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OWNER WILL NOT SELL MAUD BACON. G. W. Billerman Refuses Offer of Walter Dupee for Crack Three-Year-Old Filly. San Francisco. Cal.. April 24. ā The negotiations which were pending during the losing days of the .Tijuana meeting lietween Walter Dupee and George ISillerman for the purchase of Maud Bacon fell through, and the queen of the far wests three-year-old division will not, for the present at least, change hands. Neither will she be raced on the Kentucky and New York tracks during the summer, as was once courmplated. The presumption is that the gentlemen could not agree on the price. When the matter of a deal fir the crack filly was first mentioned it was said that . MH was named as the price, but after the fillys race on the next to the last day of the meeting her value was enhanced in the estimation of her owners, Harry Morris, a popular cafe man of San Diego, being interested with Pillermaii in the string, which until recently raced as the Ayeanbe Stable. In that race Wan-more, carrying 110 pounds, set a terrific pace, the first half mile in 4 i ā ... but Masai Kacon. making up tight or ten hag tha in the last three-eighths, overtook the leaders in the Stretch and won easily going away in 1:13 for the throe-qu.-trtcrs under the steadying impost of 125 pounds. After the race Killcrm.in said that be would not take .*10.000 for the daughter of Tony Hoik ro. "If I was to sell the filly even for 0,000 I would simply spend the money trying to get another like her. and its no sure tiling I would succeed in doing so." is the way in which Itillermau puts the matter. "I have derided not to send the filly to Kentucky, for I would not run her in any kind of selling races and thus take a chance on losing her. and I know-she would be up against the toughest kind of game in stake and parse races. That might knock her out effectually, for she is growing right along and only recently lost her baby teeth. She needs a let-up to enable her to develop and spread out and for that reasoa will be turned out for the summer over at Coronado with Kronco P.illv and the rest of the string." Billerman Formerly in Plastering Business. In this connection it might be added that Killer-man hails from Cincinnati, where some twenty odd yi ars ago he was engaged in the plastering business. Its far cry from plastering to training thoroughbred race horses, but the former Cincir.natian is a living illustration of the fact that a successful trainer need not necessarily come from the ranks of those who have always been about horses. That the work of Arthur Pickens was highly appreciated by Walter Dupee. to whom he was pad * engagement during the recent Tijuana mooting, was attested in a substantial manner other than a goodly salary. I a fore the meeting closed tic mil lionaire Coronado turfman presented Pickens with a Winston Six touring car. and also defrayed the expenses of its shipment to Lexington. Pickens popularity among the horsemen. lā. being easily one of the stars of the Tijuana riding brigade, was attested by the great number of mounts he had. sag ,-i much greater number than any other jockey bad during the season. Picseas turned down several offers of contracts for the coming racing partly because of uncord iuty as to Basses pi ins for the season and partly because the terms were unsatisfactory, and will ride free lance at the Kentucky tracks and later in the east. He has signed to again ride for Dupee at Tijuana next winter. Wingfield Stable Goes to Belmont Park. The Wingfield stable, which was decidedly the strongest all around aggregation that figured in the late TIJaaas meeting, will not be raced in Kentucky, as was originally planned- at least nit at the spring meetings. Bunk. Slippery Kim, Scarlet Oaks and eight ethers of the Nevada millionaires striag, including several highly-tried sad promising two year-aids, which have yet to make their racing debut, have been shipped direct to i.elmont Park to be campaigned on the New York tracks. Witli them went tile speedp mare S;o-kane Queen, owned by C. S. Stout, of Kono. t , be trained by the Wingfield trainer. Early Wright. The Wingfield horses were not raced during the final month of the Tijuana meeting, and left for P/lag fields initial invasion of the east, in a MC ing way. in the pink of condition. Slippery Ebn. in particular, was greatly benefited by a will earned rest, and in a sensational work out a few days after the close of the meeting beyond the border Shewed that he had lost none of the speed that enabled him early in the season to set tie-track record for three-quarters at 1:11%, Bank. the actual star of the Wingfield establishment, was seen ill ai tiou only once during tiie one-haadred and twenty five days meeting, but it was not because there was anything wrong with the horse. lie was entered in races repeatedly, but iiis seven eighths in 1:25, when hi finished four or five lengths in front of Tokay, and pulling up to the Fuller horse, which was good at the time, was enough to keep races in which he was entered from filling. The sou of Mint will, of course, be accorded respectful consideration whenever he -tarts in the east, because of the showing he mad" against the better known Water Blossom, Which led to his purchase by Wingfield. am! in the judg ! meiit of trainer Wl igiit. he went back to the cist a better horse than he was when he left there. As regards Scarlet Oaks, the third member of the "big three" iii the Wingfield string, it remain-to be seen just how good she is. as she was unbeaten ill her four starts at Tijuana, and beat the best of the sprinter division outside of her own stable. In one race she rail three-quarters hi 1:12 under stout restraint through the stretch, and had she been fully extended on that occasion she sorely would have beaten her staateeaate, Slippery Klin, to the Tijuana track record for the distance.
