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ROAMER TO RACE AGAIN Return of Turf Idol Pleasing News to Racegoers Everywhere. The Horse Among Horses Most Popular of All Today Better Physically Than Ever. From Xew York comes the report that Andrew Millers wonderful racer, the ever popular Roamer, will race again this year. This will be pleasing news to the turf world in general and particularly to eastern racegoers, for Itoamer is the idol of all racing followers. It matters not with racegoers whether fortune Mows hot or cold with Itoamer whether he wins or loses. He is always greeted on his return to the scales with thunders of applause. This is par-licularly so with the fair sex. With other horses i I hey may he fickle and place their affections, here and there, with the light-tinned fancy of a butterfly, on onv horse and then another as fortune smiles or frowns. But regarding Itoamer it is always the same first and last, good day, bad day, in luck or out of it, the horse among horses. At one time this winter the chances were all against Itoamer taking part in the racing this year " at least, the early spring meetings. He was a . victim of the fever that swept through the stables :it the Gravcsend track like wildfire. Jack Golls-boroiigh. ilis trainer, believes Itoamer and his stable-mate as well as those in charge of Dick Miller--had a touch of the Spanish influenza. Severa J times the old geldings temperature jumped to 100. and his trainer was alarmed. Hut each time when the fever in the old warriors veins was approaching the danger mark. Goldshorough checked the disease and brought his gelding back to the health zone. VACATION" 6r THUlV MONTHS? Itoamer has had a vacation of three months. . During this period lie has been turned -lit in a lot t at the Gravesend track to wander where he liked I and to do what his fancy dictated all, of course, . within the confined space of his corral. The end I of the racing season at the Umpire City track the filial meeting of 1918 in New York State found Itoamer out of ierfcct bodily condition. He was not sick. He was not well. But there was a jarring note in his sweet temperament a temperament, if oii! can say it about a horse, which exemplifies that old saying. "One glad sweet song." , In order to tune the old gelding up again and 1 bring him back to racing this year at concert pitch, Goldsborough. who looks after Itoamer as though i lie were a baby, decided to turn him out of training so that he could romp and play for several I months. Each morning after breakfast he was turned out in tin; lot, and each afternoon, before Old Sol said "good-night" in the west, he was ; placed in his stall. "Roamer is a wonder horse." recently said trainer Goldsborough. "He stands today without a blemish. His legs and feet are like iron. He has never taken a lame step. Bodily he is better today than he was six years ago, when he began to race as a two-year-old. There is not a pimple on him. He has raced all over America, lie has traveled all kinds of distances from a short dash to a long journc". And he weighs now close lo 1.100 pounds more than he ever did in his life."
