Money Horse

As a two-year-old in 1927, Sun Beau won one race and lost three. There was nothing then to mark him as a good race horse nor was there the next year when he lost two-thirds of his 23 races. The next year, Sun Beau won six races out of 14 in which he started. Because he won five of them in September and October, people began to speak of him as a "fall horse," a horse seasoned instead of staled by summer's competition, fastest on crisp autumn days. Last year was Sun Beau's best season: the prizes he won amounted to $105,005 and his owner, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, decided to enter him in the $100,000 Agua Caliente Handicap. An odds-on favorite, Sun Beau was badly beaten by Robert M. Eastman's seven-year-old bay gelding, Mike Hall.

Mike Hall was one of the starters in the Arlington Handicap last week, feature race of the last day of Chicago's principal summer race meeting. He finished fourth. First by three lengths was six-year-old Sun Beau. The winner's prize, $27,300, added to his previous winnings, made him the greatest money horse in the history of the U. S. turf, with $330,044 compared to the $328,165* which Gallant Fox had won when he was retired last autumn. A U. S. horse who has won more than Sun Beau: Goldsmith Maid, trotting mare bred by J. B. Decker at Deckerstown, N. J., in 1857, who won her first race when eight years old and who before she died at 20 had won purses amounting to $362,000.

*Not including cups, trophies which would bring Gallant Fox's total to $340,665.

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