The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-13
ALL AMONG THE HORsEMEN
They Have Little TO Do at This Time of
Year bat Talk Over the Past.
And the Past Season Was One Well Worth
Talking 0yer-Future Of the Side
Wheeler-Iocal Horse Market.

with the Deople as revolution. Wnefner
it be in this. that or another thing A man
10 nothing If not revolutlonizer in a small
way This is true In the world of horse
flesh if it is any other where. At this sea-
son of the year horsemen have little else
TO do but talk over the summers work
lust past and revolutionize the future be-
fore red-hot stove. The pneumatic sulky
revolutionized records. These records
revoluticnized public demands. and they
revolutisnize every thing.
And now John R. Moon, jr. tTrotwood).
has made bold stroke toward revolution
izing the ideas of the turf. In an article
on the PAGER" published in Clarks Horse
Review last week. he says:
1T is amusing to see the way some of
our papers treat the PAGER. They viii de-
vote the first PAGES to trotters, the next TO
wind up the last with turf notes on trot-
ters, then some personal notes on adver-
tisements and stick in q line or two on
PAGERS at the last.
saying: White folks first. dogs next and
negro last The side-wheeler may be last
in the journals. but he isn't always last In q
race-n0, not always, my son. A synopsis
of races this year shows that the despised
fellow Is decidedly in the front row. What
trotting horse Is there to-day alive that
any sensible man would wager counter
felt bill on that he could beat Pointer, Jib,
Mascot or Guyf There isn't trotter or
earth to-day that could beat either ofthem.
unless it be Nancy Hanks. and 1t Is hardly
possible she could dot No trotter living
has ever shown the racing form that has
been three years at the will of Hal Pointer.
Why, then. this great dlfferenceg Isn't
the PAGER the faster horses Is be not as
game. and quick. and STYLISH Is his gait
not easier. his motion prettier, and staying
qualities as good as the trotters' These
are questions that may safely be answered
In the affirmative.
Man Is hardly an animal; he is more truly
parrot. He merely lives to copy after Others.
The Christian religion would have been in
no need of missionaries TO-DAY If 1t bad
been started by the Prince of
Wales, Uncle Bonner and
few of the counts and grand
of the old world. 1t is fashion that
rules all the world; save the thinking
world; and that il can never influence. The
Newtons of thought will still make soap
bubbles to test their theory OF hight, even
If all the princes ride by In armorlal trap
pings and splendor; and the Diogones OF
philosophy will still live In q tub while
the fools of fashion try IL vain TO build q
turret higher than their neighbors
Nothing butinexorablef fashion keeps the
PAGER from being the more popular harness
horse of the two. LII the pacing men could
hire Ward McAllister to drive q PAGER every
day for year IN an English dog cart
through the streets of New York this coun
try could not produce n sufficient number
of them to fill the demand for the fools in
that city alone.
Wise men live on fools Just like big fish
live ol little fish. Brethren let us be wise
Stick TO the PAGER; his day Is coming Five
years ago the country couldn't get enough
alligator hides because some dude set the
fashion of wearing shoes made of them.
Now PAGER Is long ways better than an
alligator" -
81 - l.
during the fall and greater part OF the win
ter except in presidential campaign years.
This year is no exception to the regular
order of things few Eastern buyers are
SHINING the country for good ANIMALS for
the spring trade. Outside of them there
Will probably be little done in this city
with the better class of horses. Half the
year with horsemen Is q waiting game.
NOTES.
Guy Wilkes Is crowding Electioneer
closely in the way of fast racers.
Alvin, 2:i3A, the Canadian stallion. is now
making q season at Round Plains, Ont.
Pearl Winship is by.Legal Tender jr.
and not by Egotlst as given In some tables.
IL is said that the Chesterwood gelding
Rebus is "moon-eyed." He has been a win
ner this year.
Ten thousand dollars has been refused
for the yearling filly Nellie A.. by Wilkes
Boy. dam by Robert McGregor. 2:i7i4.
The Dubois Bros, who recently pur-
chased Yolo Maid. 2:12. expect her to go q
mile in two minutes before the close of 1893
w. e. Jones has not had time to arrange
for that cock-6ght that was to have taken
place on the race-track at the late Column
bia fizzle.
Lady Robert. a two-year-old FLY by Rob-
ert l.. 2:26A, son of Haw Patch. made q
record of 2:29ls at Cambride City, Ind, at
the last meeting.
Reflector, 2:10la, has been purchased by
Columbia for $1,000 Refiector's dam Is a
thoroughbred mare. q descendant of the
Lexington family.
Prince. said to have been the Oldest trot-
ting horse in'the United States. died at Sc
dalis Mo-. on Monday. He was fosled in
1867. and had record of 2:30
VIM. Lowenbergh, of Iowa, has CON-
menced action against the g.. b. & Q.
Railway Company for $1,000 for injuries
inflicted on his mare Alice Ensign 8, 2:24A
Tuesday, G. w. Clemmons. of Indianap-
oils. received q telegram from John Dick
erson. Nashville. Tenn. as follows: "Mc-
Glnty eQualed record under unfavorable
circumstances"
The October payments to the Terre
Haute 81. 900 purse. TO be trotted for in 1874.
run that valuable purse mp to nearly S1S,-
600. with $500 for the first horse. and there
Is more TO come.
OudEl63 OOio, Oh Atbic6, lOu., Will
give Freeland, 2:19l4. an early opportunity
TO lower his record, and if he doesn't get q
record close to 210 his owner will be dis
appointed with the effort.
DIR. Kaufman. of Sullivan, Ind, has one
of the youngest and best sons of Blue Bull
IS. Also his stallion Wyoming, by Eaglite
3. is In winter quarters IN good form and
will be given into q good trainers hands
for 1898.
A rumor Is gong the rounds that. the
stallion Clay, 2:25, purchased by Monsieur
LeCompte. of Paris. France. for $4,000.
will not leave this country. at least for a
year yet. This looks like the sale was not
q genuine one.
The chestnut horse Nutplne, that took q
record of 2:15ks at Belmont Park. Phila-
delphia was the first foal dropped at Park
willie farm. He Is by Nutwood, out of
Maggie Wilkes. and is a brother to Wilkes
wood. owned by s. J. Peabody, Columbia
City, Ind.
Jesse Fletcher. indianapolis bought of
{. w. Williams, Independence. Ia, last
week. FLY by Allerton. dam by q son of
Onward. second dam the dam of Axtell.
This Is what is known as gilt-edge. Also q
weanling by Judge Rider 226la. dam Pilot
Maid by Pilot Chief, second dam by ADJ
ministrator. third dam by Idol III.
w. A. Jones & Son. of Nashville, Ind,
sold q Raven Wilkes-Iegal Tender. IT.. colt,
not two months old. to Mr.. Davidson of
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