The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1892-01-08
RAPID CITY N o TIERS.
Short Sketches Of Pennington
county's Fast Horses and Trot-
ing Stock Interests.
The Hub Of the Hills.

friends an idea of what they may expect
Pennington county toscontribute to-
wards the success OF Black Hills cir
cult, il formed. With this end IN view. q
UNION reporter walked around among
our local breeders lately and gathered
the information on which the following
short sketches are founded.
Pete Sweeney.
Who has not heard OF Pete Sweeney
and his big horse Dakota Chief that
vanquished Mail Boy the fall Of 1890 !?
'Pste" az he is familiarly dubbed is a
typical westerner and q brother Of the
redonbtable Tom, whose name ID a
household word all over the Hills. In
Dakota Chief the country has magnfi-
cent stock horse and q trotter sure, he
having shown miles around 2:4O last
summer in the hands Of Billy Brown.
His breeding on his sire's side is the same
as John Kelliher's colt, by Iowa Chief
and it is said his dam was q finely bred
animal too. His colts Of which there are
quite q number in this vicinity, are all
racy and blood-like.
George s. Chadwick.
When the name OF Chadwick is men
toned, one naturally thinks OF Maui
Boy. They are inseparably connected
in the minds OF our trotting horsemen,
but Mr.. Chadwick, keeping up with this
progressive age, has standard bred
stallion, besides Mail Boy, John 1. Holly
by name, and a good looking horse he
is, by the famous Pocahontas Boy,
tracing to that invincible old cam
paigner Pocahontas and out OF a mare
by the great Smuggler that died recently
and that was considered the most en-
during trotter OF his day. The breeding
is good enough for anybody when it is
remembered that Smuggler and Poca-
hontas Boy materially increased their
list of performers last season. 1t would
be the workof supererogation to sketch
the life OF old Mail Boy Everyone
knows him and the foundation he made
in this country.
Hurzeler Bros.
The name Of this firm is synonymous
with everything great and good in trot-
ting nomenclature Besides owning q
large herd OF range mares, the boys t4ke
naturally to the more domesticated class
OF horses, particularly to the trotter.
Two years ago they resolved to get into
the swim OF notoriety, as breeders, so
Charles f., after studying blood lines a
year or so, went east and bought colt
by the developed sire Macy, by George
Wilkes, by Hambletonian 10 and out of
Alice Medium by Happy Medium by
Hambletonian 10. Nowadays when de-
velopement is considered just the thing,
a pedigree like this is surely gilt edged.
Here we have got the most fashionable
breeding extant, we have developed an
cestry, individuality and speed, for al
though Macy Medium is only three
years old he showed quarters, last sea-
son, better than 2:40 gait and this after
making a heavy stud season. Macy
Mediums pedigree is brim full OF merit
In every corner. He traces to the Clays,
Manbrino Patchen and has besides ex-
treme speed producing blood, the long
distance racer too, such for instance as
old Princess, the ten mile trotter and
successful antagonist OF Flora Temple,
also Fiddler the stwenty mile trotter.
These gentlemen have quite a well bred
mare also, tracing three times to the
great fountain head, twice to Henry
Clay, Mambrino Chief and Pilot, J1.
But the choicest Of all is their weanling
colt out OF this mare and by Macy Me-
dium, which they have named Hurzeler's
Medium. Here is breeding for you. Five
tunes to Hambletonian 10, through his
very greatest sons. then to all the best
brood mare families besides and through
h galaxy OF developed sires, and dams
seldom met with in " pedigree.
The Rapid Valley Horse Ranch Co.
Thirty miles down Rapid creek is To-
Gated this large breeding establishment,
which was visited lately by q UNION re-
porter. Its fences enclose over two
thousand acres; it's barns shelter seven
stations; it's corrals are substantial and
commodious, it's management is both
efficient and gentlemanly and it's stock,
par excellence, the finest in the land. To
the Hon. M. H. Day, the president, re-
bounds the credit OF haying organized
the company, which includes several
prominent trotting horse breeders of the
blue grass region.
The premier stallion Is no less horse
than Ben Hur 4837, record 2:24; cam
paigner, good individuality and OF ex-
cellent breeding, being by Hambrino the
sire of the famous Delmarch that was
considered good enough to tackle Aller-
ton when Nancy Hanks was sick last
fall. Through the prestige of Delmarch
and other colts OF his, Hambrino bids
fair to enter the arena OF fashion soon.
The blood lines OF Ben Hur run back
twice to the only source OF trotting
speed-Hambletonian 10; and to Mann
brino Chief, unsurpassed as brood
mare strain, tracing through Edward
Everett, Hero OF Thorndale and other
highly pr1zed slres and including in his
pedigree such dams as Heroine, sister to
that great sire of campaigners, Volun-
teer 55; also Lady Patriot. But Ben
Hur as a trotter excels, he having gone
a trial mile in Kentucky in 2:ls and he
is fighter too. His action is simply
perfect He ia symmetrically made and OF
Z good size and color, altogether, he is the
pride Of the Hills.
This company has an aged stallion
also, that is well bred, and rangy, all
nerves and ambition; the ideal gentle
mans roadster and quite fast. 1t also
owns q fine two-ysar-old colt by son
OF the sensational sire OF Red Wilkes.
The harem numbers some thirty-fye
Il standard mares embracing the most
desirable trotting blood in thecountry.