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PAT DUNNE TO RETIRE FROM RACING. It is true that Pat Dunne has decided to sell his-race horses and embark in some new line of en j deavor: When he does the turf will have lost on of its most worthy and estimable figures, and his new avocation will be the gainer through racings loss. For more than twenty years Pat Dunne has campaigned his horses over the tracks of the east, west and south and wherever he went it was t speedily acquire the respect and confidence of track ollicials and the general racing public alike. Even the grouchy and cver-suspiclous bettors never questioned the integrity of the running of the Dunne horses. To them it was merely a question if the horses were good enough to win and that being viewed favorably they were backed confident of a Irun" for the money. Altogether it is a fine thine for a turfman to enjoy the reputation acouired by Pat Dunne In the course of his long career as an owner and trainer. To Chlcagoaus Interested In racing Mr. Dunne first became known when training the horses of his uncle. Edward Corrlgan, at the old West Side track In 1SS9. For him he landed many races with such old-time celebrities as Freelands sister Unite, Pearl Jennings, Lucerne, Irish lat, Riley, Jake Saunders, the very fast horse G. W. Cook, the really remarkable jumper Winslow, and Other members of the ex tensive Corrlgan string. But it was not long before he retired from Corrlgans service and branched out on his own account. With his accurate knowledge of the good points of a horse as a foundation he quickly acquired a winning stable and since starting out for himself has owned and campaigned many a cracking good race horse, of which Joe Blackburn was probably the first really good horse he raced m his own colors, but in his years he campaigned such stars of varying magnitude as Bannockbnrn, Flying Dutchman, Free Advice, Fly-by-Night, Savable. Ilawthornt. David Tcnny, Captive, Searcher, John McGurk. Toah, Patrick, Estaca. Salvable, Forte. Harry Kuhl, Enthusiast, and in the course of years many others of proved merit and good achievements In racing. Bannockburn and Flying Dutchman were, perhaps, the best racers he ever owned and both were high class horses indeed. Free Advice and Captive were also very fast. Savable he sold In midsummer to John A. Drake, for a price that no doubt wns satisfactory to him at the time, but it was a piece cf ill fortune for him because at Sheepshead Bar In the ensuing autumn Savable won the Futurtiy and 4.,r00 for Mr. Drake. Bannockburn he sold to Barney Schreiber, for whom he won many great racPs and after retirement from -the track became a prized and successful sire at Woodlands Farm. Personally Mr. Dunne is a modest and unassuming man. hut a man of courage and ready decision. His mental gifts are those that make for success. Towards those he has been thrown into contact with his demeanor and course has always been such that. If he really carries out his reported intention, he will take along with him in his retirement from the turf the unbounded good wishes of a host of sincere friends.
