Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-05
The Rin WinncrS.


A feature OF the Spirit Of the Times of
the issue of Feb. "a, was list Of trotters
who have won races in which the purses,
stakes or premiums aggregated $4,000
and upwards. TO the close of 1882. with de-
scription, date, name of sire, ETC., the data
being furnished by advance sheets Of
Chestsr's Complete Trotting and Pacing
Record. The list given comprises 22l
names Of horses that have performed from
the days Of Dutchman and Lady Suffolk.
wla egau their victorious careers in 1888.
down to the present time. Commenting
upoa The table, the Spirit says:
ii is instructive to note how brief time
II Is. N many cases, before the victor OF
one year is cast into the shade by the new
rivals that spring up. 1t has been shown,
il several cases, that a trotter can bear
active campaigning for ten, or twelve, or
even greater number Of years, yet we
find that 104, nearly one-half, OF the
$4,000 horses, were not successfulin races
for period greater than i've years. AS
rule. we think, the old-time trotter stayed
lonser at the front than those of the past
two decades, but that fact may be attrlbu-
table 10 there having been less competl-
tion. and they were not so soon outclassed.
A striking exception to this is found in the
veteran, Tom Keeler. Under the name of
Cayuga Chief, he won the first race In 1867
at Clyde, \. Y. and his thirty seventh was
won IN Maine in 1882. This is period of
sixteen years, and none of the intervening
calendar divisions has failed to see him at
the front one or more times, except 1865
and 1881. He is d marvel of wear. Old
Lady Suffolk is only one season behind
him, and she won much larger number
of races, seyenty-fve being credited to her,
more than twice Tom Keeler's quota.
Chicago, alias Hardbread, alias Jim Rock
ey, outranks even Tom Keller, having won
his first race IN 1859, and his last In 1876,
no less than eighteen seasons of hard cam
palgning. We believe he is still alive in
California. An interesting "Reminiscences of
him was recently published. and If we are
not mistaken, he won a scrub race last
year. Other notable casters" are: Brother
Jonathan, Byron, Confidence, Cozette, Der
by. Ethan Allen, Flora Temple, George
Wilkes. Goldsmith Maid, Hotspur. Hun
tress, John H, John Stewart, Lady Frank
lin, Lady Moscow, Lady Star, Pilot Temple,
Siias Rich, and Thomas Jefferson, all of
whom have successful career of at least
ten seasons duration.
the palm as a campaigner must be
awarded to Goldsmith Maid, From 1866
to 1877 this marvellous little mare had one
hundred and twenty-one victories, and the
eighty-six of Flora Temple are the nearest
approach to her in this respect. The num-
Der of heats that she trotted in 2:30 or bet
ter was three hundred and thirty two.
as counted by those who keep track of such
matters, and the amount of the purses and
stakes in the contests for which she was
Victress was the enormous sum of 1864, 200,
more than treble the amount credited to
any other performer. This, of course, by
no means represents net winnings. AS q
rule, of late years, the winner of trottlng
purse has Melted four-tenths of its amount
but in the case of Goldsmith Maid her av-
erage was much greater than this. In heI
case, as it is matter of curiosity, we have
figured the actual net gains, aside from
expenses, that she has brought to hel
ownsr, and they foot up $246,740. The
greatest winner on the running turf in
this country was Hindoo, and his net
earnings amounted to less than 100000
No horse of any age Or country ever wor
SO much money as the little inbred
Abdalleh mare, who is now
meekiy performing the duties of a matron
at Fashion Stud farm. Her long career
was in flush times, $4,000 purses were not
infrequent, and several people whom sh'
has enriched have cause to bless the day
when it was decided that she was too i'll
tempered for ploughing and had better b.
trained for the track. There are but tire
others whose winnings reach treble figures
in the thousands, viz, American Girl
$118,100; Rarus, $114,950, and Judge Full
lerton, $102,035 Dexter, Flora Temple
Hopeful and Lady Thorn do not fall ia
short of reaching 100000.
The educated constituency that we ad
dress will not fail to draw encouragement
from the table of Big Winners" 1t show
what is possible with good care and req
sonable measure of success. They will re
call. as they peruse these names, the his
tory Of the horses, will note their breedin
and remember to a great extent how thei
campaigns were conducted. They wi
bear in mind that winning of, say $40
O00 rom 1876 to 1882, is equal to at leas
$4,000 from 1870 to 1876, because purse
have been so much decreased in size of lat
years, and they will also not fail to not
the admirable manner in which some tro
tiers have been handled to secure the meas
place in this table. 1t is very Ii
tie for q Princess to win $49,50t
when $4,000 of it was the result of on
match against horse whom she far e,
ceLed in speed, but it requires the best {
management to bring the winnings of
horse ike st. James up to nearly an equ
amount. or to win over goo with hor!
like ola Tom Keller, who never went
firs.-class company.
As an illustration of the fact that spec
brin-5 the money, we miss but few hors
thai nave beaten 2:20 from the $1,000
lists. The absentees are: Hattie Woodwar
2:15-5; Jerome Eddy, 2:1615; So S
2:17 7; Edwin Forrest, 2:1S; Kate Spragu
2:18 Fanny Witherspoon, 2:18 4; Pickar
pisa; Col. Lewis, 2:1815; J. B. Thoma
2:13 3 Cleora, 2:1S34: PatChen, 2:182
Adel7 Gould, 2:19; Edward, 2:1
Grsves, 2:19; Jay Eye S.
2:13: Kittie Bates 2:19; Mimi
R., 2:19: Croxie, 2:19l4 Keene Jim, 2:19l
Romero, 21915; Thomas Z. Young, 2:191
Traabadour, 2:1915; Won Arnim, 2:191
Daisy dale, 2:194; DR.. Norman, 2:193
j. S.Clark.2J924;J osephus, 2:193I. Tn
lis may seem long, but it is only twent
seven out of a total of eighty-two.