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BONIFACE RECALLS NOTED TRAVELER Hoss Colts Recent Successes Brings to Memory Days of M J Dalys Triumphs with Claude NEW YORK N Y June 22 Comment among turfmen as to the ability of a horse to stand ship ¬ ment from one track to another and continue to win races was noted after Itoniface won the Ex ¬ celsior Handicap at Jamaica Monday Trainer Bedwcll explained that Boniface was one of the best shippers he had ever trained and accounted for the fact that Boniface had traveled great dis ¬ tances and endured a long campaign for the reason that he would He down in a car the same as he would in a bedded stall when he needed rest Boni ¬ face has won races in Maryland Kentucky Canada and on the metropolitan tracks this year and has met and defeated some of the best handicap horses in training trainingIt It is conceded that shipping a horse during these modern days has little effect on the horses racing should the animal be a sensible and wellbalanced one During the last few years many of the best horses in the East have been shipped to Kentucky and in most instances came away with the rich prizes hung up by tlu Kentucky tracks Of course modern conveniences went a long way in enabling these thoroughbreds to take down the stakes stakesHut Hut harking back to the year 10015 there was a colt named Claude by Lissak Lida II owned by M J Daly which had all the thoroughbred horses before or sine beaten when it came to shipping long distances and winning races During that year Claude started from California made nearly very track of importance in America and arrived back in California before this close of the year to win the Thanksgiving Handicap at the old Oakland track on November 2fi In the year 1003 Claude started thirtyfive times won eleven races was seven times second six times third and eleven times unplaced Early in the year February 23 he won the California Derby and ran third in the Burns Handicap to Cunard and Ilnrton and then started on an eastern conquest which is probably unpar ¬ alleled in equine history From California Mr Daly brought Claude to Memphis where he won the Tennessee Derby on April 7 From Memphis he was taken to Nashville in the same state where he won a purse race and from there Claude made the long trip into Canada where he won the Woodstock Plate and Toronto Cup at Toronto IJe ran unplaced in the International Derby at the Detroit summer meeting but Mr Daly loaded the sturdy sou of Lissak on a freight car where he took him to St Louis It is related that when the car arrived at St Louis There was a flood and that Claude was unloaded in water on the morning of the St Louis Derby which he won on the afternoon of June 13 at odds around 7 to 1 1From From St Louis Claude was shipped to Chicago wheri he run second to The Picket in the American Derby with such good colts as Bernays Salvable and others finishing behind him From Chicago Claude was sent back to Detroit where he won the Frontier Stakes at the old Highland Park track Then over to Fort Erie Claude was sent post haste where he won the Canadian Derby on July 14 Claude needed a few of the rehabilitating waters at Saratoga so his owner took him to the famous Spa where he won an overnight handicap and from there up to Buffalo where he took first money in the Western New York Handicap on August 2l 2lBack Back again across the continent Claude was then taken where he followed up his successes by win ¬ ning other laurels It would not be going too far to say that during tin year 1003 Claude traveled a distance of at least 10WKI miles Ami that was in the days when a horse was shipped by freight
