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1 » ■ 4- SOMETHING OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OE A NOTED AMERICAN TRAINER WHO HAS BEEN FORCED TO GO ABROAD + 4- l 1 . j Now York. March T5. Another loyal, hone-: Imuw ansa a- lareud by tyrannical laws to leave lllis. his native land, on Wednesday last to seek i living in a foreign country when John .1. Hyland eft here OU the Lusitania en route to Ilerlill. »n mil alter Tuesday. March ill. his address will be lloppegartt-n, Berlins famous training grounds. a/here he will aasaaae peraaanenl charge of Baron Oppenbeims greal stable of horses with which poor Jimmy McCormick did so well last year. It is a remarkable sju of the liases that a man can expect to leave New York on a Wednesday and be in Ber lia the following Tuesday. This, thanks to the .voiiileiful Lusitania and the quick transit aeraaa Europe by rail. Mr. Hyland have his comfortable ion n Avenue P.. near Coney Island, in charge .f his stalwart -on George, a student at St. Johns College, Iordhani. at one tune, where naturally he played football, ami his athletic appearance snows .h.i1 sort of men can be bred and raised these day-. Young Hyland did not see tit to take up his fath ■rs profession. He is with the Edison Company, ind another son is to he an engineer. Seven sous it.d daughters comprise John Hylands family, and io my surprise ■ slater of charity, who was at his home when I called there Tuesday afternoon, was Introduced as his daughter. Needless to say. Hyland is a man of the highest type. Once a steeplechase jockey aud next a trainer, lie at one tune worked lor A. ]». Browa, whose lamily furnished a gover imr for the state of Maryland, and another member f which family married one of Marcus Dalys laughters. Hyland rode aud trained Problem and f roll hi.. The latter was then owned by A. II. Torre ace. a relative of the lamented George W. Torrence, who died not long ago and who was a director of the Ontario Jockey Club. Later on Hyland took employment under the late James Gaiway, and was with him for many years. Next he trained for Gideon ft Paly for seven years, and in 1805, when thai linn sold out its wonderfully Strong stable and Mr. ltelmont eame Io the front in the most patriotic and practical manner by paying phenomenal prices for Hastings and Keenan S37.50O loi Hastings and .u 0 for Keenani. Hy land trained these ami Mr. Belmonts other nor sea. Prom 1806 to 1003, inclusive, eight years in all. hi waui the Belmont with Hastings, the Suburban with Henry of Navarre, the Belmont again, this time in 1MB, with Mastermcn son of Hastings, the Brooklyn Derby of 1807 with Octagon, and many other stakes. Previous to that he bad won tor Gidoon i Dalv the Brooklyn Derby of 1803 with Keenau, the Withers of 1893 with Gideon and Dalys Dr. Bice the colt was sold later that year to Knd Foster after •bleeding," mid It was for Poster that Dr. Bice won the Brooklyn Handicap of 1804. For Gideon ft Daly Hyland trained Uamapo when he won the Metropolitan and Suburban Handicaps the same year llsiMi. No other horse has ever won both races. Hylands Futurity successes were three iii number-His Highness in lvii iy.m recall, no doubt, the Huron incident that rear. The Butter Hi.- in 1S!»4. and Bequltal in 1805. All three of lies,, were for Gideon and Daly. Bequltal was the first two-year-Old to run seven furlongs in 1 :2i. which he did when he won the Hat bush Stakes, run ovet the main course, not straighlaw av. Another feat had been accomplished in the "eighties at Saratoga, when, with Mr. Jalways Hurrah mare. Bonnie Lizzie, he won three years in sin e. - sion Hie famous Congress Hall Stakes in heats of IhTTT quartern of a mile. No other horse has this record. In 1808 Hyland went out to Washington Park to run Uamapo in the Worlds lair Derby. You will recall that "Monk" Overton, who was engaged to ride the colt, was placed under arrest on a claim of debt and taken from the grounds. This lell Hyland without a Jockey. Mr. Gideon, sealed in the upper tier " the grandstand, was forced to work his way down through that awful crowd to 1 consult with Hyland. The hrst jockey that could be found was Charley Thorpe. Mr. Gideon, in gnat physical dletress because of the hard