St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-14
AMONG THE HORSES.
The Minnesota Circuit to Commence Ibis
Trotting at Mankato, Still
water and Hamline
Some Suggestions as to What Horsemen
Sbould Do to Raise the Best and
Fastest Trotters.
Mr., Kittson Loses Valuable Fi11y--
Ben Woodmansee at Anoka--Mar-
rats Horses at Freeport'
An Eastern Opinion of Our Track
Our Races and Commodore
Kittson'S Stables.
The minnesota Circuit.

The racing event of the most interest to
Minnesota people is that OF the trottlng anu
pacing circuit that opens on Tuesday next
at Mankato. The racing at that city Will
continue three days., the 18th, 10th ana
18th of June. For these races the entries
closed on Saturday evening last otlil-
water follows on the 22d, Esd and 24th'
and the entries close at II p. IN. Tuesday,
lime *. The events at Saltwater will be:
First day, 500 trot, $500; 2:25 trot. s6oo,
and a special race. Second day, 2:2S trot,
$500; 20 pacing, $500; 2:2O trot, Soou- Ihlr n
day, 2:45 class pacing, $500; 2:42 trot' s4oo'
free-for-all pacing, $780,
The St. Paul and Minneapolis meeting
at the state fair ground Will take place
July l. ., 8 and 5, when $4,000 Will be
hing nm. to be contested for as follows,
First oay, 800 trot, $500; 2:3O trot, S6oO;
free-for-ail pace. 1900. Second day, 225
trot, $500; 2:45 pace, $500; 2:2O trot, S!,oOO.
Third day. PAP trot, $500; 2:2S pace, SS0O:
230 trot, $500. Fourth day, 2:27 trot SSoo;
2:25 pace, $500; free-for-all trot. 81 800.
All these purses will be divided, SO per
cent. to first, 25 per cent. to second, Is per
cent. to third and 10 per cent. to fourth.
Trotting and pacing mile heats, three IN
five to harness, the rules of the National
Trotting association. four to enter and three
to start, any horse distancing the field or
any part thereof will be entitled to first
money only. If owing to bad weather or
other unavoidable cause, the club is unable
to start one or more Of its races at or before
8 O'Clock D. m. of the last day OF its meet
ing, such races may or may not. at the OPP
Htion of the judges, be declared of. II de-
,clared off the entrance money VIII De
refunded The horses will be called each
day at 1880 p. m. and started at p. IN.
promptly. The records made at Freeport,
tIll., are no bar to this circuit. There are
indications that the entrances will be large,
and that some noted horses will be In at
tendance. All interested should bear in
mind that the entries for Saltwater and
: st. Paul and Minneapolis races close at IL
( p. M. Tomorrow. June 10. This Mime
: sofa circuit is new creation for the bene-
, tit of Northwestern hOrSemen, and it re-
QuireS solid encouragement if it is to be a
! fixed annual event. If this is not kept up
Minnesota horsemen will be losers, not be-
cause they will part with their money, but
: because they will be deprived OF the OppOr-
:. tunity of competing with each other for
& superiority, which is a great factor in
\ breeding, The animals must demonstrate
Z on the track what they can do, and show
which can get under. the wire first. That,
AT least, is the only conclusive test. The
y,aorsemen Of this state, some of them at
any rate, assert that the climate Of Mime
sofa, and the grasses and water are such as
will enable breeders OF the trOtting horse to
produce horses that are as fast and as
strong as those of any state in the union.
not excepting Kentucky and California. 1t
is to demonstrate the Truth OF these aSSer-
tons that the breeders of Minnesota are
now engaged in breeding the trotIer. TO
succeed the horses must be
BROUGHT TO THE POST
and started, and that is just what this cir
cult was formed for, to give breeders an
opportunity to test the speed of their stock.
All breeders know what Mr.. Finlle of
Moorhead has done for the state of Mime
Sofa. He has always declared that we can
breed as fast horses here as can be bred
anywhere, and he proved his honesty and
confidence in that opinion by trying the
experiment. The result actually startled
people, and caused them to open their eyes
in wonder. When Lord Nelson passed
under the wire at Chicago, in his three
year-old form, in 2:2614, it is was revela-
ton. 1t was clear to all who saw the heat
that the time in which it was trotted was
not the measure of the speed of the great
three-year-old, and all began to reconsider
their opinion about the Minnesota climate
The breeders of this state should also take
home to their minds another fact in this
connection. MI. j. /. Case is very able
and shrewd business man. He has owned,
and now owns, some of the fastest and best
bred horses in America. During the last
month or two he has seen fit to come to
Minnesota and buy six or eight head of
horses of Mr.. Finkle. All these facts have
bearing upon the horse breeding problem
In this state that every breeder should ap-
preciate and measure exactly. They sug-
gest first, that those who go into the bust
ness of breeding should not touch any
stock that iSnot the best in regard to
breeding: second, the young stock should
be judiciously taught to trot from its earli-
est days to the day of the trial, OVERRIDING
nothing either in feeding or exercise; and
Il third, that it should be brought to the post
and driven to win. If this is done there
are those who believe. and can give good
: reasons for their belief, that Minnesota can
: not be surpassed by any state in the union
as state in which to breed the trotter.
They believe that our atmosphere, as cold
as it is in winter, will put sounder lungs
and vital organs generally into horses than
will the climate of Kentucky or California,
and just as much speed Such an oppor-
tunlty as is now offered for the trotter and
PAGER at Mankato, Saltwater and Minneap-
oils and st. Paul ought to draw out very
large number of entries.
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