St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-25
Miscellaneous.

The deal by which the Forest City
farm came into the sole ownership of
Patron also, put Messrs. Merrill and
Scott, of TilsOnburg, Canada. into pos
session of Patti Hunter and Sequel, two
of the choicest bred fillies on the Emery
farm. Patti Hunter is by Patron, 2:l4A,
out of the celebrated mare Matte
Hunter, 2:123l. She is trim dark bay
with both hind feet white. Sequel is
also by Patron, out of Secret. 2:20k, by
Strathmore; second dam Amanda, by
WaXy. She is also dark bay with no
marks. They were shipped to their new
owner last week. The price for the two
was abouJ.$5, 900, the amount going in
on the sale of the second half INTEREST," in
Patron.
The Jewett stock farm, Buffalo, N.
Y, has stable OF trOtterS in charge of
w. B. Mcdonald. He has choice and
fast lot of youngsters in training by
Jerome Eddy, 2:l6115; Sherman, 2:23115;
Homer, Corgnet and Patcben Wilkes.
Among the aged ones are Oriana. 2:25,
by Rochester; Dinnie, 1854, at four
years, and a half-sster, Clarkice, by
Administrator. They are out of the
dam of Wilson. 2:164, and Abdallah
West. Mcdonald is confident that the
black stallion Patchen Wilkes. by
George Wilkes. dam by Mambrino
Patchen, will he one of the sensations
of 1SS9.-BuffalO Courier.
Watch the blacksmiths, and do not
allow them to burn the hOof with hot
shoe because it is easier to do this
than to trim or file the hOof smooth.
Burning ruins the wall of the foot so
that 1t will not retain the shoe so long,
besides rendering it so brittle that
heavy strain upon it will cause it to
break; and if the shoe comes off OH the
road the hoof is likely to go to pieces
before you can reach the shop.
w. l.. Simmons, of Ash Grove stud,
has sold to Budd Doble the bay filly
Marie Jansen, 4, by Betterten, dam by
Daniel Lambert, for $4,000. Marie
Jansen Tapped Repetition out here last
fall in 2:2l, and is regarded as one Of
the most promising young trotters in
Kentucky.
The trainers in Sydney, New South
Wales, cannot afford to keep very many
non-winners in their stables, as hay is
worth S65.50 ton. If few of the
American trOtting drivers had that
problem TO solve it would force them to
the front every race day.
Jackson l. Case, Racine, Wis, has
purchased from w, r. Brasfield, Lex
ington, KY. for $1,000, the three-year-
old bay stallion Harold Wilkes formerly
Baron Harold), by Baron Wilkes, 2:19,
dam Alacrity, by Harold; second dam
Juliet, by Pilot, Jr.
Constitution in a horse is very apt to
be overlooked by the inexperienced
buyer. "a square-built, well-muscled
horse will stand more work and more
hardsnips than two lank, loose-jointed
ones, and not require as much food as
one of them"
FL. Fl. Churchill, of Boston. has pur-
chased from Andrew j. Childs, for
$1,000, the Siy-year-old standardized
trotting mare Lady Falconer. She has
no track record, but it Is thought she
will beat 2:20 this year.
Billy Andrews drives Belle Hamlin,
2:13sl, from fifteen to eighteen miles
daily, and he says she does not tire the
least. When the season opens she will
he driven with Globe, 2:2l1, to beat the
dOuble-team record.
STEAMBOAT, the noted stallion, son of
The Moor, was sold last Thursday with
the brood mares Sweetheart, Bon-bon
and Astien, by l.. j. Rose to w. S.
made public.
Sire Bros, of Morristown, N. j., will
send Gossip Jr., Harry Wilkes and
Rosaline Wilkes through the grand cir
cult this year. They talk of buying a
candidate for the Flower City stake at
Rochester.
Mr.. Marvin is driving a yearling at
Palo Alto which he thinks will break
Norlaine's record of 2:31%. She is by
Electioneer, and gives promise of being
able to show 2:25 before the season is
over.
Peter Duryea, of Philadelphia, has
purchased from j. G. Blake. of Tekou-
sha, Mich, the brown trotting mare
Jessie b, by Don j. Robinson. She has
a five-year-Old record of 2:41a.
T. 'ig chestnut PAGER Balsora
W kes, 2 n. has not had harness on
hin. 3 nc de was taken to Buffalo last
fall. nc has been running out in pad
dock and feels like colt.
Jockey Goodale has been engaged to
ride for ID. d. Withers, and has left
New Orleans for New York COM
mence exercising the grand youngsters
in the Brookdale stable.
Bermuda, 2::2015, is the only horse in
the history of the trotting turf which
las been in active training since year.
ling that each successive season has
lowered his record.
Philip F. Dwyar, of the Dwyer Bros,
Brooklyn, is on visit to Florida for a
few weeks.
w. T. Snyder's trotting stallion Post
Boy, 2:23, which broke his leg while
being led to Lexington last Saturday,