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do YOU f REMEMBER j . . , , , . L j Eack In 1926, along the early part of August, when a little bay filly by Luke McLuke, from La Dauphine, came up in the sale3 ring at Saratoga and passed to Mrs. J. D. Hertz for 1,000? The filly had been consigned to the sale3 by Kceneland Stud but Keeneland Stud did not own that filly. She was the property of Mrs. Hertz and, at the last minute, that fine lady had a change of heart and ordered J. W. McClelland to bid her in at any cost. It was not a bad bargain at that The filly was Anita Peabody. Is there anyone who does not remember her? Is there anyone who does not remember that filly pounding down the Widener course at Eelmont Park in the Futurity Stakes of 1927, trailed by her stablemate, Reigh Count, Victorian, Petee-Wrack, Vito, Sun Edwin, Scotch and Soda, Nixie, Algernon, Oh Say, etc.? There were eighteen top notchers following her across the finish line that day and they were all well beaten. A few days previous to that Futurity Anita had breezed five and a half furlongs down the same course in 1:04, and that under 126 pounds. It was a new track record. Those races were two of six she won that year. There are those who believe that Garner pulled Reigh Count in that Futurity. Use your own judgment. Of course you all remember Reigh Count Almost everybody knows that that son of Sunreigh and Contessina won renewals of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes and the Walden Handicap, also a Kentucky Derby, a Huron Handicap, a Miller revival, a Saratoga Cup, a Jockey Club Gold Cup, a Lawrence Realization, and followed those grand performances with a second to Invershin in an Ascot GoldCup in England a few days after he had defeated a gcod band in a Coronation Cup revival. Perhaps you remember that these two prized possessions of the Hertz family were mated after retirement The first offspring from this pair came in 1931, a chestnut colt, afterward gelded, named Our Count He has proved no slouch. A bit slow to come around he did not show much until three years old, when he took the Ferndale, Pontiac and Dallas Handicaps. Last year he won the Fort Worth, Dallas, Governors and Sallan Cup handicaps, and accounted for better than 7,000 in purse money. Next year came another colt to this pair and it was named Our Reigh. This one was not quite so good but he has won races each year and paid his way. In 1933 another foal arrived from the same parents, a filly, but she died the following year and never reached the race track. Anita Peabody died in August, 1934. A throat infection that failed to respond to treatment was the cause of her death. It is regrettable that such game and highly successful horses should die at an early age but it is the case in many instances. A horse that possesses such electric speed as that of Anita Peabody, could be nothing else than highly strung and delicate. Although she appears in the annals of racing as a bargain yearling she hardly belongs there as she was never sold. She was bred and foaled at Leona Stock Farm; was sent to Jack Keenes farm near Lexington for preparation for the sales ring; was led under the block and bid on and, because she was such a sweet filly her owner bid her in and bought her own horse. A bargain? Yes, she was a bargain, but not a sales ring bargain. She went on to win seven out of eight races, finishing third in the other, and accounting for 13,105 in purse money.
