St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-29
miscellaneous

WANDA, by El6ctlOnter, uaHl NlnOnu
dam of Pretender. etc.), by Aimont;
second dam Dolly, dam of Director, On
| ward, ThOrndale, John f. Payne, etc.
She is now in the hands of John
Murphy, and has shown HIM a 2:20 gait
He also bought the twO-year-old filly
| Nevada, by Onward, dam Belle ThOrne
| SISTER to Combat, sire of Brown, 2:1S$4;
Williame. 2:20H, etc.: second dam
Ambition dam of Signal, sire of Red
| Light, 2:26; Jesse Hammond. 2:2512,
etc., by Belmont; third dam Nina dam
of Kentucky Wilkes, 2:2l1s, and grand
dam OF Lizzie Wilkes. . DO, etc., by Red
| Jacket.
That Lady Bunker will soon have
| another fOal besides Guy Wilkes that
! will beat 80 is unquestiOned, for at
the Lexington meeting her four-year-
old son Declaration went to the half
| mile pole in the first heat of the 2:40
race in ITO, but died away coming
home, being third in 2:2G4. He can
! beat 2:30, however. Lady Bunker has
| not dropped foal since 1856, but at her
| sale she was guaranteed to be in foal to
| General Hancock, son of George
| Wilkes! that is doing duty on the Duhme
farm, near Cincinnati. She is fifteen
! years old. chestnut in color, and has
never been in harness, a defective pas
tern preventing her use i'm that capacity.
I. j. Vail, eX-secretary of the Ma
tiOnal Tr0tting association. has been
interviewed on the subject of dash
races in trotting, and comes out strongly
in favor of the idea: Tell the public"
said Mr.. Vail to the reporter, THAT de-
lay in this matter is positive loss. What
the public wants is fast time. and how
can it be SO reasonably hoped for as
through dash races. Lengthen the
dash races to two miles if you wish to
test the staying qualities of the horses,
but do not go much beyond that dis
lance or you will weary the people, for
4 five or ten-mile dash is d stupid thing.
But short daShes-half a mile or mile
heatS-will attract"
Eleven of the get of Electioneer have
entered the 2:30 list this year, they be-
ing Elector, 2::2l14; Juno. 2:23; Ger
trude Russell. 2:23; Azm0Or, 2:24$l;
Morea, 2:25; Sunol, 2:20$4; Arbustus,
2:2715; Cubic, 2:2S119: Express, 2:29ll:
Grace Lee, 2:2915; Ella. 2:29. Sunol is
a tWO-year-Old, and Gertrude Russell
and Grace Lee are three. The George
Wilkes family has also been busy, three
sons of the founder of the house having
entered the 2:30 list, and thirty OF his
grandchildren have trOtted or paced in
2:30 or better. Both Electioneer and
George Wilkes are sons of Hambleton-
ian.
Richard Ten Brock, whose name has
been connected with the American rum
ming turf for more than half century.
and who sent the first lot Of race horses
from this country to England to take
part in the classic events there, is now
an old man of eightytwO and lives at
Mnnln DaFl- (Nal Not lnnn fhnra
was a rumOr in this part of the country
that the old man had gone crazy, but
the California papers deny this, saying
that he is mentally sound, but of course
subject to the chilGishnesS which not
infrequently comes over men when they
have passed thFee-Score and ten.
DIR. l.. Herr, LeXington-The turf
horse requires to be let up portion of
every twelve months. He becomes
muscle-sore, and nothing but absolute
rest will completely cure this. After a
run with his shoes Of in the paddock,
he returns to the track a new animal.
He is more buOyant in spirits, stronger
in heart and more elastic in action. His
muscles must be hardened again for
turf contests, and this takes time; but
when called upon for supreme effort,
he is more able to respond than when
Wv ldUOl GilC
absence of repOse.
Fred S. Fisher, of Boston, writes I'M
der date Of Oct. ID: IL regret to inform
you of the death of Steve Maxwell by
SpasmOdic collie, Oct. II, at 10 p. m,
after hard fight with death. EXami-
nation proved that Inflammation had set
inland the intestineS were knOtted. DR..
Creighton COlburn treated him for me,
and everything was done that could be
done. Steve held the fastest two-mile
record in the world for long time. l
deeply regret losing him, as he was
well preserved for an old horse, and
had very clean limbs"
A recent letter from Lexington. KY,
SAYS that another uncovered wonder it
Belle Fara, the yearling 1illy. who beat
her field by distance in 2:3S, the fast
est race mile made by yearling. She
is by Vatican, 2:29114, dam Nell, by
EStill's Eric, the dam of Ge0rgette, 2:28
as four-year-old. She trOtted beauti-
full mile hut was heavily ballasted, wear
ing twelve-Ounce shoes and eight-Ounce
weights. II. III. Neale, of Richmond,
sold Belle to Henry Simon, of Louis
vile, for $500. Simon bought to sell
again.
l.. Brodhead, of "WO0dburn farm"
Spring Station, KY, writes the Breed
er'S Gazette that they claim the name
Reelection for bay colt dropped April
s, 1883, got by ElectiOneer out of Lady
Russell full sister OF Maud S., 2:0SM0
by Harold. 1t does not necessarily fol-
low, however, that should Cleveland
fail of reelection two weeks hence this
colt will be failure on the turf or in
the breeding stud. 1t would seem to be
only question of life and health in the
latter case, but in the former, well-it
is question of electoral votes.
John S. Clark is of the opinion that
the only son of Hambletonian that sired
uniformly game trotters was Volunteer,
and that George Wilkes children are
mares. especially daughters of MANI
brine Patchen. Mr.. Clark thinks that
Favonia will trot mile next year in
2:12; says she is hard one to get on
edge, and that with hard work her light
feeding weakness disappears.
Gent. w. WIthers, of the Fairlawn
stock farm, has sold to A. &. Leonard,
of the Homestead farm of Pekip. ILL.,,
the weanling Aberdeen colt out of
Princess, by Mambrino Patchin, second
dam by Mambrino Chief. This is a re-
markable yOungster and promises to
attain high rate of speed.
George Fuller will go to Southern
Georgia this winter with Pat. BrandO-
line and the other advanced colts of the
Forest City farm, and early next season
Patron will be in hard condition and
will be given the record to which he is
entitled.
A. J. Alexander, proprietor of the
Woodburn stock farm, has sold to W.
II, Allen, of ST. Louis, fourteen head of
highbred trOtters, aggregating $4,000.
This is the highest private sale of trot-
ting stock that ever took place in KEN
lucky.