Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-02
THE TURF.

| THE TURF.
saltwater Criticised by "Hoofer"-Sale Of
Dakota Maid-Mintzsr Ready for Busi-
observation-disclosures Notes.
CRITICISM By "HooFER."
We had occasion, two weeks ago, to COM
pliment our friend Frank Dunton on the
faat that "Hoofer" had commenced q cor
respondence with his paper. We are now
pleased to welcome "Hoofer" to the columns
of the GLOBE, Though it is in criticism.
We trust that the appended communication
will not be the last we shall see of "Hoofer"
in the GLOBE:
To the Editor of the Globe.
Your Saltwater correspondent gives an in
teresting account of the trotters at that
place, but in doing 60 makes many mistakes
that are lamentably absurd. In giving the
breeding of Kitty Cook, he says, "she was
by Ethan Allen" when every stable boy in
| the land knows that she was sired by grand
son of that horse. Also that she is the "best
bred mare in the country, having more eros
ses to Gold Messenger than any horse liv-
ing" Now who is or was Gold Messenger
1 confess my ignorance, and know no one that
does know. If this was an error of the
printer, having been written Old Messenger?
it only makes the matter
worse as far as the truth
| is concerned, there being scores of trotting
bred animals in the country having double
the crosses, running back to imported Mes
senger, than Kitty Cook. She is q noble
mare, royal bred, with rich strains back to
Messenger, and undoubtedly knows more
about her kith and kin than the writer of
that article. Again he writes: Fashion b.
g., Hambletonlan.' After calling this b.
g. thoroughbred he says that 'tMr. Orff has
been driving her on the road this winter,
but she has had but little training He
makes this animal to be both gelding and
a mare, which is no more absurd than to
call Hambletonian a thoroughbred.
Again in speaking of Mr.. Castles mare
Lucy, he says, "Lucy is out of imported
Cape Race" besides giving her another dam
by Bashaw. It is to be hoped that the stall
lion Cape Race was Gas well as could be OK
pected'' after giving birth to Mr.. Castles
mare. In giving the breeding of the Queen
of Diamonds he says that the dam of her
sire was by Abbie Daller, by Abbie Daller
Chief. This is supposed to be an effort to
change the sex of Abdallah and Abdallah
Chief. I hope he will fail in the attempt.
| HOOPER.
| DAKOTA MAID.
| We learn from the Sioux City Journal
that the well known western trotter Dakota
Maid, owned by Il. j. Kneebs of that city,
has been sold to w. B. Darling, of Chicago,
for $4,000. The Journal says: Gail Sioux
City horsemen will regret to see the mare
leave these parts. She has always been
owned here and some of her best trotting
has been done on the track at our fair
ground. Five years ago she made one of q
team on the wood wagon of Mason of Sioux
Point, and as such pulled fuel to the soap
factory in this city. The horse loving pro-
prietor of the works noticed her easy swing
ing gait and tried to get title to the little
Agar old, but Mason would not trade. Soon
after he left her with Bob Kneebs to train,
and not long after sold her to Kneebs &
Fisher. After trotting her first race at the
track at this city, and showing what sort of
stuff she was made of, Mr.. Kneebs bought
his partners interest in the mare, and
owned her till yesterday. After scooping
|
Maid on various tracks in this and adjoin-
ing States, with satisfaction to her friends
and profit to himself. The best record made
by the mare was in the season of '78 at Kan
sas City, where she got down to 2:2611.
TURF BREv1TIEs.
A letter received the past week by Dr..
Mintzsr from Green B. Morris, dated New
Orleans, tho Esd, conveys the intelligence
that he is convalescing from his recent in
ing string are in fine feather for the coming
spring campaign. Mintzer, the property of
DR.. Mintzer, it will be remembered, had the
misfortune to pick up a stone at the Wash
ington meeting last fall, severely bruising
his foot. The bruise was more serious than
at first supposed and many horsemen have
ever since been congratulating themselves
with the hope that the injury was permanent
and that this dangerous competitor for
horses in his class would not confront them
this year. Mr.. Morris letter dispels this
hope in stating that Mintzer has recovered
from his lameness, and is now taking his
regular work, to which he was taking kind
ly, and that the opening of the season would
find him in splendid condition and ready
for the fray.
John r. Swiuney, oh. h., in the racing
string of Green b. Morris, 5 years old, by
War Dance, dam Sister of Charity, pulled
up lame while exercising at New Orleans,
and has been sent back to st. Louis, where
he will stand for mares the coming season.
Mr.. j. E. johnson, reinsman of expert
ence, for the year past handling the horses
of Clark Chambers, of Owatonua, has To-
Gated in St. Paul, and among other horses
placed in his hands, is the trotting mare of
Capt. Bart Atkins one of the most promising
young trotters in the city.
| Obitu ry.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
New YORK, Feb. 1.-Robt. G. Brown, Re-
publican candidate for sheriff last fall, died
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