St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-01
Miscellaneous.

Mr.. James W. Cromwell. Cynthiana, KY,
has sold to Mr.. A. q. Fox, Woodside stock
farm, Oregon, Wis, tine bay horse Mambrino
Almont, 5 years old, by Harrison Chief, dam
by Almont, grandam by Alexander's Norman,
etc. He is sixteen hands high, extra stylish
young horse, has speed and showed 2:4O
gait after seventy days handling, also the
bay colt Wilkes Mambrino. 4 years old, by
Harrison Chief. dam Ariadne by George
Wilkes, grandam by Drummond, great
grandam by Mambrino Chief. He is sixteen
and one-half hands high, and pronounced by
good judges as one of the finest young her ses
in the couutrY.-KentuckY Live Stock Rec
ord.
Frank Van Ness has purchased from Mr..
France Harry Wilkes and Albert France. The
price paid was a little over $4,000. OF this
sum, Frank put up $4,000, and his uncle, the
ex-president OF Fleetwood Park, advanced
the balance. Last summer the asking price
for Harry Wilkes was $4,000. The horse is
probably as good as ever he was, but there is
quite difference between an asking and q
selling price.-Turf, Field and Farm.
The mare Precept, by Pancoast, dam Art
less by Hambletonian, foaled bay colt with
star, by Nutwood. This mare is entered in
the Spirit Futurity stake. Pancoast, the sire
OF Precept, is also the sire of Patron. who
trotted as three-year-old in 2:l9%. Our
people who have entered in these stakes can
obtain some idea of what kind of stock they
will have to trot their three-year-olds.
Frank Van Ness trotters have arrived at
Lexington, and viii be trained here until
about May !, when they will go to Philadel-
phia. His string comprises Harry Wilkes,
record 2:15; Albert France. 2:20k; Shocks.
2:30: bay gelding, years old by George
Wilkes, dam Woburn Maid; brown gelding 3
| years old by Lumps, dam by Surplus, and
| gray mare years old by Young Jim.
The secretary of the Illinois Association of
Trotting Horse Breeders has called meeting
! of the executive committee for March Q at
the new Peoria house, Peoria, H., for the
purpose OF preparing list of stakes, and re-
| ceiving proposals from associations that de
sire 10 have the stakes trotted over their
| tracks.
The death is reported at Lexington, KY,
| Feb. %, of the thoroughbred stallion Gilroy.
the property of Mr.. Joel Higgins, who pur-
chased him at the sale of j. A. Grinstead'
stock in 1884. for $50. Gilroy was good race
horse, bay in color, foaled in ls62, by Lex
ington, dam Magnolia, by imported Glencoe.
NJ. Salisbury has arrived at Lexington, KY,
! from Oakland, Cal, with the black stallion
Director, 2:17, and the brood mares Sweet
ness, 2:2l14, by Volunteer; Echora, 9:231S
| by Echo and daughters of Nutwood, Messen-
ger Duroc. Gibraltar, Silver Cloud and Harry
Clay.
Mr.. John Bole, Pittsburg. writes: AS
Dame Trot was the winner of The Spirit OF
| the Times stakes, in her three-year-old form
nominate her in The Spirits futnrity
stakes, trusting her produce will eclipse heI
performance of years ago."
W. A. Wilson of Abdallah Park lost by
death Feb. ID a yearling stallion, sired by
Triumvir (sou of Gen. Washington and Lucy
record 2:ISl4) first dam by BRIGHTNESS (son Of
John Bright and Trotting Sister,; second dan
/ by Pacing Abdallah.
The celebrated stallion Santa Claus, 2:I71<
is offered for sale