view raw text
UPHOLDS STAMINA OF WHISK BROOM II. Trainer A. J. Joynors View of the Real Capacity of Broomsticks Brilliant Son. Andrew Jackson Joyner is watching the development as a stock horse of AVhisk Broom II. the horse James Rowe is grooming for the headship of Harry Payne Whitneys Brookdale Stud, in succession to Broomstick, ids sire, which is getting on in. years, with keen interest. There are two excellent reasons for Joyners concern. He bought Whisk Broom II. for Mr. AAhitney at public auction in this country, paying ,500 for him, and he. developed and trained the horse in Great Britain. "Many stories have been written in this country." said Mr. Joyner the other day at Saratoga, "of the inability of AVhisk Broom II. to maintain his speed over a long distance of ground. Seven-eighths was his distance on the other side, according to the writers of these stories. I have an idea that I should know as much of his abilities as a racer as the next man, and I believe that lie was a first rate horse up to one mile and a quarter, and that he would have held his own at that distance with any mans horse in ari!- country. AVhether he would have gone farther I do not know. I did not try to develop ins staying powers to the utmost. "When I was training AVhisk Broom II. for long distance racing in Great Britain, I used to send Iron Mask, a sprinter of rare speed, out with him for three-quarters of a mile and then make him pick up Borrow for another half. He never experienced the least difficulty in galloping Iron Mask to defeat and, although he could not actually beat Borrow the extra half, he always made Borrow stretch his neck. Borrow, as every one knows, was a good horse in Great Britain and he has done pretty well over here. "In a handicap at one mile and a quarter at Liverpool, AVhisk Broom II. was beaten a head by AVillonyx, solely because Martin grew careless in the last eighth and let the English horse slip up on him. I do not believe that AVillonyx could have beaten AAhisk Broom II. if Martin had been alert to the end. The ability of Willonyx to maintain his speed over any distance was proved in 1911 by his victories in the Ascot Stakes at two miles, the Ascot Gold Cup at two miles and a half, and the Cesarewitcluat two miles and a quarter. Why Whisk Broom II. Was Brought Home. "I was readying AVhisk Broom II. for the Kemp-ton Park Great Jubilee Stakes, when Mr. AVhitney ordered me to send him back to the United States. I believe he would have won too. Mr. Whitney wrote me after I had shipped AVhisk Broom II. that lie was sorry to interefre with my plans, but that there were so few horses of good class in this countrj-he felt he owned it to American racing to bring AAhisk Broom II. home. "Whisk Broom II. is proving a uniform breeder. He sires size, bone and good conformation and his offspring are invariably level headed. Such as have run this year have shown speed and I believe all his get. will go on. Broomstick was a capable stayer and Whisk Broom II. is stoutly bred on his dams side. He goes back to Maggie B. B., which was one of the greatest broodmares that ever stood in this country." Mr. Joyner, than whom there is no shrewder judge of a stock horse, speaks witli enthusiasm of The Manager, the youthful head of Major Thomas Clay McDowells stud at Lexington, Kentucky. "I am convinced from what I have seen Plum, Olive Wood and American Eagle do at Saratoga," he says, "that The Manager is going to be a great success. These two-year-olds have everything that race horses should have. The are good lookers, smooth of action and level headed. They know what is expected of them when they get on the track and they do their duty smoothly and evenly. Moreover, the yearlings Major McDowell sold at auction the other day were as prepossing a baud as I have seen all year. "I never saw The Manager run, hut according to all accounts, lie was- a good game racer. And he is bred right on his dams side. Peg AAoffington, his maternal grsnddam, was a great mare. The best of her sons, David Garrick, which I trained in this country for the late Pierre Lorillinrd, was a horse of high speed and he proved twice that he could maintain his speed for any distance in the best company, first when he defeated Ethelbert at two miles and a quarter in tho Annual Champion race at Sheepshead Bay In 19H and again when he, won the Chester Cup in England in 1901."
