Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-27
LADY ROLF.
Her Great Effort Exposition Week Against
ST. Julien's 2 :13.

Her Great Effort Exposition Week Against
st. Julien's 2:13.
One of the most interesting of the ag-
gregation of notable racing events to
come off at the Minneapolis Exposition
week after next, will be the effort of Com
modore Kittson's 6-year-old mare Lady
Rolf, to beat the 2:13 of st. Julien on the
same course last fall, the fastest heat ever
trotted in Minnesota. Whether the mare
will accomplish the feat or not,
we cannot now say with GER
tainty,s but that she has
the requisite speed, and will
do it some time if nothing befalls her,
there is no room for doubt.
But this is a kind of off year for horses,
almost all being more or less effected
with the influenza, both annoying and
facilitating. From this cause st. julien
has suffered all the season, entirely inca
pacitating him for fast work. 1t was this
that caused the death of the trotting stall
lion BoneSetter on the track at Pittsburg,
and it has been this disease that has ne
cesitated the temporary withdrawal from
the turf of many of the best horses IN the
country, both runners and trOtters.
Lady Rolf has been thus afflicted all the
season. Add to this partial disarrange-
ment of her system, caused by the change
of climate from southern Ohio to Mime
sofa. and it will be readily understood
she is not in prime condition. But she
is trotting very fast and the probabilities
are good for her placing the record made
in Minnesota below 2:l3. Any way, her
exhibition VIII be well worth travelling
hundreds of miles to see. She is a grand
looking animal-a bright bay, full 16
hands, greath length of body strongly
coupled TO magnificent shoulders and
loins, splendid limbs and possessing
immense propelling power. When going
fast her four legs move with the regular
itv of the piston rod of steam engine,
no hobbling or wavering, but a strong,
steady movement, which carries her over
the ground at a tremendous rate OF speed.
Her general ensemble when thus moving
is the very poetry of motion, and we care
not what the other attraction may be,
when Lady Rolf steps upon the
track and begins to move around
the course at full speed, she will be
the CtHlIG Ol at ONCS. 1ISl WI >
step will be eagerly watched and for the
brief space of time taken to make the
circle but one, thought will have Il place
in the minds Of the vast acknowledgement
she accomplish her task. There is mag
netism about her when in motion, that is
all pervading, that insensibfy captures
and holds the wills of the spectators il
allegiance, and brings all on-lookers into
hearty, enthusiastic sympathy with hel
effort. And when the struggle is over
what a look of breathless expectancy viii
there be on each face until the judges
hang out the figures, and when they are
hung out, if they should show that thu
mare had won, as is not at all unlikely
what q shout will go up from that grea
assemblage-a shout that viii ring anC
Jingle in the ears Of all hearing it, a
long as life exists.
Lady Rolf viii make her great effor
"Wednesday, the day Of the balloon ascen
sion and the Minnesota stallion race, eacl
event 4 card in itself, that with an or
binary manager would suffice for week