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REMINISCENCES OF FORMER STARS Louisville Ivy February 15 The recent death of Faverdale at Major T J Carsons farm at Lex1 ingtcn marked the jmssing of the last of the great twoyearolds of 1SS8 the year that brought the inaugural running of the Futurity Stakes StakesProctor Proctor Knott winner of the first running of the big r ce died while lie was still in training but the mighty Salvator which ran second died only last year while Galen the third horse like the winner died early In his career and the other startr ers Senorita Lady Pulsifer Eric Auricoma Forest King Princess Bowling Life Staff Philander The Lioness and Village Maid like Proctor Knott Sal vator and Galen the three placed horses are all gone goneBut But four of the owners who sent starters to the post In the first Futurity are still alive They are J B Haggin W S Barnes P J Dwyer and G B Morris while the members of the Louisville racing firm that owned the winner Proctor Knott namely George and Hiram Scoggan and Sam Bryant have all long since died as has also Jim Graft who owned Galen D I Withers who owned Faver ¬ dale Erie and Auricoma Major B G Thomas owner of Lady Pulsifcr and Captain S S Brown who sent Senorita to the post While Faverdale did not start in the Futurity he was the second largest twoyearold money winner of that season and in the Junior Champion Stakes raced with Proctor Knott and Salvator He won 22045 at that age ageHamburg Hamburg Mesmerist Colin His Highness Morello and other stars have trod the turf since 1888 Faverdale Salvator and Proctor Knotts year but somehow a halo has always hung around the kinder ¬ garten racers of that season which continually grows brighter as the years roll on onThe The late 1 I Withers who bred and owned Faverdale first raced the horse as the Sensation colt He was a turfman of marked peculiarities and one of his rules was not to name his horses until they had qualified for a name by winning a race That was before the birth of the Jenkey Clutr and the iiassing of a turf law requiring a horse to be named before he can race as is the rule today Withers called his New Jersey breeding establish ¬ ment Faverdale and the conferring of this name on the son of Sensation was a high compliment as the builder of the famous Monmouth park race tiack always said he would never name a horse for his place that did not have all the characteristics of a hiphclass racer racerFaverdale Faverdale surely filled the bill as even against two such cracks as Proctor Knott and Stilvalor he was rated as a star and oldtime turfmen si 111 question if any other season produced a trio of two yearolds that compared with these Salvator went on to greater achievements than either Proclor Knott or Faverdale FaverdaleFaverdnle Faverdnle was a moderate success In tin Mini Silverdale probably being his most creditable repre ¬ sentative be winning no less than fifteen races an i twoyearold and tile Missouri Derby and other races as a threeyearold All told he won 27813 which topped by several thousand dollars his slrcw turf earnings which totaled 24215 Another miefiil horse that Faverdale sired was Mlzpah which ran mile In Action Colonial Dame Preston Stuart James V Major T J Carson Pure Favor iiml Echodale are tilers sired by him the last named being the winner of no less than thirtyone races racesFaverdales Faverdales dam was an imported mare a daughter of the great English race horse and sire The Palmer hat unquestionably got Pilgrimage a remarkable Idly that won both the One Thousand and Two Ilionsiuid Guineas of her year In addition to Faver ilale she produced Frolle winner of fortysix races lavorcss Meadowvale and Oneka the latter one of J lie unlnckiest great raea horses that ever lived Jinn he not had the bad luck to stack up against the sensational Hanover as a threeyearold he would undoubtedly have been rated high among the treat horses of thr running turf He could do every ¬ thing but beat Hanover and because he failed in such an heroic undertaking his racing does not show up as brilliantly as it should in the turf guides
