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I GjfNETTES ACHIEVEMENTS IN AMERICA, j Little French Mare Has Won Ten Races in Fifteen ; Starts This Year. New York, September IS. It is only natural for: the Betting public to make a popular idol of a cOn-; sistent "racer, and especially when that racer Is a small one, battling at odds against larger opponents, "avnd not only defeating them, but establishing " a record for consistency which endures long after dtbers have retircd to obscurity. It "was a lucky day for many an American small beftor when R. A. Rainey went to France in the spring of 1905 and there saw a little mare called Ginette, carrying 137 pounds, and winning. Mr. Rainey wanted "just such a racer for the American turf, and he quickly made arrangements for her purchase. Ginette made her first appearance here at the Sheepshead Bay fall meeting of 1905. It was not loug after she had . been sent here from Franco," and she had not become nccllmatcd. Nevertheless,, there "was a great plunge on her, but she did not win. The little mare was given a chance to recuperate, and in 1900, at the Oakland meeting in California, Ginette began to display her real ability. In her first start there she was third, then she won and the next time was third. Then followed two races in which she was unplaced. She finished first on April 11, but was set back for a foul and the race given to Royal Rogue. Under the California rules Ginette :Ws not placed last, but second. Since then she has won every one. of her races, nine in all, and has been shipped from California" to Belmont Park, to Buffalo, to Hamilton, Ontario; to Buffalo again, to Saratoga and to Sheepshead Bay. Ginette has won here with 120 pounds up, but it was her victory at Sheepshead Bay with 118 pounds up a few days ago, when she was conceding fourteen pounds to Single Shot for the difference in Jiges, which evoked the most enthusiasm. That she is game was shown in France, when, in 1904, she ran a dead heat with another of the same age and conceded her twenty-four pounds. In this race the dendheaters defeated Ob, which in the spring of this year won one of the most important handicaps on the English turf." Ginette carried 182 pounds" on the occasion of the dead ;iieat". ! Charles T. Henshall, owner, and C. J. Casey, trainer of Ginette, iiavc the most practical fruits of Gillettes victories, because Ilenshail" lias- won at least 150,000 in bets and stakes. Ginette is by Ciairon, out of Picardih, and Is one of the smallest racers in training. Her prowress should always be remembered by John A. Drake, for when she defeated his horse Rebo at Belmont Park, in May, it cost him andls friends 00,000, though they were urged not to bet on Rebo.
