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INDIAN IS NOW HORSE OWNER Ben Tincup, Star Baseball Pitcher, Announces Racing Plans. Three Horses Comprise Present String Takes Over Contract on Promising Apprentice McDonald Ballard. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 11. Ben Tincup the Indian chief, who has been on the pitching staff of the Louisville Baseball Club off and on for thirteen years and is at present a member of the hurling corps of the Sacramento, Calif., team, Pacific Coast League,; has turned turfman as a sideline and will campaign a few thoroughbreds on his own account this year. He has, stabled at Tulsa Okla., race track, three thoroughbreds which he plans to campaign through the western, circuit starting at Riverside Park, Kansas City. These three horses are Flying Torch; a six-year-old; Ben Tincup, five-year-old, and a two-year-old chestnut gelding by Old Proverb, from an imported mare. Tincup says if his venture should prove" profitable he will try his luck as an owner on the major tracks later in the season. Tincup is no green hand at the sport of racing,-as he has been interested in thoroughbreds for years, or ever since he became a member of Knebelkamps team. Tincup will take with him to the races his own jockey, or rather a young rider who has been taught the first principles of jockeyship by the veteran horseman, Mickey Harris. This young rider is McDonald Ballard, 17 years old, son of an employe of the L. and N Railroad, who lives at 5008 S. Third Street, The boy weighs ninety-seven pounds and has shown that he possesses all the makings of a first class jockey with a couple of years experience under Harris. Tincup purchased Ballards contract and has departed for Tulsa with his promising apprentice. A. B. Fisher, who hails from Ohio, will train for Tincup. He has much experience and says if Tincups racers show anything worthwhile he will soon win with them. The liorse Ben Tincup has been a frequent winner on the smaller tracks. His last winning effort was at Jefferson Park during the recent meeting at that course. Bunt, a three-year-old filly, owned, by W. F. Knebelkamp, arrived at Churchill Downs from the owners breeding farm to be put into training. Bunt was quite a promising two-year-old and won her maiden race at Bainbridge last summer. She met with a serious accident while schooling at Latonia last fall, and it was thought for a time she would have to be destroyed. She recovered, however, after a winters rest. Mr. Knebelkamp says she was a more promising racing prospect before the accident than Hoops, which won at New Orleans recently. Last Act, a three-year-old bay gelding, owned by judge James P. Edwards, president of the Thoroughbred Horse Association, was another arrival at the Downs. He was turned over to Cloud Hunt to condition. Last Act did not race last year, due to faulty underpinning. He is a half brother of Wida, a horse which raced with some success for Theodore Mueller, proprietor of the Shady-brook Farm, a few years ago. . Birthday Gift and Royal Flash, the latter a two-year-old filly by Royal II Sunflash, owned by Mrs. John T. Chalk, wife of the paddock judge at Churchill Downs, Latonia and Lexington, were transferred from the Golden Maxim Farm of Mrs. Thomas M. Murphy, near St. Matthews, Ky., to Churchill Downs and were turned over to Eddie Kaiser to train. Birthday Gift is a very fast horse and won frequently as a two-year-old. He was turned out last year after showing signs of developing into a "bleeder." He has fully recovered from that indisposition and probably will make a useful racer this season. Walter Grader for the first time in years is horseless. He is here seeking a berth as a trainer. Mr. Grader campaigned horses which won on nearly every race track in America. He has had several offers, but says he will wait until the right one comes along before taking up his occupation.
