St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-14
EQUINE ETCHINGS.

Daughters of Sidney now hold both
the yearling trotting and pacing records.
The twO-year-old trotting record has
been reduced thirty-one seconds in
twenty years.
The wonderful yearling. Frou-Frou,
was rather late fOal, as she first saw
the light OH May 2, 1899.
Temple Bar 2:17$4, Illinois Egbert
2:2O and EgthOrne 2:14I, all sons of
Egbert, went into the 2:30 list this sea
son.
There seems to be growing feeling
among the leading drivers and breeders
that the license system would prove
beneficial to the trotting turf.
Verona Wilkes, daughter of Guy
Wilkes, that made record of 2:27 this
season, Is said by Ed Geers to be the
best-gaited trotter he has seen in many
day. She is expected to beat 2:20 in
1892.
The first ElectiOneer to win race was
AnteeO. That was in 1880, and Anteeo
was then yearling. The record then
obtained was 3:l715.
The dam of the two-year. old colt
Ralph Wilkes, 2:1S, once changed hands
for Sli0, and it is said that Ralph him.
self was offered for less than 81 600 a
year ago.
Axtell, NutwOod, Guy Wilkes, SIAM
boul. Red Wilkes, each were held this
season for $1,000 service fees; Nelson.
500; Allerton, Onward, st. Bel and
AnteeO, $500.
Ii Arion, as two-year-old, can trot
In 2: 1914, what will be his limit as five
year-od? Think of it, 2:10 is at the rate
of forty-One feet to the second.
Prince Wilkes, 2:l3%, the trotting
champion of 1888, has broken down in
South America, and has been sold to a
BuenoS AyTeS llveryman for a small
sum. -
The bush horse Brazos, whose sensa-
tional wins down the line last spring
are remembered by many. is to be used
as stock horse in Texas, his feet hav-
ing given out.
A sister to the California stallion,
Gen. Benton. is owned in New York.
She is called Molly Benton and will be
nineteen years old next spring. She
will be bred to Patron, 2:1414.
Dexter Bradford, the sire of Ceur
d,Alene, 2:1919, is a small horse with
blaze face and three white feet, greatly
resembling old Dexter, the first horse
that ever trOtted below 2:1S.
Independence" Williams declares
that the future of the trotting turf de-
pendS on low entrance fees, plenty of
stakes. SO that greater earnings are DOS
SlDle. and better business methods. He
indorSeS the professional starting Judge
Idea warmly and favOrS the licensing of
drivers by the trotting associations.
Scores of retired merchants and man.
ufacturers are going into the breeding
OF trotterS on large sale and making
their nomination stakes which are con-
stantly increasing in value. The trot-
ting turf may not witness one of its
stars sold at auction for 100000, as was
the case with St. Blaise, for some time
to come, but its growth is a healthy one,
beyond dispute.
c. w. Williams, who owned a half in
terest in yearling sister to AXtell and
a weaving brother to that horse, has
bought the other half interest and will
develop the colts on his own account.
1t is understood that when the tillv is a
couple OF years older she will be bred to
Arlon, 2:lO$4, thus uniting the blood of
the champion two-year-old and three
year-old stations.
Whenever Charles Marvin starts Bell
Bird. the champion yearliEg, it is
question IN the first 200 yards whether
she Will trOt or kick him out of the
sulky.
Among the mares that are 10 be bred
to AllertOn in the spring is the dam of
Polly, mare that was for three years
the champion of Europe. Allerton's
tee for 1892 has been fixed at 1900,
with no return privilege.
Enfield mares have done great work
In the production of trotters, and one of
them. Ella, Is now the dam of Gypsy
Queen, 2:241l; Washington. 2:24s[.
ana Lily Iompkins, 2:294; each being
by different sire.
Colts can be kept gentle with proper
care. without making pets of them. So
that when actual labor is required of
them they can be made to perform it
without trouble and with perfect safety.
Colts, like children, are spoiled by too
much petting.
Inc driver OF Cheyenne, the famous
blind trOtter, talks to HIM continually In
a race, and it is said the confidence of
the horse in the drivers voice is won
derful.
The late Alden Goldsmith declared
that he had carefully measured the
stride OF Gloster when going at full
speed and found it to be twenty-three
feet. IL horse could take two strides
of twenty-three feet each in a second
and keep it up for mile his time would
be 1:54 As.
In Budd Dobe's stable at Terre
Haute, Ind, are Nancy Hanks, 200:
Graylight, 2:1G15; Delmarch. Bib:
McDOel, 2:1515; Dave Wilson, 2:23l5:
National, 2:25; Pilot II, 2:291l; and
Tony V, the yearling recently pur-
chased by Allie Bonner at Lexington.
that showed for him quarter in O:S51l.
Palo Altos dam, Dame Winnie. by
Planet, is the only thoroughbred brood
mare that has ever produced more than
one 2:30 trotting performer. She is the
dam of tue champion stallion, PaIoAIto.
2:0S$l; Gertrude Russell, 2:2S15, and
Big Jim, 2:2315.
Mambrino Boy, one of the greatest of
brood-mare sires, has sired the dam of
a twO-yearold with record of 2:1S, ola
three-year-old with a record of 2;l2, a
four-year-old with arecord of 2:13I5 and
a five yearold with q record of 2:O91I,
and all of them stations.
Midnight, by Pilot Jr., threw two foals
the exact opposite of each other, so far
as concerns size. Say-Eye-See, by Die
tator, stands less than fifteen hands
high and has record of 2:lO. while
Electricity, by Electioneer, from the
same mare, is nearly sixteen hands
three inches in height, and has a record
of 2:17I.
independence" Williams is entering
the FLY by Axtell, 2:l2; Annie Dickin-
son, 2:l919, in all the big trotting two
Yeaf-old stakes of 1892.
Senator Leland Stanford thinks that
the bay colt Electrical by Electioneer.