The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-02-17


Messrs. McHenry. Logan q scott during
| their recent visit here
| Mr. j. G. Chamblin reports that not
1 withstand.ng the severlty OF the season
| the horses at Whitby Farm have never
| winterca IN better shape. The farm stall
| lions arc all fat and iusty and the brood
| mares are in high flesh also. The princl-
| pal stallion, Norfolk. son OF Nutwood and
| Lady Alice. attracts attention as the sire
| OF the superb race mare, Miss Nelson,
| 2i22-f and others. while Egwood, 21S ID
/ and Bourbon Baron. son OF Baron Wilkes,
| 2:l8. are both attractive young horses.
! Krcmlin, 2:07 "a, Is being driven to a
sleigh by his owner, William Russell AL
| len. at Pittshcld, Mass.
/ The sight OF the crack race stallion that
| has for a sire Lord Russell. brother OF
Maud S, pleases the people IN that sec
| ton.
Record breaking for the year 1895 has
already begun. At Fresno, Cal, on the
! lst. the black colt. Directly g. Started
against his own mark Of 2:O7 81. gotten
last season in his two-year-old form. and
chlrped off half second
The little son Of Direct 2:05 IL now
holds the record for both two and three
ycar-old PAGERS He has been kept in
training al the winter, and will be
brought across the mountains earlier than
usua! this season. His owner. Monroe
salisbury, VIII enter him in the free-for-
~ classes at Jthe different meetings,
Whese ne VIII meet such cracks as John
X Gentry Robert j.. and Joe Patchen.
MI Salisbury believes that all records
VIII 80 down before Directly before the
year closes.
The experiment. of Ieeplng N Horse
keyed up from one season TO another will
De watched with interest, and such a
master trainer and driver as Myron T.
McHcnry, VINO viii have John i. Gentry
out during the coming season. expresses
some curiosity as to the result
Mr. Clifford H. Barrett. with w. =.
Frazier d CO., Aurora, ILL.,. wa mere
recently calling on the horscmen in the
city. The Frazier road carts ana bicycle
sulkies arc source OF comfort, safety
and pleasure.
The annual trottinR season VIII COM
mcnce at much earlier date than usual
this year a epring meeting Will begin
here on April Goth, and be continued tour
days, which proceeds three weeks OF
sport at Baltimore over the Arlington,
Gcntleman's Driving Park and Pmlico
Tracks. Col. HOueh. formerly secretary
OF the latter is now arranging Tor a
circuit Of four or five weeks TN North
ana South Carolina, and his wide ex-
less make his efforts successful.
Tho outlook for grand carnival OF
harness races throughout the North and
West is rosy, and record smashing may
be expected during the coming season.
In Europe trOtting races have taken a
firm hold and the sport IS popular In
England. France, Hungary, and Austria.
Nice. once Italian, now French, is 10
have "a first class association with a
grand duke as president and a prince
i'm the yice-piesdents chair. In Russia
the victories of the American stallion
Flush have added new nor ors 10 cur
national sport iu the land OF the Gar.
The dark continent has taken up the
sport also, and the African trotting sea-
son began 1T Algiers on January 2ytn.
The light harness horse was never so
popular as at the present time, and his
sphere wdens from year to year.
The following item clipped from a re-
cent issue of the sun viii prove very
interesting:
Word comes from California that MI
w. Oh MacuonCugh's great stallion
Ormonde. "the race horse Of the cen
tury.' is n failure IN the stud Tnis IS
very sad news, and horse lovers OF two
continents VIII sympathiZe with the
young Californian who had the pluck to
pay $4,000 for the son Of Bend Or. SO
eminent an authority as Sir Tatton
Sykes, who is now IN San Francisco, mas |
condemned Ormoude as q stud horse. |
There are very few colts by the horse; IN
fact, Sir Tatton saw but two, and they
were poor specimens of the thorough
bred. # is astonishing that a horse that
proved as good a horse as Ormonde
should become such a signal failure IN
the stud.
1t VIII be remembered that the English
turfmen, as a body made a great up
roar when Mr.. Macdonough bought Or |
monde from Senior BOcdu OF the Argcn- |
tine Republic, and it was urged AT the |
time tnat the horse should, in the first
place, never have been permitted TO |
leave England; that the blurder should !
not be repeated. and that Ormonde |
should be brought back to England, no |
matter what he cost. one or two stick !
lers, with a vast amount Of weight at |
tached TO their opinions fought the idea |
strenuOusly, and urged that no matter |
how good race horse OrmOnde was, he |
was a Toarer, and therefore should not |
be bred to any under circumstances.
IT was said at the time by critics IN |
America that some of our very best |
horses were sired by roarers, and Tor !
that reason we did not fear the con- |
sequences of mating the best OF our |
mares with a horse of Ormonde's speed, |
conformation, and breeding. Salvador !
was sired ~ the roaring Prince Charlie,
and there are few turfmen who Will |
admit that Salvador ever had a peer IN
this country. Mr.. NaCGCnough certainly |
had no fears. and was so confident OF |
success that lie would not permit the |
horse TO serve any mares beside his |
own although offered a fabulous fee Tor
tho privilege.
Readers Of The sun will recall the /
sharp competition there was for or
mende between the Americans. Reed
aud NIacdonough. Mr. Charles Reed, OF
the rqlrvicw stud, started by boat for |
Inc Argentine Republic TO buy the horse
while Mr. Marlborough utilized the cable
and the New Yorker arrived IN Buenos
svrcs only 10 find that an agent OF ais
couutrvman had bought the morse ior
$4,000 Mr. Reed Is philosopher anu
here is where his philosopy came III
with vengeance. Upon his return TO
New York the sun reporter was cohtoi-
ing him for having his long journey Ior
nothing.
Never mind.my boy; it's probably all
for the best.
That was Mr.. Reeds view OF the si'ua-
ton. and 1t now happens that owner
of Thora and ST. Blaise and l.. "feeder
of Dobbins was In the right. Philosophy
IS a great thing, and Charles Reed g ne
chief exponent of the doctrine IN the
ranks of turfmen. 1t was Mr.. heed VINO
was awakened in the dead OF night AT
his Tennessee farm Il year or so ago
and Informed that a stable cohtailii.is
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