Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-19

Mills, Washington county, this state. This
sketch is an interesting one and in the
main correct, but in the matter of size IN.
L. g." has made the same error as he did
as to Charley Green, Piper being only
medium sized. Probably "M, I. G." got
the owner, Mr.. Yeazie, and the driver con-
founded when penning his sketch. Here
it is:
well known Western driver is George Piper,
who gave the handsome stallion Captain Herod
his record of 1854. at Prophetstown, ILL.,, and
| afterwards duplicated it at Rochester, MINI.
At the latter place Piper drove the stallion, Por-
ton, to the front in two races, giving him rec
ord OF 235, which was doing very we'll indeed,
with this vicious, rattle-headed son of the thor
oughbred, Planet. In the first heat of the 2:37
class, Portion stopped on the first turn to kick,
and, although the word had been given, some
ofhcious person in the stand tapped the bell
once, but so lightly that few heard it. Portion
stopped again at the quarter pole and tried to
snap his kick strap and wreck the sulky, but
| finally came homo a long way out. Piper
| looked up to the far end of the grand stand,
where his friend Kathan stood, and, with a smile
peculiarly constrained" said, "John, amt he
a daisy?" Kathan said, $50 on, you are all
right; the recall was sounded" So few had
.
of starting again met with hot opposition, but
was allowed by the judges, when he went on and
added another instance to the list where dis
| tanced trotter gets first money.
| Piper is large man, careless and good ma
! tured; a natural reinsman, was evidenced by
| the manner in which he brought out his first
| trotter. He was rubbing horses for his uncle,
c. w. LOOMS, who had, among others, FO1ie V.
The mare had been in the hands of Ben Wood
mansee without having shown very much speed.
| She had improved with LOOMS, but not enough
| so he was willing to cOmpaign her, as AIR.
! Veazie, her owner, desired. The latter wanted
to go through the Illinois circuit the summer of
| 1877, but Loomis said she did not have speed
enough for such venture and peremptorily re-
| fused to go. Mr. Veazie was determined she
should go and began to look about for = driver.
As drivers are graduated from the ranks of rub
| bers, it occurred to him that Piper seemed
handy in a sulky and night answer the purpose,
| and he asked him whether promotion would suit,
and if he could drive Foxie, the answer being
an emphatic affirmative to both questions The
| trip was decided upon and judicious friends
| gr1eved. Of course it was to be expected that
| Piper should be sangulne-mOst rubbers believe
| themselves destined to become famous Sir
| Knights of the Ribbons, and believe the especial
| trotter they pin their affections to only needs
| their magic touch to become king or queen, but
| that an elderly business man, without expert
ence in this line, should be SO rash as to start
| out with green trotter and green rubber, con-
| trary to the advice of his old, experienced
driver, seemed good evidence of declining facul-
ties. People slyly snickered and thought of
| them as green trio, but as there was long
| purse to back the enterprise no one interfered.
Freeport was the first point struck, and there the
extremely green daughter of old King Herod,
with the green rubber behind herin his first race
made such an exhibition of themselves as
l i,
with envy. Foxie distanced four starters and
beat the other one, getting record of 2:32-an
exceedingly fresh proceeding this, and entirely
| worthy of the unsophisticated crowd of greenies
| who would campaign without speed e1Ueri-
| ence; but they seemed to get along very well in
| spite of their deficiencies and won second race
at Freeport, again letting the flag dispose of a
| portion of the field.
A fair beg ginning: two wins for $500; purses
and the box played with all the ardor of begin
ners. at Prophetstown the programme was re-
peated, and two more wins were placed to the
credit of guileless country innocence. At Men
| dota she won the three-minte race in easy heats
| and split heats with Brightwood, the ringer,
| in the 2:4S class At Earlville she distanced
| the party in the three-minute class, won two
| heats, and trotted dead heat with the pirate
Brightwood, alias Glover She then returned
home and started in the open-t I-au at Mime
] apolis, winning in straight heats just to show
| the friends at home how green trotters and rub
| bers act when out on lark with a green owner
| for manager. Piper gave Foxie a record of
Just 2:30 this season, although there is the aroma
of suspicion iu the air that it would have been
| no lie if called less. In 1878 Piper and Fo1ie
began the season at Dubuque by getting beat.
although winning fifth heat in ESQ. Their
neyt race, at Cedar Rapids, was of eight
| heats, two of which went to the credit of the
innocent pair. The sixth heat was dead be-
| tween Phil Sheridan, Amboy and Foxie. 1t
was now claimed that the big rubber and the
little mare were trying to keep in the 1929 Glass;
| and might have won with ease. This theory had
some support in the fact that in her next race at
| Freeport Foxie trotted two heats In 2:26, al
i though losing the race to Amboy, whom she
| had beaten at the Rapids. At Mendoza she
| turned the tables on him and won in straight
heats, trotting as good race as was trotted at
the metisg. At Earlville she won, again beat
! ing Amboy, along with Dakota Maid and
Lady McFatridge, At Milwaukee the big
rubber and the little mare took beating,
although as good horse as Darby with Dan
| Mace driving was behind them, while Bone
setter and Woodford Mambrino had to
lower their colors also. At Prophetstown
| Dakota Maid succeeded at last in downing Foxie,
while the latter had to succumb to Lulu at Min
neapolis. Foxie wound up the year by beating
Badger Girl, Germaine's Dreadnaught and Char
lie Champ at Menominee, Wis.
| Thus ended the partnership between Piper and
Foxie, as the mare was then sold to David John
| son, who had considerable success with her at
first, but she soon went wrong, and was put to
| breeding. Last season, when fifteen years DID,
| she came out and lowered her record The
| Breeders Trotting Stud Book has her foaled
about 1870. King Herod, her sire, died in the
fall of 1867 Foxie was foaled within less than
| two miles of where 1 then lived, and it was
| either 1867 or 1868, and am quite the for
mer year. VIM. Dalton, who bred her, worked
her right along, and 1 never saw her hitched to
a light rig. No one supposed she had speed; if
they did, it was not mentioned. The fact that
Mr.. Veazie should lpick her out for trotter
speaks wonders for his luck or his judgment.
M. T. G.
Miscellaneous Notes.