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CAHN PLANNING COMEBACK Seventy-Six Year Veteran to Resume Training of Horses. Bought Typhoon H. for 00 and Won Kentucky Derby of 1897 With His New Acquisition. NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 19. Age is no barrier on the race track is the firm belief of Julius C. Cahn, who at the ripe age of 76 is making preparations to take over the training of a large stable of horses. After fifty years of activity on the American turf, Cahn is planning on embarking on a fresh start, having regained his health after a. year of inactivity. The younger generation of turf fans may not recall the accomplishments of Cahn as a conditioner of thoroughbreds. The thoroughbred that gave Cahn his most prestige was Typhoon II., which he pur- chased for 00 as a yearling and in 1897 annexed the coveted Kentucky Derby with the racer. Another performer of note that was owned and trained by Cahn was Crockett, winner of the Kentucky Oaks in 1898. In addition to the Kentucky Derby, Typhoon II. captured four other stakes. The success of Typhoon II. reached far and wide and attracted the attention of a wealthy Chicagoan, who prevailed upon Cahn to sell him the Kentucky Derby winner for 5,000. All in all, the veteran estimates that he gleaned upwards of 5,000 with his 00 purchase. BOTH DISAPPOINTED. "When I reluctantly accepted the offer made me for Typhoon II.," reminisced Cahn between races at the Fair Grounds, "I was hopeful that the horse would be as successful for his new owner as he was for me, but we both were disappointed. Typhoon II. won only one other race and then broke down and was destroyed." Cahns fifty years on the turf have been given over to horses he owned and trained for himself and those he handled for M. E. Casey, Missouri state senator who raced under the nom de course of Summit View Stable. In his younger days Cahn maintained a breeding farm in St. Charles, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, and produced many horses there. Several times during his lengthy racing career the veteran has had large stables under his supervision. Cahn first became interested in horses while assisting his father in the horse and mule exchange operated by the elder Cahn in St. Louis, lifted "Buttons" Garner aboard the first horse the latter ever rode in a race, and it was Garner who booted Typhoon JI. home in front in the Kentucky Derby. Another protege of Cahns was Vincent Powers, whom he rates as the best he ever developed in his long tenure in racing.
