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FRED FOSTER PASSES AWAY Widely Known Western Turfman Dies in St. Paul Owned Dr. Rice and Other Famous Horses. Fred Foster is dead. He had been in poor health for some years and died at St. Paul, August 4, from brain fever. No turfman was better known in the days when racing flourished at Chicago, St. Louis and St. Paul. He owned many excellent race horses and made his presence felt on the tracks of New York, San Francisco and New Orleans, as well as of those of the middle west. Many are still living who well remember the exploits of Dr. Rice, Yellow Tail, Abuse, Sulross, Dr. Sheppard, Poseur, Counter Tenor, Sir Walter Raleigh and many others hard to beat in their prime and classes. Dr. Rice was the best horse he ever owned and a good one he was. He was a chestnut son of Jnondaga Bonnie Lee. by Glengarry. He won the Withers Stakes of 1S93 for the elder August Belmont. For some reason Mr. Belmont disliked the colt and sold him to Foster for ,000 to the huge disgust of Belmonts trainer, J. Hyland. Foster took him to St. Louis, where that fall he declared to some friends that he would win the Brooklvn Handicap of 1894 with him. He was a true prophet and his colt did win that then great race in a glorious setto with the famous Henrv of Navarre. The race was worth 7,500 and, Foster having backed his horse liberally in the winter books, was credited with having won l.eavily. Foster was an expert trainer in all of the departments of the art. a master in placing his horses where they could win and in particular, a sagacious judge of the capacities of horses belonging to his rivals in racing. :
