St. Paul daily globe., 1892-01-04
EQUINE ETCHINGS.

2:23. becomes standard trotter, how
fast does trOtting-bred horse have to
trot to become standard PAGER? Pac-
ing men ought to make rule to carry
a cast like this, for some fool trotter
might go fast enough to be PAGER. No
telling, you know"
The Tennessee breeders do not per-
NIT local prejudices to influence them
i'll the least when they handle the breed
ing problem. The dam of Hal Pointer.
2:09$4, and two sisters to Brown Hal,
2:1215, have been booked to Direct, 2:O6.
provided he goes to Tennessee to make
a season.
Five years from this time the man
who raises common and half-scrub
horses for market is going to complain
that there is no sale for horses. His
neighbor, who used only choice brood
mares and chooses the Sires with judg-
ment, Will continue to find profit in the
business. FirSt-claSS horses are always
wanted.
Last summer a good deal excitement
was created in San Francisco by the
performance of a pair of PAGERS that
went public half-mile in 1902. The
best one of the team is by the trotting
stallion AlgOna, and Monroe Salisbury
has arranged to bring him East for
licAG S0dSOu.
G. Williams offer of $4,000 per mare
to be bred to ArlOn. 2:1O%. has been
stated as the highest bid ever made for
Gov. Stanford was offered and refused
$4,000 for the privilege of stinting four
mares to Electioneer year or two be-
fore he died.
If colt has once broken loose and
run away he will never be safe after
ward. Tie him and harness him Sc
curely, even If you have to use chains
instead of straps. Do not give him
chance TO use his strength until you
have taught him how to use it.
At twelve years of age Pilot Medium
is the sire of twenty-nine trotters and
PAGERS with records ranging from 2:l2
to 2:30, among the lot being a couple of
twO-year-OldS and five three-year-ol
His Ham bletonlan sire and Pilot Jr.
dam tell the story in word.
The latest equine wonder is a colt that,
when four months and seven days old.
seconds. This precocious youngster is
by Gov. Stanford (son of Electioneer and
Barnes, by Whipple's Hambletonian).
dam by Kentucky Prince.-Breeder and
Sportsman.
To the stars through difficulties. This
is the opening remark of one who, in all
article on Charles Marvin, refers to
Smuggler, the converted PAGER, as the
way by which Marvin was made the
great driver that he certainly is.
Nancy Hanks, 2:09, the fastest of
Happy Mediums get, is out of Die
tator mare; Lockhart, 2:14sl. the fastest
of Nutwood's get, is out of Dictator
mare, and Brown, 2:1S$4, the fastest Of
(fAmhQt's @ nf q fat
1T is not advisable for any man that
is breeding for the market to keep
non-standard mare on the farm" says a
prominent writer, "as he will find it
necessary to develop few of her foalS
before the balance can command fair
figure"
Pilot Medium now leads all the STALL
ions for his age. AT twelve years old he
has to his credit twenty-nine with rec
ords ranging from 2:1215 to 2:30, among
them two tWO-year-oldS and five three
year-oldS.
The association that built the kite
shaped track at Stockton is heavily in
debt, and the Pacific coast breeders
whose colts have been making kite rec
ords are being appealed to for funds to
tide over the difficulty.
Marvin has left California for good
and gone to Pennsylvania. 1t may be
discovered when it Is too late for Palo
Alto that no small part of Electioneer's
fame originated in Marvin's skill.
A breeder that cannot recognize the
merits of the various strains of blood
and the good quality of any animal,
whether he owns 1t or not, will never
make success in the business.
James Dustin, the we'll known train
er, has been appointed trainer for SEN
ator Stanford's Palo Alto stables, to
succeed Charles Marvin, who recently
accepted a position III the East.
There is horse ranch in Colorado
containing $500 acres, and stocked with
4.S00 blooded Percheron mares. 1t is the
largest horse ranch in America, and has
capital stock of 100000.
The great brood mare Clara, that pro-
duced the ex-trotting king, Dexter. is
the grandmother OF Director, the sire of
the pacing king. Her honors grow and
multiply as the years go by.
The Missouri stallion Andrew Allison,
son of Andante. 2:2O15, started in
nineteen races this season, and was but
ters with record of 2:22L.
Electioneer and his sons are respon-
sible for twelve two-year-old trotters
that have gone into the 2:3O list this
year with records from 2:1O3I to 2:3O,
and they are all trotters.
Records Of the past help to sell the
horses Of today. 1t is quite as we'll to
plunge into the flood of success by
breeding in the fashion as to walt for
something to develop.
Bonnie Wilmore, 2:1411, is the only
horse that ever won heat from Nancy
Hanks, and he got that one only be-
cause the driver of the mare took her
back.
Pierre Lorillard is reported to be on
the lookout tor great English race
horse, and is said to have made an offer
for Common.
The owner of the yearling colt Atha-
don, that recently made record of 2;27
in California, priced him at $4,000 not
long ago.
Frou Frou weighs only $50 pounds,
but she went mile in 2:25L as year
ling just the same, and more than this,
pulled driver who weighs 165 pounds.
It is remarked that "a horse that trots
in front and stammers behind at the
present time is never In the arena ex-
cept as sort of equine clown.'
It is said that the fastest tWo-year-old