Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-31

year younger than Red Wilkes, twenty
seven, while Alcantara, one year young
er than Onward, and two younger than
Red Wilkes, has twenty-seven, which, as
before stated, is seven more than Red
Wilkes, the greatest son of George
Wilkes, had at the same age.
These comparisons are doubly interest
ing from the fact that Alma Mater, dam
of Alcantara, was from a strictly thor
oughbred mare. Pursuing the investiga-
ton and comparison a little farther, it
appears that Alcantara surpasses both of
the others at the same age as a trans
mitter of trotting speed, or in the capa-
city to breed on.
AT the close of the season, when he
was fourteen years old, EDWARDS daugh-
tiers had produced Benoni (three-year-old
record 2 :2sD and Nuthurst (three-year-
old pacing record 1920. None of his
sons were then credited with $50 per-
formers. At the close of the season,
when Red Wilkes was fourteen, neither
of his sons or daughters were credited
with any in the 2 80 list.
Alcantara, now fourteen years old,
sired Montezuma q :294), which got the
three-year-old chestnut gelding White
Wings, that won a race at Pougkeepsie
last week, making a record of 2:29t in
the fourth heat. Alpha q :234), a daugh-
ter of Alcantara, is the dam of Aegon,
which got a record of 2:2G this season.
isabella, another daughter of Alcan-
tara, brought c. j. Hamlin's popular stall
lion Prince Regent (tiye-year-old record
2:l61).
Another interesting fact in connection
with the above is that Alpha q :234), as
well as the dams of isabella and Mon
tezuma, were all daughters of the famous
brood mare Jessie Pepper, by Mambrino
Chief. The dam of Jessie Pepper was
Mater. She was by the thoroughbred
Sidi Hamet, and undoubtedly out of a
daughter of Darnaby's Diomed, by Han
cocks Hambletonian, by Hambletonian,
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was by Viriginian, by Sir Archy, out of
Lady Burton, by Sir Archy second dam
Sultana, a pure Barb, sired by the Barb
stallion and out of the Barb mare pre-
sented by the Bey of Tunis to Thomas
Jefferson when the latter was President
of the United States.
The Jessie Pepper strain appears to
nick well with that of Wilkes. lola, by
Administrator, out of Jessie Pepper, is
the dam of Irene, which got a record OF
2.23 at Poughkeepsie last week, and of
which Mr.. Davis, agent of Highlawn,
says in a private letter: 'She will, if
nothing happens, take a faster record
next season than any of Alcantara's get
have yet won.' Iona, (2.l74), by Alley
one (2.21), dam, Jessie Pepper, is the
dam of the ~three-year-old PAGER Acmon,
which got IA record of 2.29t this season,
Algeria Wilkes, by Alcyone (2.27), dam,
Il daughter of Jessie Pepper, got the pac-
er Hugare, which has made a record OF
2.29 this season. Old Jessie Pepper wa:
pretty highly seasoned, but her progeny
are breeding on in a wonderful manner
That shrewd and successful horsman,
e. j. Hamlin, was evidently not far ouI
of the way in his estimate of Jessie Pep
per, which he regards as the creates
daughter of Mambrino Chief. The facI
that Alcantara is proving 5 o successful
as a progenitor of speed shows that in
some cases a thoroughbred cross of the
right kind close up does not iniure 6
stations chances for getting t~rottine
speed with great uniformity.
We cannot recall an instance where tho
get of any stallion made so grand a show,
ing at one meeting as that of AlcantarG
did at Poughkeepsie last week. Auto
graph, by him, won the 2.24 race, t~rotting
the second and third heats in 2.2l3, 2.22
Mink Vol the 2.25 race, getting a record
of 2.224 in the third heat. Irene VOL the
2.40 race, getting a record of 2.23. Six
others of Alcantara's get entered the 2.3C
list there, including Mr.. A. L. Walkers
stallion Goldbeater, which got a record OF
2.20t in the third heat of a race, the
three-year-old Raven, which made a rec
ord of 2.2G9, and Thornton, another three
year-old, which got a record of 2.2G4.
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