St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-09

where the interest in fine trotting stock
is constantly on the increase and the
breeding establishments are yearly null
tiplying and enlarging their facilities.
Col B. e. Bruce says that wi}h sala-
rieS running from $1,000 to $4,000 a
year the jockeys are becoming the die
tatorS and autocrats of the turf. He
characteriZeS most of the Jockeys as
mere boys, ignorant and uneducated,
who are not able to earn $500 per year
in any other business, and says these
eXhorbltant salaries make racing a
luxury that only private few can in
dulge in. A turfman of moderate
means cannot engage these high-priced
jockeys, and it makes it almost i'm
possible for him to secure rider who
has pretentionS to jockeyShip. If he
gets one to ride they want about half
the stake or purse for the mount. This
cause prevents many from going on
the turf, and thereby cuts Off buyers
and Injuries breeders at ther annual
sales. A retaining fee of $3.50 to $500
for the first call upon a jockey, and
then paying him the usual fee, as pro-
vided by the rules, for his mount,
would be ample and high for the best
jockey in the country. Those retained
Jockeys would then make more clear
and some scientific physicians can earn.
If these high fees are to continue it
must injure, if not break up racing, and
drive many of our present owners off,
as there are not half dozen stables
who can afford to pay them.
MOrea is the fifth of the get of Elec-
tioneer to enter the 2:30 list this season.
She was one of the lot of Electioneers
sold at auction in New York a year ago
last winter, and was not by any means
one of the high-priced ones. going for
$3.50, although no fault could be found
with her breeding, her dam being by
Pilot Mambrino. She trotted a number
OF races last year, making a record close
to 2::30, and this season has been going
faster than ever, her mile at Hartford
III 2:25 being an easy one. She is of
good size, fine gated, and horsemen
who have seen her move say there is
plenty of chance for Improvement, as
she is young. She is the only one of the
lot sold at auction in New York that has
entered the 2:30 list, although several
others are about ready to do so,
among them being the stallion Park
vile, that is in the stud at the Shuts
farm in Brooklyn.
When horse is left to shift for itself
in pasture, if its shoes he taken off it
will rapidly recover the natural use of
its feet, too often injured by improper
shoeing and travel on city pavements.
Street car horses often go lame by hard
usage, and are sold for low price,
when only little care and a run at
pasture will fix them all right. The
green grass in summer acts on an over
worked horse like tonic, while the soil
is moist and pliable under his unshod
feet, and his hOOfs expand till they are
as good as ever.
w. III. Wilson. of Abdallah Park,
Cynthiana, KY, has been fortunate in
getting nice black filly by Simmons,
dam Lady Mcdowell, by Sultan. This
little miss was foaled on the 9th of
June, and is the first that has been bred
that way. for the Sultan filles are now
but yearlings that were foaled in Ken
lucky, but Lady Mcdowell was bred in
California. By Simmons, dam by Sui
tan, is the breeding that Mr.. Wilson eX-
poets will nick the best of any cross
that he can make.
A correspondent writing from Lex
ington, KY. says Sadie D.. the great
yearling of last season, still seems to re-
tain her marvellous speed, although she
has not yet been driven mile better
than 2:35. She has, however, gone
quarters in 3G4 seconds. At Bryan's
training track Ben Hur, the four-year-
old son of Hambrino, speeded mile in
2:22s4, which gives assurance that he
will lower his present record of 2:27I
at the first time of asking.
CrescendO, the chestnut stallion, five
years old, bred at Marshland and got by
the developed sire Mambrino Dudley.
2:l9$4, out of Mayenne, daughter of de-
velOped WedgewOOd, 2:19, and she out
of Bicara, dam of Pancoast, was started
Friday, and he won easily in straight
heats and reduced his record to 2:2S$l.
He is owned at ParkvilIe Farm.
Mr.. Alexander has been fortunate
with the choice mares which he sent
from WOodburn to Palo Alto to be bred
to Electioneer. Miss Russell, dam of
Maud S, has dropped bay filly by Elec-
tioneer; Bicara. dam Of Pancoast, a bay
iilly by Electioneer; Lady Russell. sis
ter of Maud S, a bay colt by Election
eer, and Nutula, sister of Nutwood, has
foaled bay filly by Electioneer.
The brown horse Jubilee Lambert,
foaled at Ticonderoga. N. Y, in 1868,
and got by Daniel Lambert out of the
Harvey mare, died at Peru, Ind, June
25. He has record OF 2:25, obtained at
Beacon Park, Boston, in June, 1875, and
was first taken to Kentucky by W. II.
Wilson. His success in the stud was
not marked.
w. II. Hill, Worcester, Mass, has
purchased from A. j. Alexander, Spring
Station. KY, the five-year-old bay mare
Persica, 2:23$4, by Belmont (sire of Nut
wood. 2:lS$4), dam Nectarine, by Will
lam Welch (Sire of jeremiah, 2:2515);
second dam Lady Mckinney dam of
Nil Desperandum,2:24, sire of De Barry,
2:1915).
Chicago Horseman: Minnie R., the
double-gaited Kittson mare, is the phe-
nOmenal variety performer, and her
trotting record of 2:19, pacing record of
2:16H. and mile. with running mate, in
2:0314, remain unequaled.
In Philadelphia are two local trotters
with very odd names. One is called
Billy the Preacher, while the other is
designated as Billy the Priest. Appro-
pirate names for horses must be getting
scarce in the Quaker City.
William Doble, father of the we'll
known trainers Budd and Charley Do
BILE, celebrated his seventy-secOnd birth
day at Belmont course, Philadelphia,
recently. He is well-preserved and
active old gentleman.
Millard Sanders believes that Cling
stone and Mambrino Sparkle can trOt a
team mile in 2:16 or 2:17. w. j. Gordon
offers to trot Clingstone and Guy against
any team in the country. They have a
pole record of 2:17.
Col. w. w. Abbott, of ST. Joseph,
IL