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I I j I i ! ! ! , + * I EXCELLENT RACING Of A YOING AMERICAN-BRED HORSE IN ENGLAND * 4. 1 Piscussing the horses deemed most likely to contest the ?K"i.0OO Great Jubilee Handicap at Kcnipton Bark next May, the Newmarket correspondent of the London Sportsman said recently: "Whisk Broom, 12B pounds, is left in to represent Joyners stable, and it being his first spring handicap engagement he will most likely be trained for it. When I saw him recently he was looking in line, healthy condition — on the big side certainly, but. then, he has plenty of time in front of him until the 11th of May to be got tit for this race. I should like his chance :.ll the better were the distance a quarter of a mile less: still. I should S !»• Berry to write down Whisk Broom as a ncm stayer, for lie stayed the Derby Mile in the Peveril of the Peak Plate won enough last September. On that running alone he is not out of this race, for at Derby he carried 12t pounds and beat Sunspot rather cleverly, with Mpstapha a length and a half away third, both he second and third receiving two pounds from the winner. Whisk Broom is also in the Victoria Cup at Ham Park more thau a fortnight later, and as the di-tame to be covered in that is only seven furlongs it might lie more to his liking. All the satne. I do not consider him out of the JebUee. and if he is trained lor that event — as 1 expect he will be — he will most likely prove one of our best representatives, and 1 may say we have ao less than fifteen left in it." This horse Whisk Broom is the star of the elder division of the big Whitney stable in Kngland. His sire Broomstick and his dam Audience were both owned and raced by the Pittsburg turfman, Capt. Sam , loown. and both were racers of high class. Had Captain Brown lived to this day it is a certainty that t Whi-k Brooms racing would have been done in this country. He fairly idolized his horses and would have j set great store on the son of two such favorites of his as Broomstick and Audience. However, it was if - creed otherwise, and Whisk Brooms great speed has been di-played over English race tracks exclusively. A horse of great symmetry and beaaty, he was picked by Knglish writers as the finest apiiearing two-yea r-old a in the Whitney string of HKiO and good things in a racing way were predicted for him. What was more to _ ti.e purpose his subsequent racing justified the preference expressed for him. His debut was in the Holi- 1 j iay Two-Year Old Stakes at Sundown Park. August 2. lf0!». and was not particularly encouraging, he run- ,, amg unplaced to Mount Kelix, Blue Blazes and the Cyllene — Uorgon filly, horses of a class unable to get J near him in after racing. His next essay showed him in a different light. This was in the ,000 Prince of Wales Plate, over a course of five-eighths of a mile, at York. August 24. lalatine. a horse that raced a r.no won in Canada for J. E. Seagram last year, was the favorite at fi to 5, but Whisk Broom won from j him by two lengths, with Woolacomhe third and seven others unplaced. His next race was in the Cham- , psgne Stakes, at Doncaster. September 7. This was won by Nell Cow, with Admiral Hawke second and j 1 tmbeig third, but it was written that Whisk Broom would have been third had "Skeets" Martin ridden him out. He was not started again until the Middle Park Plate came on for decision at Newmarket. Octo s her IB. Lemberg was the favorite and won. hut so well did the American colt run that it was only by a ■ Leek that the subsequent K|som Derby winner triumphed over him. Admiral Hawke finishing a good third. His not at all hard campaign as a two-year old terminated when he again finished second to Lemberg. this . in the seven furlongs Dewhurst Plate at the Newmarket Houghton meeting. October 2S. By virtue of his |, deeds he went into winter quarters accounted one of the front rank two year-olds of the year! Whisk Broom began his career as a three year eld against formidable opposition when he started