St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-04
The Coming Sale of Valuable Stock, the
Produce of Midway, the Produce
of Minnesota.
Horses That Will Vindioate Minnesota's
Fame as Horse Breed
ing State.
Description of the Sires Represented,
Their Blood Lines and Some of
Their Produce.
The Lexington Meeting--MaxeyC Cobb
in Training--C ase's string Other
Horse Notes.
The Great June Sale.

On the 10th day of June next Commodore
Kittson, G. A. DeGraff, George w. Sher-
wood, w. l.. McGrath and Isaac w.
Staples will offer for sale, at Midway, a
choice lot of colts and FLIES, the produce of
some of the best trotting sires and dams
ever bred in the United States. 1t has been
heretofore explained in these columns that
the main idea of the gentlemen named
above is to improve the breed OF horses in
this state. They are gentlemen OF sufficient
means and are so occupied i'll business that
the purpose OF making money out OF the
undertaking is a secondary matter with
them. The main substantial idea that is
guiding these gentlemen in their breeding
operations is to increase the value of the
horse stock of Minnesota. They have
brought into this state breeding stock that
will be worth millions of dollars to the
commonwealth and will add yearly thou
sands of dollars to the taxable personal
property of the state. The difference be-
tween the produce of this stock and that
now in common use is like the difference
between gold and pewter. The sale in June
will be the second one. In the presentation
of their catalogue the breeders make the
following statements:
IN PRESENTING THIS
catalogue of trotting stock we take pleasure
in inviting the attention of breeders, and
lovers of ehoice-bred and fine horse flesh gen.
orally, to the great excellence OF the blood
and speed lines represented, promising them
that an examination of the animals them
selves when exhibited on the day of sale, will,
in their size, form, action and general charac-
teristics, be found every way worthy the rich
blood which flows in their veins, while their
strong, well-shaped and sound limbs and feet.
substantial and well-fOrmed bodies quarters
and shoulders, fine necks and intelligent
heads strong, free and courageous action,
healthy and robust constitutions, and snowy
and attractive appearance will furnish most
convincing proof of the truth of the axiom
that ''blood will tell, aud also that Minne7,
sofa is admirably adapted to its reproduction
in its highest and purest type.
An examination of the catalogue will show
that most of the stock to be sold are yearlings,
and of course undeyeloped, and, while it is
probable there may not be a Maud or a Jay
Eye See in the lot, there is not shadow of
doubt that many of them will prove fast if
given chance, while it is almost absolutely
certain some will grow into valuable sires and
matrons, and all into safe, pleasant and
speedy roadsters. The lot offer almost every
combination of trotting blood strains that can
be desired, including all the best established
through performance, and consequently the
most popular and most sought after BY
sters the purchaser will be able to secure such
blood combination rs he most fancies, while
escaping the cost of and many risks of a
breeding establishment, and still retain to
himself the privilege and satisfaction of
training and developing the growing animal
according to his own ideas. But while the
great majority of the animals to be sold are
young and undevelOped, there will be offered
a few head OF developed and perfectly broken
roadsters that in size, style and action, will
furnish very correct pointers of what the
younger ones will grow into, and also few
brood mares, some in foal, in securing which
the purchaser will stand good chance of
drawing prize.
THE SIRES AND THEIR BLOOD LINES
Six well-known and highly-bred stations
will be represented in the stock offered to
the public at this sale as follows:
BLACKwoOD, JR., $50,
is black horse with tan TANKS and muzzle,
glimmer Of white in forehead and small white
bands around the coronets, 1614 hands high,
foaled in 1871 owned by Commodore N. w.
Kittson, st. Paul, sire, Blackwood IA, record
2:31 as three-year-Old and sire of Proteine,
record rs, and four Others with records of
2:3O and better, and son Of Alexander's Nor
man 25 sire Of Lulu, record 2:15 and May
Queen 2:20, by Hambletonian 10, with thirty
eight 2:3O and better performers. The
dam of Blackwood was by Mann
brine Chief IL, the sire of Lady
Thorne, record 2:1Sh, Woodford Mann
brine, record 2:211a (the sire of ten 2:30 and
better perfOrmers) and five others with rec
ords of 2:30 and better, son of Mambrino Pay
master, by MambrinO, by imp. Messenger.
The dam Of Blackwood, Jr., was by Bloods
Black Hawk, second dam by Moorelands
Highlander, and third by Old Virginia Whip.
Blackwood, Jr., is standard through his own
performance on the track and in the stud,
and also by his breeding, having a record Of
1924 made in his five-year-old form, in which
year his wonderful courage as displayed by
him in several stubbornly-fought contests,
won for him the significant sobriquet of
1.-THE Iron Horse of Tennessee" while he is
the sire of two 80 and better performers.
He is a horse Of great substance and extra
finish, the latter quality, together with his
grand style and elegant action, making him
almost invincible in the show ring, as his
many first premiums testify. Unfortunately
for his fame as a begetter Of speed, his lot
for many years was cast in Tennessee, where
choice-bred trotting matronS were the excep-
ton rather than the rule. Notwithstanding,
his powers are so vigorous and his prepotency
so marked that he has been wonderfully sue
cessful in transmitting his fine form, courage,
action and speed to his get thus insuring very
high type of stock horse, splendid roadsters,a as
also the general average of possessors of
high rate Of speed.
ALEXANDER, 49l,
is bright bay horse, 16 hands high foaled
1868, owned by G. A. DeGraff, Lake
Elysian Stock farm, by Goldsnith's Alb
dallah 1854, the sire of four 2:30 and better
performers, and son of Volunteer 30, who
begot st. Julien, record 2:11 a, GlOster 2:17,,'
Alley 2:19, and twelve others with records
better than 2:25 and of twenty Of 2:30 or
better, he by Hambletonian 10, the sire of
4I,,> II D.1r Io44
2:1S, Orange Girl 2:20, Gazelle 2:21, Jay
Gould 2:2115, George Wilkes 2:22, Belle
2:22, and twenty-Une others with records of
2:3O and better Goldsnth's Abdallah was
by Volunteer, son of Hambletonian 10, by
Abdallah, son Of Mambrino by imp. Mes
senger The dam of Alexander was Bay
Fanny: dam Resolute 2:27A, by Richards
Bellfounder 63, whose breeding runs back
to Hungerford's Butcher, by Butcher,
Duroc and imp. Diomed. It needs no ex-
pert in ''lorse lore" to analyze the blood
lines of Alexander They stand out so
prominent, are so connected and run in such
direct channels to the fountain head of the
trotting horse family that the veriest tyro
can trace and define them, running as they
do direct through sres and dams to Ham
bletonian. Abdallah and MambrinO, to imp.
Messenger and imp. Diomed, in ten direct
strains to the first-named and in three to the
latter Put this blood into horse of grand
bodily proportions, splendid bone and
muscle, fine style, great intelligence and
perfect trotting action, and the result is
Alexander That he has the speed of his
breeding is shown by the fact that with lit
tie handling, and in stud condition only, he
made his record of 1881, while the uni
form excellence of his get, their fine size
and style, splendid bone and elegant trot-
ting action, prove him to possess that
quality. par excellence of the Handle
tonian family, the power to transmit their
own excellence to their progeny. That AL
exander has the power to transmit speed,