St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-18
Notes of Interest.

Jay La Duc N iOOHS, pTOpTlcGOTS OI Tie
famous Gold Medal stock farm just
south of Luverne, have added another
STANDARDIZED animal to their already
long list OF favorites. The stallion ar
rived from New York May 8. Onyx is
his name, and his number is 6334. He
is by Marlborough, 1908, one of the last
sons of old HambletOnian 10.
He stands 1615 hands nigh, and
weighs 1850 pounds, and in color is a
rich bay with coat of satin-like gloss.
Mr.. Lii Due has received word from
George Graves, of Rochester, that his
old mare Belle had foaled a filly. The
colt is by Hamdallah, which makes her
full sister to the mare Polly. Mr.
Graves letter says it is bay with one
white hind foot. This colt will be
most valuable addition to the fine stock
at Geld Medal stock farm.
Does the breeding of horses pay?
Turn for the answer to Norfolk, in
England, where old Confidence has paid
the rent OF twenty parishes for as many
years; to Yorkshire, where Triffits
Fireaway's stock has totaled value of
something like half million of money.
and the paternity of Denmark means
nothing under el0O, and some prices up
TO 900, to anything Oh four legs that
owns it. But these are special dis
trlctS," some one says, "Where there are
hackney Mares" answer that hack
ney stations. properly chosen, and, by
the light of recent experience, coaching
stations, too, get good harness stock
from all sorts of mares.
Sam Bryant was quite a liberal buyer
at the recent Belle Meade sale of year
hngs at Nashville, his choice seeming
to run after Luke Blackburus. This is
the way Bryant got hold of Proctor
Knott and Uncle Bob, two of the best
race horSes he ever owned. and the old
turfman is doubtless prospecting for
another such lucky find. Bryant will
take his string East this week to run
winning. Most of his stable are un-
tried two-year-olds, and very little is
known about them.
AuglO-Indian ladies have acquired a
worldwide reputation for ''rapidity,"
and the prominent part they play in
racing matters would seem to indicate
that it is entirely deserved. Not con-
tent with hOnoring race meetings with
their presence, they have been taking a
very active part in the sport, riding
both in races confined to lady riders and
in mixed events. At Negapatan, near
Madras, steeplechase was won by
gentleman jock with lady second, and
in the Madras Gymkhama the fair ones
took part in great proportion of the
races.
Harry Wilkes is still on the turf.
Driver is still living, but is twenty
three years of age, and has been retired
for several seasons. Edwin Thorne was
retired some time since. Billy Button
may battle little more. Judge Davis
is on the other side of the Atlantic.
Charlie Ford is the only horse that ever
won heat from Maud S. Hopeful was
a road horse with but little of his old
speed left at last accounts, and Deck
Wright seems to turn up under an as
sumed name in some slow class about
each season. He has undoubtedly won
number of 2:30 heats while ringing
that are not credited to him.
The fondness for sweets on the part
of the horse has been taken advantage
of in different parts of the world, and
his appetite for saccharine matter
catered to with the test results in i'm
proving his condition. Horses thrive
remarkably we'll on sugar and molasses,
and these interchangeable
terms in this connection-have been
regularly used since 1878 in Australia
and South America and other parts of
the world for getting horses into condi-
ton for sale, and also for colts while
wintering i'll the yard.
Among the entries cataIogued for the
Berry sale in Chicago, May 10 to %, are
Newkirk, 2:244; John W., 2:24115; Lit
tie Cyclone, 2:2S19; Billy S. 2:14; Del
egate, 2:2S; Cora Cloud, trial 2:251l;
Pythias. by Onward; Oliver Grant,
2:3115; Taylor Boy, trial 2:2S; Banner,
2:3415; Josephine, trial 2:3O, and over
$50 others with records or trials from
800 to 2:20.
Mr.. Corbitt announces that positively
no mares will be booked to Guy Wilkes
for 1892. This great stallion is riding
the top wave of success in California.
Mabel, the sister of Beautiful Bells.
has dropped at Rancho del Paso a bay
colt by Stamboul. Great possibilities
stretch before this youngster.