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PHILOSOPHICAL ABOUT SELLING RACES Emil Herz Tells How Claiming and Bidding Up Are Regarded in Other Countries. Emil Herz is, apparently one of the few horse owners who understand the selling race rule as it should be understood. The usual feeling between horsemen is one of vindietiveness if a person should "boost" or claim a horse after a selling race. In Europe is is quite tho contrary. "I dont understand owners here having such a venomous trait." said Mr. Herz, as he discussed the subject recently. "When a man runs ui my horse or claims them, I have no ill feeling against that person. It is a part of the transaction of a selling race, and any one entering a horse in a selling race should not expect to escape a raise or a claim, and when it comes it should be taken in good part. Nothing would givu me greater pleasure than to advise a claimant or purchaser of one of my horses, or to explain the eccentricities of the horse to its new owner if the latter so desired. "In France a seller and buyer of a horse from a selling race frequently wash down the transaction with a cold pint. It is different here, and the vindictive feeling should not exist. There should be more congeniality between owners and less friction. If a man enters a horse too cheaply he must expect interference with his plans, and, this being anticipated, he should not bear malice toward any one who steps up to the bar and interferes. Considered Part of the Sport. "It is a part of the sport, and the sooner the horsemen consider it in that light the sooner will more friendly relations between horsemen be cultivated. Anyone who buys a horse or claims one from me out of a selling race, can get all the information concerning the animal from me, a halter to take him away and a bottle of the best in stock. Thats how I feel after losing a horse from a selling race." Mr. Herz ideas bring to mind an Incident in which Sam Louis bid up a horse belonging to Wil- Ham Gnrth one day last summer. After the horse had been bought in by Garth with the customary bid, he turned to Louis and said "Look here, Sam, dont you know that every time you boost one of my horses it takes a barrel of whisky out of my cellar, and you know that Virginia is going to be a dry state pretty soon." In telling the story, Garth says Louis looked steadily at him for a moment and then remarked that henever once thought of that. "And do you know," says Garth, in conclusion, "Sam has never boosted another horse of mine. Dont know whether hes sorry for mo or Virginia, but hes welcome to step Intd my home any time and help get away with anything I have in the eating and drinking ine. I was only joking when I mentioned the barrel of whiskey, but Sam seems to- have taken it in good faith, and Im mighty glad he did."
