The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-01-28

n wsez<z6D road work. Mr.. POms
I roy is handling promising lot G
3 younsters at Whitby Farm. I'm Chesterfield
1 | county, as are the Cox Brothers. at IN
| Hundred Farm I'm the same county. Othe
, breeding and training establishment
, around here are also kept busy in pro
portion.
William l.. Bass. who for a number o
, | years held the position Of trainer at Acc:
Stock Farm, has now leased that well
: known establishment and win conduct
; public training stable on the place Bas.
is wintering about twenty head, from
yearlings to aged horses. The bay stallion
Wits, 2:Sf "a, by Jay Bird. out of Milo
May. by Lumps, 2:2l. Is running out in q
paddock, but viii be taken up I'm few
days and logged in harness during his
stud season, after which he will 20 into
regular training. and Bass hopes TO mark
him in 2:25 or better.
Probably the incest yearling on the
farm, certainly one that attracts the
most attention, Is a bay FLY by willis,
out OF Miss Lassiter, dam Of Miss Mel
son, 2:i7 1-2. She is owned by Mr.. j. D..
Chamberlain, of Baltimore, who also
owns her dam. Among other horses at
the farm are Branchwood, 22J pacing
bay gelding GD, by WOODBURY. Handle
ton, dam Belle; Bellwood bay colt 90,
full brother TO BranchwOod: bay geldinr
| ca, by Norfolk, dam Callie Mark, by
Greenwood; lila b.. 2.50. brown mare (6,
by WOODBURY. HambletOnian. dam s. {. b.,
| by Ethan Allen; bay colt 90. by Have
lock, dam Baroness. by Rothschld: bay
gelding 90, by Toodlcs. Jr. dam by Rom
ney. This youngster is full brother TO
| Nelly d.. 2.Sl IL. Ellen Caskie. gray my
CO, by Wills dam May Bee by Carlos:
| William Bass. bay colt (2), 10y Willis dam
| Haze, BY +. +. "; Bay hlly co, by Wills.
dam Margaret, by Woodburn HANDLE
lOnian, second dam Easter. the grand
dam Of Edge Mark. 2Ig; Gordon Smith.
gray colt (), by Willis. dam May Bee,
by Carlos.
A chat with Messrs. Harry y. and
Bobert NJ. Beattie of HenricO, is pleasant
at all times as each OF them possesses
an interesting fund of horse lore They
are owners and breeders OF both thor
oughbred and trotting stock. and have
been interested in that direction for some
time past. As a road ana pleasure horse
the bay stallion Rover, is still in active
service. He is now eighteen years Old. a
prompt, cheerful roadster that can pull |
road wagon at a threc-minute clip with |
ease In his prime he could take up |
10 pounds and clear a iiVe-fOOt fence /
without double, IN cross country work /
and live through the thickest of the 1
fray however stern the chase might be.
Save the single trotting cross received
through his dam his blood lines are all
thoroughbred. He IS by ADD FL kadcr,
dam Rosa Meadows. by Cedric OrotteD,
next dam Resale, by Dcucalion and she
out Of Prima Dorna. by imp. Priam.
Rosa Meadows the dam of Rover is "A
bay mare tWCnty-fOur years old By
Cedric out OF Resale. She IS in fOal 10
Egwood, Is IL, and is expected TO assume
the cares of maternity in the sDrlng
Baroness. black mare seventeen years
old, Is by Rothchild, son of Mambrino
Patchen. She was purchased along with
the gray stallion +. h. ", by Afambrino
Patchen a number Of years back in
Kentucky from Dr. Herr and brought
to Richmond by Mr. o. J. Schoolcraft
Her breeding on the maternal side is
lost. She was registered with che Turf.
Field. and Farm, and its records were
consumed 10y fire some years ago. a COPY
of her pedigree was likewise DESTROYED
when the Beatte homestead near this
city, fell prey to flames but a few
years back. Baroness is I'm foal TO Rover.
a bay colt, four years old. out of her NV
Havelock, son Of Princeps is a natural
PAGER and William Bass thinks he Will
make fast horse. Sadie, a handsome
dun mare, six years old. prompt and
stylish In harness. Is by WOODBURY. Ham
Dletonian, out OF mare OF untraced
She was bred last season TO
Norfolk and appears to be I'm foal to the
sire OF Miss Nelson, 2171-2 A. bav dllv
three years old, by Browning (son of
Nlambrino Dudley. 2I9 81, and Electa. by
hlectioneer out Of Rosa Meadows and
bay flly two years old. by Bourbon Ba-
ron, out or Baroness, are both good i'm
iiViduals, and should learn TO trot fast
a couple of la ndsOme thoroughbred mares
are Miss Hemdal, a bay mare five years
Old, whose name indicates her pator- z
lty-Vlz.. by Hemdal, dam Lucy Hunter.
)y Add. III kader, next dam Dimple by l
Planet, and she out Of Maggie Hunter. bv 7
imported Australian. Miss Hcimdal will J
pc bred this season TO that high-class !
ace morse, EOn son Of EOlus, and War 7
song. Natalie b., a chestnut mare seven q
ears old, and bred like Miss Heimdal on j
he maternal side. but having for a sire q
Nilful, the beautiful son Of imported a
Australian and imported Pussy. BY Do d
'hantus. Natalie b. will be bred in the p
prins - Eon, and her produce by such v
game and consistent turf performer L
hould prove race horse Of high calibre.
recent letter from Captain r. J.
hancock states that the horses nj Eller- q,
e are all in good shape and doing well
,olus' book is full. and some grandiy bred =
lares have been sent from widely differ -
Mt sections To the court of the aged -
lonarch OF noted Ellersie stud Char =,
xus. the beautiful bay son OF Distin, and ~
appho, by Kingston, win be mated with %
ONE very choice matrOns and his book .,
; rapidly filling A highly tried and sue a
essful turf performer himself his get Y,
osscss wonderful speed and staying ca Ii
acity. As the sire Of such nrst-class r.,
ace horses as Ma Belle, Capstone Les q
er' Charadc, Hammie. Chateau. and u
theirs, his fame Is secure. Eon. the :,
lagniiicent son Of Eolus and War Song. u.
young and untried as a sire but his al
isthSulshed career as q race horse in ii.
ddition TO being a full brother 10 the cl
reat ones, Eoe. Eolist ST. Saviour. etc. ht
ldicate brilliant future in the stud IN
lonfort, the youngest Of the quartet 20
sires at picturesque Elersiic. is fast IN
into grand-looking horse DC
&c was sired by the French-bred Nor II
iner that stood his importer Pierre ~
orihard big sum Of money and brought II
DRY 10 Rancocas Stud Farm commen-
irate with his cost. Montfort's dam
eVolt, was by Lexington ont OF Sine
ashington, fun sister to Fanny Wash 4,
gton, the dam OF Eolus. and tho lattor ~
et induced Captain Hancock 10 mr.
lase him. Such breeding is rare ara
ring my last visit 10 Eilerslie Cantain