St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-30
Astonishing Progress of the
Get of Prominent SireS
This Season,
George Wilkes and Almont
2 Head the Two Most Sue
u. cesSful Families.
Over 100000 in Stakes
Offered by the Washing
ton Park Club.
Busy Week for Trotters-.
Wilson's Great Victory,
and Other Events.

IHo pIOSIcSS lHduc ny Tue SCU VI
prominent sires is always interesting as
well as instructive to horsemen and
breeders, and the following table pre-
pared by the Chicago horsemen shows
very closely the position the successful
stations will hold at the close of the
year, unless few breeders jump to
the front with q stable full of record
makers as was done with the EDWARDS
1887 and the St. Gothards this season.
The table contains the names of the
stations that have added three or more
2:30 performers to their respective lists
this year, as well as the number of
their sons that sired new 2:30 per-
formers. The names of Almont
and George Wilkes were added
to the table. as there is no denying the
fact that they are now at the head of
the two most successful families in the
world. There are stations living that
will in time equal and possibly surpass
this formidable pair. but for the present
they stand alone, the son OF HANDLE
tonian and Dolly Spanker towering
over the greatest son ever foaled in
Kentucky. Up to the close of last week
thirty sons of George Wilkes had been
credited with siXty-four new 2:30 per-
formers, eighteen of them being b.
thirteen of his sons that appear among
the sires of $3.50 performers this year for
the first time. Eighteen of Ahmont's sons
stand as the SireS of tWenty-three new
2:30 performers, many of their records
being made in states where the breeding
industry is still in its infancy, and
large percentage of them being out of
In rNfx h oI, =
ativeiy unknown. Up to the present
time Belmont and Egbert lead all other
sires, the success of the latter being re-
markable, when it is remembered that
he is only fourteen years Old. being one
of the last colts got of Hambletonian.
his get have not been making fast rec
Ords, but the makers of them has been
trotting over haif-niie tracks and Sc
cured their marks in the regu-
latieH way. The Belmonts have
also been going to the front in the
same style, his most sensational repre-
sentative being the fve-year-old Fred
Arthur, with half-mile record of
2:1515. 1t is in his sons, however, that
Belmont has established his claims to
greatness. They breed on uniformly,
and produce higher rate of speed than
their sire, as in the case of NutWOod
and King Rene appear prominently in
the same field. Eieetioneer and Happy
Medium are now dangerously near the
leaders. Last year Electi0neer was
first. This year, however, he appears
as grandsire of five new performers.
while SunOl has already trotted in
2:1615. giving him in her and ManZan-
tia, rs, the fastest pair of mares ever
GOT BY A TROTTING STALLION.
Happy Medium stood first in 1887, and
the number of his performers this year
confirms Gen. Withers' confidence i'll
the son of Hambletonian and Princess
to get itTOtters from the stoutly-bred
mares i'll Kentucky. Governor Sprague
and Onward have seven each, and other
additions may be looked for before the
last week in October. In three seasons
Onward has risen from a comparatively
unknown sire to the front rank. seven
of his get going into the 2:30 list in 1881,
nine in 1888 and seven more this season.
The success of Governor Sprague'S get
proves, aSha BEEN repeatedly stated, that
he WaSa better sire than he has ever been
given credit for, and also that if he had
been given a longer lease of life he
would have been, as he was when racing
up among the leaders. At the Cleveland
grand circuit meeting two of his get en-
tered the 2:29 list, and another could
have done so if she had been in race
with horse that could have carried her
to the wire up to her clip. Dictator. Har-
old and Red Wilkes each have five new
performers, the latter's group contain
ing one 2:20 b. rSe, while two of his get
have also become members OF that Sc
lect list, having made their reconds
IN races. In Director, Dictator got
one of his best racehOrses. and
he also has in him his most
successful son, while Harold has a fast
pair before the public by his son Attor-
ney. Two of Jay Birds performers are
three-year-olds, one of them being Aller-
ton, 2:194. Alcantara has a grand cir
cult winner in Miss Alice, 2:20L, and
Ambassador a good colt in Wyandot.
2:2715. Florida's group contains one
fOal of 1887 and two of 1886, one of
the latter being Faust, 2:lSH and Ham,
Inns AimOnt Jr. looms up as the sire of
Belle Hamlin, 2:12s4, and Globe, 2:1914,
both of which reduced their records
this year. Guy is Kentucky Princes
brightest star, and Piedmont has a gem
in LOrita and TacehorSe in Stanford.
Strathmore has added another 2:20 per-
former, and his grandson Sidney is, at
eight years old, the sire of three 2:20
performers, two of them being in the
2:15 list. The table which follows shows
the progress made this season: