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Dan E. Stewart, Retired Trainer, Succumbs at 70 Conditioned Rose of Sharon And Other Prominent Horses Dan E. Stewart, 70, veteran trainer who has resided in nearby Worth. .111. since his retirement, died early Monday in Little Company of Mary Hospital where he had been confined for the past two weeks. Stewart was well known on Chicago, Kentucky and Maryland tracks and among the horses he handled was the great Rose of Sharon who was owned and bred by the late Senator Johnson N. Camden. Rose of Sharon raced under Stewarts colors several times and was regarded as the top race mare of her generation. The daughter of Light Brigade — Rosa Mundi, by Plaudit did not race in her juvenile year 1928 but as a three-year-old she won the Ashland, Kentucky, Illinois and Latonia Oaks as well as the Chicago Test at Hawthorne and the Potomac Continued on Page Eight » |||| I LfflrjL jHSip jIHb VwPWp PvVv *lfl DAN E. STEWART Dan E. Stewart, Retired Trainer, Succumbs at 70 Conditioned Rose of Sharon And Other Prominent Horses Continued from Page One Handicap at Laurel. Her only unplaced effort came in the Arlington Classic in which the track was "off." She was unplaced but once in 14 starts and earned 4,069. Rose of Sharon contracted pneumonia en route to Kentucky for retirement after winning the Potomac. She was insured for 0,000. Stewart also trained for the late Joseph E. Widener and handled such good ones as Roman and Misty Isle while training the Widener horses. Roman, by Sir Galla-had m. — Buckup, by Buchan, was one of the best sprinters seen on -American race tracks. He won 18 races and 6,060. Reman went on to become a highly successful sire. *» Surviving are his widow, Margaret; two daughters, Mary Ann and Margery, and a son, Daniel J. The body is at the Lynch Funeral Home, 9837 S. Kedzie Ave.. Evergreen Park, m. Funeral arrangements had not been made at a late hour Monday.
