The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-07-31

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- Blessed are tho
1890 Pure in Heart"
--fll-zN&26a Fitting biography
& W NJ Sou Of tho Master Of
/S.c-AzA%\ Bull6eld."
Hundreds OF
readers Of this will remember with pleasure
the visits to Bullheld on annual Trial
lays. and perhaps few may have noticed
ou the hillside overlooking the training
track q plainly marked grave. There lie
the bones OF tho masters faithful servant
the old marc Nina. Fit spot. it seems to
me, whence, perhaps she can watch her
Young descendants taking their fret lessons
and see that they do her no discredit.
May the lescendants OF both the Mas
ter and tie Mare" ever keep fresh the
memories oi their good qualities"
TIE pRDICRRR OF NINA.
RAY mare. foaled l84s. bred by b. P.
Grav oi Kentucky. BY Boston. he by Tim
o.ean. by Sir Archer by imported Diomed.
First dam imported FrOicksome Fanny by
Lottery. second dam sister 20 Catterick. by
Whsker. third dam by Bay TrophOnius;
fourth dam. 10y Slope; fifth dam LBrdella,
Iv Young Marske. sixth dam. by Cade; sew
enth dam Beaufremont's dame. by brother
e. Fearlaught; eighth dam, Miss Wyndham,
bg Wyndham: ninth dam. by Belgrade
Turk tenth dam. old Scarborough mare,
by Makeless. elyenth dam, by Bummer See
Braces Stud Book, Vol. IT,
from the above il will be- seen that Nina
was descended from the stoutest Virginia
fmihes in the male line. Her sire, the in-
comparable Boston, was the best race horse
ol bis day and the best sire ever bred in
this country. except possibly his son Lex
ifgt0n. Nina lived 10 the extreme age Of
thr.y-one, dying September ~, 1872 a SIN
cui8r coincidence. as her paternal grandsire,
imported Diomed alsOdie at the same age.
Imported Di0med was the fountain head of
al our American racing families. and Nina
traced 10 him 10 the male line through his
best son. grandson and Rreat-grandson. Her
frst foal, Planet, came IN 1858, and her last,
Algeria. in 1875, and 10 twenty years she
throw fifteen foals, nearly all winners Of
some of the best races run IN this country.
Her daughters have all produced winners,
also her granddauRhters and Rreat-grand-
daughters. even 20 the fifth generation. But
of these I will treat subsequently,.
HEB RACING CAREER.
Bred by j. p. Gray, Of Kentucky, she
was sold 20 Major T.. G.. Bacon. of South
Carolina. and her best races were run over
she old Washington course at Charleston,
$. C..
On February G. 1882 she made her hrst
appearances h1 70 NnIHB~f thI-NA4 Ab OuhiA66-
ton. beating Andy Rogers 8 q dash of three
miles ia 5.44. Though running as three,
she was really four years old, for horses
then took their ages from May LIST instead
of January 1st as 90 present. On February
9. 1853. at the same track. we find her win
ming at two-mile heats, beating field Of
four 10 1857. 3.54.
On February 3, 1853. she met her only de-
feat al Charleston being beaten by Escape
4 .Na az. G.. e.r
Appearing again the following year
February l. lS54- she walked over for the
Jockey Club purse, 81 900, four mile heats,
all the Southern cracks declining. to meet
Der at the lOng-distance game. February
9Th. 40 the same meeting, she won the
Handicap purse, three-uile beats, carrying
100 pounds. and beating Ellen Evans 8. a
feather weight, and Maid of Edgeoomb s.
80 pounds, winning IN straight heats $40,
5:48.
However, this proved to be her last race,
~ she pulled up very lame after tho second
heat and was found 90 be broken down. At
ibis time Major Thomas W. boswell, then q
yoang man OF twenty-four, purchased her
from Major Bacon for the sum or S5,UOO~a
large price IN those days.
TIKI FAMOUS RID STABLE.
In the spring of 1854 she was sent back to
Virginia and bred 10 Revenue, then the
property of the Hon. John biinOr Bolts.
Al she same time another celebrated mare.
Sarah Washington, owned by the elder
Major Boswell was bred % Revenue, and
the produce of these two mares In 1855 was
TIE foundation of the renowned Red Stable
Prom 1858 80 1861 this Red Stable was the
terror OF other owners from Long Island 20
tie Gulf Of Mexico. Planet Fanny Wash
iugtOn. ExcheQuer. Ninette. Slasher, Lucy
Haxali. What pleasant memories this con
stellatiOn will recall to the older generation,
aud the brightest star a Planet. worthy son
OF the ola heroine, Nina. He lived 20 make
her name famous both on the turf by his
grand victories at all distances and
also ia the stud as the sire Of numerous
winnera Even the trOtting turf owes
20 aim its greatest performer, the
dead king of the trOtting stations, Palo
Alto. 2Os4. The peculiar tendency OF
Planet % the trottng gait Inherited from
imported Trusted attracted the attention
Of that most intelligent Of breeders, Sena-
tor Leland Stanford, of California, and he
purchased several Planet mares in Ken
tucky, mating them with Electloneer. His
success is well known. From dame Win
ME. the thorough bred daughter of Planet,
he has bred four with records better than
$50. among them tho great Palo Alto. the
fastest trotting stallion in the world. Otthe
victorious campaigns OF the Red Stable
viii write more fully at some future time.
NIHAs DESCENDANTS.
As to the descendants of Nina, their per
formauces, both on the turf and In the
stud. have given her fame as the founder OF
q family which. by comparison with the cell
ebrated levity, Reel and Miss Obstinate
families. will show "a larger percentage OIL
winners than any Of them.
1t is TO the excellent old-fashioned strains
OF Boston and imported Trustee that the
family Of Nina owe their success IN the
racing world.
Perhaps some of our breeders will feel
the want of these strains of blood should
We ever abolish the present fashionable
short dash system Of racing and return 70
longer distances.
announced by the OOney Island Jockey Cup
t. be run next September may be an lndl-
cation of a coming storm that is 80 sweep
away the race of soft and unsOund sprinters
that our English cousins have persuaded us
g. breed. and in future we may look Tor
something better than racing caro- made
up Of five and six furlong dashes
Then the star of Boston Will again oe IN
the ascendant and will probably eclipse
some OF the present English stars, and the
writer homes 10 assist in the work by the
help Of tho produce Of Nina's best daughter
kclptic.
GOOD VIRGINIA TRoTIERs.
Merry Bird. the brown stallion that took
a record of 2.25 at Hartford, Conn.,, re-
Gently. 10 by Jay Bird, one Of the most
popular sires in Kentucky sired by the
immortal George Wilkes, 2,22. out OF Lazy
rank dam Of Early Dawn. 22l5BJ oy
MambrinO Star Jay Bird sired the pne-
u0menal ANertOn Z.09E and others IN