St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-15
ETCHINGS.

Deter trotted eighty-seven heats bet
ter than 2:20, which is more than any
other son or daughter of Hambletonian
10 has ever done.
To cultivate horses speed and at
the same time preserve sweet temper
and disposition to do his best taxes
the trainers skill to the utmost.
Any one looking for colt possessing
beauty, elegant action, and in every re-
spect perfect horse, will do well to
notice NJ. f. GratJan'S announcement on
this page.
A pony, twelve hands and two inches,
was recently matched in England to
trot fifteen miles an hour. The little
fellow won with eighteen seconds to
spare, and without making one break in
the whole journey.
c. h. Nelson says that Budd Dobe
will not train Nelson next year. 1t is
very probable that he will lie handled
by George Starr, the driver of the PAGER
Direct, record 2:06 last season.
Sutherland 81 Benjamin, Saginaw,
Mich, have sold to r. Il. Kingman,
HlllSboro, n. D., the fOur-year-Old STALL
ion Mark Dixon, by Sphinx, 2:2015. dam
Jessie Dixon, 2:2S14, by Mambrino
Patchen.
Arion traces five times to imported
Bell founder, twice through his sire,
ElectlOneer, and three times through
his dam, Manette. He takes in the
blood of Hambletonian three times and
Harry Clay twice.
Horse flesh seems to be at discount
in New Zealand. Recently, at Walpawa,
Hawkes. Bay, bunch of twenty-nine
horses, mostly young and unbroken,
only realized 5000, some of the animals
hair ynnniynd r oil, co oh
The w9ll-k nown breeder, j. F. Mar
tindale, assists in the musical depart
ment of the First Presbyterian church,
Independence, To-, and the voice of j.
w. Mercer. the driver and trainer of
Incas, 2:1415, is heard in the choir at
the Nj. b. church. And all is well.
Owners should not get discouraged at
the nOn-SucceSs of their youngsters OIL
the track. Do not forget that the great
LOngteilOW. winner of fourteen out of
seventeen races in which he started,
was distanced by Enquirer in the very
first race III which he ever took part.
The famous racehorse Doncaster, by
Stockwell, winner of the Derby in
1878, the sire of Bend Or. and the grand
sire of Ormonde, has died at Kis Der,
Hungary. He was bought by the Duke
of Westminster for $4,000. He after
eminent for $4,000
During 1891, according to "InocIast,"
thirty-two sons of Hambletonian put 15S
new performers in the list: twenty-five
sons of George Wilkes put in 176; thirty
two sons of AlmOnt put in 80; thirteen
sons of Electioneer put in 80; nineteen
sons of Belmont put in AZ, anu nine sons
Of Happy Medium put in q.
The French government spends S1S,-
100000 per year OH its public highways,
but their horses hawl ton and third
without any trouble. Three horses take
four tons OF hay ten miles without turn
ing bair. In Belgium, Germany and
Italy, where the roads are kept good,
one horse can do as much service as
three in the bad road districts of Amer
lea.
A swimming tank for race horses is
the latest novelty. At the Southern
farm, near San Leandro, Cal, has been
constructed and equipped saltwater
tank, the first of its kind ever built for
the use of a training farm. although this
system of exercising is not new. The
tank is ninety feet long, twenty feet
wide and eight feet deep, and has COLI
crete bottom.