in i the Craven Stakes, at Newmarket. April 14. but acquited himself nobly by running second to Neil Gow. j with the flying Tres.sady and three more three-year olds behind him. His next attempt was in the Two Thousand Galaca* and here he was a gxid third to Neil Gow and lemberg. with Admiral Hawke. Tressady. Bronzino and oilier good ones behind him. It was a capita iierformancc. but served to demonstrate that N. il Qow and Lemberg held him safe. His next start resulted in a victory. This was in the Trial Stakes, on the first day of the Ascot meeting, and he won easily by two lengths from Dean Swift. Yellow Tail and five more. His position in the Two Thousand made him the favorite here, although he had doughty oppon- nts. He was al-o favorite for the Hardwicke Stakes at the same meeting, but its mile and a half proved 1 too much for him and lie ran unplaced to the subsequently famous Swynford. Marajax and Sanctuary. Brilliant speed and not stamina has so far been his most prominent characteristics, but in his next race, the Knowsley Dinner Stakes, of a mile and a quarter, at Liverpool, he only succuratied by a head to Wil-loiiyx. and last year the latter proved himself a remarkable horse and one of the greatest stavers ever known. At Newmarket. October YZ, he won the Select Stakes, over the Rowlev Mile, with Dean Swift -ec ind and St. Crispin third, then wound up his racing for the year by finishing unplaced to Christmas Dcisv, Mustapha and Halcyon in the Cambridgeshire Handicap. i.a-t rear Whisk Broom liegan somewhat -unluckily by running unplaced to Spanish Prince. Orphah and Coldcn Rod in the Victoria Cnp. nt Hurst Park. April 2f». His next start was in the Salford Borough Handicap, at Manchester, June in, a dash of three-quarters of a mile. An Irish colt named Great Surprise bad won the Beaufort Handicap two days previously and showed such amazing speed in coming home alone six lengths in front of Mr. Whitneys New Castle and other fast ones that he was made a hot favorite at 11 to s. while it was 100 to 7 against Whisk Broom. But carrying 12:; pounds to :i0 on Oreat Surprise. Whisk Bream made an example of the latter and won by a length and a half. Grey Spinner was third and Golden Bod among the unplaced ones. Next he was lieaten a head by the crack colt. Bannockburn. in the Duke of Cambridge Handicap of a mile at Newmarket. Bannockburn carrying 10o pounds to his 12 ;. This was a hue |»erformance. such high-class handicap horses as Sandal. The Story. Sunbright. Succour. Kudorus and Diamond Stud being among the eleven finishing behind Whisk Broom. Then he ran fourth and unplaced to Swynford, Lemberg and Pietri for the 0.000 Bclipse Stakes, at Sandown Park. These two defeats he made some amends for when he won the Peveril of the Peak Plate at Derby. That was his last race in 1011 and his record for the year was that of a high-class race horse and a credit to American breeding lie may do better things this year. Here is presented his racing record and his pedigree: ear. Age. Sts. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Unp. Won V.IO • I Z :? ■ - S.82T. ion 4 _■ _2 _i o 2 o.fioo Totals O 5 C 0 G 1,420 BonnIe ■»*■■• j qSm • • r Bramble j Mary. I Ivv Teif $ Australian. * fBen Brush.... j .Bay Flower. II I Koseville Reform " ■? Stolen t*»a»lagtOB. Kisses. I Albia Alarm. r Broomstick -p Mare by Kentucky and f Galliard J GaIopin piling Duchess. S _, J I Mavis "ac ?™ni- a v. Elf 1 Merlette. Sg a Bend Or i Doncaster. O — l 8*wa Belle J I Rouge Rose. 2 1 I St. Editha i Kinglev Vale. S I * I Lady Alice. . I Voltigeur i Voltaire. r „... » H -. [Billet Martha Lynn. B | J I Calcutta Ratcatcher. r hlr Sll. Ulx6U uiM11 g 3 [ 1 Miss Martin. 1 Leamington i Faugh-a-BMlagh. a 2 » Jaconet Dau.of Pantaloon. I I Audience J . I Maggie B.B Australian. j Madeline. ° Vil»11 5 Vandal. fin,.., 1I,ud,JO l- f ] Hymenia. ■*"■*■ 1 1 I bal- a t McClelland m • -j f Lexington. Weatherwitcb. Alarm i Eclipse. I 1 Bed i?...i and „. i Blue i,i J "j Maud. j Maggie B. B Australian. I Madeline.
