St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-26
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
The fastest performers produced by
Hambletonian mares are CllngStone
and Trinket, records of 2:14; the fast
est by Mambrlno Chief mare PhallaS,
2:13%, by Dictator; the fastest by a
Vermont Black Hawk mare, GlOSter,
2 II, by Volunteer, and the fastest by a
CLAY mare, st. Julien, 2:114, by VOlun-
teer. The grand totals of the female
lines of the four families are: Hamble-
tonians, 536 dams with 254 performers
with records of 2:30 or better; NAM
brine Chiefs, 142 dams with 163 per
formers; Vermont Black Hawks. 14O
dams with 14S performers, and Clays,
100 dams with 1919 performers.
w. II. Wilson, Abdallah Park, Gym
thiana, KY, purchased from l.. J. Rose,
Rosemead ranch, San Gabriel, CAL, all
of his Sultan foals for 1887. There were
only three colts and one filly by Sultan.
These were got just before Sultan left
California. Mr.. Wilson also purchased
from Mr.. Rose a yearling filly by STAN
boul, 2:17, dam by The Moor; second
dam by Idol TT; third dam Sue Munday,
by Pilot, Jr.; fourth dam Kate Tabor.
These five were brought from California
to Chicago by Budd Doble.
John Curtin, DEBORAH, To-, has bought
of H. l.. and f. ID. Stout, Highland
stock farm, Dubuque, To-, the bay filly
Auburn Wilkes, by Sentinel Wilkes,
dam by Mambrino Boy, 1868, by Mann
brine Patchen; second dam by Mann
brine Royal, by Mambrino Pilot, She
is nice, big, open-gaited filly, and Mr..
Curtin hopes to make her credit to her
sire, which is now in Bowerman Bros
hands at Lexington, KY. They expect
him to add another to George Wilkes
list this summer.
Robert Bonner, owner of the stallion
Nutbourne, found, when he began using
that horse IN the stud that he impaired
his own color, gray, to nearly all his
fOalS. AS gray is not a fashionable
color, an experiment was tried with a
view of remedying, if possible, the
evil. Accordingly during the stud sea-
son of 1884 bay horse was led in front
of the mare as soon as she had been
served, and the result was that a ma
iority of the foalS of 1885 were bays or
cheStnutS.
Mary A. Whitney, 2:2s, by Volunteer,
became distinguished last season by the
Love. by Happy Medium, that made a
..
Baron Wilkes, 2:2414l, has been sold for
big money. This tilly will have plenty
of Hambletonian blood to fall back on
in race, just as First Love did, as her
sire is by George Wilkes, son of Ham
bletonian, and her dam by Volunteer,
another son of the same horse.
The first of the get of the great young
stallion Patron, 2:1414, was foaled at
Mr.. Emery's Forest City, Cleveland, o.,
March 16. 1t is bay tilly, without
white, and is out of that fast and game
race mare, Secret, 2:2O1a, by Strath-
more; dam Amanda, by WaXy; second
Fanny Snuff (dam of Tucker, 1880, by
Bob Henry. Trainer Fuller has already
driven the young arlStOcrat quarter
Gn his mind in 81 seconds.
Scarcely a week passes in which the
death of some choicely bred trotting STALL
ion is not recorded. Seneca Chief, by
Rysdyk's Hambletonian; Gen. Hatch, by
CassiuS M Clay, Jr, dam by imported
Envoy, and Jersey Prince, 2:2714, by
Kentucky Prince, dam the famous En-
cline, by Henry B Patchen, are among
the latest victims.
DR.. James Matthews, New Paris, Ind,
lost recently, from distemper and other
complications, his fine stallion AleXan-
der Wilkes 1918, foaled 1883, by AleXan-
der 1886, dam Hilda, by George Wilkes
SIG; second dam Lizzie D, by Sentinel
$50, etc. 1t is looked upon as the great
est loss of horsefeSh ever sustained by
Elkhart county.
w. G. France, Lexington, KY, writes
that on March 16 his fine brood mare
Chief (dam of Prince Wilkes, 2:16),
dropped a large red chestnut colt by
Red Wilkes. He is beauty, with two
white ankles behind and diamond
shaped star. Mr.. France will name him
Red Prince.
P. B. Conn, of Steubenville, O.,
has purchased of John Madden, of
Lexington, KY, roam colt. three years
old, by Egbert, dam by Mambrino
Patchen. with a record of 1864 as
two-year-old, for $4,000.
Orrin Hickok will have St. Julien,
2:11I: Condo, 2:2O; Arab, 2:161S; Louis
D, 2:a4sl, and Electra, by Electioneer,
2::31, in his string this season. The last
named is reported to be very fast.
The fve-year-old stallion, Goldbeater,
by Alacantara, 1928, dam Flora Belle,
2:22$I, has been sold by aBoston man to
A. T. Walker, of Willimantic, Conn, for
$500.
w. L. Collins, Of Frankfort, KY, has
sold to H. Berry, of the same place, for
$1,000 the brown mare Susie G, by
Harold, dam by Mambrino Champion.
Spinaway and Wanda, famous race
mares in their day, have been bred'to
Spendthrift, about the fastest horse in
the country when he was on the turf.
G. A. Durfee, of Los Ang eles, Cal.
has another green PAGER, the bay mare
Ella Wood, a sister of Arrow, and a
year older than the phenomenon.
The amount of money won on the
American turf last year was 81, 08O, 276.15,
or S16S. 5SO.50 more than was won in
England in 1887.
A. J. Alexander, Spring Station, KY.
has sold the bay mare Julia, sister to
Maxly Cobb, record of 2:13A, for $1,000.
Secretary Fasig, of Cleveland, has
been confined to his house for some
days with rheumatism.