work he had to get down to the jockeya stand, told me he wouldnt again face that crowd for a fortune. Uamapo was unplaced, as you remember, but we all admit that the extraordinary delay at the post must have told on Uamapo and the other eastern 1 rolls. After eight consecutive years service for Mr. Belmont, during which he twice ran second in tic Futurity with Brigadier, when James It. Keenes ; Cliaeoinae won in 1800, and with Lord of the Vale. when John A. Drakes Savable wen in 1002. Hylands connection with the Nursery establishment t was terminated in the fall of 1003, when Mr. Belmont sold off his horses. Thai was tin year that I Beldame ljustly the pride of Mr. Belmonts stable. had won the valuable Great Filly Stakes by a narrow margin from Ocean Tide, owned by Senator Mc- - alien. Beldame was mi the card of the day as i a starter in the Puturity a few days before lln-The Held was already a large one. and as it had rained heavily, more added starters were bulletined, until Hylands distress became keen, for the larger i the field Hie more certain it was that Beldam" would delay Hie -tart and perhaps thus kill her i chance. Her jockey, with colors on. stood by tin • scales until tin- last moment, before Hyland reluctantly told Mr. Crickmore to scratch her. Even i then, one prominent turf writer did net know she wis scratched, and wrote his "story" of the race with Beldame as a starter. However, none of us i are infallible. That was the y ar that in a sea of -lush the two « llamhuigs Sydney Pagets Hamburg Belle, and the • late W. c. Whitneys Leonldaa, fought it out inch i by inch, with Hamburg Poll.- Brat. Within five • days, the Great iilk Stake- were run and. Judging z b. the hard work Bildnne had to defeat Ocean l fide, she might have run well en. ugh in the Pu Unity to win. Sin mlgfa] thus have lo-i her chance • for the l-il.y Stakes, which looked muck eaaiei rot r her. As proof, perhaps, of i -he might have done while wailing In Ihe start f"i the Puturity. ii i- recalled thai the following spring m Morris - Park the last year they raced there, Beldame e threw her Jockey on the way to the post for the ■ Ladies Stakes, ran behind the stables on the back 1 1 ; t I - i i i • i i « • i • z l • r - e ■ stretch, and was u«t caught for some time. But -ho won all right from Audience I since then the dam of Whisk Broom I and Marjoram, and then went on with her great career, in which she that :ii defeated in various races Stalwart, Broomstick. McChesney. Ort Wells and. in fact, all the best BOrses out that year. Fred Burlew trained hci that year tor Newton Bennington and the following year for Mr. Belmont, when she won the Suburban. Notwithstanding that Hyland has not since trained for Mr. Belmont, he savs he never had a better friend than the chairman of the Jockey Club has in nianv Instances proved himself. Te Mr. Belmont. Hyland owes his engagement with Baron Oppea helm, the most powerful turfman and financier in Germany. One of Mr. Belmonts clerks showed Hyland a long likt of various gnat companies iii which the baron is a director. When the horseman went on Tuesday to bid Mr. Belmont adieu, thai gentle-man told bin that be was glad to he of service te him, but that he bitterly deplored the necessity ol M many great horsemen having been compelled to sever their old friendship and risk life and health in other lands. The news about McCormick is not reassuring. J A few days ago. in looking up his close friends in Brooklyn. 1 ran into an interesting Item. Ur. J. H. Shields, a dentist, frequently is in receipt of cable dispatches concerning Mr. McCormlcks eendl- I tion. It turns out that Dr. Shields is a son of the once well known trainer, James Shields, who diet a few years ago. Ii was Shields who brought out as a Jockey the well known Harry Griffin. The late Mis. McCormick and the widow of trainer Shields ; were sisters. 