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SWEARS BY MCHESNEY. That McChesney is the best horse on the Tunning turf today is thoroughly believed by George Ehrlich, a St. Louis turfman, who has "been opeating for some time at New Orleans. During a trip to his home, Ehrlich gave an interesting interview about "Big Mac," that will prove of interest to eastern horse followers. He said: "He is kind as a lamb, gentle as a dove and sound as the proverbial dollar. There is no danger of his being broken down. He comes to the post, stands perfectly still, then gets off with the best of the breakers. If you want him to run the first sixth or eighth in eleven seconds, just ask him to do it. If you want to have it run in eighteen seconds, he will do it. "You can ride him with a silk thread. He needs no holding and no urging. He just does as you bid him. He can run on any -kind of a track, carry any kind of weight, and, best of all, overcome all obstacles, such as hard luck, interference, etc. They sent speed wonders like LEtrenne out to run him off his feet. He ran with them and when he got ready, left them. They let him set the pace and tried to beat him with stretch runners like Federal. He set the pace and had lots left to win with when they got to him. He can carry a ton of lead, take up a child and win from good horses; "Hermis? He will beat him sure. Why? Hermis is a good horse, but he is a rank one. He wants to run in front. Now McChesney can beat any horse constituted like this. Send them over a mile and one-half, then take Hermis back. McChesney will lay right with him. The boy on McChesney can go cluck, cluck git up, git up. McChesney will not mind that as long as the boy does not hunch him with his hands and heels. But it will set Hermis to fighting for his head. Hence, if they want to rate him they will choke him. If they let him run Big Mac will lay with him to the final sixteenth and then come on. "Chuctanunda might beat him at seven-eighths. Outside of that they have no horse east or west that can make him run. He eats well, works well and has not a bad characteristic or a bad fault. You can tiptoe stake horses with him or rate him to crabs. Above all he possesses that wonderful ability to take all the worst of the luck and the conditions and win by a nose in a drive or by ten lengths in a gallop. "Wealth and LEtrenne are 1:13 mares for six furlongs. He can breeze to them at any part of it. There is no distance horse at New Orleans capable of giving him an argument, so we cannot prove what he can do there. I would like to see him hook up with Chuctanunda, Major Dalngerfield and Hermis with the understanding that the other three were to take turns at him; that is, Chuctanunda to set the first five furlongs, Dainger-field the second five and let the other two battle out in the last quarter."
