Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-05-11

oped stallion, for a bouquet, yard of
ribbon, or for money. All he asks Is a
fee of 5000 from deluded farmers and to
be let alone. He will not even entertain
my offer to trot the get of $40 Village
Farm stallion against any horse ever sired
at Jewett Stock Farm. And some people
call him plucky man, an enterprising
breeder! When ground hog proves to
you by unmistakable signs that he is dead,
what is the use of spending time and
physical effort in digging him out of his
hole.
Mr.. Wallace has the assurance to talk
about double-riveted facts, and yet he
pompously corrected me when | stated
that Mambrino Chief, Almont and other
founders of families belonged to the UNI
developed class. To quote his own words !:
"AU had records, and oll,cere quite fully de-
celoped." The simple truth is that Mambri-
no Chief never started in race, was new
er overturned, and never got record,
while Almont trotted Just one heat in pub
lie, and the time of it was 2 39a. What
am | to think of man who erects a
standard upon record, and who does
not seem to have mastered the a Il {
of truth? Mr.. Wallace is superficial out
side of his office as well as in it. He was
seen Immediately after Belle Hamlin had
trotted in 2 :13s, at Cleveland, surrounded
by group of crossroads stud horse
keepers, and was overheard eXpounding
with solemn gravity the law to them.
One of my friends joined the group, and
when the dictum was echoed that the
2:l34 would not be accepted as record,
he offered to bet 800 to $40 that the COM
pier was in error. When Secretary Fa-
sig was told what fool Wallace was max
ing of himself down on the lawn he step
ped across the track and had the judges
announce within the hearing of all that
the performance was for cup, under
the rule, and that it was public record.
Had it not been for the prompt action of
Mr.. Fasig, some of the crossroads fel-
lows would probably, on.the strength of
a Wallace decision, have lost the entire
profits of the summer stud horse cam
paign. Belle Hanln's 2:13a was double
riveted. 1t was record under National
rules and a record under registration
rules, because she had, previous to the
performance, record better than 2 20.
In the October, 1887, number of his mag
azine. Mr.. Wallace came out flat-footed
for mile heat contests. Then he had no
quarrel with Belle Hamlin, and among
other things he said ''The objection that
a two-in-three race does not show the
bottom of the performers has nothing in
it, but the claim that it would cut off a
large percentage of receipts from the
sale of pools is probably valid, and right
here is where the war against the reform
will have its stronghold. The gamblers,
whether they be in the sulkies, or sur
rounding the pool-boX, will be apt to
fight it to the bitter end without disclos-
ing the real basis of their hostility. =
The American people who love the trot-
ting horse will not continue to see him
cruelty tested merely to put money in the
pockets of few unprincipled specula-
tors" There is some sense in this, but
Mr.. Wallace probably would now like to
have the article expunged He has al
ways been noted for doubling on himself.
Here is another extract from his col
umns, which | commend to him in his
present hour of doubt and trouble
"When writer can 'criticise' a contem-
porary only by abusing him, his Billings
gate carries with it the admission that
the other party's arguments are unan-
swerable." As Mr.. Wallace has visited
some of his Billingsgate upon me, it is
evident, to use his own words, that he
has found my arguments unanswera-
ble.''
Mr.. r. |. Gilbert asks me to extend the
test to undeveloped dams as well as I'M
developed sires. Very well. will trot
a three-year-od by Mambrino King. out
of an undeveloped mare, against Mr.. Gil
bert's phenomenal filly by Alcantara, out
of Lady Daggett, a mare that has been
campaigned, if it will suit the conven-
fence of the owner of the tilly to have
the race decided at the time of the expo
sition here in Buffalo in September The
amount of money to be trotted for is tc
he mutually agreed upon.
In my letter of March 10, | offered tC
trot Belle Hamin against Harry Wilkes
July t; against Oliver X. the first week
in August, and against Prince Wilkes the
first week in September, each race to be
mile heats, for $1,000 "A side, and $500 adj
ded by Buffalo Park. made this Offer
in answer to reflections cast upon the
track performances of Belle Hamlin by
Mr. Simmons, the special advocate of the
George Wilkes family. | selected the
three fastest representatives of the
Wilkes tribe and offered to try to defea
them in turn with one representative OF
the Almont family. As Prince Wilke!
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