Greyhurst And Woods., Daily Racing Form, 1897-09-25

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GRETHUEST RETCHES AND JOCKEY WOODS GREYHURST GREYHOUNDS AND WOODS This picture of Barney Schreibera Schreiber good colt Greyhnrst Greenest and his intelligent jockey Master Woods is one of recent photography and truth The boys the better of the pair though both are good Both too have a Scotch tioge tiger The boy is a Scot to the bone Through that avenue comes his intelligence end judgment He weighs only 70 pounds or eo and can ride a fin ¬ ish dish that usually smothers boys of his class Greyhurst Greyhounds is a speed marvel Barney Schreiber bought him purely on the judgment of hia ia clever trainer Dick Williams there are few horsemen as competent as the comely and round faced Westerner last spring in Cali Ali ¬ fornia Formica forniaBarney fornicator Barney had a soft side for the gray colt though Ho is a kinsman to Braw Scot both are from the loins of gray Helen Scratch one of the best of Eancbo Ancon del Pasos Pass mares Grandee a fast but notional horse was also from the same dam who is by Scratch Helen by Alroy Arroyo AlroyBoth Arroyo Both boy and horse are Californian products Both have become sharp local favorites The colt is fast true and courageous and the boy follows the same avenues Master Woods fine hands are keen implements iu the line of his success Then he has the canny head of the average Scot Johnny can tide at seventy pounds or so and is only fourteen years old Yet in 1898 hell earn something like 10 000 Success succeeds and failures sink in the mud


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