The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-02-19

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lie is now said that the reported death o.
Doc, the trotting dog, was n csnard.
Tho attendance at the Rhode Island state
fair last year footed up . total of $4,000.
The management of Point Breeze track
should give a purse meeting for amateurs
A kite-shaped track on tho ice ia nov
city Of tho trotting season at Montreal.
Canada.
Very few collisions or breskdowns have
occurred with the bicycle sulky since III
introduction.
Hulda, l:l4s4, is expected TO be a sensa-
tional trottsr this year. She is at the Bay
district track.
Chris Smith has bet $4,000 against
$1,000 against Don Alonzo's winning The
American derby.
Mill Lady. tho y~earlinR PAGER who made
a record of $50 last fall, will be tried AS a
trotter this season.
John w. Russell. a ~well-known horse
man, of Columbus, o., died recently at thai
place Of heart disease.
Direct. 2:051l55, will not be out for the
money this year. but will make a season al
the stud in California.
Miss Russell. the dam Of Maud s., has
lived to see 303 OF her descendants take rec
ords from 2:07A to $3.50.
j. b. Hagain has secured Algonan. sire OF
Flying Jib, 2:0534. to replace Albert w. a.
tho premier stallion of his farm.
The California stallion Mckinney IL re-
ported to be in good shape and 10 being
given easy. regular. jogging work.
Nightingale. 2:131ha, paced az a %youngstel
n may be campaigned At the gait after
she has reached her limit as q trotter.
The horsemen Of Boston are aaitatina
proposed by Mayor Gilroy, Of New York.
EiroN0 hr0thaH "a Nirauo O.N1E h Sid.
ney, will be allowed to Taco this year. He
is the property OF the Rensselaer, stock
farm.
1t is reported that Monroe Salisbury has
a green PAGER that will create as big q SEN
sation next season as either Flying Jib or
Direct did.
Allerton, 2:O94. will probably not be
three years, will, If he shows no signs of
~unsoundness.
Notwithstanding the severe weather of
the past few weeks. veterinary surgeons re-
port shat horses all over the county have
been enjoying exceptionally good health.
w. c. France, owner of the famous High
land farm. Lexington. Ky. has announced
his intention of retiring from the business
of breeding trotters and offers his farm for
sale.
The officials OF the Fleetwood Driving
Park association have been successful in
obtaining from prominent member a guar
antee fund of $35, 600 for the meeting of
Sept. 5. g., z and 8.
The fastest yearling stallion Of 1892 was
PawlinR, 2:31. by Col. Kipp. 2:2O4. Both
the colt and his sire ars owned BY Benla-
min Hey, who has recently, purchased Abb
dallah park at Cynthiana, Ky.
The trotter Red Star, q gray y~earlinR by
the California stallion. A. w. Richmond,
won a lot Of money at the race meeting in
Germany last year, being one of the most
consistent performers over there. t
The September meeting Of the Terre
| Haute Trotting association will have five
stakes, as follows: $10,0 900 free-for-all tot
ting stations; S. 900 for PIG trotters;
S.. ZOO for 2:20 trotters; $4,000 each for 2:l5
and 2:20 class PAGERS. NV
There is Il Ridewheeler in Los Angeles,
CAL, that is a second Flying Jib. He is by
Eastwood, dam untraced. He was taken
out of a wagon that was used for carrying
pumpkins, and in his thiG workout paced
the last quarter in 30 seconds.
The old mare Mayflower, 2:301155, is still
living. though 80 years of age. She is very
sway-baoked and Ioams the paddosks of
Palo Alto at will. She is the dam of Man.
%zanita, four-year-old record PIG, and Wild
flower, two-year-old record 2:21.
Pimlico Driving club. Baltimore, will
give two 81, 200 stakes for %trotters at the
p ring meeting. May 30, 81. June l and 2.
One ia for the 2:4O class and the other for
the 1927 class. Horses are to be named
April l, with a payment of one per cont.
1t seems un%accountably strange in these
days of phenomenal youngsters that the
record for two-year-old geldings, Fred
Crocker's 2:25M, made in 1890, still stands
~unbroken, as does the three-year-old Faust's
pisa, made in 1889. and the four-year-old
Jay-Eye-See's Dis. made in 1882.
Ed Geers says that a sluggish horse makes
the best campaigner, as hs never frets and
learns something every race. The late Dan
Mace would say that those kind of horses
finish, as they would always steal enough
in the heat to rest themselves.- Ed.
Col. North's horses, due on the Tauric,
are nine in number, as follows: lddesleigh,
High Commissioner, Sir frederic Roberts.
Rough and Ready, Arturo, Landslip and
Ethan Queen. together with two brood
mares, Early and Bsn-My-Chree. TIE
TO mer of the mares Is in foal to Highland
Chief, the latter to Saraband.
The railroad companies should arrange te
have a special car at some convenient point
in kentucky for the transportation OF
horses east, at a fair price. the car to leave
the west regularly each week. There woull
be many more medium class horses pur
chased if such was the case. 1t now cost,
from $40 to $50 to land a single horse here
During 1892 the total numbe of thor
oughbred brood mares reported in Great
Britain was 4, 1874. OF these ], 466 produced
living colts. 1870 living t%illies, !, 1876 wer,
barren, 230 slipped their feals. eighty-si1
wero not bred in 1891, thirteen were brer
to half-bred horses, lO2 died before ~foalinl
and 1lS we're sent abroad before foaling.
That trotting and pacing are growing IL
popularity is shown by the fact that the
societies in membership with the Nationa.
and American TrottinR associations hello
1.525 meetings last year, with 5,4S7 days de-
voted to the sport, and the season LASTED
from January to December. The tota,
stakes and purse competed for was $3,S
800. If to this moun Is added the purses
offered by associations which are not mem
ber5 it would certainly go over 81. 900, 600.
Timothy w. Cooling, we'll known in the
trotting world as the owner of Gooding'i
Champion SOB. died at his home in Canaan
daigua. Ontario county. N. V, Jan. II, frou
the effects of the amputation of n leg, mad.
necessn y by gangrene. He was born Jan
10, 1873, and lived and died upon the farm
where he fl st saw the light. He did muci
to improve the horse stock of Outar;,
county, and bought the famous Goodine'
Cham ion, sire of Naiad Queen, 2:2Q4
Castle Boy, 2;21, and fourteen others. II
1870, and owned him mp TO the time of hi
death in 1883.
IN TOWN.
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