view raw text
NOTES OF THE TURF. Little Frank Wootton, the fifteen-year-old Australian boy, who has been riding with great success in England, is reported to have earned about 5,000 this year. Will Hall, who has been making book at Oakland, was notified that his father had been killed in a street car accident at Los Angeles and immediately left for that place. The Thanksgiving Day races at Beaumont, Texas, were witnessed by fully 10,000 people. Pendergasts successful riding, three winners and one third, was the feature of the day. William Hawkcs Cigarlighter has developed a curb on one of his hind legs which probably will necessitate a resort to the firing process and a consequent throwing of the horse out of training. One of the best looking yearlings at Santa Anita Park is a Cesarlon colt in R. L. Thomas barn. He is a brown of unusually graceful appearance and bears a decided resemblance to his famous sire. W. C. i Hayes has disposed of all his horses and left for France, where he will be associated for some time with George Saportas. who only recently shipped his string of steeplechase horses to that country. S. Bulford, who, after leaving England, was a successful jockey in Germany, is the leading trainer this year in Roumania. having charge of Prince Morouzzis string, which this season won 560.000 in stakes. The good three-year-old. Chapultcpec, which made an enviable record at New Orleans last winter, shows lameness in his work-outs at Santa Anita Park and it will be some time before he will be in condition to be sent to the races. The Scandinavian Derby of 1910 has closed with only eighteen subscriptions. It will come as news to many people that such a race exists, the northern peninsula being more generally associated in the public mind with ski running than horse racing. Jockey Vanduscn, who was injured in the race in which Captain Kennedy and other horses fell last week, is out on crutches. Some time will elapse before he is in condition to resume riding, although it was thought at the time that his injuries were only trifling. Among the French racing men who left for this country on the Kaiser Wilhelm Wednesday were T. P. Thorne. who trains his horses with Nash Turner at Maisons-Laffitte and Mr. Ffizcr. who cm-ploys John Campbell. Jockeys Reiff and Ranch left by the same steamer. George Walker, trainer for Baron Weinberg, a well-known German turfman, arrived at New York Wednesday on the New Amsterdam of the Holland-America line. This is Walkers first trip home in five or. six years. He expects to take Joe Notter to Germany with him next spring.
