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OWNER J. E. WIDENERS GOOD YEAR PROWESS IN RACING OF NATURALIST, DUETTISTE, STONEWOOD AND OTHERS BROUGHT HIM HIS MOST SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCE SINCE RETURNING HOME FROM FRANCE The wealthy Philadelphia turfman, J. E. Widener, fared better in the racing of 1919 than In any other year since the Great War led hini to transfer his turf activities from France to his native land. His stable was a mixed one of flat racers and cross-country horses, and with one of the latter, Ethelberts good son, Duettiste, he won the Manly Memorial Steeplechase at Pimlico, the most valuable jumping race of the American turf. The star of his stable was the exceedingly speedy French gelding. Naturalist. This was a horse to be feared in any company and a wonderful weight carrier. His eight victories out of iifteen starts included the winning of the Excelsior Handicap at Jamaica, in which lie defeated Star Master, Boniface, Corn Tassel. Exterminator, Boamer, Thunderclap and Fairy Wand; the Long Beach Handicap at the same track; the Carter Handicap at Aqueduct, in which, with 132 pounds up, he made a new track record by running its seven-eighths of a mile in 1:23, and the Autumn High-weight Handicap at Belmont Park. Fast tracks, slow tracks or heavy tracks were all alike to him, his only fault as a racer being that lie was a horse of moods and disinclined to put forth his extreme power at times. Besides Duettiste he had other capital jumpers, of which Stonewood and Skibbereen won well for him. Trompe La Mort was a good winner on the Hat for the stable and is a grandly-bred horse which in time should become a high-class sire. His dam, Marsa, won the French Oaks, and his sire, Verwood, is the premier stallion of M. Edmond Blancs great breeding stud in France. The stable was not strong in its two-year-old division, but Fair Gain was raced but little and is expected "to be one of the good three-yearolds of 1920. The record of the stable was: Horse. Col. and Sex. A. Pedigree. 1st. 2d. 3d. Won. Naturalist b. g. 5 By Itabelais Nature, by Simoniau S 4 1 9,259 Duettiste b. g. 7 By Ethelbert Dulcibella, by Tithonius 2 0 .0 12,300 Stonewood b. g. 7 By Wadsworth Trisauee, by Sorcerer 4 1 . 3 7,180 Skibbereen br. g. 9 By Hawkswicl: Trojana, by Galore 1 3 2 5,500 Pilgrim ...b. g 2 By Garry Herrmann Zoola. by St. Gation 3 4 3 5.445 Trompe La Mort ..ch. c. 4 By Verwood Marsa. by Adam 3 0 1 5.333 Doublet br. g. 7 By Disgnise Fairy Slipper, by St. Serf 3 2 0 3,115 Tufter b. g. 4 By Macdonald II. Bose Pompon, by Boyal Flush III.. 1 0 0 1,092 Damaris br. f. 3 By Spearmint The Fylde; by Chaucer : 1 O 0 940 Armenus b. c. 2 By Irish Lad Armenia, by Meddler 1. 2 1 920 Weary ch. f. 2 By Garry Herrmann Sunflower, by Bock Sand . .l 2 1 900 Fair-Gain .... ch. c. 2 By Vulcain-Fairy Gold, by ; Jtwtd rtffyegW.1 LVKitBrpsr. S10 Pussy ""Willow ."..Tt-bg. 0 -By Migraine Lady Schorr, by Eslier TTT. 1 "0 "1 710 Houdini ...b. g. 3 By Sir John Johnson Cremorne, by Carlsbad O 2 1 050 Infidel II. , ...b. g. 0 By Badford Miss Matthews, by Previous 0 1 3 500 Northward b. c. 2 By Fair Play Nineveh, by The Ill-Used .. 0 0 3 225 LEnjoleur b. g. 3 By Spearmint Confection, by Isinglass , ... 0 1 0 125 Comique br. g. 2 By Bryn Mawr Valentine, by Marta Santa 0 0 1 50 Lady Emmcliiie b. f. 2 By King James Auntie Mum, by Melton 0 0 0 Totals 19 30 22 21 5,054
