St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03

Capt T. B. Marrett few days ago sold
weanling horse colt to John Wright. by Incl
dent, son of Onward, first dam Gherry, py
Alden Goldsmith The dam of Cherry was
by Richards Beifounder The pr1ce palo
was $500.
On the 10Th of December the annual meet
ing of the Minnesota Breeders association
will be held at w. L. McGrath's at p NJ
Miscellaneous.
Dame Tansey. chestnut mare twenty four
years old. bred by Dan Mace and got by
Daniel Lambert, out of Quarter, thorough
bred mare owned and run by the dead VIZ
ard of the Sulky, has proved great brooa
mare at Ash Grove farm; Her first foal,
Tansey, by George Wilkes, dropped in 1868,
is the dam of Butterfly, 2:19$, and Eagle
Bird, 2:21 at four years old. Her second
recorded foal, Busbey, by George Wilkes,
obtained record of 2:29A, and was aDle
to trot close to 2:2O. He served q few mares,
was gelded and was driven on the track, SO
as to avoid as much as possible the handicap
imposed by record. Eva, the sister OF
Busbey and Tansey, was foaled IN 1870, ana
she was driven to a record OF 2:30A ana
sister, trotted a trial i'll 2:25, and Podie, an
other sister of Eva, produced Castalla. three
year-old record, 2:3034. Marie Jansen, the
fast three-year-old, is by Betterton. out OF
Dame Tansey, and the yearling sister OF JAN
sen is fast.
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record of 2:2134 over New Jersey track not
long ago, is about the best example of rapid
development on record Last spr1ng she
was doing farm work, and was purchased In
June by man who began training her as
the mare then showed signs of speed. Her
first visit to a track was June 70. and
month later she won her maiden race, being
then able 10 step a mile in 2:35. Two weeks
later she won her third race, this time get
ting mark of 2:2112. and the following
in winning them
both and getting her mark of 2:2l34, after
which she was retired for the winter, having
made about the best campaign on record. not
having lost race of the five in which she
started. Madge Medium is by Draco Medium,
dam by Black Dutchmap, and with these
blood lines she will be worth something for
breeding purposes after her racing days are
over.
Another Electioneer that will go into the
2:2O list next year is the four-year-old tilly
then three years old, in 2:23A, the perform
ance being public one over the Cleveland
track. 1t was after this great mile that Sulsun
was purchased by New York gentleman,
who. in order to be thoroughly removed from
the temptation of using the tilly on the road
or track while she was yet immature in
physical sense, bred her to Kentucky Prince.
Gen. Turner will have her in his stable next
season. and already the tilly has been sent to
him at Philadelphia where she will be win
dam. being Susie, 2:26l2, by George NJ.
Patchen, Jr.
George G. White, Paris KY, has purchased
from Charles Backman, Stony Ford, N. Y,
for $4,000, the bay stallion Victor Won Bis
marck, foaled in 1867, by Rysdyk's Handle
tonian, dam Hattie Wood dam of Louis Ma
poleon, ETC., by Sayre's Harry Clay. Since
Victor Won Bismarck has been at Capt. t. E.
Moore's Cedars, Shawhan, KY, he has been
very successful sire. Among those to his
p111oC Hop tnJljn
Edgemark, three-year-Old record III; Es
cape, four-year-old 2:26l5; Hambrino Bis
mark, Kentucky Hambletonian, Kentucky
Volunteer, and many others Of promise.
Charles Backman, in answer to the many
applications for the service of Kentucky
Prince states that the horse is reserved next
year for private use Mr.. Backman will al
low him to serve fifteen mares only, for his
former patrons. at $500 i'll advance, with the
privilege of return if not in foal. The names
of former patrons will be entered on the book
in the order of receipt of application, and he
will be strictly restricted TO the determined
number.
The California trotter Dubec, that came
out this season and made a record close to
2:30, has been purchased w. S. Hobart, Of
San Francisco. the man whose recent pur-
chases of brood mares in the East have at
tracted so much attention, and will be used
by him on the road as one of a team, the
horse to go with Dubec not having as yet
price paid for him was So 400.
Mella G, the fast little gay mare that Sec
rotary Fasig, of the Cleveland track, bought
last summer for a pretty fair price after
''Junebug" Grimes had given her record of
2:22l2 and showed up all her good qualities
in the highest style of the art, did not turn
out TO be much of a bargain, not acting well
in her subsequent races, and now Mr.. Fasig
has sold her TO B. w. Currier. of Boston,
Mass, who will drive her on the road.
Frank McKeen, Edgewood Stock farm,
Terre Heute, Ind, has purchased from II. C.
Jefferson, Lexington, KY. for $4,000 the
celebrated thlrteen-year-old brood mare
Reina Victoria, by Rysdyk's Hambletonian,
dam Hyacnth, by Volunteer. IL will be re-
membered that Mr.. jefferson bought her at
the recent sale held by Seacord U Moshier, at
Galesburg, ILL.,, for ST. 50.
The business of South Elkhorn stock farm,
Frankfort, KY, has received great impetus
by the strong showing which the colts of On
ward, 2:25A. are making. They have limited
racing experience, and yet they enter the
2:30 list like veterans. Col. Pepper has sold
about $50, 900 worth on Onward stock in
1883, and upwards of SIS, 900 from his gen.
eral herd.
A full sister to Jack, the son of Pilot Me-
dunn that made record OF 2:19l2 last sea-
son, has been sold to Uhlein Bros, Truesdale,
Wis, for $1,000. the little miss being four
months old. The dam of Jack is but eight
years DID, and is probably the youngest mare
in the world that has produced 2:30
trotter.
Washington (son of Gen. Knox and Gold
smith Maid), made record of 2:4134 one
day last week at the Fashion stud farm.
where he was bred. Presto's dam is by Jay
Gould, so that there is performing trotting
blood on both sides of the pedigree.
King Galop, the English stallion. arrived
in New York Nov. %, by the steamship
Egyptian Monarch, and was domiciled the
next day at August Belmont's private stable
in Eighteenth street. King Gaiop is q blood
bay with slight star, and stands nearly
sixteen hands, but is very leggy.
Daniel de Noyelles' three year-old filly.
Nina D. by Nutwood, PISA, out of Adelaide.
2:1934, has safely arrived in California. She
will be bred to Sable Wilkes, 2:1S, early next
spring. and then handled by John A. Gold
smith, who writes Mr.. de Noyelles that he
likes her gait and appearance.
Luella, daughter of Hero of Thorndale, is
In one respect the star brood mare OF the
present season, as she is the only one having
two daughters to make records of 2:30 or
better this year, they being Diplomacy, 22Sla,
and Dora Cossack, 2:29, both by Don Cos
sack.
The Southern-bred bay mare Bristol Girl,
by Jim Erwin, son of Clark Chief. that OBJ
tanned her record of 2:2S$4 eight years ago at
Lexington, Ky. is now kept as brood mare
near Sandy Hill. n. Y. and is in foal to
Vaughan's Almont Star, 2:2S84. by Almont.
Lady Dexter, sister of he famous trotter
Dexter is since the death of her brother,
the Oldest representative of the family. For
many years she has been in the brood mare
ranks at the Stony Ford farm in New York,
but is now barren.
H. B. Sire says Harry Wilkes, Rosalind
Wilkes and Gossip Jr. are at Morristown, n.
J. They have earned their rest for the sea-
son, and will not be trotted until next year.
and it is expected that they will ali lower
their marks.