St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-08
TRIANGULAR FIGHT.
Nj. Il. Grattan Takes Hand In
the Preston ChiefHavre Con.

Nj. T. Grattan Takes a Hand in
the Preston ChiefHavre Con-
troversy.
Fillmore county stockmen are much
wrought up over the merits of their
respective stations. and there has been
no end of talk between A. l.. Neil
derry, owner of Havre, and Fl. NJ. and
E. III. Conkey, who own Preston Chief,
as to the speed of these stations. Re-
ferring to McElderry's challenge for
race, the owners of Preston Chief make
the following reply:
We noticed a challenge from A L. NOEL
derry for race between our colt, Preston
Chief, and Havre. AS this is Only a bluff it
is hardly worth our notice. Mr.. McElderry
well knows that we could not afford to take
our colt out of the stud and put him in train
ing as he proposes. for any such sum as he
offers. He also should know Gf he does
noU, that $500 or $500 would be no induce
ment for US to do so at this time. Go slow,
Mac; if you are really in earnest in this mat
ter, we will give you chance when the
proper time comes.
a. N. & e. II. CoNKEY.
Preston, MINI.
Mr.. McElderry comes to the front
with the following sharp talk:
To the Owners of Preston Chief: You say
that my offer to trot you was a bluff. What
right have you to say that unless you prove
1t by compelling me to back down? You say
that well know that you could not afford
to take your colt out of the stud for two or
three hundred dollars. On the contrary, it is
my honest opinion that he will not earn any
such sum as that in the stud; aud for that
matter. II you desire am willing 10 make the
race to be trotted after the stud season is
over. 1t is my opinion that you were badly
fooled in the purchase of Preston Chief, and
that you now desire to fool others, and / am
willing to lose 100 if MY opinion is incor-
rect. l can Prove that you have stated that
is your intention to enter Preston Chief in
the threc-year-old race to be trotted at Pres
ton next fall. Now / Will make you two
bets, both of which must be accepted or
neither. will let you $40 that you do not
Start Preston Chief in the three-year- old race
trotted at the Fillmore county fair next fall.
If you do Start him | will bet you 500 that
you do not get better place in the race than
my colt Havre, by Herod. NOW don't say
this is bluff, or l will have to publish you
as falsifiers. but meet me at Fountain and
put up The money. Now name the day you
will be there or crawl into your hole.
Chattield, Mimi, April 4.
A. L. McELDERRY.
GRATTAN TAKES A HAND.
Referring to the controversy as out
lined above, NJ. r. Graltan, owner of
Herod, king of the Morgans, writes:
The Conway colt has been steadily
driven all winter, and McElderry's
challenge was only in answer to ''chin
music" to the effect that Preston Chief
could beat Havre. | have worked three
horses on the Preston track all winter
and spring. have seen Preston Chief
getting steady work, and he is the only
horse | know of here that has yet been
hooked to sulky. 1t was not until he
failed to show them as fast as the Conk-
eys saw McElderry's colt trot the
same track last year that they found
they could not withdraw their colt from
the stud. Practically. he is not in the
stud, nor is he likely to be until he
demonstrates that he is worth the 81 eco
which it is claimed was paid for him.
The farmers of Fillmore county won't
take much stock in colt if they think
they are already raising better and
faster ones. Simple relationship to
Rysdyk's Hambletonian will no longer
get mares for stallion unless the re-
lationship is through successful lines.
This is demonstrated by the fact that
two of his sons in full vigor have re-
Gently sold for less than $500 each-less
money than was paid for the service fee
to beget them.
"a Hambletonian,t to command patron
age on his pedigree, without proving
himself trotter, must be by prolific
2:30 sire like Nutwood, George Wilkes
OF Electioneer. More than this, his
dam must have other progeny with
fast records. Even then their chances
in the stud are much improved if it is
shown that they also possess the speed
quality which it is desired that they
shall transmit.
1.-The sire of Preston Chief. Snow
Storm. has no record and has sired
nothing that has obtained a record. ac-
cording to either Chester or Wallace.
The sire of Snow Storm, Milwaukee.
has no record, and has three only in the
2:30 list, two of them from the same
mare, which is more to her credit than
his. Milwaukee is twenty-four years
old: his owner has large wealth and
has spared no expense in giving the
horse a chance. Speed-producing,
gilt-edged. standard mares by the score
have yielded to his embraces without
any result. Thomas j. Sunbor worked
for years to achieve a reputation for
Milwaukee. AT Fashion farm, with the
descendants of that good Morgan sire
Gen. Knox, note his phenomenal sue
cess. not only in the thirty list, but
in the twenty list. Now compare
Milwaukee with other sons of his sire.
George Wilkes, record, 1922. cam
paigned most of his life, had brief pc
rod in the stud, sired sixty-five in the
2:30 list and died with less colts in num-
Der, probably by half, than Milwaukee
has sired. But note the difference in
the lists, siXty-five and three!!l Strath-
more, another son. has twenty-seven and
is younger than Milwaukee. Election
eer has thirty-eight, and is three years
younger than Milwaukee. Jay Gould,
fourteen. Happy Medium, Aberdeen
but why enumerate further. The trot-
ting instinct is evidently weak and spo-
radio in the Milwaukee, line. We have
had one of his oldest SONS here in Fill
more county for years that has proved
total failure. One of his grandsons also
owned here failed to get any colts
that sold we'll for any purpose. Now
another grandson, without the merit of
gcod size, possessed by the other de-
mands patronage as a trotting stallion
On the claim of his owners that he is a
trotter. Mr.. McElderry offers modestly.
and III courteous phrase, TO give them
an opportunity to show their faith in
their claim. They accuse him of
bluffing. In answer to this will bet
them to stand-still that McElderrv will
put up the money he offers to. Further.
II his proposition is too modest, will
JOIN him and make the stake reasonably
large, and as further inducement. / am
willing to risk little that Ravre will
distance Preston Chief in the race.