Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-13
TRACK AND BAT.

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Farcical anu Swind,ing Troiting at Mime
apOlls-Standard Animals at the Lake
EIysIan Breeding Tarm-Uecord of tho
Ball Players.
The Minneapolis Meeting.
With its issue of Sunday the GLOBE CLOSED
it's full and accurate reports Of the racing
events at Minneapolis the past week. The
reader of those reports does not need to be told
that the races were failures as a whole, and many
of them decidedly farcical. il not fraudulent.
day with Hannis, Monroe Chief, Voltaire and
Capt. Herod. the latter the only Minnesots
horse, witha record of 2:2511s. OF the others
Monroe Monroe Chi Chief a:1sI sa''o and nd A19d vi.
taire 2:2l. And yet the race was trotted il
the slow time of 2:24sl, 2:26, 2:2414, 2:24A,
the only aim, apparently, of the drivers of the
foreign horses being to trot just fast enough
Wednesdays programme was fairly satisfac.
tory, though to get three starters in the 2:2l
class the judges were parties to frand in
allowing Bonesetter, record 2:l9. to start and
compete for the purse. The contest on this
day in the 2:Z8 class was quite interesting from
the fact that the drivers of Business, J. w.
Thomas and Frank Fisk, made determined
effort to down the bay mare Calmus by Swigert.
who was rank favorite in the pool selling.
The mare was too f1eety for her opponents,
however, and 8 a victory was desired to ad-
vertise her sire-a sale of whose get comes off
In few days-she was driven to win, and did
win in good shape, in the very good time,
track and weather considered, of 2:27, 2:25L,
2:241s.
The racing Thursday was extremity farcical,
there being but two events. trotting in the 2 :34
class and pacing in the 2.2O class, with but
three starters in each event
Friday there were two very good races.
though the time!was made slow by strong cold
wind. First was the $40 trotters, with High
land Seal, Sheldon, George K, Tronbadour and
Myrtle as the starters. Sheldon was allowed
to take the first heat, when Myrtle went in and
took the next three, thus scoring the second
vlctory Of the week for Swigert as a sire of
trotters. Time, 2:sSsI; 2:3O1; 2:30A; 2:ss.
The 2:24 class trotted the same day had as
starters Conroy, William H., Business, Frank
Fisk and Grey Cloud. The race was driven
for blood, but Conroy had too much foot for
his opponents winning in three straightiheats,
in 2:271s; 2:22sl; 2:221s.
The racing closed Saturday with st. Julien's
effort to beat his own time, and the 219 class.
st. Julien's performance was a graad one.
The day was cold, the sky overcast, and wind
blowing up the home stretch very strong, in
the opinion of good horsemen making the track
two seconds slow. And yet the gallant horse
trotted mile without waver from start to
finish in 2:l3, the first three quarters and be-
fore meeting the head wind at the rate of 2:09.
Had the day been entirely favorable there is
little doubt he would have beeten his record
of 2:l1I.
The trotting in the 2:19 was fraud, neither
Hannis, Monroe Chief or Hambletonian Bashaw
Of the advertised attractions coming to the
score, leaving Bonsetter and Voltaire to contest
the race, Bonsetter winning in three consecu
tive heats.
Yesterday st. Julien, Hannis, Monroe Chief
and most of the other foreign horses wer> ship
ped to Chicago, where they will appear this
week, and where different contests may be ex-
pected than the majority of tsose at Minneapo.
lis the past week,
Standard AsinsaIs.
Wallaces' Monthly contains Departmental
voted to the publication of pedigrees of trot-
ters, none being admitted unless they are clear
ly established, fully meet the requirements of
the standard, and are first entered in some vol
ume of the Register. The issue for September
contains number from the celebrated breed.
ing establishment of DeGraff & Hopkins, OF
Lake Elysian, Waseca county. They are:
smiths Abdallah, son of Volunteer; dam
Fanny by Richards Bellfounder son Of Hunger
ford's Blucher; g. d. Lady May by Single
terry's Rather; G. g. d. Old Kate, bred in Con
necticut, taken to Wisconsin in 1841, and said
to possess Messenger blood.
Bessie L., b. m. foaled in 1880; got by
Strathmore, son of Rysdyks Hambletonian; !;
dam Miss Hayes by Ericsson, son of Mambrino
Chief; G. d. by imp. Hooton, 4,131; G.. g. d.
W ftrau ~ Il H..
CRANKY, 2.557; g. G. 4. g. d. by Aratus, lO2.
Elysian Abdallah, br. b. foaled 1874; got by
Lakeland Abdallah, Son of Rysdyks Hamble-
tonian; dam Rowing Nelly the dam of Nam
brino Boy, by Strader's Oassius M. Clay, Jr.:
g: d. by Berthune, 3,056; g. G. d. by Rather
1000; e. g. e. d. by imp. Spread Eagle. 2, 404.
Etysian Alexander, b. b. foaled 1878; got by
Alexander, SOD of Goldsmith's Abdalah; dam
Brunette, by Mambrino Chief; g. d. Nancy
King, by Clifford Morgan; g. g. d. the Pope
mare by Sherman Morgan.
Elysiau Chief, b. b. foaled 1875; got by Men
claus, son Of Rysdyk's Hambletonian; dam
Rowing Nelly, the dam of Mambrino Boy and
Alysian Abdallah by Strader's Cassius M. CLAY,
Jr., g. d. by Berthune. 1886; G. e. d. by Rat
tier, 1900; g. 6. G. d. by imp. Spread Eagle,
2,404.
Jennie R. b. m. foaled 1870. got by Alden
Goldsmith, son of Volunteer; dam Fanny, the
dam of Alexander, by Richards Bellfeunder,
etc.
Louise, b. m. foaled 1880; got by Alexander;
dam Franklin P, by Logan, son of Rysdyk'a
Hambletonian, etc.
Madame Goldsmith, b. m. foaled 1875, got
bv Goldsmith's Abdaliah; dam Trotting, sister
by Alexander's Abdaliah, etc.
Maggie O., bl. m. foaled 1879; got by Elysian
Abdallah, Son of Mambrino Patchen; dam Bru.
nette, by Mambrino Chief, etc.
Minnesota, b. m. foaled 1879; got by Alex
ander; dam Rowing Nelly, etc.
Minnesota, br. m. foaled 1880; got by Elysi-
an Abdallah, dam Madam Goldsmith etc.
Minnie D. v. m foaled 1877; got by Alexander;
dam Rowing Nelly; etc.
Nettie. b. m. foaled 1880; got hy Railroad
son of Alexander; dam Vestal by Goldsmith's
Abadllah, etc.
Peerless Mambrino, br. b. foaled 1878; got
by Duke of Saratoga; son of Young Woful:
dam Brunette, by Mambrino Chief, etc.
Prospect, br. b. foaled 1878: got by Alexan-
der; dam frankie P, etc.
Railroad, br. b. foaled 1875; got by Alexan-
der; dam Rowing Nellie,e
Vestal, b, m. foaled 1875; got by Goldsmith'a
Abdallah; dam Ester by American Clay, etc.
Wachita, b. g. foaled 1873; got by Alex
ander; dam Belle by Telegraph Black Hawk.
etc.
Winsome, b. m. foaled 1875; got by Gold
smiths Abdallah; dam by American Clay, etc.
The National Game.
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