The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14
Waited from Track and Road.
l.. w. HESS, Editor.

In the ESQ trotting list for 1887 there are
Is Hve.year. Odds, headed by Rosalnc Wilkes
2:lSh; twenty-five four.year. olds, Alfred s
2:224 leading; sixteen 3.year.olds with Sable
Wilkes, 2;lS, the best Of the colts, aud Hour
2l994, the best nlly. Only one 2.year old
came in-Bell Boy, 2:26,
Imp Glenelg had fifty mine representatives
on the turf last season, and they won in the
neighborhood Of $4,000. Hindoo had thir
teen representatives, the oldest years old
and is good second to Glenels. with trlfe
over q 100000 to his credit, contributed
principally by Hanover. Jim Gore is the Sc
cond largest winner, with $8,055.
George Forbes has sold to K. 8. Corey, OF
Massillon, tho 4.yesr.old bay colt Newton
2;2sIa, By Nugget, and the bay mare Maggie
g., 3 years old, $50, BY Robert Lee; price, 20,
600. Forbes has bought Of Henry Simons
Lexington, KY, bay gelding three years, BY
Young Jim; price, $4,000, and the bay thor
oughbred Ally Miss Ruth, by Leonatus.
The black gelding Dude who made a record
Of 1927 at the Dallas State Fair, is Q broncho
and converted PAGER. He was formerly
used herding cattle. The cowboy who rode
him saw that he could trot fast In places and
had him trained. Cambelrs famous side
wheeler, Rich Ball, 2:l2x, came from the
same source, being used under the saddle IN
Missouri herding cattle before ne astonished
the world by his brilliant campaign In 1883,
when he won eighteen OF twenty five races az.
ter making his record in July.
At the close of 1870 there were ISL hsrses
IN the $50 list, and now there are over 5000.
Budd Doble has purchased from Major
Dickinson, for Chicago gentleman, Major
Dickinson's famous pair OF road mares, Cora
Belle and Flora Huff, which trotted at Fleet.
wood track last summer in 2:l9 for BIZ 100.
The trotting stallion Lumps, record 2:2l,
has been purchased from w. L. Simmons, of
Lexington, Ky, by Geo. W. Leavitt of Bos-
ton, acting as agent for new breeding firm
in Maine. Lumps is by Geo. Wilkes, out of
Mother Lumps, and is the sire of Shocks and
others.
Geo. Forbes and W. B. Fasig have matched
two 3-year.olds to trot three in five for $3.50
side during the grand circuit meeting at
Cleveland next July. Forbes has named the
b. I. Keoger, by Ambassador.
Emma g. and Bess trotted $3.50 match at
the Bay District track, San Francisco, Cal, on
Tuesday, December 20. Emma G. won and
reduced her record to 2:274, in the second
heat
Oliver X. 2:l6, will be trotted next season.
There will be race for million If the big
son Of King Wilkes ever scores for the word
with Belle Hamlin. Harry Wilkes and Prince
Wilkes.
Nellie Gray, 2:26, owned by Charles N. vos-
hall, Rochester, N. Y, broke her near hind
leg in runaway and was destroyed. She
made her record at Boston, Mass, in 1885, and
was vslued at $4,000.
The annual meeting of the Ottawa Driving
Park Association was held on Monday even.
ing. Mr.. Lorenzo Leland. G. B. Hess and L.
". Hess were elected directors in place of the
'etiring ones. A directors meeting will be
leld at the Clifton house parors next Monday
vening, when officers will DC elected and
'thSi ouoIuCoo
j. w. Voglesong of Elysia, o., has purcha.
"a OF the estate OF the late Jerry Arson of
Toledo, o., the roam pacing mare Toledo Cir,
ecord 2:l5, price $500. Toledo Girl will be |
emcmbcred here as winner of the 2:25 pace |
n 1884. 1t was said the race was fixed for
American Boy to win, but old Buckskin de-
eloped SO much speed that he could beat Am.
rlcan Boy, so Toledo Girl had to 90 on and
'in, besides the driver of Toledo Girl had
cen interviewed by Mr.. Smith, who told him
c must win or suffer the penalty.
They are having ice races on the Fox River
t Waukesha, Wis.
Frank NJ. Harlan who drove Executor,
PA through the Illinois Valley Circuit
ew years ago, is now located at Eldorado,
IAN, where he has charge of the Mount View
reeding and training stables, owned by Mr..
!. w. Dennlson, former owner of Black Tom,
Pan.
Chas. NJ. Smith of Earlville, Ill.,, purchased
General VIM. T. Wthers, Lexington, Ky,
he four.year-old stallion Country Medium,
am Country Maiden, by Country Gentleman,
On OF Hambletonian 10, price 81, 400.
A Cuban party recently offered Mr. c. J.
lamlin, of Buffalo, N. Y, for his famous
'ottng mare Belle Hamlin, 2:l34, the enor-
lous sum Of $50 900 which was declined.
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