a asgood good aa as his hla owner and friends think him he lie Is placed to win a small BInn for foi fortune tune tunc IB Is a It son of Onward Silver one of the Ule best stake sUke Rl kc winners ot of the Grand circuit about I ton ten years ago ao Although sold Eold for ex ox export x port to Lo Europe at tho the beginning henning of ci his stud stUl career h li ho loft enough colts be lie behind hind him to show that lint he Is Js the tho hi mak making making ing Jn of or n a great sire afro One of them thorn Span Spanish SpanIsh i ish Queen won the tho M 1 and M ilL Transylvania Empire state Burdiek rind find other rich stakes of o 1908 and next to 10 Allen Winter 2010 J was vLa time the leading winner of the tIme year Shuler is one of tho ho old guard of drivers One of the tho star trotters which ho raced In the early earl DOs was the gelding Green heat I af 2 one of the real good trotters of bin hI class clas Hilt But the crowning achievement of or his career was with willI 03 Shulor purchased this for Cor a II afew afew few hundred dollars aa an 9 ho had been heon I pronounced a counterfeit by more than one trainer The fhe Hoosier got into the confidence of the Bon on of staked slaked him through the Great Greut Western circuit of 1907 and a when time limo canie around proceed proceeded ed oil to clean clenn tip up hushing the season the ho I lending leading lead In money monor winning trotter troUp of oC that circuit Whon When the tho of the turf compile tho the Incidents of moment anent the sport of oC s tho the pres present I ent ont year oar It Il will be he found that lint theone represented in tho the accompanying pic luro tire will have played a very ery prominent parL First and foremost and parti particularly particularly the lie giant Nell Neil Chow Lord grand land derby candidate and amid winner winn r of time the Two Thousand Guineas By time the Illustrious sire sin Marco out of the tho good geniI race mare marc the tho colt IK Is broil bred In the tho th purple and of extreme derby quality However his one severe drawback has been beun his bis Inherited disposition that Ihal I of a confirmed bolt bolter r In fact Lord Roseberry nos hor decided to put pill pp Danny Mahor Maimer the American Jockey It Jt was thought that tho the colt yaa a I hopeless rogue rO Possessing that race quality qu a lit so 80 paramount In Tod rod Sloans riding Mahor has hns boon been able n hlo to I tho time colt Into running r I or to use ISO the vocabulary of oC the t turf rf critic straight ht as a die It II was WAA because of this fact and the thc spontaneous en enthusiasm ent t aroused by the colts splendid splendid splendid did victory victor In the Guineas that Lord rr Immediately retained Ma Mahor Maher Maher her hor to ride Nell ell Gow In the derby at attim tho tim unprecedented salary of oC win or lose Even In those times of frenzied finance tho enormity of such mch sucha a retainer Is almost sufficient clent to turn tho tim heads of the tho lot lol of rid riders riders ers ors of which the tho American turf of o to today toIla tiny day Ila cnn can boast of True Lord Rose Roseberry RoseberT Roseberry berry berT Is I a very cr rich man who races I for tho mere more pleasure of seeing his lila colors carried victory Ictor Expense I with him In IG a secondary consideration while the gambling end onet Is only mc After all this must be tho the true rime interpretatIon of o sport Returning to lo the tho running of the Guineas It 11 might aught be b mentioned that time the royal roal colors of King Edward VII of England cap captured the tho events In 1909 1109 then came right back and won the derby Be Bo Because cause of this fact anti and also at o that Nell Gow Cow met and defeated almost every ery really formidable factor for the derby In Iii the lie Guineas It Is little wonder that thaI Lord candidate Is Isnow isnow now new pointed to lo with confidence as a the tho probable winner of the tho lh turfs greatest I classic the English derby |