1 learn Alex Shields was not related to lllis family. Dr. Shields looks to lie a successful young man in his chosen profession and is no doubt the mainstay of his mother, maintaining the family in a richly furnished home. Returning again to John Hyland. I recall an incident which occurred in the spring of P.Mis when the agitation was going on at Albany against racing. Hyland was one of the delegation t lia t went to the state capital to give evidence of the benefits and good surroundings of the Sheepshcad Bay colony. Another who went there was a Catholic priest, whose view- were slrniigly in favor of the turf. Still another was Canon Chase, who was and is active against racing. He bitterly charged linrseinen with all the i rimes in the calendar. Just about that time Stanley French, a follower of the noes, found a bankroll nf 0,000, which he returned to the owner, Henry MeDaniel, when he ascertained who had lo-t it. Coming back from Albany after ihe hearing on the anti-betting bill, the racing men bad a parbr ear to themselves, and courteously offered a seat iii it to Canon Chase. On leaving the ear in New York. Hyland. sitting behind Canon Chase. notjeed that he had dropped his pocket kao%, The horseman picked it up and restored it to the clergyman. He looked suspiciously at the horseman and later an told a reporter that the incident might hare been a prearranged affair. This charitable VI man could not take the evidence of his own eyes apparently. Well. Hyland is off to another country. Big. truly bow st as the day is long, living a model life lH th at the height of his success and when prosperity for a time left him. John J. Hyland is morally, mentally and physically the ideal American horseman, one whom the chairman of the Jockey Club will never be sorry for having recommended to his new employer. Henry S| oncer, whose death is reported from California, was seen bj New York thn-o weeks since, and looked so badly that it was feared he would not reach California, where he was then pointing for. As rider of Commando and many other slake horses for Mr. Keene. Spencer became famous. He was known as the "1111111111." Suspension followed his blunder in permitting Beau Gallant to beat him en Commando one day at Morris Park. "Jimmy" Bowe Interceded with Mr. Keene afterwards and Spencer again rode for Mr. Keene. in fact he rode Commando in tl.e Belmont at Morris Park, and the Carlton Slakes at Grsvesend. and when The Parader beat him in the Uealization. both colts more or less lame. I in Commando the worse off. Alfred llennen Morris stood alongside me when Commando ran his mile around the turns at Gravesend in 1:30%, carrying 126 pounds and conceding fifteen pounds to Blues. "That is the greatest thing 1 ever saw a horse do," was Mr. Morris comment. Though the time has since been beaten in the Carlton renewals, con sklerlng the weight he curie. 1 and the amount he conceded to so good a ealt as Blues, Commandos remain- a sparkling effort. Speiner went to England to ride for Mr. Keene. but did not do so well there. Another time he rode mi the continent, and later teak to Germany the Meddler mare. Tattling, and the horse, Iileing. Tattling won numerous races, was afterwards bought by the French Baron de Rothschild and now has won Jumping races. Spencer al other times tried hi- hand as starter at one or two amateur meeting -I and at another time advertised to sell turf inforina-. tion. If you will look over the list of winners of great stakes, published in Racing Forms Invaluable manual, you will sic thnt one of the oldest slake- in the I iii.il States is the Belmont. Irst run in lsr.7. It was w ..ii in isTi by Harry Baaaett, the property of the famous MeDaniel confederacy. Ihe rider was William Miller. The next two year-. |S7 and 17::. I I.i -take wa- won by Joe Daniels and Spring boh, i» ih own.. I bj ihe ail-powerful MeDaniel confederacy and both ridden by "Jimin" Bowe. then a chubby-faced little fellow, to whom tin- winning of a gnat race might mean the present of a pair of red topped boots. Stable employe. - at that time were lucky to get their food ami clothes. Bowe has become the most famous trainer in this country, and has turned down liberal offers to train in Europe. "Bill" Miller is looking for a position as assistant trainer or any other that will afford him a living, even if it means something outside of the profession. Frank McCabe, a boyhood associate of Bowe, who once trained with great success for the Messrs, Dwyer. is in Europe looking for a position. He was reported in Germany without employment a short time ago. Such is life. JOSBPH J. miiKi;.
