The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-03-03
HORSE AND TRACK.

Monroe Saulsbury's trotters will mo-
come East until the first week in June
The string will be great one, com
prising Margaret s., 2:129; Home
stake, :l44; Direct, who has become
a PAGER; Cricket (pacer), 2;30, Deco.
rator, Corrector, Lady Director and
Margharita. The last named four arc
by Director, and Margharita, year.
ling, is sister to Margaret S.
| Those who have tirst-class, well
bred individuals, which can go out
and prove by their speed that they
possess merit have no cause to fee
bhcaoyer the apparently low prices
received for good-pedigreed stock al
the recent sales. The bottom will
never fall out of the market for the
best bred ones which can stand the
test when put upon the track or road
This is the sort to aim for.
tits stated that Mr.. Bonner has al
last decided to breed Maud S., and
Twill mate her with Ansel, 2:20, the
son of EIectioneer, out of Annette,
thoroughbred daughter of Lexington,
and full sister of Waxy, the granddam
of Sunol. Few have ever expected to
see the7beautiful daughter of Harold
on the turf again, Notwithstanding the
yearly reports that it was Mr.. Bonner's
intention to give her another prepare
ton. 1t is pity she was not bred
long ago, as she is now seventeen years
old, and even if fruitful cannot in the
years that are left do justice to herself
in The stud.
After little experience, L. j. Rose
has come to the conclusion that there
is more money in breeding fashiona-
BILE trotters for tie Eastern market
than racing thoroughbreds in stakes,
where is compelled TO meet the pick
of the land. Mr.. Roses luck in the
horse business has been phenomenal,
and the old gentleman likes to tell his
friends how he made fortune out of
the marc Minnehaha, when she was
worthless for track purposes, and was
bred as last resort. lie bred SIAM
boul, and sold him to X. Hobart, the
San Francisco millionaire enthusiast
on trotters, for $4,000, and disposed
of many young and untried stations
at his sales for phenomenal figures.
Voodo, Baron Rose, and others might
be mentioned. The former costing
over $4,000. Alcazar, sire of trot-
tiers, and trotter himself, went for
considerably over $4,000, and any
number Of fillies brought way up into
the thousands. Ia all Mr.. Rose made
I cool half million out Of breeding
trotters, and lost it with the runners.
Tom Hal is No. / in the Pacing
Register. He was a wonderfully
great progcnitor of pacing speed. The
following records are claimed for his
get:
l. Fastest race record, :09f-Hal
Pointer.
2. Fastest stallion race record,
2 :l2I-Brown Hal.
3. Fastest third heat, . :129-Brown
Hal.
4. Fastest third heat, 2 :12!--Little
Brown jug.
5. Fastest three heats, 2:O94, 2:12I,
2 :l3-Hal Pointer.
6. Second fastest three heats, 2:11a,
2 liz 2:lI!-Little Brown jug.
7. Fastest two performers by one
Pointer, 2:092, and Little
Brown jug, 2:1l4. Average 2:l04.
8. Fastest three performers by one
Pointer, 2 :094. Little Brown
Jug, 2:l18, and Brown Hal, 2:12I.
Average, 2:l15.
8. Fastest reliable quarter, % Sec
onds-Brown Hal (under four watches.
10. Grandest racing record in the
world-Hal Pointer, two seasons
through the Grand Circuit with but
single defeat
Young breeders have often been
cautioned during the past few years
20 be sure and get animals that pos
'ess merit as we'll as pedigree when
selecting their breeding stock. 1t did
lot require any foresight to know that
he country would soon be flooded
with STANDARDIZED stock, and when
hat point was reached animals must
;ell Oh their merits. The time has al
'eady come when pedigrees accompa-
lied with poor animals are not wanted
or breeding by any experienced
and such must sell for just
what they are worth for ordinary road
pr cart work.
The old fable about the hen that
aged the golden eggs is not marker
o the way John Madden samples the