St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-10
AMONG THE HORSES.
Minnesota Breeders Preparing for the Sale
Of Trotting Stock on the Second
Day of June,
IN Which Occasion Will Be Offered the
Best Stock Ever Bred in the State
of Minnesota.
FoaIs by 1heseus Beginning to SHOW
Up--NIr. Conrad Gotham Pur-
ch asses One.
Mike Wilkes Showing. Up in Great
Is Form--Death of Maxey Cobb
Mankato Purses.
sale of Trotting Stock.

Sale of TrOtting Stock.
On Wednesday, June ?, at 10 a. H., on
the state fair grounds, will be held the
third annual public sale of trotting bred
horses bred by Minnesota breeders. Be
tween forty and fifty animals are being cat
alogned for he sale by Capt. j. ID. wood.
These horses are put into the sale by Com
modore Khtson, Isaac Staples, u. w.
Sherwood ii. G. Fmkle, W. l.. McGrath
aud a. upenter. Mr.. Staples Is the
largest COZ, yibutor. He sends twenty-three
head Or of the animals he offers Is
Shave 10 :, son of Swigert $50, dam by
Kitty BY Bellfounder 6S. foaled 1873. An
other is Hambletonian chief. handsome ana
stylish, sixteen hands by Thorns Hahlpie-
t0nian, son of Mambrino 10, dam Altty py
Messenger chief. son of Mambrino Chiet IL.
Eesides these two he offers 2:5o gelulig'
q mare with record OF 2:42, and some me
brood mares, several roadsterS, thorough
bred stallion and number OF well pred anu
promising, Youngsters.
The second largest contributor is Commo-
dore Kittson, the proprietor of the Midway
breeding farm, ST. Paul. lie will offer
seven head, four of the number being the
get Of his celebrated trotting sire Black
wood, Jr, 2:2215 made i'll his tlve-year-old
form, son OF Blackwood "A, record 2:o1 as a
three year-old, by Alex Norman %, the
Jams of the Youngsters being such fine bred
trotting mares as Sister by Swigert. Lady
Logan by W ineman's Logan, and Empress
by Selkirk %, record 2:2913. Another Is
by SpottswO1d, son of Blackwood. Jr., out
of Lady Messler, by Grey Pilot, son OF
Roscoe by Pilot Jr.. unusually strong
breeding in proven speed lines. Inc next
j is a fine trotting geldng, De Soto, just i'll
8 l.; nv 1u1iOjS tr1fOr Ri OF
, Hambletonian 10, and sire of Catcbfiy,
2:1S5l. and two others in the list dam by
I Jackson's Flying Cloud. De Soto is fine,
+ stylish and fast, and his record 1882, is one
: thar can easily be improved upon.
Mr. George w. Sherwood, the proprietor
of the Sherwood stock farm, who has at the
head of his trotting steed Woodford Wilkes.
Baymont ana Memory contributes six
head. three colts of his own breeding. two
: by Baymont and one by Memory, year
ling colt by George Wilkes, jr., three
year-old stallion by Lee Sprague, son of
: Governor Sprague, and tve-year-oid
gelding. The yearlings constitute tine
Lot and will be certain to attract very
great attention as well as competition, par
b ticularly the Wilkes colt, the first of this
b family ever offered at public sale in Min
: nesota. The sire of this colt Woodford
= Wilkes, is brother to Mike Wilkes, the
PAGER. His speed lines are unusually strong
and fashionable, and both are well Dolstered
up and strengthened in the colt by the
uam. Another noticeable thing in this
sale is the offer to sell the three ear-old
Sprague stallion by Lee Sprague, son of
Governor Sprague, 2:2015. dam by son of
.Bashaw Drury. This colt is grand look
ing one and is Enthusiastically of good trot-
ting blood. Those who seek to obtain a
good. driving horse, with probability of
developing high rate of seed will certainly
be much pleased by the fve-year-cid geld
ing John l., who possesses many excellent
points.
Mr.. H..G. Finkle of Moorhead puts three
into the sale. While the number is not
large, the quality is high and viii attract
retention. These three animals are of su-
"ior breeding. One OF the three to be
- :. a half sister to the great Lord Mel
70 trotted last year as a three-year-
265l at Chicago, in public race.
ial is Pioneer Bell, years old,
4 $4,000 III and standard, by Pioneer, son of
:. Volunteer SO, and our of Miss Mcleod, the
dam ofeLord Nelson. Pioneer Bell is very
handsome and welcomed FLY, and Mr..
: Finkle says that she has shown him more
speed at the same age than did Lord Mel
son. Another Offering by Mr.. Finkle is
two-year-old colt Pioneer Clay, an inbred
Hambletonian, with an American Clay out
cross, While his third is the brood mare
Twinkle, by the great Almont dam Spe-
rama, one of the noted dams of the coun-
try. by Mambrino Chief.
Nj. A. Carpenter resides at GAINESVILLE,
Mimi. near the celebrated Lake Elysian
stock farm of Z. A. DeGraff, and where
for years the celebrated trotting sire Alex
ander. 2:2S54, has done duty. Alexander
has been withdrawn from public use. but MI
Carpenter will offer two of his get, brother
and sister, 4 and years old respectively.
The am was a fine Morgan mare. noted
for her fine trotting action, great endurance
and good disposition. Mr.. Carpenter states
that they are well mated, drive nicely to-
gether, are good movers kind and gentle
and viii most certainly make elegant road
sters.
w. l.. McGrath puts in three head, a
brood mare and two of her foals, a sucking
and |; yearling. both fillies. The mare is
Jenny Baker. good mover and kind
driyer.and remarkably fine producer, all
her foals being of good size, with good dis
positions and promising movers But she
Is not standard bred. For this reason he
has decided to dispose of her and her pro-
duce. While not standard bred, the mare
Is By son of Mambrino Patchen, most
prepotent trotting sire, and all her instincts
are the trot. The sire of her foals is his
stallion Theseus. standard. very strongly
|, bred in the producing trotting lines.
:, The sale will be absolute and each animal
ohered Will be SOLD On his oi her merits
the breeding in each case being correctly
! gwen, and should there be any physical de-
! fects attention will be called to them bv
= the asictioneer. The offerings, while not
SO many as either of the previous sales I'M
DIR the same auspices, are many of them
very superior animals, and their general
excellence and promise is much above the
usual average of such sales. Catalogues
can be obtained by writing to Capt. j. d.
Wood 81 w. D. Woodmansee, st. Paul.