Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-27
The Mtd,cuy FIyers

A visit to Midway, 1.-THE breeding and train
ing farm of Commodore Kittson,) Saturday,
found matters there moving along with the
clock-work regularity and system Characters
tic of Mr.. Ben Woodmansee, the superinten-
dent. The horses constituting the Midway
stud, trotters and thoroughbreds, are now
quartered in the elegant new stables-built at
cost of $4,000, and in elegance of finish and
perfection of appointments, unequaled in this
country-and as might be expected from their
comfortable surroundings and watchful and
judicieus care, they are in spleHdid form,
especially the string that it is proposed to
campaign the coming season. These are as
now contemplated, Won Arnim, Revenue, So
So. Lady Rolf, Fanny Wltherspoon, Sannie G..
and Fleming Girl, trotters, and Gem, PAGER.
1t is now pretty evident that Lady Rolf is
not In foal and she is being given regular work
with the others. This work up to the present
time has consisted of road driving, when the
weather was favorable, and exercise in the
arena at other times. This work will be in
creased as fast as the weather will permit.
AS yet no pole work has been attempted,
which would rather seem to indicate that Mr..
Kittson has not yet decided to put in an ap-
pearance in the double team contests. The
contrary may, however, prove to be the case,
there being abundance of time yeti accustom
well-seasoned trotters to that style of going.
The Bonner mare Astoria, who has been
worked along with the Others named
above, has been let up, it having
been clearly demonstrated she is IN foal, a fact
that must be exceedingly gratifying to Mr.:
Kittson, as colt by Won Arnim out of full
sister to Dexter ought to be prize.
AS announced the other day in the GLOBE,
the recent visit of Commodore Klttson and
Mr.. Dan Woodmansee, south and east, in
search of stallion for stud purposes at Mid
way, was fruitless, no animal fully meeting
Mr.. Kittson's requirements being found for
sale. This failure may result in the with
drawal from the contemplated campaigning
tour this season, of either Won Arnim or
Revenue, probably the latter.
Odds, bakers dozen in number, are getting
gentle exercise, but nothing approaching
thorough racing preparation. A regular
trainer is expected soon, however,
when they will be given more serious work,
with the purpose of showing what there is in
them in preparation for another season. They
are promising lot, and it seems pity they
were not named for some of the 2-year old
events of the present year.
One of these youngsters bids fair to give
the advocates of thorough blood in the trot-
ter, new text, the bay FLY Bric-a- Brac, foaled
1880. by Bonnie Scotland, dam Martica, by
Daniel Boone. She is finely developed fillY
and full of life, but apparently instinct
lively opposed to running, her natural gait
when in the field being trot. Indeed, when
she has been crowded into run the effort is a
sorry one, her mates running right away from
her, but at the gait she always takes when let
alone, the trot, she outfoots everything of the
same age at that way of going on the farm.
Perhaps when put into active training she may
show speed at the run, but the disposition to
do SO has got TO be developed in her. It's all
trOt now.