Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-01-20
SENSATIONAL YEARLINGS.
THEY SELDOM DEVELOP INTO GOOD RACE
HORSES
His Highnsss Never Broke Watches When
Yearling Named After State Gov
ernors We're DisappointmentS-Runners
Named After States Did Better.

Last fall when the trainers all ovel
the country were busily engaged il
breaking their yearlings it was daily
occurrence to hear of some phenomenal
yearling that had run a quarter or a
half mile in verp fast time. So many OF
these fast yearling trials were reported
that well-known writer on turf sub
| jscts was led TO remark that the coun-
try would be flooded with two-year-oldS
this spring that would equal in racing
qualities such great horses as Hindoo,
Dew Drop and fremont, II the reports
could be relied upon. The writer
in question took the ground that
reports of trials were greatly exagger-
ated, and possibly they were; but the
fact that colt SHOWS very fast trial
as yearliDg is no positive proof that
| he is a race-horse. In fact, majority
of the yearling that show remarkable
trials, and are footed all over the coun-
try as phenomenons, rarely make SUI
perior race-horses. Any number of in
stances can be cited TO prove the truth
of this statement. During the fall OF
! 1889 great furore was made at Lexing-
| ton, KY, over a wonderful trial of a
colt called MOrrissey, owned by B. j.
Treacy. The lurid-minded scribes then
| did not fail TO assert that he would be
the best 2-year-old in Kentucky in 1891.
On account of the unusual amount
of blowing abont Morrissey
great many people watched
for his appearance last year. There Is
no doubt whatever that Morrissey did
made the time credited to him in the
yearling trial, but when he appeared on
the turf he won one littre race at Louis
Vile, and there were colts in the same
| stable with him that could beat hin
"shoes to plates" though they showed
! far less promise when tried as yearlings.
In the autumn Of 1889 +. S. Gardner
had fine string OF yearling FLIES a
Nashville, Tenn, and they were given
| trials. Several OF them showed three
furlongs in wonderful time, but the
only two winners that came out Of the
! lot were Adalia and Bracelet, anC
! their trials were the less satisfactory oil
any. The records are full of such cases
! but at times q colt that shows fasI
yearling trial may be tirst-class. ST.
| Florian, the crack 2-year-old OF j. A. 4
/ A. II. Morris string, last season showed
the best trial of all the Belmont year
lings Of 1889, and on that account he
brought the highest price at the sale
He cost the MorriSes SC, 900, and wor
| SIS, 900 for them last year. His High
ness showed a poorer yearling trial thar
| St. Florian, and d. Gideon bought hin
at the sale for So, 400, yet he beat st
Florian nearly every time they met, anC
won S1O7, 900, or more than three times
as much as his higher-priced compan
ion.
AN EXPLODED PHENOMENON.
There has been quite a squabble il
| New York about a colt by imp. Dandit
Dinmant, owned by Col. Leighton, the
well-known trainer. leighton, it seems
had given Jacob Rupert an option OF
the colt for $4,000, but after he haC
twice shown trial of half a mile in 81
seconds, Matt Allen, trainer for youni
Ehret, offered $40, 900 for him. Leigh
ton was dazed by the offer and accept
ed, but Rupert protested so vehement!
.
off, which he did, and the colt went L
Rupert. The occurrence caused grea
deal of talk, and the trials of the DandiC
Dinmant colt became widely known. i
is possible, however, that Rupert viii
be sorry be did not let Allen have tn,
colt, for the chances are that with thu
humping he got in the trials, be will
not be able to run half mile any f&ste
than 80 seconds this year, and that ratt
Of speed will not win anything.
A New York writer, in a recent ar
tice, pointed out the fact that few, Il
any, raCe-horses named in honor OF
Governors Of States and other high
dignitarles ever amounted to much OIL
the turf, and cited q number of horse;
TO prove his assertion. The Statement
is quite true, and horses named aftel
Governors of States have been almos
entire failures, but on the other hanc
both trotting and running horses, wher
named for the States, have proved in {
majority of cases, to be first class per
formers and worthy their names. Abou
twenty years ago the late Dan Mace
drove celebrated trotter called Rhode
Island in honor Of that State. The
horse Rhode Island made a record o
2:2315 at period when that time wa
phenomenal for a stallion, and aside
from his speed be left an honored name
as the sire of Governor Sprague, th'
first 5-year-old stallion that ever trotteC
in 2:20L. Governor Sprague, who wa
named in honor of Amasa Sprague, theI
Governor Of Rhode Islend, was the sen
sational horse of his day. He wa
owned at the time OF making his RECORD
by the late J. l. Case, of Racine, Wis.
who afterwards became wOrld-famou
as horseman by the performances o
his two great trotters, Jay Eye See ant
Phallas. Governor Sprague was no
only great trotter himself, but
highly successful sire, and Rhode Isl
and was made doubly famous by his per
formances and success as sire. Othe
trotters of note in their time were New
York and New Jersey, which wer
named after the States in which the,
were foaled.