St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-01
Miscellaneous.

An important part of a Jockeys edu-
cation is knowledge OF how to hold his
tongue, and a story told of the great
English jockey, Archer, is illustrative
of this fact. On the occasion referred
to he was riding a colt that appeared to
be invincibIe. He cantered to the post,
and was there joined by lad, success
full jockey in his way, who promptly
struck up a conversation by observing:
II am going to beat you to-day" Are
yOu?' Archer careleSSly replied. Eyes,
am" the other replied. you think Pm
not. All right. You'll see" The lad
was in truth ''aS near as TOUGHER"
doing what he said he would do. But
Archer won. He'd have done me to a
certainty if he hadn't talked about his
his mare" Archer said afterward. Il
should have laughed at the idea of her
being dangerous if he hadn't said what
he did, and should have taken no notice
of his getting ahead-felt sure he would
come back, and would catch him when
/ started; but after what he said L
thought l had better keep an eye on
him. He astoniShed me, can tell you,
and he would have won the race if he
hadn't given me warning"
Walter |. Hayes writes as to giving
the breeding of trotterS: Looking at
the report of the Minneapolis trotting
meeting leads me to ask why it
is that the trOtting horse breed
ers of the country have to put
up, yeBr after year, with reports
of such meetings that do not give the
breeding, etc., of the horses trotting,
which is just the thing they want to
know, and that is generally easily OBJ
tainable. A reporter that is not up to
the desires of the breeding and reading
public in this regard should be
started in quest of other engagements.
How different it is with the running
horse interests can be seen by the re-
ports of meetings in the same Spirit. l
move that more advanced system of
reporting trotting meetings-One more
in accord with the spirit of the age and
the magnitude of the interests involved,
be adopted.
Alma Mater, by Mambrino Patchen,
dam by imp, Australian, has been sold
by Perry Talbert to w. S. Hobart, San
Francisco, for $4,000. Prospect Maid,
by George Wilkes. with colt by her side,
by Dictator, has been sold by u. K. Sim
mons to Sam Buyer for $4,000. These
are the two cOStlieSt brood mares that
ever left Kentucky.
A. J. Alexander, WOODBURY. farm,
Spring Station, KY, lost, from old age,
the chestnut mare SpinOla, foaled 1865,
by imported Australian, dam imported
Spiletta, ply Stockwell, etc. She was
the dam of Breathitt, Spinner and
LennoX. She leaves weaving chest
nut colt by Powhatan.
1t is reported that the PAGER Bess-
emer, owned in PittSburg, is believed
to have been rendered worthless by a
drunken driver, who speeded the ami
mai nearly twenty miles and then gave
it large feed while very warm. The
driver was arrested on charge or
cruelty and locked UP.
ID. Regennitter, Jr., of Davenport,
To-. has purchased the siX-year-Old stall
lion Rambler 2,209, by Almont Rather
500, dam by Belinda, by Blackbird 4O2.
1t is stated that the Dwyer brothers
will in December sell all their oldest
horses at auction and hereafter c0ntine
their racing stables to two-year-olds.
Mr.. Emery has sold to James O'Con-
nor, of Montreal, Canada, the bay colt
Prior by Patron, dam Nevada by Nut
wood.
E. Richardson, of Racine, Wis, has
purchased twO-year-old colt by Louis
Napoleon, dam by American Clay.
Oliver K, 2:16H, came near being
burned to death at the Louisville fair
grounds few days ago.
Prince Wilkes has won seven teen out
Of twenty races