The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-02
Abdallnh. dam Nancy Awfnl. by Telegraph.
Rarns was II years Of age before no startled
the world with his 2;l4A mile ~ bunalo.

Rarus was II years OF age before he startled
the world with his 2;l4A mile ~ Buffalo.
A new "phsn0menon" 10 Jack Koth, who
Mich. For four years this tIottsr WAS =
good horss-ef-all-work on . Kansas farm,
and Al length passed into the hands OF =
shrswd horssman, who paid tho insiRnifi::
can't sum Of &l65 for Roth. He was sirsd
r, Lit.l. a, Albert. .na A.. 4 s%h y onIy snosbs soS p.. ..
inR-out Of the truth Of the ancient axiom
that blood will tell"
Among the thoroughbreds thera Is no
more interesting oaqe OF burial alive" for
years and pnal resurrection than that OF
the wonderful sire, imp. Bonnie Scotland,
by Ingo, dam Queen Mary. He was brought
from England by Captain Cornish. passed
to John Rsbor, OF Lancaster, o., and after
wards TO .Uncle joe Simpson and l.. @.
Parks. of Iowa. Finally, even though bred
to a lot OF inferior mares ne produceu quar-
length some enthusiastic friend Of the
horse urged old General W. g. Harding. of
Belle Meade farm, near Nashville, Tenn.
to buy the half-brothor to Blink Benny and
Balrownis Of Mr.. Parks, which was done,
and when he Was mated with some really
frst-elass matrons, behold tina galaxy Of
great race horses no produced in Luke
Blackburn, George Kinney, Bootjack,
Bancroft, Bsatitude, Bramble, Bramba-
lettn, Quartermaster, Boardman,, Joe
Howell, Boatmhn. Barrett, AranzA Belle OF
tho Highlands, Boulevard aud Beatrice!
Bonnie Scotland WAS a pretty old horse
when no was .'discevered" by General
Harding, and his showing was nothing
short of marvellous. His old owner, now
passed to his fathers, had the old horses
Scotland died at the & of 20, and the lat
tors life reminds ono torcibly OF Eloc-
tioneors-his discovery" made when
he was far from young, and
his Anal marvellous showing as a sire
when bred to good mares. and at length,
when he had established a reputation for
string speedy ''stayers," passing away at q
good old age, HIS memory revered by his
kind old master, who had his good bones
set up where he could gaze once in u while
on all that remained of n great horse e1-
cept his imperishable fame as 4 sire.
died rs the sire of the two Kentucky
Derby winners, Vagrant and Hindoo, and
the unbeaten fremont, among other Won
derful thoroughbreds, was once given away
by M. II. Sanford to Nelson Dudley, 1
have been told, but when Vagrant came
ont and won the Derby i'll 1876 Mr.. S. was
very glad to get the old con of Vandal and
Hymonia back and breed him to the best
mares on his magnificent domain near Lex
ington, Ky. What this cast OFF, did in
after years az a sire ut Elmendorf has only
been e1celled by Bonnie Scotland in this
country.
Belle Knight, who, next to our Marian, is
the greatest Thoroughbred broodmare in
America (the dam of min splendid pei
formers, among them Treeland, Long
knight, Unite, Lavinia Belle and Annie
Blackburn), was no spring chicken when
it is claimed was considered almost worth
less and auch a roeky-looking individual
that she was sold for $50. Ed. Corriean
was particularly sweet" on Bslle knights
progeny, and the mares foals were worth
almost their weight in gold.
Egmont, sold for o song, WAS taken to
Texas, and finally the blush horse" as he
WAS known, came out and beat the pick of
the west, ridden by a stable boy named
MATTHEW. Eventually the horse passed into
tho hands of the Chicago stables OH pay
ment of $4,000. Z.
Double Cross, sire of Guido, was driven
in a buggy around Oakland for several
years by Mrs. J. G.. Simpson, unthought Of
as Il sire of great race horses, until Col.
Harry l. Thornton conceived the notion OF
mating him with that excellent matron,
Aurora. II the old horse had lived. he
might have been another Bonnie Scotland,
for he had two CROSSES of that horse in him
from which he derived his name, Double
Cross. His sire was Malcolm, by Bonnie
Scotland. and his dam Columbia, q daugh-
ter of Bonnie Scotland. grandain OF Anteeo
2:16l4 and Antevolo 2:l9L.
John Davis, still on the turf. though II
years of age, was used in q Ut. Louis riding
school for a long time after he WAS sup.
posed to ba broker down, was 'resurrected,'
and doomed again as q victor III races IL
which were Bancroft, BlaZes and Other
cracks of that day in the west.
Hyder Ali was not given much of a chance
to distinguish himself in the stud white
Oh the Rowett farm in Illinois: but wher
Spokane came out in 1889 and won the Ken
tucky derby at louisville from Proctol
Knott in the fastest time ever made by {
thres-year-old at the distance-2:341L4-ane
that on a track far from fast, there was {
large premium placed on the old horse
get, and he will doubtless show his true
home.
Prsaknegs, who still with %Springbok
hold the worlds record at two and one
quarter miles, made at saratoga in 1875
was taken to England and placed in tn
duke OF Hamilton's stud. the manager O
which took adislike to the American i'm
portatioq' and gave him the worst of it ir
every way, finally representing to the duke
that the horseswas 30 vicious that nothin,
could be lone with him. Preakness was there
} upon ordered put to death by the revolve'
route, and when this badly treated turf
monarch had been in his untimely grave
year or two. Fiddler, one of his colts
among others, came out and beat everything
J III sight. Here was one OF the grandest
horses in point of conformation and with
B the ability to get speedy and game race
l EnGlish horseman for anything American
Thus it goes, and never was there u NOR
: notabls instance OF not approaching an,
t ono until they are dead than in the case @
the noble Preakness.-Breeder and Sports
man.