Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-10
THE TROTTING TURF.
The Lexington Tracks Fast and Train
ing Progressing Nicely.
ONE MANS WONDERFUL NERVE.
He Wanted to Ring Noted PAGER Through
Kentucky Races.
LATE ADDITIONS TO THE HONOR ROLL
rrRon A STAFF connrspoNDnvr.I

LEXINGTON, KY, August 9.-The re-
cent rain have made the Lexington track
as fast as bullet, and the horses quartered
there are going like the wind. The con-
tinued warm weather has almost obliterated
the disease with which the horses suffered
SO much last spring and in the early sum-
mer. While some of the fast ones have
gone wrong, there are still enough to make
big entries for the coming meetings, even if
horses from other places do not come here.
But, with the influx of some of the best
campaigners in the country, the meetings
this month and in October will see some of
the best time ever made in races over the Lex
ington course. The last work reported to have
been done by Angelina, the sensational Wilkes
Boy filly, is very fast She is said to have gone
a mile in 222 over the Lexington track. If
this is correct she will certainly be heard from
before the season is over.
Few men who are engaged in the horse busi-
ness can view with more pleasure the triumph
of the descendants of George Wilkes sons
than the white-haired man who signs his name
George Wilkes Simmons Years ago when
few men believed the game little son OF
Rysdyk's Hambletonian and Dolly Spanker
Simmons showed his abiding faith in his power
to transmit his wonderful racing qualities by
bringing him to Kentucky. The babies born
that year are now only II years of age, yet what
see. On every track in the land horses within
whose veins the blood of George Wilkes flows,
are adding renewed glory to the crown of the
equine king. 1t is useless TO underrate them.
Everybody that knows anything about trotting
horses knows their names and is familiar with
their startling performances, and it requires no
prophet to predict that before the snow flies
George Wilkes name will be linked with more
sensational nerfOrmerS than ever dreamed OF
before
A horseman who happens to own one Of the
worlds fastest PAGERS. and who lives in an ad-
joining State, has received the following bold
"Mr. -: Strive have never met, but
tleman in all that the word implies and l would
like to meet you on these terms, viz: would
like to get your horse, if he has record suffi.
cient to beat any other horse In the United
States. will take him, have him insured, and
travel him all fall, and give you half l can
make, which think would be most any amount.
will do my own riding, feeding and watering,
and you can send anyone you wish to guard
you against defraud 1 will make you safe, as
don't suppose you would like to go yourself. l
think can carry the horse ID Kentucky and
make all the money want by giving him some
fictitious name and calling him Wayne
county horse. If you consider INV proposition,
give you - reference as to character"
1t is scarcely necessary to say that the offer
L
which to admire most, the impudence OF the
fellow in addressing such a letter to the gentle
man who received it, or his verdancy in imag-
lining that his offer would be accepted, or that
the particular horse referred to could be cam
paigned under fictitious name without bis
identity being discovered About the most
sensible suggestion he makes is that the owner
of the horse should send someone along to see
that he wasn't swindled out of his eyes, A
man starting out with ringer to rob the pub
lie would be capable of committing any other
kind of "defraud" Ito use his own choice
phraseology) that he had the ingenuity to in
vent.
General W. II. jackson, of Belle Meade, has
sold to 8. N. Warren, Spring Hill farm the
mare Flora by BassiDger, sire of the dam of
McEwen. 2:lSN Flora is dam of Five Points,
trotter, trial, 225; l. Day, Trial, 2:3S: Eunice
Jackson, trial. below 230 and granddam of
Dallas, PAGER, 2:171l. Also a2year-old gelding
out of Flora by Wedgewood, and sucking iliy
by Wedgewood, dam Flora
The broodmares and their colts, the property
were killed by lightning at his place, on the old
Frankfort pike, last week. One of the mares
was by Tom B (son of Mambrino Patchen). and
her FLY was by Bourbon Wilkes and in foal by
Bourbon Wilkes. The other mare was in foal
to the Highland Farm stallion Dark Night.
49, X =" 70
There are 20 new performers to add to the
2:30 list this week, making the total 237, ex-
elusive of several erroneous and doubtful ones
before enumerated. Following are this weeks