St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-18
The Midway Sale--What Dun
toms Spirit Says Of
the Stock.
Horses in Training for the
Races at the Roehes-
ter Track.
Big Stone City, Dak., Claims
to Have Some Good
Stock.
Memory Is for Sa1e--DenniS
Ryan'e Mare Sent to Nut
wood Mambrino.

The sale of the trotting stock of the
Midway stables, belonging to the estate
of the late Commodore Kittson. will
take place next Wednesday, the 9th
inst. The stock is in excellent stable
condition, and every animal is strong
and vigorous. The youngsters consti-
tute as fine a collection as any horse
man could wish to see. They are all
ages, from sucklings up to two. three,
four and fve-year-olds. All are OF
good size, large-boned, we'll made and
perfect animals. Most Of them are
exercised daily. just enough to keep
them in good healthy condition, and
those who purchase them will take
away their animelS in the pink of health,
ready for the work of prepartion for
the track, or for breeding purposes. 1t
Is a fine collection, and the animals
ought to bring COOP prices. In speak
ing of this sale, Dunton'S Spirit OF the
Turf makes the following comments:
The KittSon sale takes place on June
the 27th: and what shall we say OF it?
We cannot say the animals ought to
sell for little or nothing, for they are
the best that money could buy. We
cannot say that these fifty head of
highly bred animals ought to sell for
song because Commodore kittSOn left
wealthy estate: for when men go to
sale they care very little for the owner
of the animals; they are after bargains.
But we can say that st. Paul is away
up in the northwest corner OF clylllZa-
ton; away from the wOuld-be purchaS-
erS, and in a locality where little COM
petition is likely to spring up for these
raralu alunIla .lnnir,pS 4 mi
say that it seems pity to scatter this
entire stud to the four quarters OF the
earth with all its equipments. 1t would
seem needless TO speak of these animals
in detail, but in a single instance we
may be justified in departure from the
common order of things. For example:
Revenue, 2:224. b. h., 16 hands, foaled
1876, by Smuggler, 2:154; dam May
Morning. 2:30, by Daniel Lambert. Oy
Ethan Allen; second dam May Queen,
by Ethan Allen; third dam Pocahontas,
2:1714, by Irons Cadmus; fourth dam
by Shakespeare: fifth dam PAGER:
driven by John Splan at Chicago,
July IL, 1884. Revenue inherits
as high a rate of speed as any
horse living. Not only so, but already
his colts Justify Us in the belief that he
is to become one of the greatest living
sires. Why should he not be? Poca-
hontas was the fastest mare, beyond a
doubt, that has ever lived. She was
bred to Ethan Allen one of the fastest
and pureSt gated horses that ever lived,
and produced May Queen, who with lit
tie work showed trial of 2:26. She
was in turn bred to Daniel Lambert, a
son of Ethan Allen and daughter of
Treadwell's Abdallah, and the produce
was May Morning, 2:3O. May Morning
was bred to Smuggler, record 2:154, and
nearly related to the famous Pocahon-
taS, and the produce was Revenue,
record 2:22A There can be no such
thing as fail in this sort of breeding;
and we wish to put ourselves on
record right here, in predicting great
future FOR the two-year-old colt Rolfe,
No. 81 of the sale catalogue. Rolfe by
And to show how the speed lines are
multiplied and intensified in Rolfe, we
extend the pedigree: Lady Rolfe, b.
M, 1914 hands, foaled 1874, by Tom
Rolf. by Pugh's Aratus, by Aratus, by
Director, by Sir Archy; dam Nellie, by
MonteZuma; driven by S. G. Phillips
at Louisville, KY. Oct. 5, 1880. Tom
Rolf, the sire of Sleepy Tom, 2:121%,
Gem, 2:1334, and four others, made a
record of 2:33313, after he was untitled
by all accident for turf exploits. Tom
RolI. U. H.. Iot2 Hdnus, ny IuSH 5
Aratus; dam Pocahontas (pacing record
2:1715), by Irons Cadmus, by
Beech's Cadmus, by American
Eclipse; I'd dam by Probasco's S
Big Shakespeare; third dam by son of
Valarius. The speed of the famous
Smuggler, Pocahontas, Ethan Allen and
the other branches of their families
were marvellous, and we know Rolfe
will not disappoint us. Or suppose we
enue: dam Astoria 2:2915, by Hamble-
tonian: second dam Clara dam of DeX-
ter 2:171l, 10y Seely's American Star:
third dam McKinstry Mare dam of
Shark, 2:2715J. But we will say, the
better plan for the would-be purchaser
is to send for catalogues Now ready to
ID. w. WOodmansee, st. Paul, Minn.,
who will take pleasure in forwarding
them. The catalogues tsll the story in
shorter WaV than we can