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W. H. DANIEL TO BE A HUNTER, Lexington, Ky.. July 22. W. II. Daniel, the seven-year-old bay gelding by Wooisthorpe Colline. bv Hanover, for which E. S. Burke, Jr., of Cleveland, paid 35,000 after his brilliant performances as a two-year-old in 190C, only to have him bow a tendon the following year, is soon to join the ranks of the hunting horses in the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club at Cleveland. Since his retirement from the turf in 1907 W. II. Daniel has been living a life of equine ease and luxury at the farm of John D. Carr near this city, and Mr. Burke has been paying the bills, refusing numerous offers that have been made by horsemen with a view to putting him in training again. Young Mr. Burke has a genuine attachment for the gelding, notwithstanding that he has been nothing but a loss to him, and a big one at that, in a financial way. A short while ago he was telling his friend, C. E. Sullivan, a Cleveland financier, about Iiis experiences in the ownership of running and trotting horses and declared that he had turned to other channels of sport for his fun. Mr. Sullivan asked him what had become of W. II. Daniel and Mr. Burke told him that he had given him a good home In Kentucky and expected to keep him until he should die. Mr. Sullivan suggested that he would bo bPtter off if ho could have some exercise and occupation and urged .Mr. Burke to have him taken to Cleveland for a mount In the Hunt Club. Mr. Burke paid that he would not think of riding the gelding himself, believing him to Ikj unsafe In the sense that he has the reputation of being unmanageable under saddle. Mr. Sullivan said that he would be glad of r.n opportunity to try lilm out and Mr. Burke at once told him that he could have the gelding with the understanding that he would be returned to him when lie was through with him. Ray Cassell, of this city, who for the past three years has been handling Mr. Sullivans mounts in the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, arrived here this week to get W. II. Daniel. Ho found his legs as sound as the day be was foaled, but bo Is just recovering from a case of distemper. He expects that the gelding will be in condition to ship to Cleveland next week and he is to be put in shape for the fall seml-weekly runs of the Hunt Club. Young Cassell says there are now fifty-three horses, all good jumpers, in tlie club, but none with the history and refutation of W. II. Daniel. To ride a 35.000 horse after foxes and to hounds will be a unique distinction for Mr. Sullivan.
