Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-26
STATEMENT OF THE CASE.
Kremlin's Owner Alleged to Be
Strongly Opposing It
PLIMMER AND M'GRATH BATTLE.
A local Poolseller Talks Interestingly
About the Trotting Season.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS OF TIE DAI

There is still some uncertainty regarding
whether or rot the record of Stamboul, the
trotting stallion, will be accepted by the
publishers of the ''Year Book A few
days ago q dispatch from Stockton, Cal,
stated that Secretary Morse, of the National
Trotting Horse Association, had declared
the records made on the Stockton tracks TO
be legal Referring to this an Eastern
authority SAYS:
There is little that is new in the above
dispatch, Auct1oneer Kellogg having read
such o communication to the crowd at the
American Institute building on Tuesday
last before he called for q bid on Stamboul,
2:O71k. The difficulty is not with the Ma
tional Trotting Horse Association, but with
the American Trotting Registry Associa-
tion, publishers OF the 'sYear Book, which
is regarded by the trotting world as the
standard authority. Secretary Steiner, of
this institution, telegraphed Mr.. Kellogg
that in all probability all the records made
at Stockton during the latterpar of October
and the month of November would be
thrown out because of alleged Irregularities.
Affected stambouPs Price.
There is no doubt that this announcement
made q great difference in the price Stam-
boul brought, for there was one gentleman
present who came prepared to bid 500, 900,
and who never opened mis- lips There is
also no doubt that the raising of the ques-
tion az to the correctness of the horses
record has done the trotting horse industry
q world of harm, and breeders and those in
terested in the development of the trotter
are not going to forget the attack, nor the
1fad
Californians tell of a disgruntled driver
who wanted to train Stamboul last season,
and who took revenge by sending word
East to an interested party that the record
of 2:071f was not regular in more ways than
one. The horse started before 10 o'clock,
and the timers and Judges were trackmen,
are samples of the reasons advanced for the
none allowance of the record, which is
vouched for by such men as Senator Lang
ford, L. Q. Shippee, q millionaire horse
breeder, and Superintendent Covey, of
Senator Leland Stanford's Palo Alto ranch
Hartman Is Not Worried.
In other words, the American Registry
Association, of which William R Allen,
the owner of the stallion Kremlin, whose
record is only quarter of second behind
that of Stamboul, is President, takes the
word of this man, whose name is not given
70 Tue puD1lC, dEdluSb tuC bCSblLuOu1 vi cuSl
gentlemen as Messrs- Langford, Shippee
and Covey.
In the mean time Mr.. Hartman, who got
. bargain in Stsmboul at S41 900, is not let
ting the fact that his horses record is in
dispute worry him any. His plans regard
ing Stsmboul are not yet mstured, but in
all probability he will take the horse out
OF the stud early next season and place him
in the hands of some frst-class man to be
trained with q view to lowering his record,
which Californians say he can do very
handily, The fact that John E Goldsmith,
the great driver, bid $40, 900 for the stallion
is significant, as Stamboul was in his hands
q part of the season two years ago Mr..
Goldsmith was thrown from a sulky and
had one of his leg. broken, and was COM
PEELED to give up work for long time
Goldsmith ought to know something about
the son of Sultan, and Mr.. Hartman would
make no mistake in giving the horse to him
next yeaL