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INDIAN BROOM HAS OWN IDEAS Roguish Disposition Makes Him Hard to Handle, But His Speed Ranks With Best. ARCADIA, Calif., Dec. 17. Few thoroughbreds in training today possess the speed of Indian Broom. His worlds record for one mile and one-eighth, a distance he ran at Tanforan in his three-year-old season, in the time of 1:47, is a performance likely to stand unequaled in turf annals for many years to come. Lightly weighted that day, he raced Top Row into the ground, and won by seven open lengths over the former Santa Anita Handicap winner. Prior to that race Indian Broom had been brought out to the coast as a two-year-old in the Brookmeade string. He was purchased at Santa Anita, from the Sloane forces, by Maj. A. C. Taylor, of British Columbia, his present owner. Following his Marchbank Handicap victory at Tanforan, he was loaded on a railroad car and shipped to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby. He arrived only a few days before the race, scarcely had time to get the feel of the ground, and still ran a close third to Bold Venture and Brevity. Throughout the remainder of that year and during the next, his record was impressive, a third in the Santa Anita Handicap of 1937, ranking high in the long list. Rarely was he out of the money he loved the mud and a distance of ground he ran fairly consistently and he became a great public favorite. This past season, with the high-headed", arrogant way he has always possessed, he decided that there were only certain days, certain weights and certain track conditions on which he cared to race. One of them was closing day last year at Santa Anita, when he won the 0,000 San Juan Capistranq after having been scratched from the big handicap the previous week, due to a case of the "sulks." Indian Broom is a deep liver chestnut. Hes breedy, racy looking. Hes magnificently made forward shoulder and forearm but has always been a bit light in the hind quarters. From his earliest days he has possessed a mind of his own, a roguish disposition which made him a hard horse to handle and train. It is this very quality, this dominant and distinctive personality which has been both loved and condoned by the public.
