St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-17
Some Of the Rapid Hooters
Which Mr.. Tracy Has
Raised There.
Senator Stanford May Yet Be
Given a Close Race as a
Horse Breeder.

principal tfOttlng-nOrSe men unUll ne
was appointed judge of the court of ap-
peals five years ago, when he with
drew from the trotting track. Since
then he has confined himself Ell
tirely to breeding, and at his stock
farm near Oweg0 is the finest col
lection of blOoded stock to be found
until the state of Kentucky is reached.
Gen. Tracy first turned his attention to
trOtting in 1872, and purchased small
farm near Owego, N. Y. He was sue
cessful on the circuit, and in 1878 de-
cided to engage in the business of
breeding trotters. He made several ex-
tensive purchases of land adjoining his
stock farm, and now. under the pretty
name of Marshland, it is known to all
$50 acres all in his own name. The
farm
STANDS OUT PROMINENTLY
with Mambrino Dudley. 2:19M; Ken
lucky Wilkes, 2:214; and Cheltenham.
1928, at its head. During the season last
passed Mambrino Dudley was repre-
sented by Crescendo, 1924; Gretna.
$685.; Fairfax, 2:33; and Fred, 2:45.
Kentucky Wilkes had on the circuit
three-year-Old Virginia Evans, 2:31, and
the twO-year-old Astoria, 2:40%. Dur
ing the coming season many new names
will appear upon the trotting circuits,
and the majority of those will be record
seekers from Marshland. Secre-
tary Tracy will not allow the
cares of official life to inter
fere with the progress and sue
cess of his pet idea, which is to elevate
the breed of trotting horses, and reach
point that will bring not only speed
and stamina, but beauty as well. Dur
ing the coming season he will send out
many selected youngsters, all of which
are sure to find fame by their records.
The first, perhaps, will be the four
year-old bay colt Hermod, by Prineeps'
son OXmoOr, 2:33, out of Wanatah, by
Wedgewood; second dam Hermosa
dam of Hermes, Heptagon and Mosa),
by Edwin Forrest; third dam Black
Rose. Hermod stands sixteen hands,
and is good,
STRONG. LIKELY-LOoKING COLT.
He traces twice to Black Rose through
Prlnceps and Hermosa, whose blood is
in him, mingled with that of WOOdbine
and Belle in Wedgewood. He should
make most valuable stock horse. One of
the most grandly bred is the three-year-
old bay colt Arlington. He is by MAN.
Darien, 2:21115, she being out of Madam
Dudley's daughter Dahlia, by Pilot Jr
Arlington should be considered as
| stout and as fashionable bred colt as
stands on shoes, as he inherits the blood
of Harold, Pilot Jr., and Woodford
Mambrino. He has a good way of
going, and stands fifteen and three
quarter hands. The brown colt Battle
Axe is one that Gen. Tracy is proud
of. He is by Kentucky Wilkes
from the fast mare Argo. In his veins
blood Of EIaofinnnap
George Wilkes united, and it is be-
lieved by turfmen that the cross ought
| to prove success. The brown two
year-old colt Brevet, by Kentucky
Wilkes, out of dam Pottery Girl, is
| promising yOungster. His dam and
grandam are speed producers. Alicia
was the dam of Pottery Girl, 2:35, and
Alice Van DuZer. who was got by See
| ley's American Star, is sister in blood
to Goshen Maid, 2:314, and Sir Henry,
sire of Lady Star, 2:24. All the farm
| proud of Rockingham, foaled in 1885.
| OXmoor, his sire, got Cheltenham, 2:2S.
and had a record of 1888 over half
mile track. His dam is Mayenne, who
| is not only
SPEED PRODUCER
of the first order, but whose dam and
! grandam were also speed producers.
| The colts at Marshland are not by any
means the stars of the lot. There are
| several FLIES, foaled in 1886, which are
| expected to earn money and fame on
Among the FLIES, Africa, foaled in
| 1886, by Mambrino Dudley out of Electa,
is to be found. She unites the blood of
Green Mountain Maid, Charles Kent
Mare, Montgomery Maid, Madam Dud-
ley, and Woodbine. Baroness and Beati-
| tude are pair of two-year-0ldS, the first
got by Kentucky Wilkes out of Duchess,
and the other by Mambrino Dudley out
Hildegarde. The latter was dam of
Cheltenham, 2:28. Kentucky Wilkes
has two-yearold filly called Blue Silk,
last fall, and showed herself to be
fast and natural PAGER. On her fourth
time OH the track Blue Silk paced an
eighth in 211s seconds. Secretary
Tracy has great hopes of the three
year-old filly Brush, by Kentucky
Wilkes, out of Wedgewood's daughter
Wanatah. Brush is large for her age
and promising. In point of breeding
she cannot be surpassed. Another
daughter of Kentucky Wilkes is b.
livia. Her dam is Vivian, daughter
of Woodford Mambrino and Virginia,
the dam of fremont. 2:2S15. fremont
was represented on the turf last-year
by the five-year-old colt Junemont,
2:1S%. This filly's blood is mixture
of AleXander'S Abdallah and Woodford
Mambrino, the best son of Mambrino
Chief.
AMONG THE YEARLINGs
at MarShfield are many choice colts and
FLIES. There is FLY by Kentucky
Wilkes out of the AlmOnt mare Betty
Adams, whose dam produced Lady Ma
jolica, 2:25. There is brother to Bre-
vet, brother to Battle Axe, and daugh-
tiers of Hildegarde, Mason Girl and
Vivian, all sired by WoodfOrd Mann
brine. The Onward mare Loretta, who
is out of a sister of Stephen G.. 2:2015, is
the dam of a large yearling by Kentucky
Wilkes. Among others at MarshlaDd
are the four-year-old Gretna, 2:291155;
the chestnut colt Broderick: two fillieS
by Lady Moore, the dam of Fairfax;
the three-year-old Astoria, who made
record of 2:40H last year, and the three
year-old Bosque. There are many other
well-bred trotting horses at Secretary
Tracy's Marshland farm, and as
he is constantly adding to his
farm lands he will unquestion-
ably in the course of few years
give Senator Stanford, of California, a
close race for supremacy in the matter
of stock farms for the breeding of
trOtting horses. 1t is surprising tefnd
how much Gen. Tracy knows about
breeding. The demands made upon
him by his profession of the law would
naturally lead one to suppose that he
could not give more than a small por-
ton of his time to the examination Of
the records and pedigrees of trotting
horses. But as matter of fact the
new secretary of the navy has acquired
a knowledge regarding the different
families whose names make up the his