St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-09
Lovers Of Horses Among the
Statesmen at the National
Capital.
Senator Stoekbridge Chats
About Bell Boy and the
Sale of Sunol.
Which Is the Faster Of the
Pair, Maud S or
Sunol?
EleetioneeP's Opportunity to
Pefpetuate a Line, Nipped
in the Bud.

WASHINGTON, Dec. THE lovers Of
horses among the statesmen of the capt.
tai have spent considerable time in the
cloak rooms of the house and senate
this week i'm talking about SunOl. Sena-
tor Standards great tTotter, which he
lately sold to Robert Bonner. No stock
is taken in the statement that Senator
George Hearst offered Stanford S250,0O
for the mare alter she was sold to Bon
ner, and the probability is that the
price paid for SunOl was about $4,000.
| chatted with Senator Stockbridge
about the sale this afternoon. Stock
bridge has one of the finest breeding
farms ia the Northwest. One of his
horses took the first prize at the Chi
cago horse fair this year, and he is
man who makes money out of fine
horses. Speaking of Sunol, he said:
stanford naturally feels very proud of the
work OF Sunol, especially so because she Is
the result Of his theory of breeding. which
he holds in opposition 10 the best authorities
senator Stanford believes that the best
strains OF thoroughbred strock ought to he
crossed with the best Of the ITO ting stock 10
produce the great IrOt.er of the future. and
This j. one evidence that he is right Robert
Bonner viii have 10 be very eareful OF Sunol,
and my partner, WHO'S one or the best posted
men on the speeding OF horses | know. says
that she ought not 10 be pushed for year or
two. AT least. She ought to be allowed to jog
along aud kept in good training and at the
end Of that time she would probably reduce
her record as well as thai Of Maud =.
BY the way. senator, do you still own Bell
Boy. the horse YOU bought of Senator stan
ford couple of years ago?
No" replied Senator Sloekbridge, 81 sold
him ! paid 50. 900 10 Senator Stanford for
him, and sold him for S35, 900. He was lately
sold at horse auction in Kentucky, and
brought $1,000.
Among the finest turnOutS seen in
Washington this winter will be that of
Senator Henderson. of Nebraska. Man.
derSOn is great horse lover, and he has
brought from his farm near Omaha a
couple of high stepping chestnut mares.
These are the results of cIreful breed
ing for more than twelve years. They
are HambletOnians, and they can trOt
easily in three minutes. They are thor
Oughly broken, but so spirited and
graceful that they will attract attention
on any of the avenues. Senator Man.
dersOn brought a high-hred colt along
with him, and this is now in the hands
of Mr.. Morrow. the horse trainer at
BrightwOOd. His pony COmanche which
he rode last year Is also in the trainers
hands. This pony is of the best blood
of the plains, being from fine mare of
the American wild horse species crossed
by Gold Dust. 1t has all the gaits of a
Well-trained riding horse. and the
Napoleonic figure of Henderson will
be seen upon it galloping along
the country roads near Washington
Senator Stockbridge has brought four
magnificent black horses to Washing
ton and Senator Mcmillan has a fine
turnout which he will drive here this
winter, / saw Senator Sherman's rig
trutting along Pennsylvania avenue the
other day. He has two well-made
horses, both Of which are high steppers,
but which
ARE OF DIFFERENT COLORs,
one being bright s0rrel and the other
a bay. Senator Sherman takes drive
every afternoon when the weather is
fair. Speaking of MaEderson's horses,
he was often seen driving. during the
winter he lived with his boon companion
Senator Palmer, behind Palmer's
horses, and no one knew that he pos
Sessed such fine stock himself as he has
here this winter. He was asked the
other day why he had not mentioned to
Palmer the fact that he also had fine
horses. He replied: BLANK 1t, | did,
b. { Palmer was so wrapped up in
his own stock raising that he
never paid any attention TO my re-
mark" Ex-senator Palmer. it will be
remembered, sent his farm manager
Mr.. Cottrell a couple of years ago to
to bring back some Arabian stations.
Palmer has an idea that the finest horse
in the world can be produced by cross
ing the PercherOn with pure Arabian
blood. His manager went to Jerusa-
lem, but the result of his investigations
showed that half of the Arabian steeds
were uRSOund, and Senator Palmer
found that he had to get a permit from
the sultan befOr he could take an Ara
bian horse out of the country. He got
his permit, and succeeded in bringing
one Arabian stallion back 10 the United
States; but this. am told. has recently
died. Ex-senator Palmer has sixty fine
PercherOn horses on his big farm near
Detroit, and he likes nothing in the
world better than 10 play at being farm
CT in his S12.00a log cabin. He pines
for the forests OF Font Hill, the name
by which he calls his farm, even under
the sunny skies OF Spain, and / am in
formed by very good authority that he
Will return to the United States next
July, and will
PROBABLY RESIGN HIS MISSION
at this time. He has an immense in
terest here, and his salt wells, lumber
yards and pine forests in Michigan are
worth millions. He has great deal of
real estate in Detroit. and this farm is
only four miles from the city. and is at
the end of an electric railroad. This
railroad brings it within close communi-
cation with Detroit. and the city is
rapidly growing towards it. 1t may be
advisable to divide it up into lots at an
early date, and the senator's Jersey
COWS and PereherOn horses also need
bis attention. He wants to be back in
America; also to see about his Wash
iDgton property, and his big brown
stone house on Mcpherson Square is for
sale. This house has nine mahogany
bath rooms. and its kitchen and laundry
are in the attic. while there is fine
stable sandwiched onto its rear. 1t is
finished in the finest of wood. and 1t is
the house for which the senator was
charged $4,000 more than his contract
price with the architect for building. 1t
cost him, he once told me, SS5.0OO, and
he now offers it for sale with the lot
adjoining it for Sl25,000. He does not