The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-02-25
Waited from Track and Road.
l.. W. HESS, Editor.

now out. nave copy or IL ana venture 10
say that but few farms excel or equal the
Cation farm in possessing so many rare bred
stations, brood mares and their offspring.
Don Cossack, 2:2S, is the premier sire and
though but IL years DID, has two 3-year olds
with records better than $50, besides others
with fast records. Syndlc, foaled in 1887, is
one of their recent purchases. He is a son of
Stranger and Sybil by Jay Gould, 2:20]5.
Stranger is by Gen. Washington; dam, the
great trotter, Goldsmith Maid, 2;l4. Their
brood mares are superior in both breeding
and individual excellence. | presume a P.
o. card with your address sent to Mr. A. L..
Thomas, Supt. Cation Stock Farm, Joliet H.,
will bring any one who deserves one, a cata.
logue.
seely and Carew shipped a car load of good
drivers and draft horses to Boston on Mon
day.
Chas NJ. Smith calls his stock farm at Earl.
villc,p H., lockwood Stud" The sires at
lakewood are Alroy. Neatwood and Country
Medium. Mr.. Smith states in his catalogue
that Geo. Fuller, driver of Patron, 2;l4]3
will take Neatwood on July and prepare him
for 2:30 record.
Unolalo, 2:22l I, sister to st. julien, 2;ll4,
aud ST Reno, 2:2sjj died Of paralysis at Woods
burn Farm recently. She was in ioal to Lord
Russell, and was owned by j. B, Bales Of
Pittsburg, Pa, Unolalo was bay mare, l6
hands high, and was foaled in 1871. She was
bred by }. az b. Cunning, who also bred her
llustrious brother, and was purchased from
them 10y the late Alden Goldsmith, who de-
vcloped and campaigned her. She was before
the public in 81, 80 and SO, and during that
time started in a. races, five Of them being
two-mic heats, and out of these she won 20,
was second in six, third in -, fourth in five,
and unplaccd in four. She trotted Isl con-
tested heats, winning 81, 30 of them being fin
ishcd in 2.30 or better. There is only one
instance in Unolalo's career in which she
failed to win a race after placing one heat to
her credit
Do not forget that on next Thursday, the
nominations for the colt stakes Of the Hi.
uois Valley Circuit are due. Write out your
nomination and send it in with So, to w. W,
Taylor, Sec'y. Remember, the distance in
the and yr. old races is POO yards, so there
is no danger Of being shut out, and besides
your colt may developed into a fast one, and
you may win first money.
Williams, 2:2l, well known here, will lie
trotted again this season. The demands for
his service in the stud have been many, but
Mr.. Sanborn wlselysconcluded not to breed
him, but to tlot him and have him make a
mark below 2:?0. Williams is a race horse.
He i, the con'cating horse, or winner in
every heat Of a race, fighting fot heat every
foot of the way, and, let me say right here,
when ever he starts you can depend on it
that h. Is out to win, for Mr.. Sonborns
horses are always driven for the front. And
in his driver, the quiet unassuming George
Brown, he has a nan who knows how to get
them there.
S. w. Reynolds of Utica is the owner of a
very handsome aud swift gated golden sor-
rel colt, foaled in 1887, by Witherspoon, dam
by son of Byron, 2:25}2.
| hardwood Breed Stud is the name Of Mr.
w. A. Sanborn's place near Sterling, Ill. On
that farm is Capoul, 22S, sire of Omar, Ayr
old record 2:25}5; Zulu, 2:29l4, and Goshen
$50. Also Combat, sire of Williams, 2:2l
Brown, with a two year.old record OF 2;31
| Then there is Benefactor record 2!S, besides
many other well bred ones. The brood mares,
am told by most capable Judge, who has
seen them, are, as regards superior form
natural pure trotting action, excelled by none
As for breeding, hurried glance over the
Larchw wood catalogue reveals the fact that in
their veins flow the most prolific of trottlng
blood,
| If our track and road column fails to ma
terialize for the coming few weeks, blame ii
| to a bycicle. For to beginner they are hard
| cr 10 ride than bucking hroncho, and oul
editor has just got onc.-P. s. The managing
editor has promshed to write good obituary
notice.