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C L HARRISON INSPECTS WALDO Louisville Ky February S C L Harrison of New York was Here a day or two ago with F A Forsythe in whose stable hit has the Kentucky Derby favorite Waldo and a select band of twoyearolds In training under the care of trainer Raleigh Cols ¬ ton tonMr Mr Harrison came here en route to New York from the south after spending four days in Lexing ¬ ton where be visited the leading thoroughbred stock farms of that section While there lie made arrange ¬ ments to breed six broodmares he owns now quar ¬ tered at Mr Forsy thes Fountainblne Stud Farm In Mercer County Two of these he will scud to Castle ton Stud to be mated with Disguise and Celt one goes to the Nursery Stud to be mated with August nionts 1 5UOO English Derby winner Rock hand Belmonts 125000 English Derby winner Rock Sand another will be sent to Elmendorf Farm to be mated with Africander and the other two will be mated with the Forsythe stallions Filigrane and Out of Reach ReachMr Mr Harrison tried last fall to buy tie dam of Waldo lor his stud The mare now in France is owned by William Astor Chanler who bought her for a song at the closingout sale of the Seuorita Stud Now he wants 0000 for her and even at those figures Mr Harrison probably would today he her owner were she safe and sound in this country The mare has a yearling filly in this country by Garry Hermann a sister to the twoyearold colt that Captain J T Williams owns and she left this country in foal to Olympian the halfbrother to fenny and sire of King Olympian OlympianMr Mr Harrison was much pleased with the forward condition of his horses in trainer Colstons care and especially coniidinicntcd the trainer cm the grand winter condition of Waldo Said he heIf If nothing out of the ordinary in my business comes up I will be here in May to see my colt fill his Kentucky Derby engagement Barring training accidents Waldo will lace the starters barrier in the Derby and it will be the colts first start in 1JIO as we have concluded the Camdeu Handicap will be run a bit early and necessitate a more hurried preparation than the Kentucky Derby will call for So Waldo will not go to Lexington to race nor have colors up until he joes to the post in the Derby My colt will have a careful preparation for the big stake and if he meets with no mishap will go to the post as fit iis skillful training can make him himMr Mr Harrison says that neither Prince Imperial nor Barleythorpe will be brought west for the Derby nor is it likely that Rocky OBrien will be trained for the big race here Harrison is in racing for sport and is not a betting man He runs Waldo and bis other horses solely for the stakes and purses they can win So far as he is personally concerned the betting angle of the game cuts little figure He is an allaround sportsman next to horses perhaps holding game chickens in greatest esteem but he admires any sport that is clean He says a law legalizing parimutuel betting ou the eastern race tracks would be popular legislation and in his opinion the big metropolitan race courses would gladly welcome the state assuming charge of such betting and getting a rakeoff f But personally I dont give the betting end of racing a thought said Mr Harrison although of course I have friends who like to take a chance on my horses I ani only in the business fqr the recreation and the sport I want to breed a few horses and some day come out with a Waldo of iuy own raising I have some nice youutr mares and will breed them to the best stallions obtainable and ill time I may breed a crack I have had more en ¬ joyment out of Waldo than anything I ever owned and if I can succeed in breeding a colt like him I will consider myself well repaid for all the money I have put into the racing and breeding business businessTrainer Trainer Louis Tauber lias concluded to make no further attempt to train Goldic and has decided to place this son of Goldfinch in the stud this year yearTrainer Trainer William Walker is at sea regarding Jupiter Joes prospects of standing training since he has had a chance to look him over following hisar rival from Levington Tlie son of Handsel has been fired just above the hoof and Walker says that never in his experience did he hear of a horse being fired in such a place 1 am glad a skilled veterinarian did the job he said for if that is tile real location of his laroir ness I have learned something new in the train ¬ ing business I never thought a horse could break down between the tendon and hoof and if Jupiter Joe really did that lie has established a precedent so far as my experience is concerned concernedA A proinising twoyearold at Churchill Downs is the bay colt by Mazagau out of Betsy Broeck by Ten Broeck under the care of trainer Coyne in the stable of the Louisville turfman George J Long This colt is a halfbrother to the stake winners Traverser and Elizabeth Klein The former was much abused as a twoyearold He belonged to Virginia Bradley of Blitzen Boney Boy and Robert Waddell fame who was noted for racing his horses excessively Mr Long did not breed this colt he being foaled at the farm of C B Hawkins In Wood ford County close to the spot where Longi fellow and Ten Broeck were bred Trainer Coyne bought him at the Lexington fall sale for 700 He is the only outsidebred yearling the owner of Sir Iluon invested in during the season of 1909 Mr Long paid 325 more than Mr Rradley gave for his famous halfbrother Traverser being a 125 yearling Nineteen wins was the record Traverser made in the Bradley colors and he dropped dead iu a race that nil to the time of his fatality looked like a gift for him He was one of the best horses the Englishbred stallion Rossington sent to the races racesTrainer Trainer Raleigh Colston who has charge of the big string of horses owned by F A Forsythe and C L Harrison the owner of Waldo at Churchill Downs looks for Berry Maid the fiveyearold daugh ¬ ter of Oddfellow and Rebus by Bramble to be a useful mare this year Colston says that in Cali ¬ fornia last spring when the mare was on edge and had the race she was running In at her mercy she got in a jam owing to rough riding tactics and was all but ruined for future racing purposes as her hack seemed badly strained I thought so much of her he said that I would not let her go back to the farm and I was rewarded by her rounding to Torn In the summer at Saratoga but just as soon as I got her going well she struck her leg and 1 concluded to let up on her for the season No horse now under my care has wintered better than Berry Maid and I look for her to return to her good three yearold and early fouryearold form formII II T Oxnard has located the stallion Prince of Melbourne winner of the Lawrence Realization Stakes and Brighton Cup at the Idle Hour Farm of E R Bradley near Lexington where lie will have as companions in the stud the California stallion Diinard and the Englishbred Baldur
