The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-06-21
Dcxser's Destined Rival-The Remark.
able Record OF Dixie, q Southern
Kentucky AOfse- bsnght Tor st ,oo0 :
worth Hn5. 600.
lHopkinsviiIe Conservative, 1cth.1

lHopkinsviiIe Conservative, fcth.1
Some weeks since we noticed the sale by
Messrs. Bryant 4 Baker of their frott;nS
horse Dixie at 81 900 cash. As Dixie had
been used and known up to that time only
as q sadd'e-horse, having Only been handled
by q trainer for about two weeks previously
some seemed to doubt the correctness of the
statement BY way of showing that Dixie
was not overeStimated we will state that we
haveit from reliable authority that the pre.
sent owner of Dixie has declined an offer of
1000 for him, anti furthermore declares
that So, zoe Would be no inducemcnt for the
young prodigy. Dixie can already trot his
mile in two minutes and % seconds, and
after thorough training Dexter may look to
his laurels. Dexter's best time Is 2I7l, show
ing difference of u stc0nds only 4; whereas
Dexter WAS well matured, properly and
thoroughly trained, while Dixie is young,
unaccllstomcd to the turf, and has only been
under training for about five or six weeks:
Dixie has as yet made no rare, from the fact,
no doubt, that shc3,u he enter the ring Of
green ard tlntried horses at Nashville he
could win ut most only purse Of about
Sl50, and then, having made a record, he
would he excluded from the "green ring"
in he fall races Of the East, where the purses
do not stop at hundreds. Whatever Dixie
may be known to have accomplished, be
cannot, under the turf rules, be excluded
from the green ring, or the ring of untried
horses. until he has first made race and it
has been recorded on the turf register. II
we are correctly informed, only twenty
| horses In the whole country have trotted
their mile under 2:23. and half of those were
of the Rysdik Hamitonan family, from
which we claim that our Dixie has descend.
ed. e., DiXie's dam was by Canadian
| horse raised in Bourbon, and brought by n
r.. Mitchjsnn to Caldwell. DiXie's grand.
dam was Of the Philip and Romulus stock
a ID ROmulis was said to have come from
the Hanlltonians.
Mr.. J. !. Reekcs, IF this place, owns the
dam of Dixie and her two-year old filIy, aud
VT learn from Mr.. Reekes himselfthat be has
just received Il letter from Connecticut re.
queStng Il full description Of Dixie's dam
also to know whether he will part with her,
and Mt what figure, :
lis truly wonderful how Kentucky
scrub Of only five or six weeks training
could have attained so wide reputation
Yet the celebrated trotter bob 0'Blcnnis, -
who on the first race that he ever made en-.
tered against the far-Iamed Lady Jane SUI:
folk, ut st. Louis, and though he failed to
win the race because OF breaking, yet in the
one heat only in which he was kept down
to his work he made better time than Lady
Jane had ever been able to do on the track
and III Il subsequent race, two weeks later,
he beat her fairly. That horse was bought
in Ibis State for sixty dollars only.
Other horses have been sold recently in
our county for as much as Dixie brought
MessrS. JcS>up 81 Means shipped two to
New York since the sale Of Dixie, for which
they got 81 900 each. Mr.. William Brown
shipped one at 1000 to Texas, and has
since sold others at from $500 to 81 900. Mr.
James Parish has declined an offer of $4,000
for bis trotting mare Lucille, from Bacon's
EXchequer. Lucille is young and thought
quite promising, and if she is going { o make
any man i fortune we would as gladly have
1t tall to our generous friend Parish us to
any gentleman in our county.