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Show BITTER'S STABLE I TOPSJHE LIST Racers Win $31,300 With Prospects of Much More to Come. FORTUNE IN YEARLINGS .Thirty-six Selected From Keene String All Royally Bred Luck Turns. New York. July 4 James Butler's stahle is the sensation of the season After several years of misfortune, he now tops the winning list with earnings earn-ings of $31,300 and prospects of much more to come. Mr. Butler took a gambling chance when he paid the estate of the late James R Keene $50,000 for thirty-six yearlings last year. This was the largest sum paid out in a lump for many a ear by any single patron of racing It took courage of high ordet to do thi6. for at the time the outlook for favorable racing conditions in thlt state was not overbrlght. Th)s year marks a turn for the bet- 1 ter in the matters of Mr Butler's rac- I ing j ear. Ever since e passed up I the harness horses for the thorousn-breds. thorousn-breds. which started In 1907, blow after blow was dealt him in a financial way which would have checked the enthusiasm of a mor hardened campaigner cam-paigner of the turf. He had scarcely opened up the Empire Em-pire City track to the runners when the anti racing laws were passed. This cost him many thousands of dol-lars. dol-lars. In thp face of adverse conditions he held meetings at Empire City track and bou?ht thoroughbreds. Neither track nor horses brought him anv re turn? for his big Investments. Both were failures as money makers. The track gates had to bp closed and his horseg could not earn sufficient money to feed them. nd vet, in the face I of this he paid a fortune for yearlings horses that are merely problematl-1 cal as to speed anJ endurance. Puts Yearling-, on Market. When the Keene yearlings were put i on the market, after the death of their breeder, Mr. Butler determined to buy them irrespective of nrice He consulted con-sulted with Col Matt Winn, his right bower in all his racing Interests as to i the breeding and blood lines of the voungsters. Col. Winn with R. C. , Benson and John Lowe, the two men j selected to train the horses then paidj a visit to the yearlings, inspected , them closelv and selected thirty-six. j twenty-One fillies and fifteen colts. All were royallv bred and were by the noted stalli-.ns Disguise Ballet. Voter. I Hippodrome. IMtimus. and Celt Luck favored him during the winter aca-(ion aca-(ion neriod and onlv two out of the' I lot died Mr Butler began the season with thirty-four bead These he split up, into two divisions the East and the ; I West. The Western string was placed j I in charpe of John Lowe, fourteen Is all. R C Benson took charge of the other twenty for the local racing season. sea-son. , The "culls" of the string and those that came to hand early in the train I in? were shipped to Juarez. Mexico, and took nart in the racing theie after j j Januarv 1st. These youngsters, although inferior to the colts that remained at home I and in Kentucky, were nevertheless so fast that they won race after race and piled up the stable winnings 9,000 The success of the youngsters was not entirely due to their speed. Clever handling and good placing in overnight over-night races and stakes helped materially materi-ally In their success. The horses were not rushed In their training. Col. Winn saw to that, and his trainers canable men followed his advice. The selection of stakes to nominate them ! for was also a matter of careful study ' and consideration. As a result the I colts and fillies not only won manv j races but they promise to continue to I do so all season. oo |
