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DID NOT THINK MUCH OF R 0 ADM ASTER. Louisville. Ky., March 21. T. II. Ryan, of Wilmington, HI., is among the horsemen coming her,e from Juarez. Among his horses is Roadmaster, which never faced the barrier until this season as a four-year-old at Juarez, and has won both of his starts to date. It is said that when Ryan received Roadmaster and several other liorses from his farm in Illinois early in the Juarez season that they apioareil to be such unpromising prospects for racing that upon learning that an agent of General Villa was paying as high as 50 for cavalry horses, ho sent for him to come to his stable and pick out any one of his baud, or the whole lot for that matter. Roadmaster is a grand-looking Individual, with :i development not unlike Old Rosebud. Ho never left the Ryan farm until the past winter, and was not even thoroughly broken until last fall, when a three-year-old. His sire. The Roman, a son of Brutus, won the Wheeler Handicap at Washington Park. Chicago in 1000, and When a three-year-old ran second to Ruinart in the Burns Handicap, boating Salvation and other performers of merit. " The owner of Roadmaster lias figured in some wonderful turf coups during a loug career on the turf. Ono of his biggest strikes was back in the days when Washington Park,. Chicago, flourished as a racing plant of magnitude, and the medium was a mare named Rival, which won in his colors at odds of 100 to 1. At that time over 100 books were In the betting ring at that course, but so strong was the public play that even the large amount of money Ryan and his friends bet on Rival did not cause her price to go lower in many books than 40 or 50 to 1. It bad the effect of opening the. bookmakers eyes to the fact that Ryan was a trainer who would bear watching, and even to this day all la vers have a jnarked respect for any horse the Illinois trainers sends to the post for the first time.
