Morning journal and courier., 1890-01-27
WHERE OIL TROTTERs GO.

The Fate of Famous Flyers After
 Their Flying Days Are over.
 LFrom the Sportsman.l
 What becomes of the geldings that were prominent on the tretting turf after they become too old for road usea is 8 question that is frequently asked and which few can answer, says 6 writer in the Philadelphia Times. Many of the fastest ones are for . time easily traced, but they soon drop out of sight and eventually disappear. Such is the case of St. Julien, 2:1114, who is now pass- ing his declining years in a comfortable paa- dock at Petuluma, Cal, under the sky where he first showed the bursts of speed that ulti- mately made him king of the turf. Rarus, 2:13L, the horse he deposed,t stands in his box stall in Robert Bonner's stable in West Fifty-ffth street, New York, awaiting death. For three years he has not felt the pavement beneath his hoofs, and as the champion that swept away all records at Buffalo eleven years ago turns his head to look at a visitor, feeling of sadness passes through those who knew him in the morning of his career, and when his namo supplanted that of Gold smith Maid in the affections of the public. With Hopeful, 2:13s4, another phase of equine life is found. He was in his day as celebrated as Rarus or even St. Julian, was . magnificent race horse to harness or wagon. an ideal road trotter. When his racing days were over the gallant little gray began to drift about the country, eventually pulling up at Sing Sing prison, in New York State, where he was kept and owned by promi- mont detective. Of late, however, he has passed into the hands of Maryland gentle man, who considers it an honor to own the trotter that has the fastest heats to wagon among his achievements.
 Few, if any. of the horses campaigned by Dan Mace were as popular as Darby, 2:16L. Darby was good race horse and trottsd twice to his record. Ten years ago he de- feated Dick Swlveller, Hannis and Driver at Utica, making his record in the third heat. The following year he disposed of Hopeful and Great Eastern at Rochester, after the former had won two heats in 2:15L, 2:1414. The time was very fast, but Darby was equal to the emergency. As old age crept on the brown gelding, he, like many another that had been prominent, struck . down grade, and was sold @ little over year ago in New York for $265.
 The gray gelding Charley Ford, 2:16A. who is now in his nineteenth year, was more fortunate, as, after his eventful track career, during which he won thirty. eight races, he was treated like child by Jerry Monroe. Nothing was too good for Charley until . few years ago, when Monroe sold him to @ popular Chicago judge, who treats the old champion with the kindness he deserves af- ter his struggle for fame on all kinds of tracks, from the country fair ring to grand circuit course.
 Many of the old time champion geldings have passed away. Dexter, 2:171<, among the most prominent to die during the past few years. Great Eastern, 2:1S, disappeared almost as soon he left the grand circuit tracks, while Judge Fullerton, 2:18, had g more checkered career after Humphreys sold him. He met his fate in Boston, where he was being exhibited in clothing store, and would have been presented, had he lived, to the purchaser who guessed nearest his weight. While heinz exercised, however, he fell on railroad track, and was injured 50 seriously that he was destroyed. Red Cloud, 2:1S, If still alive, is twenty-three years old, and Colonel Lewis, 2:181s, is now nineteen. Midnight, 2:1814, is seventeen, ond still has great flight of speed, being one of John D. Rockefeller's favorite pair of blacks. Of the other old-timers that were performing in the seventies, Oomoe, 2:1S14, Iron Age, 2:1914; TIogbadour. s:1e1S; Camoss, s;1s4, are S:19h; Driver, g:1s4; and, possibly, Aose, Emmons, 2:193, and Albemarle, 2:19, are still alive. Many of the names are, no doubt, new to the present generation of race goers, but all of them were stars during the heydsy of their careers, and not 8 few of them retired with enviable reputations. Time, however, does not respect the fast any more than the slow. and eventually gathers them all into his embrace.