The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1886-09-14
PEDIGREE:

SPECULATION, JR. bred by E. c. Gilispie
of San Francisco Ca and was foaled in 1873 He was
sired by Colonel Spreckels celebrated trotng stallion
Speculation; he by Rysdks Hambletonian the great
est progenitor of roters that ever lived Speculation
Jrs dam was sired by Eastons David HILL the sire OF
Geo. Treat, record 2:25 Also Black Swan, 2:2s, and
number of other fast ones. Speculation became very
noted several years since as string the two cele-
bratedtrotters Oakland Maid, record 1922 and Crown
Point s:24 two as game troters often seen on
race track.
1t is fact worthy of note that the breeding Of Spec
uation Jr is almost identical with that of the great
champion trottng stallion Maxey Cobb, whose record
of 213 made only last year. stands at the head of the
list of all stallious Maxey Cobb was by Happy Med
ium, he by Old Hambletonian, and his dam was by
Prince Nebo, son of old Long Island Black Hawk.
Speculation Jr, by Speculation, he by Old HANDLE
tonian. and his dam by Eastons David Hill, who was
also son of old Black Hawk, making them bred exact
" in the same blood lines This is fact that should
not sight of by breeders and to say that he Will
sire fast horses when coupled with good mares would
be superAuous as if he should fail 10 do it would be
strictly against the law of Nature that like produces
like, or the likeness, of some ancestor.
SPECULATION, JR., in addition to his fine breed
ing and great individual excellence, is fast and game
trotter himself He has been trained prepared
in any manner having been kept private roadster
by his owner that his speed only purely natural
and undeveloped. He was never in but one race, and
that was last year. His started him in matinee
trot to see how he would behave in company. This
was against the advice his friends who stated that
it was dollars rotten egg that he would get the nag
in his face in short order but contrary to their expec
tations and to the surprise of everyone, he went of
and beat large field of old seasoned campaigners
with such ease and apparently with such little effort,
making a record of 1885, that it Immediately stamped
him being nothing short of trotting wonder, and
making it douby certain that could he have had the
advantage of the long continued careful training from
day to day week to week. month to month and year to
year. that given the great turf performers he would
long ago have placed sensational mark to his credit
perhaps equal to that of his celebrated brother in
| blood Maxey Cobb whose untimey death early in the
present year was so greatly deploed by all horsemen
in America. His owner, Mr.. Cohnfeld Of New York
City, refused 100000 for him a few days before his
| DEATH
! SPECULATION, JR., and Maxey Cobb are not the
| only horses of this famous Hambleonian and Black
Hawk cross that have won distinction on the turf.
Some years since there appeared at every meeting
through the Grand Circuit in the East little brown
horse named Gloster that literally swept everything
before him He would trOt around the extreme out
side of large field of horses the whole mile, and win
with such apparent that it plain to everyone
that he had several seconds speed in every
time. At the end of the trotng season he had made
record of 2:1 in fog, and had earned the title
of the trotting whirwind of the East Shortly after
this he was suddenly taken sick with lung fever and
died. and it was then that his owner, Mr. Goldsmith,
unbosomed himself concerning him. and declared that
if the horse had lived he would certainly have trotted
q mile the next year in two minutes there really
seemed to be limit to his wonderful speed The
whole country then anxious to learn his breeding
which was as follows: BY Volunteer he by old OLD
Hambetonfan, dam by Stockbrdge Chief, con of Ole
Black Hawk being identicaly the combination
of blood lines heretofore alluded to- A mare called
Molly, by Old Black Hawk produced by Old HANDLE
tonian the two mares. Efe Deans 2:25ls and Lottie
2:2s.
In California have another instance of the valu
of this in the fast Mares Sister, record 22i
and Huntress 2:ss full sisters, their sire, Admiral
being by Volunteer he by Hambletonian, their dan
being by McCracken's Black Hawk of the oil
} original Black Hawk. These have full slste
younge called Mona S. that is SAID 10 be faster tina
either of them, and will doubt be driven to IA:
record soon. Their sire, Admiral, although bred to
great many fine of other blood, has PR
duced any other rotters Of records Other instance
cond be cited but these sufficient to establish Ii
fact that horses possessing the blood lines Of Specu
ton Jr. stand the head Of the list producers
= extreme speed.