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ENVIABLE STABLE RECORD Success of Whitney Two-Year- Olds Feature of Years Racing. i Fifteen Out of Twenty-Six Already Winners, with Others Still Uncovered. BY EDWARD W. COLE. SARATOGA SPRIXGS, X. Y., August 23. It is quite a record to begin tlie year with twenty-six two-year-olds, fifteen of which are already recorded winners, including victories in stakes, and then liave nearly a dozen left in the barns that are prospective winners. Not only this, but several of the fifteen winners have more than one race to their credit, thereby adding to the stable historically and financially. These facts are entered upon the books of H. P. "Whitney, whose stable is under the management of his trainer, James Rowe. "What is more, there are at the present writing forty yearlings belonging to Mr. Whitney being educated and three others the property of the Green-tree Stable. This gives an idea of the enormous amount of labor and expense there is attached to running a big stable of race horses, especially when there are at the least a half dozen stallions on the farm and any quantity of brood mares. "The mares are increasing every year, too," .jsaid-Mr. Rowe, ""as "we never sell any of the fillies, having so mnny good stallions to breed them to when the blood lines suit and fit in." Mr. Whitney also buys a mare or two when he sees one that he believes will be advantageous to improving his stock. "We dont run in many races," continued Mr. Rowe, "Mr. Whitney preferring to race his stock in stakes; in fact, I rarely look at the conditions of the races to come unless they are for maiden two-year-olds, and when we run in them it is just to give, the horses a chance to get acquainted with racing surroundings. We have a fine band of horses in the stalls, quite a number of which have not been shown, but they will all win races or I am much mistaken." NO SECRETS IN WHITNEY STABLE. After Mr. Rowe had made this prediction he was asked if he wished his statement published concerning the two-year-olds which he claimed would wiu races, adding that such matters were generally conceded to be stable secrets. "We have no secrets in the Whitney stable," answered Mr. Rowe. "All the horses Mr. Whitney owns and breeds are public property so far as their racing is concerned. As soon as they are on the track they do the best they can. There are lio secrets. All Mr. Whitney wants is to win races and breed good horses, which is what every sportsman wants to assist in dignifying the turf and make it what it should be, the highest of all forms of sport. The richer the stakes Mr. Whitneys horses win the more pleasure he derives. I could win many of the smaller purses with the horses, but that would only be robbing the poorer horsemen who have an inferior quality of racing material. Mr. Whitney has one object in view to breed good horses, race them in the ricli and fixed events, and then, if anyone wants to buy, sell them." When Mr. Rowe refers to fifteen winners out of the Whitney band, it means that he has fifteen winners out of sixteen starters, or thereabouts, as near as he could recall. This is a record of which few stables could ever boast, especially viewing the conditions from the fact that Mr. Rowe believes that he still has plenty of winuers left in the barns which have not yet "faced the starter. These will possibly be shown at Belmont Park and other Long Island tracks and at the Maryland courses.
