St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-14

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jockeys as follows: Isaac Murphy,
100000; Billy Donahue, 10000; Will
lam Hayward. $4,000; Taral. $4,000;
James Mclaughlin, $50, 900; Fred Little
field. $4,000: Garrison, $4,000; Halnil-
ton, $4,000; Others from $1,000 to moth
ing.
The days of roughs. toughS and slug
gers in the suky have gone. never to re-
turn. The old-time driver who forced
his way by mere brute force is a thing
of the past. That the way to make a
horse rrot fast is 10 start pulling
match" with him is exploded. Brain
has been substituted for Drawn.
Mrs. Annie Williams, of Anderson,
Ind. has sent her three-year-old lilly
Electra, by Antonian. dam by Eiecto. to
independence, where she is being
handled by Charles A. Thompson. The
FLY is entered in the three-year-oId
stakes at Independence in August.
This is the standing of the leading
stations as to number in the 80 list at
the close of 1891: E!ectiOneer. 100: Nut
wood, II: George Wilkes, rs; Happy
Medium. 20; Red Wilkes, 63; Blue Bull.
63; Onward, A.; Egbert. 45; Hamlin'5
Almont, AZ; Alcantara, II.
The overhead checkrein is refined
and steady torture, not only for the
strain backward on the neck, but be-
cause the horse cannot see the ground
on which he stepping. The swaying of
his head from side to side is evidence of
his trying 10 find relief.
How is this for cross? "Elistu.
2:2O34. out of Green Mountain Maid,
dam of ElectioTeer, has," reports the
Turf, Field and Farm, "been booked to
~ 4 ,,olE
The two-year-old that recently sold for
Sl25.000.
Robert McGregor, at twenty years of
age. trotted quarter in IS seconds bare
footed, and that. too, after 4 full season
i'll the stud And he made his record of
2:l715 after making a season, during
which he was bred to fifty-four mares.
News comes from California that to
all appearances the grand old stallion
Polo Alto, 2:0S$4, does not propose to
allow any other stallion to take mis- crown
without struggle. He is in fine fetlie
and is to be trained again this season.
The great mare Mambrino Maid.
2:15H, by Mambrino Startle, dam of
Red Wilkes, is TO be campaigned this
coming season by John A. Goldsmith,
and it is reasonable to expect her to
still further reduce her record.
C. Ii. Nelson says that Budd D0ble
will not train Nelson next year. 1t is
very probable that he will be handled
by George Starr, the driver of the PAGER
Direct, who gave the latter his record
of 2:06 last season.
The Religious Society of Friends Of
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Della
ware mas issued pamphlet condemnlng
horse racing, because 1.-The poor beasts
are prodded with spurs and laced with
whips"
Baby Mckee is very properly to be
given another name When man pays
S25, 900 for baby of the horse kind he
ought to be accorded naming privileges,
and the present is an Illustration to that
effect.
1t is held that ''those horses which
are worked all winter on a track will
hate the very sight of it before spring.
Give them their work OF the road. Inat
will develop their muscle and wind
In these days it takes more than pedi-
gree to tell horse. There must be in
dividual merit 10 sustain popularity and
a good figure; IN other words, horse
must be attached to the pedigree.
Because bright timothy hay and oats
are the best feed for horses it does not
follow that they would not like change
from it sometimes. or that they would
not do better for such change.
The HorSeman reports that Jay-Eye-
See has taken to pacing, and already
shows pure, fast gait. He will be en-
tered i'll the $1,000 stake for $50 PAGERS
at Independence next mouth.
A ye ar ago but one trotter had Zee
ord better than 2:10. Now there are
five They are Sunol. 2:0S4; Mand 5,
2:083l; Palo Alto. 2:0S34; Nancy Hanks,
2:O9; Alerton, 2:0914.
g 1.-THE business of diminishing the
weight of SulkleS goes on" remarks
writer, 1.-THE sulky of the future will
consist of two tires and a strip of sun
shine'
IfJ. Malcolm Forbes starts that breed
ing farm. as he cOntemplates, what a
splendid foundation he will have i'll
breeding AriOn, :l0M, to Nancy Hanks,
2:09!
In the year 1891 125 horses got by sireS
owned at the Belle Meade farm. Nash
vile. Tenn. won 453 races, aggregatin9
III purses and stakes tritie over $780,
900.
The stallion Harry Noble, 2:171s, has
been sold by w. 5. Kirby, Galesburg,
Mich. to the Valley Stock Farm COM
pany for the reported price OF $4,000.
The owner Of any stallion who de-
ponds to any great extent upon the pub
lie for patronage cannot, for any length
of time, fix fee above actual worth.
The directors of the big trotting asso-
cations are becoming aware of the fact
that at least one $4,000 stake IS almost
a necessity on the programme.
Giving PAGERS standard rank with trot-
tiers is like giving lawyers rank with
clergymen. 1t won't work to advantage.
Breeder aud Sportsman.
Monroe Salisbury hos unique scarf
pin. 1t is nail from Directs shoe,
beautifully mounted and engraved with
the figures 2:06.
C. F. Emery, Forest City farm, Cleve-
land, O., has sold to James O'Neill,
NeillsvilIe, Wis, the colt Banbury,
toaled 1890.
Two imported horses are now doing
stud service at Belle Meade-Great Tom
and Loyalst. The former is totally
blind.
The man who asserts that the trotting
horse business Is deteriOrating has not
observed the entries in the stake track.