The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-02-04

| Majestic Ecliptics old-time companion,
| and one OF the late Major boswell s
most highly esteemed brood mares, has
| been sold from Bulfeld, and now roams
| the bluegrass pastures Of Tennessee. Mr..
boswell will take part In the coming
spring meeting at Washington. He has a
string of twelve in training. consisting OF
nine two-year-ods two three-year- olds
and one four-year-old. They are by
such sires as imported Darebin, Hyder
Ali. Newcourt. Heimdal, &c. Among the
lot being handled are a couple Of i'm
ported colts three and four years old.
Some Of the youngsters are regarded as
exceedingly promising by Mr.. boswell.
The well-known chestnut stallion Zil-
caadl Golddust died recently at the home
of his Cwrer, l.. l.. Dorsey, Middletown,
Ky. He was foaied in 1867, sired by Gold
dust, 1851, dam by Imported Scythian.
granddam Sally RUSSELL by Boston. lie
did not attain prominent position ms
sire of trotters, having only three stand
ard performers TO his credit, the fastest
being the bay gelding, Whirlwind. 2:&,
while he got the dam Of the fast mare
Rosalind Wilkes. PA 1-2. Though not a
prolific sire of speed most of bis get pos
sessed the grand stple and finish peculiar
to the Golddust tribe. His granddam,
Sally Rus sell, bore the same relation TO
the ex-Queen Maud s., 2:0S "a, and the
noted trotting sire, Lord Russell, who
has to his credit the splendid trotting
stallion Kremlin, 2;0 "a.
Messrs. T.. r. Cox and Bro, proprietors
of the Hundred Stock Farm, at Bermuda
Hundreds. in Chesterfield county report
their trotting stock as progressing fire.
Their premier sire is Phalanx. by Phallas,
213 ga, dam by Volunteer, leXt dam by
Hammond (son Of POtter's Clay, and she
out the Wells Star mare the dam of Ar
tillery, 2:2l IA, and Modesty, 2:26 IA. Next
In rank to Phallas is the chestnut stallion
Duke of Norfolk, by Norfolk (sire of Miss
Nelson, 22S ID, dam Mambrino, by Mann
brine King. These gentlemen own a num-
Der OF brood mares by such sires as Mes
senger Chief, Mambrino King, Woodburn
Hambletonian. Brennan Thoroughbred son
Of Orion, Hampton, etc.
Mr.. S. p. Nelson, of this city, has pur-
chased of +. ID. Pendleton, Norfolk. Va,
the chestnut colt Colonel Hicks, by c.
f. Clay, 2:lS, dam Birdie Hicks. by
Robert McGregor granddam Birdie
Tramp. by Tramp, great-granddam dam
OF Trampoline. 2:2D by Young Green
Mountain Morgan.
The following lines the composition OF
which especially pleased the late Major
Thomas w. Boswell and also much fav-
ored by Temple boswell, Esq, OF Fred
ericksburg, Va, are published here by re-
quest.
Equus Loquitur:
My clothing was once of the linsey-wool-
sey fine,
My name hanged down, and my coat did
also shine:
But now / am growing old, and nature
doth decay;
My master he doth frown, and one day
l heard him say
Poor old horsel let him die.
My keeping was once up In the stable
warm.
To shelter my poor bones from every
winters Storm
But now l am turned out in the fields TO
roll
To endure all the rain. the hail and the
cold
Poor old horsel let him die.
My feeding was once of the best of corn
and hay
That grew in the fields or on the meadows
gay;
But now there is no such feeding allowed
TO me at ALL
1 am forced to nip the short grass that
grows around the wall
Poor old horsel let him die.
Magister Loquitur:
He eats up all my corn, he bruises all my
straw;
He is neither fit to ride, nor In the cart !,
to draw;
He is old, he is lazy, he is clumsy, dull !
and slow;
SO whip him, kill him. skin him. to the |
huntsman let him 60
Poor old horse! let him die.
Equus Loquitur:
My skin unto the huntsman I'll very
freely give;
My flesh unto the dogs. too. that they
may also live:
And these poor wearied limbs. that have
run so many miles
Over hedges bitches, fields through gates
and over stiles
Poor old horsel let him die.
When nature has done its best and its
worst
It can do no more. but return me to the
dust
Nor do | think 1t hard, and surely no dis
grace
That l should share the same fate as
the human race
Poor old horse! let him die.
Fredericksburg. Va. January, 1893
AT recent meeting Of the American
hackney Horse Society. held in New York
ity, Mr.. A. j. Cassatt, of PENNSYLVANIA.
vas reelected president. while Messrs.
ohn A. Logan, of Ohio. and Henry Fair
ak, OF Loudoun, Va. were elected vice
Presidents. Mr.. Fairfax is proprietor OF
! high-class breeding establishment In
~oudoun county, this State.
At recent sale of Amercan-bred trot-
ers in England. property Of the estate of
he late Duke OF Marlborough, the six
ear-old bay mare Copyright, by Lord
russell, dam Novel. by Princess, sold for
300. Novel, the dam of Copyright, is
ull sister to the bay stallion Guigon. 2:3O.
wned by Mr.. c. T. Bethel. Merry Mount
took Farm. in Halifax county. Va.
BROAD ROCK.
A gentleman In. Union county. Mo.
Tho Is too modest man to have his
anne mentioned In the neWsnanars NO.