Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1918 — AMERICAN THOROUGHBREDS ARE MENACED BY UNRESTRAINGE RACING AND TRAINING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AMERICAN THOROUGHBREDS ARE MENACED BY UNRESTRAINGE RACING AND TRAINING

ft seems too bad that the great racer- Roamer is to be retired in the zenith of his glory. His mile record, made at Saratoga, will probably stand for many years. Sun Briar’a private trial at Saratoga is not officially'accepted as a record. Roamer’s time was 1:84 4-5. The New York World, in speaking of Roamer’s retirement, editorially says: ■ Set New Speed ‘Mark. “Almost two months ago tiie great running horse Roamer set at Saratoga a new speed record for the slngle mile, paralng the mark put up bjf Salvator In 1890. Today Roamer is an ex-king of the turf. But he Is a monarch retired, not overthrown. At seven .years, five of them given to racing, he begins to show the effects of the pace. *The old fellow,’ says his jockey, ‘lsn’t there any more.’ . / Some have said, and -failed to prove their point, that geniuses pass xrith their own youth. To demonstrate the precocity of champions seems an easier matter—of champions, that is, who hold title by virtue of most strenuous endeavor. As years add themselves

the pugilist goes a fatal once more to the ring, the baseball player to the hat, -the prize racer to the track. The better part of glory to the champion Is in the discretion that dictates withdrawal without loss of laurels. Horses Are Menaced. “Of American thoroughbreds it has fOr years been urged that they are menaced and too frequently put out of the game by excessive racing. They start running earlier than foreign horses. They are kept too constantly lu training. Great careers have .so been spoiled, as in thp cases of Her* hais, Irish Lad, Waterbury and other fine runners. Parole, winning 12 races In his eighth year, Is a shining exception to a general rule of retirement at five, six or seven years. •‘There is said to be no doubt that Roamer could win more races. He could win no greaterjame. And there Is no need that he should carry away more purses. He has earned the right to kingly leisure, and to consideration rather as good horse and good friend than as a gifted fhovider of golden ■ “Z J

GREAT RUNNING HORBE ROAMER.