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RAMS HORN DIES AT SHEEPSHEAD BAY. Son of Bute and Aunt Tessa Succumbs to Inflammation of the Bowels His Record. New York, August 8. Rams Horn, the four-year-old bay colt by Bute Aunt Tessa, died from Inflammation of the bowels at Sheepshead Bay track today. Rams Horn was bred by James B. Haggin and was purchased for something like 30 by Captain Jim Williams at a sale of yearlings In Lexington, Ky., in December 1903. While he was under the eye of Captain Williams, he was ostensibly trained and raced in the name of W. S. Williams, the captains son. The death of the colt will be a hard blow to the veteran Kentucky horseman. He has since Rams Horns days as a two-year-old at the Chicago tracks declared him the best racehorse he ever had anything to do with, even pronouncing him a better horse than was Luke Blackburn, which he sold to the Dwyers as a two-year-old. Last winter at the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans Captain Williams was offered 0,000 for Rams Horn. Morris L. Hayman, acting for Senator P. H. McCarren, made the offer, which was not entertained. Rams Horn may have been the best western horse of the present year. He was not a fortunate horse. Sickness and mischances of one sort and another marred his career, but when thoroughly at his best he was undoubtedly a grand racer. He was richly bred, very fast, a weight carrier of high degree and a stayer. The two greatest performances markinng his career were his successes in the Montgomery Handicap of last year and the Brighton Handicap of this year. In the Montgomery he easily vanquished the best handicap horses of the west, gave them all weight, won in a canter and broke the track record. He was a remarkable three-year-old that day, but went amiss immediately after the race. In the Brighton Handicap he scored a notable achievement when he ran a mile and a quarter in 2:03?, one of the fastest performances on record at the distance, very few horses having ever run faster than 2:0-1. His death Is a heartbreaking misfortune to Captain Jim Williams, who has always insisted he was a much greater racer than the records show him to be. His record Is as follows: Year. Sts. 1st 2nd. 3d. Un. Amt. 1904 19 10 3 4 2 $ 4.92G 1903 .13 5 4 2 2 9,266 100G 11 5 2 0 4 27,075 Totals 43 20 9 C 8 1,2C7
