St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-03
; PROCTOR KNOTT.
The Pride O. kaintuck Not to Start
in the louisville Derby.


in the louisville Derby.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 2.-Unless all
signs fail, that great colt, Proctor Knott,
will duplicate in his three-year-old form
the proves he exhibited as two-year-
old. He can be seen almost every
morning stretching his long, powerful
legs over the reeeding soil at Churchill
Downs, and he looks the very perfection
of a thoroughbred in action. He was
always large for his age, and he keeps
Oh increasing, until now he stands over
sixteen hands, weighs almost LOO
pounds, and is yerltable young equine
giant in strength and staying powers.
There does not appear to be an ounce of
surplus flesh on him, despite his great
weight, but this can easily be accounted
for by the fact that he has been worked
almost every day during the present
open winter in Kentucky. He is, of
course, not yet fit for race, but he is
very nearly so. Two or three weeks of
good work would key him up to the
bruising point. Sam Bryant closely
guards his equine idol. and whenever
Proctor Knott is visible it is safe
wager that his owner is not far off. AS
he watched his horse yesterday morning
mentS that showed he was still nettled
over the refusal of Proctor Knott'S
would-be purchasers to pay him his
price.
''They wouldn't give $4,000 for him,
wouldn't they?" he exclaimed, derisiye-
ly. Oh Fem, I'll make 'em wish
they'd given $4,000! They'll appreci-
ate his true worth soon enough before
he gets through with 'em. They'll be just
like them fellers in the East. When l
took Proctor Knott to Monmouth to win
the Junior Champion, they said he was a
purity good colt for out West but he
needn't expect no show with them
Eastern cracks Cracks be -! l
had 'em all eatin' grass before the half
mile pole was reached" and he batted
his little, ferret-like eyes furiously.
"They said he was no count, but
they was all glad enough to go to the
deck before the Futurity was run. After
I'd won the Junior Champion and the
Equity stakes, and appeared to have
clnch on the futurity. they wanted to
give me $4,000 for him. They thought
a fool, and that 1 wouldn't have the
nerve to refuse such big lump. But
the whole of New York wouldn't have
bought him then. said I'd win the Flu
turity, an did. AM what is more, /
kept my colt, an that's what I'm going
to do nOw-keep him. They'll be glad
enough to buy him before the Chicago
Derby's run, just as they was before the
Futurity.
''How many races will he start in be-
fore the Chicago Derby, Mr.. Bryant?"
''Probaby three-I can't tell till see
how he does. His first race will be at
Nashville, in the $1,000 stakes. He'll
win that in a gallop. He's entered in
the Kentucky Derby and the Clark
stakes, but have concluded to with
draw him in the former. The Derby is
a mighty hard race at that time of the
year. and many good horse has been
ruined by it. Them other fellerS would
be glad to see him get banged to pieces
in an early race like this, so as he
wouldn't stand no show in the big stakes
at Chicago and in the East. But l
haven't been trainin' horses for twenty
years for nOthin'. If Come-to-Taw is
good he'll beat anything that'll start in
the Derby. and III save Proctor for the
Clark stakes, a few days later on. 1t is
a shorter route, and not so hard on a
horse as the Derby. From here I'll take
him to Latonia. He's entered there in
the Derby and the Himyar stakes. He
may start in both, and mebbe not in
neither. 1t all depends. The Himyar,
however, is only mile and furlOng,
an guess it won't hurt him much to
win that. Then he goes to Chicago. an
the horse that beats him in the Derby
there'll be dizzy before he reaches the
WIRE" and he swelled up like the frog
i'm ESop'S fable.