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J FRED BYERS OWNER OF ROBERTMORRIS HAS ONLY MODEST RACING STABLE STABLEPurchased Purchased Crack Son of Jacopo at Saratoga Sales for 3200 3200NEW NEW YORK N Y June 5 J Fred Byers owner ofRobert Morris Whirlaways chief rival in the Belmont Stakes to be run on Saturday next embarked in racing about the middle of the decade 19201930 in part ¬ nership with his brother the late Eben Byers at one time national golf champion The Byers Brothers raced under the nom de course Sewlckley Stable and their horses were always trained by Maj Thomas H McCreery McCreeryOwners Owners of the Byers company engaged in the manufacture of pipe they ivent into racing on a generous scale their initial ef ¬ forts being confined to steeplechasing The first horse they owned was a jumper Thorn dale purchased from the Fleischmann es ¬ tate and they imported from France a first class jumper called Carabinier CarabinierSON SON O BATTLE COST 16000 16000The The best of their flat horses was Son o Battlel a son of Man o War and Batanoea bred by Walter M Jeffords but purchased as a yearling at Saratoga from A B Han ¬ cock for 16000 This horse was a good winner beating such as Display He is now at C S Howards California stud from where he sent forth the winner of the Cali ¬ fornia Championship Stakes last December DecemberAfter After the death of his brother Eben Byers curtailed his racing activities and for several years after 1929 was an absentee from racing racingIn In the past few years he has raced on a modest scale having a horse or two with Major McCreery McCreeryByers Byers states however that Robert Mor ¬ ris is the best horse he has ever owned He purchased him as a yearling from the Bram ¬ ble Farm of Bill Caskey for 3200 The son of Jacopo by his victories in the Excelsior and Peter Pan Handicaps has given proof he may prove a foeman worthy of Whirl ¬ aways steel
