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BROOMSTICK SMALL AS A RACE HCJjlSE When IL P. Whitneys noted stallion Broomstick, leader of the American sires for three years in succession, and a wonderfully fast and stouthearted nice horse, was taking his early lessons in racing at the training quarters of his owner, Capt. S. S. Brown, down in Mobile during February, 1903, in charge of Peter Wimmer, everybody who looked him over was impressed with his faultless conformation and exquisite finish, but most of them shook their beads and declared that he was a little beauty and might win some of the baby races at the winter tracks, he was too small to pick up scale weights and finish ahead of the big two-year-olds lie would have to meet on the metropolitan circuit. And yet Broomstick did win his first start on the metropolitan track, finishing in front in a good field in the Juvenile Stakes at Morris Park. His brilliant success on the turf later caused horsemen to wonder that such a small horse could do such things. But that he did is mow turf history, and great as was his record on the race course it has been far surpassed by his wonderful success in the stud. After retiring to the easy life of the stud Broomstick grew to such length and substance that he is no longer regarded as a small thoroughbred.
