CHAPTER V 

 w. c. Whitney's liberality 



His First Good Horse— Heavy Bettor— A Wonderful Futurity— 

 Fourteen-Thousand-DoUar Present— Getting me out of a Bad 

 Deal— Cablegram from Lord WiUiam Beresford 



I FIRST met Mr William C. Whitney at the time that 

 he had second call on me. It was in 1898. He had 

 first call on me the following year after my contract 

 with Fleischman and Featherstone. 



W. C. Whitney will be remembered as having been 

 the most popular man in American racing. As far as 

 racing was concerned I want to say right here that he 

 knew very little about horses and he must have sunk 

 a stack of money in his racing ventures. He didn^t 

 become interested in the Turf until late in hfe, and his 

 career did not after all extend over so many years. 

 I have always said that to know horses intimately you 

 must be raised with them. Of course his son Harry 

 Payne Whitney has forgotten more than his father 

 ever knew, for he has been round among horses, hunt- 

 ing, driving, riding and racing, ever since he was a boy. 



It was John E. Madden who was principally re- 

 sponsible for Mr Whitney going on the Turf. Madden 

 has bred and raced more good horses than any other 

 man in America excepting James R. Keene. Madden 

 saw to it that Mr Whitney started well. If I remember 

 correctly, Hamburg was the first big purchase Mr 

 Whitney made, and that was due to Madden, although 

 I can take some credit for it, for I told Mr Whitney 

 when he asked me that Hamburg was worth any 



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