St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-28
EQUINE ETCHINGS.

To-, sold to c. w. Williams three highly
bred weanling fillies by AllertOn, the
dam of one being Annie Dickinson, 3,
2:191%; one is cut of Matte Russell full
sister to Russell Chief, 2:2215, by Nam
brinO RusSelD; the dam of the other is
by Sentinel Wilkes; second dam Cricket
dam of Rhoderick Dhu, 2:23$4, and
Louis II. 2:3O, by Cuyler). The price is
understood to have been big one.
Santa Claus, la daughter of Magic,
finds herself high in the list of brood
mares of the present season, as she has
produced Emulation. 2:2l: Vatican,
2:274; Position. 2:2214; Magic Wilkes,
2:294; SOrtie, 2:3l1%, and Opponent.
the dam OF Calyce, 2:284. Santa Claus
has every right in the world to be a
great producing mare, as she is by Magic
and out of a mare by Gen. George Ii.
Thomas.
> Undertaker-We have a great m any
funerals to attend to now, and if the
cortege moves at a slow pace, it will
cost you great deal more to bury your
husband than If we trot. Widow-How
much more? Undertaker-At least 500.
WidOw-I-er- think we'd better trot
My husband was very fond of fast
horses.
Once lived horse, a common hack,
Owned by a Mr.. -.
Who. following in Dame Fashions track,
Did name the horses as though a crack;
And when in time he died, elack
Across the wire did flash:
The well-known horse named So-and-So
has ceased to dra W his breath.
s. offered, and declined, just previous to
his DEATH
E. A. Gibbs, st. James, Mimi. has re-
Gently purchased from the Bruce stock
farm, Minneapolis, the grandly bred
hrOn6mara Ouaop NTodit1n, I,u
Medium. Mr.. Gibbs has recently sold
to Minneapolis party the standard
filly Galena, by Credo. by Adrian
Wilkes, dam by Strathmore.
Fred Foster, the st. Paul turfman. has
engaged Porter to ride his horses at
New Orleans. For next year Foster has
the California lightweight, q. Williams,
whom he considers one of the most ca
pable and promising boys now aspiring
to fame as a jockey.
Eurus, the Suburban winner of 1897.
died at Chesterbrook farm Dec. 3, and
the surgeons knife revealed the fact
that he carried in the abdominal region
tumOr weighing forty pounds. This,
it is thought, accounts for his erratic
behavior on the track.
Eleven of the twenty-six trotters that
have beaten 2:14 made their fastest
time. OF the other fifteen who made
their best marks over regulation tracks,
PhallaS, 2:1334, alone got his record in a
race.
Senator Stanford stated in a recent
interview that the farm would bring out
yearling next season by Palo Alto
which they would expect to break the
yearling record.
Bow Bells, the beautiful and speedy
son of ElectiOneer and Beautiful Bells,
will have stud fee of $500 next season.
Already his book has almost filled at
that figure.
w. G. France, owner of Red Wilkes,
lately had the misfortune to lose by
death the stallion Pilot MambrinO, by
Mambrino PaJchen out of Dixie, 2:30, by
Pilot Jr.
Don't try to balance the colts before
they learn to go straight. No two trot-
tiers are gated alike, and il is useless to
try to make them all 90 alike.
Fausta, with yearling trotting rec
ord of 2:40,and yearling pacing record
of 2:22$4, is the fastest dOuble-gaited
yearling ever produced.
They tell of a yearling colt by Di-
rector, 2:17, out of Maud, 2:2G, in Call
fornia, that has just been taken up and
PAGES eighths in IL, hitched to heavy
cart.
A weanling, by Clover, son of Sultan
and out of the dam of Athadon, is
threatened with sensational yearling
mark.
The peerless yearling trotter Frou
FrOu (2:2519) has Dexter (2:1714) mark
ings, four white feet and white nose.
Athadon q. 2:27, was foaled March
IL. There's no use talking, March is
the month in which they must be foaled.
c. E. Mcdonald. Holton, Kan, is put
ting in kite-shaped track, and one is
also being built at HOrnellSnille, n. Y.
Mambrino Patchen IS estimated to
have sired the dams of over sixty horses
which have beaten 2:30.
Charley Thompson, an Iowa trainer,
has put twenty-five horses in the 2:3O
list this year.
The yearling filly Bell Bird. 2:264. is
suffering from bad attack of dis
temper
More horses have trotted in gil or
better than have paced.
According to the Halifax uArcadian
Recorder, there are now seventy-one
| horses in the maratime provinces with