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HIS MAJESTY PROMISING f •h JUDGE BURKE WRITES OF GEORGE V. * + LAMGDON AND HIS RACERS. i David Gideon Huotcd as of the Opinion That Son of Ogden and Her Majesty Is Best Colt ; in the Country. N New V.uk. March 21. — Having recently Mat you p letter iilxiut Ten Ioint. the sturdy son of .lark Point, that won the Wsldea Stakes at Pimlioo in . November last, and that springing into prominence. I now propose to Mad you some particular* cob- •" reining what food fudges consider his formidable • rival. His Majesty, now stabled at the Graveseud ;l track, in company with souse half deaea coatpan- ions. They ate in charge of George W. Langdon. ■• once known as a heavy plunger, having In one day ■ nt Sbeepshead Bay won S54.000, about half of which -in at once paid over to "Jack" Beaeet for the marc, Flip nap, only to see her heatea in the rich Brighton Cup lo "Willie" Shields rater. Hotecher, I a "jo to 1 shot. That was a facer tor Langdon, whose popularity was aad is great with all classes i 1. 1 tin linen. Winn the colt by Olt. recently bought i by Lansdnn. joins the string at Graresend the a •tabic will represent a cash outlay of 135.000. The i man who has had the pluck to invest this amount of MB in the present doubtful state of affairs i deserves ■ lot of credit. The stable will race in the name and eolois of | Dr. ,1. V. Mcsscrvy. a well known Charleston haal- , in ss man. hut the horses will ho under the direc- j Hon of aud will lie trained l.v Langdon. who is by i no moans a newcomer in training circles. He told , me not tons aso that last fall he walked up to i Matt leakcs at 1inilno and asked him if he re- , called being Matt Byrnes chief assistant at Baa- cocaa la the days of the late 1ierre Lorillard, some | twenty odd years ago. Pontes said he did. and I Langdon then asked him if be could recall a white haired lad who was mounted oa an old horse stand in;; hace deep in a running; brook which traversed the training paddocks at Baaeocas, whose function it was to keep the horse |B the brosok for hours al ■ time. "I was that lad." said Lansdon. To in" 1liis story was a — IfirlaC, for mv own prrBOaal iic- quaurtance with "Wudtey* Lansdon does not go beyond ten years ago, though I knew well his father, Israel Langdon, who was a trusted employe of the Patted Stales A guy office in New York about thirty years ago. The eider Langdon was a racial! devotee, and his sou has inherited his tastes. So that when the ,are and responsibility of 5,000 Worth "f horseflesh was entrusted lii LangdOU no I ri-k was run fo: Integrity. It is well known that Mi W. Gates and John A. Drake often entrusted to Langdon who. however, was not a professional commissioner enormous sums of ready money with Which to hot for thin, and had authorized him to represent them in other heavy transactions in which tin oral method wis all that was used to consum-mnie unusuall] large waiters. In this coaaectloa it lias occurred to me to draw the average n .ulers attention to the Implicit faith reposed by racegoers in men whom they entrusted with these large commissions, la ordinary luialac as. when only a few hundred dollars might he involved, it requires a written bond, with receipts from those who handled the money, hut at the race courses tin mere word of thofce who are chosen as agents is sufflCient for lhe ring as well as f,.r he men who are betting. Bo much for the honesty of the racing habitue. Well, to speak al i His Majestv. Little was sen of this coll until late ill the fall, though in I he serins al Montreal Joseph Keilly informed me thai Mi David t»ld i was tin owner of some good two- Vin olds. They wen taken sick during tile sum tner. however, and it was not until lhe fall that His Mnj.sn i.. -in to attract the dockers attention aaiu Rut. nearly a year before this. Lang-don had obtained an option on His Majesty, and whin the colt made his ut i appearance at Lam-el. and tan second to .■"chares. Laugdou at once ringed his option and. for tie- reported price of »li.:,oit. lhe KOU •! » _ . I - 1 1 Ranged owners. A few days aince I mel Mr. .id al tin- Jockey Club uatco and ask d linn it His Majesty was really a t:«""l colt. ••Tin- l»st in America." instantly responded Ihi- astute leu-si man. whose many yeara ownership of r ackajacks ougbl to make him re train from being ovet anguine unless with sihhI • ae . Mr tji.l ..a win nil lo say that as a year ling His Majesti was a "sluggard" aiil need d waking up. »in- da] lie put up ■ boj whose weight, sadilh and lead pad lie laded, was CT pounds, and the roll ran ■ quartet in J:;1, seconds. This is what made Mi Gbleon think be had a good colt. However, ■■■.. I be dam.