The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-26
General Horse Topics.

Nutvood is the youngest sire that has
ever had fifty performers to his credit.
The name of the famous racing sire Glen
elg spells the same either way-forward or
backward
Jaye-Eye-see, 2:1O, though his days as a
trotter are zone, still heads the list OF i've
year-olds.
There are said to be 100 horses with rec
ords ranging from 2:134 to 2:42 winterinR
at Chicago.
Belle Hamlin. the queen of the Almonts,
il being driven to a top buggy this winter,
when there is no sleighing.
The American trotting-bred mare Polly
won 1850 pounds III English money in Eu-
ropean trotting races last season.
Thirty-two daughters Of Almont are the
dam of thirty-seven 2:3O performers, thir-
teen of which came in the past year.
A Pittsburg paper says there is an unus-
ual demand at present in and about Pitts
burg for good young trotting horses.
It is said that the California dlly, Mar
caret g., 2:12111, has won more money than
u ~four-year-ola that was ever on the
turf.
It is said thai there are 100 trotting
tracks in France, and that there are at least
1900 ~trotters which take part in trotting
contests.
1t is remarked that ''the race between
Nutwood and Alcantara for leading place
in the list of sires OF 1880 begins to look
like a dead heat"
It is rumored that Bosque Bonita, 2:19116,
may be brought back to America and en-
tered in the 2:2O class, through the Grand
circuit.
Five ~trottera during the past season have
beaten the four-year-old record of PIG
Sunol, Margaret s., Allerton, Nancy Hanks
and Alabaster.
A Denver writer anticipates that that
city will not have SO many professional
track horses to go campaigning next season
as went forth last year.
The two-year-old colt, Reelection, by
be trained the coming season, and his
career will be watched with interest by
horsemen.
One Of the first Italian bred ~trotters to
beat 2:30 was sired by Ellwood Medium,
2:24M, son of Happy Medium. The dam
of this foreign bred trotter was a Russian
mare.
The Acolyte yearling. Pilgrim, promises
to be the sensational youngster for 1891.
He can now speed in 2:20 class. Pilgrims
dam was got by George Wilkes; second
dam by kentucky Clay; third dam h,
Browns Highlander; fourth dam by Ham,
bletonian.
IF you are not sure that grooming pays.
just double the dose for a while" is the ad-
NlCO vi IN OARCA lOASC0 ~ u
ing will be more convincing. The trouble
with most grooming of farm horses Is the
doses are entirely too small and too far be-
tween."
A mare mule in the corral of Timothy
Dryer. of Wyoming, is said to have n pie
bald colt by a gray broncho stallion. II
was foaled last June, and has the short hair
and dark brown hide of its Jam. A similar
case is said to have occurred at San Jose,
Cal, in 1e6O.
The California Spirit of the Times says:
s'The produce of the developed mares in
1890 was singnlarly successful, and it must
surely dawn on the minds of breeders that
development in the dam rs we'll as in the
sire will soon be imperatively demanded by
the buying public"
The latest phenomenon in California is
the two-year-old PAGER. Chief Thorne, that
mnde a record Of 2:2054 not long since. He
is by Hawthorne, n son of NutWood, 2:1Ss4,
and from the style i'll which he stepped a
mile in 2:2O14 Mt Stockton, il is thought that
Ola or better will be his mark as a three.
year-old.
The dam of Little Brown jug. o:11A, had
in all nineteen foals, of which two died and
four were mules. OF the remaining thir-
teen only six were trained. They are Lit
tie Brown jug. 2:f1H, Brown Hal, 2;121t44
Cooper's jug. trial, 2:2S, Silver jug. 22:36.
trotting, Directors jug; trial o,31, and a
Reldin9 which was driven three or four
weeks by Mr.. Brown and then sold.
A match Inns been arranged in London
between the earls of Shrewsbury and Ions
dale for q twenty-mile driving contest from
Leicester to Melton. IL will take place
early in March. The first five miles are to