St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-13
The Stallion Kings.
IhicarO Breeders' Gazette.

Chicago Breeders Gazette.
The race between Phallas and Maxey
Cobb, which took place at Cleveland on
Saturday Of last week, demonstrated be-
yond question the fact that the first-named
horse is clearly the superior of any entire
tTOtter now on the tuTf-that he OutclaSSes
the others to such an extent that from a
strictly trotting standpoint there is really
no ground for comparison. The contest
was one between representative branches
of the same family, both Dictator and
Happy Medium, the SireS of the cOntending
horses being sons of RySdyk'S Hamble-
tOnian, and the result only confirmed and
emphasized the opinion heretofore held by
a majority of breeders and hOrsemen, that
the DictatOrs have the first claim
to recognition among the Ham
bletonians, next to them coming
the descendants of George Wilkes.
The advent in one season of three such
notable trotters as Jay Eye See, Phallas
and Director, all of which proved them
selves to be among the gamest as well as the
fastest ones in the land. could not fail of
calling general attention to their sire, Die
tator, and their subsequent performances
have only added to the fame of the family
of which they are the most distinguished
members. When Phallas lowered the STALL
ion record of 2:15A, made in 1876 by
Smuggler, and placed 2:13sl to his credit
there was none to dispute his claim to the
first place among stations so far as the
question of speed was concerned. and his
subsequent exhibitions in company with
jay Eye See showed that his performance
at Chicago was not an accident. When
Maxey Cobb, toward the close of the trOt-
ting season, turned the Providence track in
2:13i4 there was at once a desire on the
part of horsemen to see him meet Phallas
in a race, the match at Cleveland last week
being the result of this feeling.
That Phallas was an easy winner oru
readers are by this time aware, and it is
only necessary to say that the event was in
no sense of the words hOrse-raee. as from
the beginning of the first heat to the finish
of the last Maxey Cobb could at no time
get on even terms with Phallas, the latter
being able TO do as he pleased with his adj
yersary, and the easy manner in which he
trOtted the first mile in 2:14 was evidence
enough that he is faster this year than ever
before in his life. He could outscOre Maxey
Cobb, and the latter, seeing that he was
beaten, would not try TO win, stopping
under the whip in manner that forced
even his partisans TO admit that he dis
played woeful lack of the courage that
any winning trOtter must have. One
breeder, who had travelled all the way from
Minnesota TO see the race, said: THAT sat
isles me as to the Happy Mediums. Ihave
seen the best one of the family, properly
trained and well driven, quit in a race, and
don't like that style"
But with all his triumphs in mind it
should be remembered that there is one
stallion Phallas has never been able to de
feat, although they have come together four
times, and on every occasion Director has
been the winner of the race in which they
were engaged. He is a haEf-brOther to
Phallas, being also by Dictator, and in the
maternal line is even better bred than the
cOnqueror of Maxey Cobb, his dam being
the famous Dolly, by Mambrino Chief. that
has produced Thorndale, 2:23H; Onward,
2:251z; John +. Payne, etc. That the