The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-05

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2:1716 and pulled wagon. This was
in 1850 We have 442 trotting horses
that have beaten 800. And three trot-
ting horses that have beat 200, viz
Sunol, bay marc by Electioneer,
dam WaNana. She was bred at Palo
Alto, Cal, by Leland Stanford, now
owned by Robt. Bonner, New York.
Trotted at Stockton, Cal, October 20,
1890. over a kite shaped track in 2:OsA.
Maud S, chestnut mare by Harold,
dam Miss Russell, foaled 1874. also
owned by Robt. Bonner, trotted at
Cleveland, Ohio, July 30, 1855, over
regulation track in 2:oS%.
Palo Alto, bay stallion, foaled 1889,
sired by Electioneer. dam Dame Win
ME IA thoroughbred daughter of Planet),
bred at Palo Alto, Cal, by Leland Stan
ford. and now owned by him, trotted at
Stockton, Cal, November It, 1891, in
2:OsM.
Nancy Hanks, bay mare by Happy
Medium, dam Nancy Lee, bred by II.
now owned by Malcomb Forbes. Of
Boston, trotted at Richmond. Ind, Sep
TENDER 3d. 1891, in 200.
AS will be seen Nancy Hanks is now
seven years of age. For the past two
years she has been handled and trained
by that expert and patient driver, Budd
Doble. who handled Dexter and drove
him to his record 2:174 in 1s67.and also
Goldsmith Maid to her record of 2:l4 in
1875. OF Doble we will talk about later.
1t is the opinion of many good judges
that Nancy Hanks is the ono that will
make the record of 2:OSl4 blush the
coming season.
Nancy Hanks was named for Atra-
ham Lincoln's mother by Mr. Boswell,
who bred her, and she is as honest in
her behavior in tho stable and on the
track as was the son of her namesake
(old Abe Lincoln). She is perfect ma
chinery in her work on the track, and
in all her races last season against other
horses, and when she was trotting
against the watch she made but one
break. She Is the only horse that beat
the great Allerton last year and he
ootfed his hat to her with good grace
and acknowledged her queen OF trotters.
or her breeding we will have more to
say later. Suffice it to say that her sire
and dam are strongly inbred to the
great. Hambletonian. Her grandmother
on her sire's side, Princess, was great
distance mare, and trotted a
number of long races before she made
herself conspicuous by trotting her
races against Flora Temple, in 1858 and
1889 Princess was in the race with
Flora Temple at Kalamazoo, Mich, in
1889, when Flora made her celebrated
time of = l9A. These two mares trotted
many races against one another. and it
was thought by many at that time that
Irincess could have clipped Flora Tenn
pies wings at the distance races of two
and three miles, had she have been al
lowed and driven to do SO.
Jim Eoff, who drove and handled
Princess, was noted for his crooked
work in his business, but as he is dead
and cannot speak for himself we will
let the dead bury the dead and speak
kindly of the erring one, as we hope
those we leave behind will do of us.
The writer drove against the mare
Princess on the Chicago river on the
leo in the winter of 1855, in the first
race she ever started in. 1t was for a
vino supper of ten people and l will
only say that the Princess party Ibid
not have to pay for any part Of that
supper. They smiled and we paid for
the smiling But as many look for
their money whore they lose it. so did
we. We matched the same horse,
''Sorrel Charley" over the Garden City
course in Chicago, mile heats three in
five, and we got into the soup again.
Princess weRt to trotting in that race
and, although she was never known to
show mile better than 2:i3 before, in
that race she distanced her opponent in
2:35 flat. She was then sold for long
price and disappeared from our sight.
(She was then called and trotted under
the name OF Topsy and was owned by
David A. Gage, of the fremont House,
Chicago.) This was in the spring of
1855 that she trotted that race in Chicago
and was sold. We lost sight of her.
But 1t seems that the parties that bought
her from Gage took her to California,
and there she proved herself gem of
the first water.
In 1858 Flora Temple was queen OF
trotters with a record of 2:22, and could
get no engagements to trot against any
other horse, and lay idle for some time
When in the fall of 1858 Jim Eoff came
from California and proposed to match
Flora Temple three races at one, two
and three miles, heats, for $1,000 each
race, his money was covered quickly,
and he named a bay mare called Prin.
cess, and it proved to be the same mare,
Topsy, that we trotted against in Chi
cago, in 1856.
Flora Temple beat Princess in tho
first race of mile heats and also tho
other races of two and three mile
heats, but as l say it was tho opinion of
many good judges who saw the races
that had Eoff have driven Princess to
win the two and three miles races, that
she could made Flora drop her flag.
Thou sands of dollars changed hands on
all of her races, and il was proven that
Jim Eoff did not quit with empty
pockets after loosing all three of the
races. Flora Temple and Princess then
went on what is called hippodrome
trip and at Kalamazoo, Mich, Princess
drove Flora rremrla out in o.tos< q. ~