St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-01
AMONG The HORSES.
A Backward Glance at the
Kings Of Other Days and
Their Owners.
Reminiscent Retrospect and
Passing Remarks Along
the Track.
An Experts Views Touching
the Possible Speed Limit
Of TrottepS.
Great Fields for the Windy
City Events--Phenoms
and Piek-UpS.

The "old guard of Northwestern
horsemen, and all who remember the
old-time. famous and exciting days with
the monarchS of the trotting track, Will
have many pleasant memories recalled
by perusal of the following backward
glance by the Turf, Field and Farm,
even though the pleasure be tinged by
a shade or regret for the noble men and
great animals which have ceased to be a
part of life:
The Turf. Field and Farm of May,
1874, is before us, and many OF the stall
lions there advertised have now filled
their mission on earth, and 1--we only In
their descendants. At WoOdburn the
great Lexington, son of Boston and
Alice Carneal, was announced as prl-
Vate stallion, and his thoroughbred aSS0-
eiates in the stud were Planet, Asterold
and Glen Athol. Not one of these is
now alive. In the trotting stud were
Belmont and Harold. The sire of Nut
wood stood at 500, and the sire of Maud
S at $50. Belmont is dead and Harold
Is enjoying a green old age. NHtWood
himself was then in the stud at Enon,
Pa, and his fee was SO. Today, under
the speed-producing test, he is the
greatest of living stations, and his fee
is $1,000. The Stony Ford stations
were Messenger DurOc, $500, payable
in advances" Abdallah Star, Idol, Boil
ton and Electioneer, each limited to
forty mares, at 500 the season, and
EllWood and RidgeWood at $50 each.
Only three of these, Electioneer, Mes
senger Duroc and Idol, obtained reputa-
ton in the stud. Messenger Duroc is
brood mare sire, as tue achievements of
Cheyenne and Egbert clearly show, and
he still breathes the air of Orange
county. Electioneer, who was accord
ed lower 1ank than Abdallah
Star, Idol and Bolton, was taken to
California, where his success in the
stud was phenomenal. One hundred
trotters are now placed to his credit, in
Guiding Arion, 2:l0$l, at two years old;
Sunol. 2:0S14, at i've years old, and Palo
Alto, whose 2:OS$4 places him at the
head of performing stations. If Elec-
tioneer had been open to the public be-
fore he passed away. he could readily
have commanded fee of $500. At
Spring Hill stock farm, Dictator, brother
of Dexter. and BlackwoOd, were adyer-
tised at 800 each.
BlackwOod came from Kentucky and,
although a sensational horse, his sue
cess in the stud was not pronounced.
Dictator, after 1874, went from Long
Island to Kentucky, and there he got
Jay-Eye-See, 2:10; PhallaS, 2:l33l; Die
tator, 2:17; sire of Direct, 2:06, and the
dams of Nancy Hanks, 2:09, and Lock
heart, 2:l43l. Harrison Durkee, the
founder of Spring Hill, is dead. and the
stock farm at Flushing no longer exists.
BlackWood's days are over, aud Die
tator, at the age of twenty-nine, re-
eeives visits at Ashland. At HANDLE
tOnian stud farm, Worcester. Mass, the
stations were Pierson, $40; Dauntless,
$50, and Glenair, $50. Only one of these
is now deemed worthy of remembrance,
and that is DauntleSs, who is the sire of
such trotters as Gene Smith, 2:1512;
Thorniess, 2:1619, and HendryX, 2:1714.
The breeding establishment at Wor-
eester was broken up long ago.
Col. Richard West, then in command
of Edge Hill, at Georgetown, drew pub
lie attention to Almont. 500; West
wind, $50, and Tattler Chief, $50. But
one of these stations will live in his
tory, and that is Almont, who founded
a family including such trotters as
Fanny WItherspoon, 2:164; Piedmont,
2:114. and Belle Hamlin, 2:12s4. Col.
West and Almont are i'll the shade of
tine beyond. Gen. w. T. Withers, to
whom Almont was sold, is also at rest.
Bluff old Capt. Isaiah Rynders, whose
farm was at Passaic, n. j., advertised
Aberdeen at $50. This celebrated son
of Widow Machree was later taken to
Fairlawn, and he outliyed both Capt.
lutte trotters as Hattie Woodward,
2:15H; AlabaSter, 2:15. and Abbie Y,
2:l615, came from his loins.
In 1874 Col. r. S. Strader was located
in Boone county, Kentucky, and his
stations were G NJ Clay Jr, Draco. DR..
Herr and Ohio Volunteer. Judith, the
dam of Young Rolfe, 2:21H. sire of Mel
son, 2:10, was daughter of Draco; Joe
Davis, 2:17$4, came from the lons of
DR.. Herr, and Rowing Nelly, the
dam of Mambrino Boy, sire of
the dams of Allerton, 2:O9I,
and Axtell. 2:12. was by Cassius Nj
Clay Jr., and the dam of Margaret S,
2:1215, was got by a son of NJ Clay Jr.
The snow falls gently on the grave of
Col. Strader, of Lexington. At Cedar
Park Stud farm Robert Steel advertised
only Happy Medium. and his fee was
$3.50. This great stallion, like Almont
and G NJ Clay Jr, died at Fairlawn, KY,
but not before he had founded distin-
guished family. The fastest of his get
are Nancy Hanks. 2:09 and Maxey Cobb,
2:134.
Edwin Thorne announced that Thorn
dale by AleXander's Abdallah, ''sire of
Goldsmith Maid, record 1864" would
make the season at Thorndale in Dutch
ess county, at 500, and William B.
Smith, of Hartford, drew attention to
Thomas Jefferson, fee $50. These two
stations met with but moderate success
in the stud. Edwin Thorne, whose name
was tower of strength on the trotting
turf, is dead. and Thomas Jefferson is
dust. At Preakness, Nelson Dudley,
superintendent for M. II. Sanford,
advertised Glenelg at 500 and haywood
at SIS. A.Welch announced that Lean
ington would stand for mares at Chest
nut Hill at $3.50 the season; Gen. A. Bu-
ford invited attention to Enquirer at
BosQue Bonita at 500, and A. Keene
Richards informed the public that War
Dance stood at Blue Grass Park at $50
the season, 500 to insure. Dudley.
Sanford, Buford and Richards are with
the silent majority, and the fame of
Glenelg, War Dance and bennington is
as enduring as the hills.
Cher stations before the pu bic eight
cen years ago were Hyias. $50; Mann