St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-20

consisting of woodford Wilkes and Baymont
youngsters. This stock will be brought up
here from Sheldon. Ia, whore Mr. Sherwood
now has them on his farm, and placed on the
farm of Sherwood & Mcknight. about three
miles southeast OF ST. Paul. On this farm
theS have had half-mile track constructed,
and all has been done TO make the most or the
efforts to train the youngsters. Mr. Sher-
wood is taking the right course.
He proposes putting his stock into
good condition aud then making them trot IL
possible. This is the very thing every breeder
in the state of Minnesota must necessarily
do. II breeders are going to have fast ami
mails they must first get the best stock and
then put the animals in proper condition for
the race. No amount of excuses will do at
the post. The animals should be gt into good
condition and then made to trot. This Is the
test of speed, and unless the breeders do this
they will not move forward as rapidly as they
ought to in the general contest for speed. AT
the races at the state fair some complaint
was reported to have been made by one OF the
breeders because Mr.. Woodmansee shut out
his colts in the race with Commodore Kilt
sons Also. 1t is difficult to understand that
there was any ground for this complaint. 1t
WAS d public contest. The colts were in the
race for the purpose of seeing which was the
fastest. If this gentlemans colt was not i'll
proper condition ii was his misfortune. That
is lust the point He should have been put
in condition. If he was out of condition the
owner must abide the consequences. Every
breeder knows when the races are to take
place and each Que has Il full year in which
to prepare for them. 1t is his duty to pre-
pare in time.
The statement is gong around the papers
that Aid. Long presented Mccarthy with $50
for driving Bell + at Hartfort when she made
her record OF 2:l54. Like good many
other similar stories, it is simply imaginative.
Aid. Long did not do any such thing. The
on IN Nf bnrSanan h9 that the
driver handled the mare with very poor judg-
ment, and that instead OF praise and presents
he deserves cenSure, 1t is argued that If, in
stead of driving the mare the two first heats
as fast as he could aud making record for
her of 2:l54 in the second heat, he had held
her in and saved her, she might have won
first money in that race. The result shows
that McCarthy,in endeevoring to win the race
in three straight heats, make mistake,
very bad One too, and one that competent
driver would not have made. The mare was
evidently used up at the end of the second
heat. If after the first heat of 2:l5}4 McCar-
thy had rested the mare, he would have
rendered 1t very probable indeed that he
could have won two more heats. In his lack
of judgment, Mccarthy unquestionaoly over
reached himself and possibly lost the race.
o. B. Hills, clerk of the United States cir
cult court, has sold his two-year-old colt by
Theseus, dam Roseville by son of Romulus,
second dam by Tramp, to w. l.. McGrath, of
the Lake Como stock farm The colt was
bred By Mr.. McGrath, and was sold at the
combination sale in 1885, the colt then being
yearling. At that time Mr.. Hills paid $50
for him. He sold him back for $780,
The Wisconsin state fair commences to-
morrow at Cold Spring park, Milwaukee,. and
will continue till Friday night. A good speed
programme has been prepared, which will be
sent with entry blanks to those who apply to
Clinton Babbitt. PlaukInton house, Milwau-
kee. This will be about the last chance for
Minnesota horses this year.
Mr.. Charles RadciG, of st. Paul, is very
much elated with what the bay ally Ara, by
Masterlode, has done. At the meeting at
Kalamazoo, Mich, Sept. {, in the stakes for
three-year-ods, mile heats, best two in
three, she won in straight heats, the first
being 2:2s14. the second 2:3l1a. This places
her within the charmed circle.
Robert Schultz, of St. Paul, has recently
purchased of NJ. L. McHenry the bay mare
Mabel A, by Attorney, sou of Harold, dam by
Tramp. She is five years old, and has reduced
her record during the past year from 2:37 to
2:23H