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GOSSIP OF THE TURF The late Pierre Lorillard was a reticent man about his racing plans and projects He made a confidant of no one Not even his best friends knew what stock he had at Bancocas His em ¬ ployes were sworn to secrecy and no one admit ¬ ted within its gates unless armed with a written order from Mr Lorillard himself or accompa ¬ nied by that gentleman If he had a good crop of twoyearolds or a stake horse was fit to race for some big event only Mr Lorillard and his trainers were aware of it itA A fairly correct list of the horses in tr lining stallions broodmares colts and fillies owned by Mr Lorillard follows followsIn In training in England G Blackwell trainer D Maher jockey jockeyDavid David Garrick4 MirusS Lane 3 Pantatus 3 Bevera 3 Exedo3 Hamiltar3 Soldanella 2 Daldah 2 Bagnarock 2 Pharisee 2 To COMTUIUBD OM 8BOONB PAGE GOSSIP OF THE TURF Continued from First Page lack 2 Ali II 2 Valla 2 Eden II 2 Amoret H 2 Cornette 2 Pallas II 2 2la la training in this country in A J Joyners stable linen throeyearold maiden and four others that have yet to face the starter starterTko Tko Rancocas Stud is presided over by the stallions Sailor Prince Giganteum and Loco katohee among others othersThere There are sixtyfive broodmares on the farm Among them are ench wellknown dams as Saluda Pandora Golden Valley Dal Joy Pen itenec Hope IV Sprinter Ffarg Salutation Citron Aster Dolores Anisette Perception Annie P Witch Poncho Pnezle Lizzie Tox Alcind Equality Breeze Harlem and Aus ttiana ttianaIn In addition to the broodmares there are forty tight yearlings and fiftyfive foals of 1901 on the It la stated that Bancocas Farm owned by the lata Pierre Lorillard will be sold to Van dorbilt as soon as matters connected with the will of the late breeder and turfman are settled The farm has been left to Mrs Allien but butbather bather the family or she will et that splendid property In the end it is very probable W K Tanderbilt will become its eventual owner ownerWhat What gives color to this statement is the fact that W K Vanderbilt and Pierre Lorillard were great friends socially and in business Th former spent a gooddeal of time at Ranco ¬ cas and six years ago purchased sixteen finely bred maree from Lorillard and shipped them to hie VanderbiltsFrench breeding stud studNine Nine of these mares were by the French stall ¬ ion Mortemer who in 1870 during the Franco PrnBelan war was Bent across the channel to England to save him from conscription by the Germans About 10000 was paid for the six ¬ teen Bancocas mares and some of their progeny are now racing on the French turf Discussing Advance Guards career a Cana ¬ dian writer says saysThis This coddling of race horses running them a race and then resting them for a couple or three weeks is simply poppycock and both English and a lot of American trainers have been playing the game for years I saw only a few days ago in an English exchange the pub ¬ lished opinion of the late Tom Jennings who was a master of the more robust school of training and he laughed to scorn the modern gingerbread as he called it The last time he was at Ascot he remarked I do not know what horse racing is coming to with some of these trainers If a horse wins a race instead of running him again next day it is as much as they will do to let you even have a look at him for a week or more This was not Old Toms system With Vernenil he won the Queens Vase Gold Cup and Alexan ¬ dra Plate all within four days There were few more successful trainers than his brother Harry Jennings Old Hat as he was called Not many men living have won so many or such valuable races as he did and most of them were over a distance of ground His system was even more robust than that of his brother Tom Go through his stables and you would sometimes see two or even three horses loose in a box without a rag on them and he would think nothing of sending a horse up a gallop and turning two or three others loose to gallop after him as they would horses being gregar ¬ ious This galloping in a semi wild state he said saved their legs Treatment such as this would make the hair stand on end of most of our trainers and we rather fancy it would be the same with some of their employers if they were unexpectedly to appear on the scene and see a horse they had given a good many thou ¬ sands for doing his work that way waySaid Said Peter Wimmer recently There will be no further effort made to train Einley Mack an ¬ other season The next that race goore will hear of him will be of some youngster in train ¬ ing sired by Kinlsy Mack But L shall always regret that I hurried the horse along for the spring handicaps this year It was that which settled his case adversely for I believe if I had gone on slowly with him as I am doing with the black mare Imp I should have some good races out of him at Saratoga or in the coming fall Kinley Mack was a great horse a greater horse than the public ever knew A meeting of the stewards of the Jockey Club was held Saturday James R Keene Andrew Miller F R Hitchcock and F K Stnrgis were present T Hitchcock Jr was appointed to represent the Jockey Club at the Saratoga Association meeting J G Follansbee was ap ¬ pointed Jockey Club steward to serve during the absence of H E Enapp abroad The fol ¬ lowing list of officials for the Saratoga Associ ¬ ation was approved Judges Clarence McDowell and C T Pettin gill starter C J Fitzgerald clerk of the scales A Daingerfield paddock judge J L Hall timer W H Barretto
