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RACELAND WON OWNER FAME AND FORTUNE. Joe Ullman Wa? the Greatest of Three Famous Brothers — His Eventful Career. New ..V.. January 27. — Joe lllmaii. the neatest money -maker of the three Sr. Louis brothers who have been BS prominent in the racing World in the last i w .-iii years, is dead and B***-. Month- nejo hi- uiiuil ires . ened :inl two daffS -hue I he sad lew -Beached the n -paper oflbses that lie had paid One last debt of nature. The writer, passing along AfriMMlwaj iuid 1 vi X -»cvuuti SUget, saw Cole Hi- man on the night of the day of his brothers death. He had borne the news to two old newspaper friends and they told the story in their respective journals. I have often heard Fred Walhaum say that Joe rilman would bring premature gray hairs to his head if the old Guttenburg track had lasted mm h longer, or if the "foreign book" at the Hawthorne track had kept going. Walhaum told me that three days a week regularly Ullmnn used to wire hlni red-hot messages complaining about the alleged ruinous odds sent out from the track by the poolroom correspondent. Ullman insisted that the odds quoted were not fair, because they meant less to the backers of the foreign book. That the poolroom correspondents could not have succeeded in ruining Joe and his partners is proved by the allegation frequently made that half a million dollars was the profit of the foreign book at Hawthorne one year. The dec-eased figured very prominently as a horse owner just about two decades ago. It is recalled that he bought Baeeland as a yearling for 7.".. or a figure very close to that, and that the angular Killet gelding won him a lot of money before Joe sold him to the first August Kelmout in the late fall of 18S7 for SI 7.7.00. In at least one race. ru:i at Washington Park, Joe has always said that Kaee land was not ridden to win and the writer knows thaf for a long time afterward Ullman publicly named the man who controlled the jockey who rode on that occasion. However, the winner of that race was no less a renowned colt than Emperor of Norfolk, srhSte hi* stable mate. Los Angeles, ran second. Race land, which was favorite at .". to 4 on. finished fifth and this is What accentuated Ulluiaus complaint. That fall the first August Kelmont l egan to form another big stable to reinforce those of bis own breeding, purchasing Baeeland aud George Oyster, and when the season of 1888 began, the Belmont stable, under the. care of James Rowe, who had resigned from the Dwyer Brothers employment about two years before, came out as aspirants for all the great stakes. The late Andrew Godfrey was the n gular jW-key of the stable that year. Unfortunately for the plans of Kowe. the tits-race in which Baeeland took part that year ansa a fiasco. It was at Gravescnrf. in the Carlton Stakes, a mile, then worth less than ,000. Hi I only opponent was Sir Dixon, sold not long before to the Dwyer Brothers by G. B. Morris, who was then at the height of his success as a shrewd horseman. Between Morris and the Messrs. Dwyer there existed a strong boud of friendship and wit.i Jimmy McLaughlin riding all of Morris horses., and M. F. Dwyer to bet on them heavily, the book makers of the period were always at the mercy of the shrewd party. Sir Dixon had easily won the Analostan Stakes at the Washington meeting, running the mile in 1 :4i, carrying top weight, 118 pounds, aud with the advantage of this race, he had a shade the best of Baeeland. which was making his initial effort of the season. Naturally. Bowe did not care to have Raceland run a hard race the firt-t time out and he gave Godfrey waiting orders. As it happened, waiting orders were given to McLaughlin also and the spectators were thus treated to one of those abominations — a walking race. Both three-year olds were pulled to a walk for the first live furlongs, and when, in the last throe furlongs, both were let down, Sir Dixon was able to outrun Raceland to win easily by two lengths iu the ridiculously slow time for a mile of 1:581. ♦ Apparently Sir Dixon was his relatives superior anyhow, for. when a few days later, lwthran in the Brooklyn Derby, won by Emperor of Norfolk. Sir Dixon was a good second to the Baldwin colt, while Raceland was fourth. Still. Jimmy Rowe took a long lime to "cool out" after the Carlton fiasco. Again, at old Jerome Park, poor Godfrey earned the displeasure of his employer when, on Mr. Belmonts Prince Koyal. he lost the famous Withers Stakes to Sir Dixon. Prince- Royal was winning, but Godfrey was caught napping and Sir Dixon won by a short head, after apparently being well beaten. But when, not long afterward. Sir Dixon and Prince Royal met again, this time at a mile ami a half in the Kelmont Stakes. Sir Dixon won by fifteen lengths in the excellent time for Jerome Park, of 2:401. Prince Royal could not have run his race. At intervals Godfrey roo«? thereafter for Mr. Kelmont and won several stakes on Raceland. but Garrison had the mount on Prince Royal in the Stcvktou Stakes at Monmouth Park when that colt carried 125 pounds and won easily from a fair field and soon after this Godfrey ceased to ride in the "maroon aud scarlet." Ra.eland trained on for years afterward, won the Suburban Handicap of 1889 for Mr. Belmont and after that gentleman died, the gelding was bought by M. F. Dwyer. who won fortunes on him in wagers. II js near relative. Sir Dixon both were sons of Billet, was a great success at the stud after he went to Clay Woodford in Kentucky, but Raceland. being a geldiug. was fitted only for racing. Known for years as "Old Boues." he often brought home for his plunging owner small for tunes. Long ago Racelaud became only a sjesaocy aud soon also we will heair no more of his first owut r. Joe CMmaii. J. J. Burke.
