Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-10
TRACK TALK,
What Is Doing at the Driving
Park During These Cold
Day.,
A Glance at Some of the Fast
Shoppers There STABBED.

beelub uOt very PioPiNiouo w ~"
making or news.gathering at the
driving park, and there are few in the
community outside of those especially
interested, who have any ide, that
anything Is going on there, and
imagine 1t al simply a deserted place,
where snow banks and bleak winds
hold full sway, with no mcrtals TO
dispute their claims, and nouglt doing
to break the monotony.
Yesterday THE BEE nan made a fly.
ing trip to the driving park, behind a
feet sterpsr over which Sam Colburn,
the we'll. known turfman drew the
ribbons. The stopper was none
other than n owned by Dr.. o. w.
Archibald, who was formerly
superintendent of the institution at
Greenwood, and who is now q surQ on
Ia the regular army and stationed at
present at Fort Lincoln, Dakota, The
doctor, as his manyfriends here know,
is a great lover tf horses, and he has
two here now In Sam Colburn's care
aud training, which are fine bred and
full of promise. The one behind
which we were yesterday whirled to
the driving park was the doctors
Glen wood. chestnut sorrel stallion,
sixteen hands high, a very stylish fel.
low and o swift one, he having shown
en- trial a quarter at a 2:30 gait, and q
full milo in 1856 without q break. He
Is a e can horse, never having entered
a race, and being yet only six years
old, he promises much for the future.
His sire, "Wspsie," ia a noted
western nire Of trotters and the best
living representative of the Bashaw
family, Wapsie by Green's Baehaw,
who has to his credit eleven Eorses
with records In 2:30 aud better, and
one with a record better than 2:20
He Is to be kept here during the sea
son and traiIed with q view of enter
Ing the fall racss here.
On arriving at the diving park we
were shown other speedy horses, some
ten or twelve in all. Charlie Wilson
is of oourse there, and Little Sioux,
the two names being pretty closely
linked In the public's favoritism. Lit.
tie Sioux is too well known to need
comment. His record, as many
is 2:224 He did not make as
brilliant a showing last season as many
expected, but this Is said to have
been due, In part at least to the facs
that he was let up all the preceding
winter, instead of being kept Jogging,
30 as to readily work into condition
He is being carefully handled this
winter, 80 that he will doubtless make
eome good showipgs on the track this
Wilson has a number Of
other horses In his care, young, well
bred and promising. Among. them is
Colonel Blythe, the Little Sioux, o
five year old, and Wilson, whose
judgment Is pretty good, says he iS a
dead sure trotter. He has Little
the PAGER, who has got arecord
2:28t at Omaha; Alice McGregor,
by Robert MeGregor, a three year old,
and q very promising mare; a two
year old, by Wyman's Logan, dam
Ethan Allen, owned by Mr..
of the Rock Island road. This
colt Is said to iully merit the name
Inspiration" being far above tho or.
and promising to be very
He Is going to enter In a
'tate race In Chicago next year. vii.
ION also has Stella Kane, owned by
Phil. Cane, of Columbus, Neb a FIVE
gear old, we'll bred, and though a
,reen mare, will heat $40 this seeson.
He has also Millard's colt, of Omaha,
. five year old, by Horizons A7dullah,
lam by Lady Har,bletonian. She is
improving every day.
DR.. Wade Gary, the we'll known vet.
,rinarlan, OF st. Joseph, has moved
his stable here, to take advantage OF
The track. He has Brown Dick with o
record Of 2:29t, and who on trial has
got down snug to 2:20. The doctor
has also two fine colts by Col. West, u
black mare, Ionic, five years, dam by
Miller's Joe Downing, and Ennio II,
out of the dam of Mabel II. Both
promise to be speedy.
W. were shown still another feet
and promising one, owned by DR..
Both of the stations
owned by him are very fine, but this
promises to be the favorite. "Nor.
mont" rs he Is called, is a beauty.
is a dark chestnut, has a large
'tar, is 10 hands high, and we'll formed
'very way. When three years of age
asst fall he won tirs6 premium at the
state fair as being beat in his
class Of roadster stations, also frat
premium at the Council Bluff, fair. |
was sired by Gen. Wither's Almont, !
sire of sons Of the tastest and
priced trotting horses In the
country, among them being Piedmont,
a record of 2:l7t, recently pur.
chased by OK Gov. Stanford, OF Cali
at the price $50, 600, a'so Early
Rose and Aldine, for which team Van.
paid $50, coo and which were
driven together in the unequaled
double team time of 2:l6b. This colt
has had little or no haudnng and yet
shown a 2:40 gait, and 10 regarded
As being q phenomenal colt, whose
will make q sensation.
Mi. Hancock, the secretary OF the
Cedar Rapids association, aud whole
has much weighS among horse
mon, In one of his recent cont1ibu-
tons to the Spirit of the Times, lays
that he has the beat three. year. old
colt In the northwest without excep
ton, and adds, San day has that colts
performance been In my mind. l can
not Danish 1t, and l keep saying to
myself, is he a ghost 2"
With such showiugs of horseflesh
the driving PARK Is by no means ON
uninteresting place to visit ever In the
dead Of winter. The horses are being
logged every day from five to eight
miles, 80 as to keep them In good con.