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do n YOU j REMEMBER Back in the early nineteen hundreds, when , Barney Schreiber acquired Sain for his Missouri Stud? There is a story attached to that. We all know that Sain was about the greatest sire that was ever taken into Missouri. His sons and daughters were all proficient in negotiating heavy going and also had great speed for short distances over a fast track. Jack Atkin and Nealon are examples. Schreiber was booking on the Montana circuit about that time and a horseman owed him a marker for 00 which he could not pay. One day this horseman went to Schreiber and said: "Barney, I see that you are going in for breeding. And, since you are, you need a first class stallion. I have just the horse for you."" "But how do you know I need a stallion?" asked Schreiber. "Dont you know that I have Balgowan at my place in Missouri, and havent I just brought Foul Shot from Australia, and is not Foul Shot a Musket horse?" The other man said he knew all that, but protested that he had a horse better qualified than either Foul Shot or Balgowan to become the head of a first class stud. "Well, what is the horses name?" demanded Schreiber. The horseman named Sain, and Barney sniffed scornfully. When he got his breath he said: "Why that horse cant run a first class selling race. What business has he at a first class stud?" "I admit that Sains public form is not good," said the other. "Ornament or The Friar, or Ogden could beat the life out of him this conversation occurred when Ornament, Ben Brush and The Friar were the best race horses in America, but believe me, there is no better looker and no better bred horse on this side of the salt pond than Sain." Then he went on to show that Sain was a son of St.Serf, a grandson of St Si-: mon, and that his dam. The Task, was a daughter of the famous English brood mare stallion, Barcaldinc. Barcaldine. the horseman pointed out, was the sire of the dam of Voter, the best sprinter in the East at that time. Schreiber. becoming interested, went out to look Sain over. "He is a good looker, admitted Schreiber, admiring Sains fine lines and superb muscular development. "He is a bit Email, but I guess he would be a good horse if he was sound." "Thats just it," put in Sains owner. "This horse has bad feet, but if you take him and breed him to sound mares he will get good, sound colts." "Well," said Barney, "whats your proposition?" "You remember that 00 marker I owe you," he said, and Schreiber grunted. "Well, give me 00 more and take Sain." Schreiber demurred. Buying stallions, he pointed out, was like taking a chance In a lottery. No matter how good looking or how well bred a horse might be, there was no telling how he would breed. A thousand, he thought, was a good deal of money to put into a stallion like Sain, even if he did happen to be a well-bred horse of handsome conformation. The Missouri breeder and the hard-up horseman haggled for half an hour, with the result that Schreiber handed the horseman four.crisp 00 bills and took Sain. Sains career in the stud is too well known to require recapitulation. Nealon won the Brooklyn Handicap and the Belmont Park wcight-for-age race among his many sue-, cesses and was far from a poor horse in the stud. Jack Atkin was about the shiftiest weight-carrying sprinter In the country at his time. He won at three-quarters in 1:11 s, with 140 pounds up, at Empire City. Among his get most clear in our memory at this time is thj long-wearing Bracdalbane, Cho , Cho, Charlie Leydecker, Avisack and later, about the last of his get, Canny Lady, Follow Me and St. Donard. He commanded a fee of ,000 at the stud and both he and his son, Jack Atkin, served a period at Idle Hour Stock Farm.
