St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-19
WHIPS N TIPS.

trotters in the Northwest during the
coming autumn.
WHIPS AND TIPS.
Gossip Concerning Noted Horses
and Their Owners.
Budd Double, the famous Chicago
trainer. is successfully perpetuating
the Chicago principle of always keep
ing in the front rank by gathering in
the shekels at the big trotting meetings
with his grand stable of trotters and
PAGERS. During the first three weeks
of these trotting meetings he won about
S13,0 900 in stakes and purses, aside from
what he has received for exhibitions
with the king of PAGERS, Johnston,
2:06I, and possibly an occasional pool
ticket. At Detroit he o the 1888 class
with VeritaS, was second in the ga
class with Amy Lee, third in the $50
class with Elisha, and first in the 2:20
pace with Budd Deble; total for the
meeting, S4,750. At Cleveland he won
third money in the $50 class with
Elisha, Vol first money in the 2:22 class
with Lady Bullion, first money i'll the
2:20 class with Jack, first money in 1888
class with Veritas, and third money III
the 2:17 pace with Ed Amman; total for
tlfC iiCCIlIIS, 90. tOU. al III Ioo
Bullion was sent fast enough to secure
second money in the 2:22 class, Jack
had to be content with second money in
the 2:20 class, Geneva took second
money in the 2:24 class, Marie Jansen
took second place in the f~our-year-old
stake, while little Ed Amman came to
the front after the big field had shown
their hands and shot their bolts in the
first five heats and gathered the 2:17
pace in out of the cold in straight heats;
total for the meeting, 81, $50.
When Robert E. Campbell gave his
cOlOred brother, Brown Dick, PrOtec-
ton, the Junior Champion stake win
her. to train he contracted with him
that he was to pay $3.50 a day for his
handling, that Dick was to have 10 per
cent of his winnings and to be half
owner of the colt. Dicks contract also
without his consent. Early last winter
Dick predicted that the son Of Prince
Charlie would by his performance star
tie the turf world.
Like Protection, Onaway, the winner
of the Select Stake at Monmouth Park
last Saturday, is another cheap horse to
win ''Star" honOrs. He was bred by
Milton Young, and sold at the McGrath-
lana sale at Lexington in May, 1888, for
$500. OnaWay has started nine times,
winning four, as follows: A purse of
1000 at Brooklyn; the Red Band stake,
worth 50. $3.50; Amboy hanicap of $4,000.
and the Select stake, worth $3.50.
G. J. Hamlin, of Buffalo, counts him.
self among those who do not believe
that any trotter will aver do a mile
drawing $50 pounds of live weight in
two minutes. He says that if it were
possible for one in the next fifty or one
hundred years to trot a mile to rule in
2:00L. it would be 1000, 900 years before
another would be developed which
could lop off that half of a second.
The horses entered for the Balch s10,-
900 national stallion race, to be trOtted
at Boston in September, are quite rep
r%esentative in character, as they are
from ten states of the Union and Canada
namely, two each from Massachusetts
and Michigan, one from Canada, and
one each from Maine. Rhode Island,
New Jersey, California, Ohio, Nebraska,
Wisconsin and Kansas.
Now is a good time to make observa-
tons in regard to brood mares. The
| colts will indicate whether the mares
are good dams or not. Fat and sleek
colts will indicate good suckers. Some
mares breed after themselves, others
after the sire. 1t is a good time to dis
owe this fact, and take ad Tantage of
your observations.
Eugene Leigh, whose horses are run
ming at the Chicago West side meeting,
has purchased from Milton Young, OF
Lexington, KY, for 1000, the running
qualities of the t~hree-year-old bay filly
Laura Stone, by Rayon dor. out of
Valleria, by Glenelg or Virgil.
The problem of breeding is the most
intricate and obscure of all that cor
front the hOrsemen of to-day. They talk
of breeding being reduced to a science,
yet there are few who are able to DEM
0nstrate the problems which this science
propounds.
w. II. Ashby, of Beatrice, Neb., has
sold to Omaha parties, for $4,000, the
four-year-old chestnut stallion Chit
wood 5215, by Nutwood, 2:1S&, dam
Ada Duroc, by Messenger Duroc: sec
ond dam by American Star IA.
The well-known roan mare Mowland
Mary, by Conklin's American Star, has
at last retired from the trOttlng turf, of
which she was called the Wandering
Jewess," and has been bred to Hinder
Wilkes.
Suisun. by Electioneer, that brought
S11, 100 at auction a few months since,
has not come to the front yet in a man.
ner to her friends, who pre-
dicted that she would beat Maud S.
2:0s%.
R. Tucker has sold all of his horses
and will probably retire from the turf.
In the spring Tuck" was very success
full, but later on he and several of his
associates met with heavy losses.
&. q. Cornis, of Lodi, Wis, has sold
to a Chicago horseman, for s1,5G0, a
th~ree-year-Old filly by Badger Sprague.
son of Governor Sprague, 2:20H, and
Badger Girl, 2:2219.
Many who have tried it think ensilage
good for horses. Some say it is as good
as grass, and just as safe. Horses pre-
fer it to hay. 1t is cheaper and easier
handled than hay.
''Texas Tom" the horse poiSoner, was
arrested last Monday at Brighton Beach
track. OF late he has had the hardihood
to act as track correspondent for a Bos-
ton bookmaker.
Lieut.. ASSET recently rode from
Lubney, in Southern Russia, to Paris,
1850 miles. in thirty days, riding two
horses alternately, one English, the
other Russian.
Sam Bryant and G. W. Scoggan will
dissolve partnership at once, when all
their horses. including Proctor Knott,
will be sold at auction.
Bow Bells. the two-year-old brother
of Chimes and Bell Boy, has been driven
a mile in 2:32 by Charles Marvin at Palo
Alto, Menlo park, Cal.
Axtell. 2:14M, will start at Washing
ton Park to beat the stallion record,
2:134, probably next Wednesday.
The Kentucky Trotting association
has decided to build a $4,000 grand
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