- id- His Majesty i. so , thoroughly a IJide«in-bred one thai it i- natural for him lo lie entbu :• He, I h, colts dam i Her Mae ty. he Hi Highness, out of The Butterflies, so thai, a- Ogilen ,s tin- si,-,, of the colt, here we bav three Im mi « y winners right smack up in hi-. pedigree. Bui Ogdeu was mot.. than a Futurity winner, a; lit won al -i furlongs and at a mile and i a Ixteentb in th. ansae afternoon ai Sheepshead j Bay, whin owned b] "Billy" Lakeland, who, I am , glad to lei. is last recovering In- health after • having beenwsiek lately. As for His Highness, Mr. Gideon "in" told dm thai In- trial previous to t in . iiiui I. an of 1892 was something be had never • known another hoi i to show, it wan the rear, be Waa ■ Ihree-yeai old and Mr. Vosburgb had put a lol d Wiuln "ii him. as he lia. | u in the Futurity nt isj] with 130 iiiiinds up, the highesl wi tight ever • carried in the race by a winner, and only equalled I bj Domino in 1X93. The trial was done at Jerome Park, never a Fast track. . In the actual race at i Bbeepsheail Hay His Highness, with 112 pounds up. ■ big weight for i Ibree-year old, and ridden by l-i Murphy, : in unplaced. The race was won by Marc is Dabs Montana, I t --rear old. with 115 i pounds up. ridden by Garrison, and Hie wind" contest I and actual nnisfa was ,,i,,- "t the most sensational I i mi seen, i- Montana only got up in the lasl few strides. Hi- ll;;l was giving to Lamplighter, also i a three-year-old. eighl pounds, ami to Locohatcheo i Ikaown in iln- ivi-i th,. year before as Curt Gunn I seven and a hair pounds. His Highness was s, e,ml 1 , leu, . . He won two races after tin-, hut they were not i high lass on s ai„i |M was never again the same ■ horae after hi- greal Sulmrlian trial. Th" lint tertlii granddsin ill lii Mai ty, won tin Futuritj of 1RW and Ogiien won ii in Ivn, ,;i,| ,t m, I, • ii ailed what a lot id m j was woo "ii this ra.e • by •.lohrmy" Campbell, who handled tin- celt with i consummate skill after in had shown up in Montana i a- a Puturitj posslldliiy. •■!,,,■• Tuberville rode Og di n in h" hi- I "iiev Island rai e. u tat i" Hi Mab-stys rlaima i" • rby forntl . II tii ■ i . tt n i wa !•• i mi -e. "ml I., ii,,. well s ..a Muted 1 "iiaies. which :ini him fourteen pounds Those behind Hi- Majesty did not amount !■• much, however, hut II waa in his Met ran. the Walden -, by Tell Point that His Majesty had tn in ■ t i the best at tin- I, nilii" track, and in the- he wa-k I nocked to his knees and took no part in the race. His Majesty was backed from 5 down to :: to l and l this must have been a facer to his new owner, hut I he probably got hack his losses when the ...It next I ran. a~ ho beat Penobscot, a t hi"" var old. and two , t nro vear olds. Bamegat and Grosveaor. in his next l lace. Ili Majesty ran unplaced in a six-furlongi - handicap, won by Buskin. At Jamestown His Mai r.i ran behind Grover Hughes. Tartar. Sebago. and I Lahore, but Onlsbed In front of Carlton :.. Lochiei IlitT Edge and K«u-mak. at a mil". Only three • leogtha separated the Brst and tilth horses in I bit - race and a look at the "hart -u the night preceding .• the Ubt Uav at Jamei tjwn. November W, pre|ar««l i i I I i i I 1 i ■ • • i i . t i I l I I , l - I • - .• i the eh.se observers of the running for His Majesty - victory over Lahore. Sebaso. While Wool. Rostur- iiiiin. Carlton ;.. Locate! and Hilarious, a; a mile and a sixteenth with the two year old carrying 102 to 119 on Lahore. It was this race that caused s,. much differcm f opinion as to whether His Maj i sty had fouled Lahore 00 tuning into the stret h. The stewards thought the rider Of Lahore was t-, blame for trying to s"t through an impossible open ins. and did ii"t disturb the official placing. This waa His Majestys last race for the vear. He has wintered at Gravesend, has dene well, his , -o.it is lik" satin and his trainer after the poll had bis- i out on the track this morning, waa highly pleased. As vet. Lungdou does not know whether or not he will semi his stable to Kentucky or Canada. He s.avs he would prefer to race in his own state and Wiiil1 willingly run for half the amounts if huns up elsewhere but be can set an ■ tuvance ot Iks tntiii" of racing here Meantime, he ha- entered His Majestv In anv number "f valuable Kentueby stakes, amounting to about »i.«mm» in all. He will • nter tin- colt also in tin- best Canadian stakes, and Hois will be obtaining snout 209 or :; xi to 1 against his entrance money. As t.i whether His Majesty ia real Derby form the future alone Will determine, hut a few days ago "Tons* Henley told me that h regarded Ten Point and His Majestv as tin- best three vear olds of the cast. He said: "The line I so mi is that Yankee Notions was always right on the heels ,,f Helios in the western races, whit- al Baltimore Ten Point easily beat Yankee Notions and His Majesty steadily laanroved as he raced." So here is the unprejudiced opinion of a man who-" skill is knows all over the country, ami it should lie worth while hearkening to. Healey has in his time trained crackerjacks SUCh a- The Parade: and Olim ha la, ami ousht to Liisw a good coll when he see him. JOSEPH J. BLRKK.
