Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-06
The Great Boston Race-What will Com
modore Kittson Do About 1t ?-The Han
dicapping of the American Horses in
EOglaud-Sales of StOck-Mtscel aneous.
The 80 TrOfterS

Wilkes Spirit Of the Times in its last week
issue publishes very carefully prepared table
containing the uames and descriptions of ali
trotters with records of $50 or better, group
ed under their respective sires, as far as they
are known The sires are arranged alphabet.
cally, while the get of each horse In the $3.50
list are classified in the order of speed, so that
any person can ses at glance how many of
the progeny of any stallion have equalled or
beaten any figures about which there may be
any curiosity. No trotters whose paternity is
unknown have been included in this table.
The object of the compiler was not
to publish complete $50 list, but to
simply give to the public list that will exhibit
the relative standing of American trotting
stations as established by this test. The list
covers three full pages of the Spirit. If any
one has any disposition to underrate Rysdyk's
Hambletonian as a sire, and a producer of
horses that produce trotters, let such person
consult the facts stated in this table first, and
then consider whether or not 1t is best to dis
pute them. The Spirit concludes an editorial
upon the subject as follows:
SIN its statistics the compilation varies
slightly from the figures given in the an
nouncement week since. This is due to a
few emendations that have been made. The
most important is the addition of one horse to
the list of Daniel Lambert, which gives him
twenty-five representatives in the 2:30 list, and
places him on par as sira with Volunteer.
1t will be noted, however, that In the relative
speed of their get Volunteer still ranks the
great son of Ethan Allen very decidedly, as
but seven of the latter's sons or daughters
have records of 2:25 or better, and but one Is
credited with 300 or better, while Volunteer
has fourteen in the 2:23 list and five in the
2:2O list, excelling in both these respects even
his famous sire, Rysdyk's HambletOnian.
Volunteer is still firm IN his position as the
greatest of living trotting progenitors, judged
by the records, but it is, of course, simply
question of time when some younger horse
will supplant him.
This voluminous table furnishes numerous
points upon which to base arguments and
disquisitions. We cannot deal with them in
this issue with any thoroughness. bat may
find texts therein from time to time. One
very salient feature, however, cannot well es-
cape general attention, and the facts are SO as
tonishing that we cannot refrain from point
ing them out as illustrating the marvellous
influence upon the trotting stock of America
of the dead Hero of Chester, Rysdyk's Ham
bletonan. While there are in this table the
names of eleven. hundred and sixty-fve q 1859
performers, we find that no less than two
hundred and ninety (29O) almost precisely rs
per cent. of tine total are descended from Ham
bletonian in the male line, and yet this mar
vellous sire died less than six years ago. His
descendants in the 2:30 list in the female line
are not as numerous, but we hive no doubt
that fully one-third of the trotters that have
entered the magic ciacle trace directly to the
"old horse" This may fairly be considered
the most phenomenal fact in the entire his
tory of breeding in any age and any cOuntry,D