The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-25
Some Of Them Are Appropriate,
While Others Are Far
From It.
California Owners With Strong
Pendants For Castinan
Cognomens.
Longfellow's Best Son Naturally Called
the Bard-Compliment to Inspector
Byrnes-Winning Name.

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brother, has given some very good names to
his horses. King Thomas is by the cele-
brated sire King Ban. The name Thomas
was given as compliment to the trainer.
A sister of the great FLY Dew Drop is in the
senator's stable. She is by Falsetto, dam
Explosion, and her name is Fireworks.
Another 2-year-old by the good sire War
wick is named Warpath. Tournament, q
8-year-old this year, is the son of Sir Mod
red and Plaything. Remembering that a
tournament served somewhat as plaything
for the knight of the round table, Sir Mod
red, this colt is very we'll named.
]. b. Haggin, the copper king of Californ-
ia, is very fond of giving his horses Spanish
names and does not seem to mind the ap-
propriateness of the names very much.
They certainly sound we'll. Among the
the queen of turf. Hidalgo was one of his
horses. He was a handsome black colt and
certainly looked his title. Salvador is an
other of his. Ben ALI a very cratic horse,
was named after his son. The name was
not at all suitable, for he did not at all fol-
low his namesake.
Lucky Baldwin, another Californian, is
fond of names of Mexican towns and towns
of Lower California. These names, like
MIR. Haggin's, are very nice sounding ones.
He is superstitious about his names, and
thinks that ill-luck comes to all the horses
that are not named according to his rule.
As an instance of the i'll luck he mentions
Fallen Leaf, Emperor of Norfolk, Lucky B
and few others. Fallen Leaf was the fast
est flly of the year, but was ruined by be-
ing badly cut down in race. Lucky B,
named after his owner, was good perform
or. but was singularly unfortunate on the
track, always meeting with accidents and
was finally killed. Emperor of Norfolk .one
of the best 2-year-olds Of the turf, and the
best colt in Mr.. Baldwin's stable, broke
down. MIR. Baldwin finds it hard task to
find names now, as he has almost exhausted
the supply. These are the Mexican names
some Of his horses have: Volante, Calfente,
Lijero, Honduras and Sinaloa.
Of course any one would naturally sup
pose that the best son of the great Longfel-
low would be The Bard. That ia how the
1irst-class colt of Mr.. Cassatt came to be
named. Mr.. Cassatt had another horse very
appropriately. named, He is Now or Never.
has no meaning whatever to it. In Mr..
Cassett's farm at Chesterbrook is a mare
named Bye-and-Bye. When Bye-and-Bye
had a colt Mr.. Cassatt instructed his trainer,
Mr.. Higgins, to name him Now Or Never.
Another in the same stable as The Bard is
been the custom to give the sons and daugh-
tiers of Eolus names as similar to the sire as
possible. Other race horses by Eolus are
Eole, Eolian, Eolist and Eon.
The Dryer Brothers have several ways of
giving their horses names. Sometimes they
bhe vicinity Of their stables. Among the
Aorses named in this way are Long Island,
who is son of Longfellow; Flatbush, Ford
ham, Bay Ridge, fremont and many others.
Sometimes they give horse name similar
to an older brother or sister of the colt or
fi11v Tor noknnNo nou 10 hos
of Bessie June, Houston is brother to the
mighty Hanover, Kingstock and Kings
bridge are both brothers to Kingston.
The Dryers named one of their best horses
after Inspector Byrnes. The inspector and
the famous Brooklyn turfmen are great
after the New York Vidocq as compliment
to that distinguished officer. OF course they
wanted good colt to wear such q name,
and they also wanted the name to be as ap-
propriate to the horse as possible. They
found good colt in their string by
brothers that they could not do better than
give the son of Enquirer the name of the
greatest detective or enquirer in the world
to-day, and consequently called him In
spector B. The next year they secured q
FLY, a sister to Inspector b., and they named
ter. A few of the horses in the Brooklyn
stable have been named after the ocean
steamships. They have an Aurania. an
Etruia, and Servia, all fair performers.
Mr.. D. d. Withers, the master of the
Brookdale stable, and whose colors are all
black, never names any of his horses until
they have won race. The name he gives
them is always a very appropriate one, TAX
ing into consideration the names of the sire
and dam of the winner, and if possible the
circumstances under which the race vas
won. Blackstone was one of the well-named
horses. His sire is Stonehenge and his dam
Mary Buckley. Blackstone. it will be easily
Another colt bred the Same as Blackstone.
consequently q brother, he named
Stonebuck, SO the sage of Brookdale made
two names out of the same combination. A
still younger brother has been named
|Stonecrop. This year a two-year-old
will be interesting to watch and see what
name Mr.. Withers will give him when he
has won race. Curbstone would do very
we'll. Another good name for a horse in
tne same stable was Laggard. He was BY
Uncas, dam Dawdle. It was long time
before ne won race, SO that the name was
appropriate in that sense, and then he was
somewhat of a lazy horse as a two-year-oId.
His half-brother, by Tom Ochiltree, dam
Dawdle, is called Sluggard. Auricoma, the
crack filly of the stable last year, was so
called because she is such a beautiful chest
and she is like ray of light Chemise is
another of Mr.. Withers' tillies. Her sire
was Sensation. Her dam was Chamois.
|Chemise was shiftless FLY for some time,
land never seemed to have much ambition
Ito win race.
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