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ROMANCE OF HIGH CLOUD How Discarded Cripple Was Patched Up and Became Record Holder HolderThe The development of High Cloud by John t Lowo teaches a worth while lesson in pa ¬ tience Last Monday at Churchill Downs High Cloud ran seven and a half furlongs in 1 30 which establishes a new American rec ¬ ord for the distance The previous mark was held by Restigouche and was made at Uel mont Park on May 2D 190S Restigouche was a threeyearold at the time and he ran the distance in 131 High Cloud is a six yearold and he carried 118 pounds in his remarkable performance Monday MondayBut But to get down to the story of the pa ¬ tience of John Lowe High Cloud is a son of Ultimus and the Ben Brush mare Umbra and was bred by Corrigan McKinney when they had the Wickliffe Stud As a yearling while being broken at the old Gravesend track High Cloud ran off crashed through the track fence and had his side pierced by a rail It was a serious injury and his lungs escaped only by a matter of inches inchesDr Dr R W McCully was called in and after ho had made a thorough examination of the colt decided that ho had not been permanently injured and that with care he would recover completely from the injury This judgment has since been thoroughly vindicated vindicatedThen Then at the Corrigan McKinney dispersal sale Captain P M Walker purchased High Cloud After the purchase he learned of the injury that had been inflicted while the colt was being broken and ho repented of the purchase James Corrigan took the colt back As he was leaving racing for the time being he had no use for him and finally gave him to John Lowe with the proviso that when his racing days were over he was to be returned as a stock horse horseThen Then came the patient training of John Lowe He took the discarded cripple and made a race horse out of him He was not started until a threeyearold and that year J he only raced once But since that time I jhe is now a sixyearold he has been win jner of six races He has won his last two starts and he has only been to the post three times this year This last race would show that High Cloud is better than at any time in his career and John Lowe is reaping the benefits of his patience and care of a horse that had such an inauspicious begin ¬ ning on the turf
