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W. B. GATES RACING RECORD. The old bay gelding, W. B. Gates, won a race at Seattle last Tuesday and nearly every daily newspaper in America published the statement that the horse had scored his one hundredth win and that Captain R. It. Rice would forthwith send him back to Varner, Ark., to spend his remaining days in luxurious ease. Daily Racing Form, knowing that W. B. Gates had not won 100 races of which there is record, regarded the story as the invention of some faking space writer and paid no further attention to it until several communications, of which the following is a sample, were received: . St. Louis, Mo., June ill, 1500. Chicago Daily Itaeihg Form-Gentlemen: There is an old horse Skate they call him. AV. B. Gates, which a local paper says lias just won his 100th race. Will you please publish his record and oblige a lot of readers of your paper and backers bfAV. B. Gates? Has any other horse won 100 races? Please give this old race horse the credit due him, as there is surely some due him for winding so many times. He won his last race in Seattle or out on tiie coast. By answering the above you will greatly oblige, A. E. M.. 610 Franklin avenue. St. Louis, Mo. W. B. Gates Is ten years old. He is by Prince Royal out of Penelope, an Eugllsh-bred mare, by Shifual Polly Perkins. W. B. Gates was bred by Mrs. James B. Ferguson, mother of Garnet Ferguson, who now has Beareatcher and other good horses at Seattle, in the Kingston Stud near Lexington, Ky. W. B. Gates was sold to George C. Bennett and was castrated. He was not raced as a two-year-old in 1S9S, beginning his career on the turf at Memphis in the spring of 1S99. Mr. -Bennett raced liim as a three, four, five and six-year-old. R. It. Rice got him at seven and has since owned him. Here is his record to date, having been taken from the books in the office of Daily Racing Form and checked wifli Goodwins Guide: Year. Sts. 1st. 2d. lid. Uup. 1S99 15 2 :; 8 1000 30 12 1 8 C 1901 2.1 10 8 4 s 1902 53 17 13 0 17 1903 30 7 2 10 :il 1901 -io i:: 7 17 loor. 34 :s 3 4 21 1906 0 1 0 3 2 Total 253 03 36 44 10S So AA. B. Gates is shy 33 wins to make up the 100 claimed for him. He may have beaten his shadow that many times in raees around the paddock, but there does not happen to be any record ot such performances. It was frequently claimed that Logan won 100 races, but the records do not show them. In the fact that W. B. Gates was not raced as a two-year-old may be found argument that his prolonged usefulness is due to a more perfect physical development than the average thoroughbred beginning Ids career early in Ills second year, would tseem to attain.
