The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-06-06
HORSES AND HORsEMEN.
A Column of Fresh News Pertaining
to the Turf-About Canton
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God, to select out of the brush, fast side
wheeler. Mr.. Jones was like a good many
other gentlemen in this world, who like a good
horse, aud yet cannot afford to own one, so he
steered Mr. Walton to an old cabin between
the hills of mountainous Harrison county in
one Of the fields belonging to which, they found
a Ally about four years old, which the owner
designated by the euphonious name of Dell"
The Buckeye mountaineer declared that she
was by Billy Green the greatest "pacn' hoss"
in Ohio, and a stallion wat wins every race
roun' th' kuntray." The argument was con-
vincing. Theget of Billy Green's were hard
to buy in that country, then and Mr.. Walton
thought he had gold mine when he got the
mare. Jones trained her, off and on, little,
and then he told Mr.. Walton that he guessed
he would give it up, and she wasn't any sort
Of good, and couldn't pace fast 'nohow."
Discouraged at the failure of the mare to go
fast in Mr.. Jones' able (2) hands, Walton,
game as they make them, even then, thought
that he would have to get out on the deal
someway, and so he bred her to Prof. Arm
strons's horse, Bayard SO, little dreaming, as
he did so, that this union would produce Kitty
Bayard, 2:l24, the champion trotter of the
world, over a half mile track, and one
of the pair to pole, which went faster
at Nashville, last year, thad any other
with Count Robert, 2:13l. Pa. Hamlin was in
the stand that day, and saw to it that the pole
team record, made by the Village Farm pair,
Belle Hamiln and Honest at Providence in
1892, of 2:12l, was not announced as surpassed;
but the time was really 2:113, and the Sage of
Buffalo was to smart too lose worlds record in
the twinkling of an eye and so the time,
though made by the Stark county mare and
her stallion trotting mate from Garfield was
never heralded to the world. However, the
same pair broke the worlds half mile track
record to pole, at Garfield last fall, by going
the route in 2:102.
Mr.. Walton has been breeding Dell to At
wood since Bayard's DEATH and has sold the
progeny thereof at very high figures. One of
the fillies of this union has already nego-
tiated a mile in 2:15 at Buffalo, n. Y, and
others possessing the same blood will certainly
he heard from on the turf before many years.
After looking all the stations over in Ohio,
Mr.. Walton decided to mate the mare this year
with the Red Wilkes horse, Malcolm Wilkes.
He says he is trying to breed the two minute
trotter, and believes, with many other expert
enced breeders and developers, that the sire of
he two minute trotter, which is now the uni.
versally acknowledged possibility, will possess
on his maternal side, the hot blood and the
strong nervous tension characteristic of the
thoroughbreds, and he feels scientifically posi-
tive that the dam Of such a world beater will
be PAGER such as Dell is.
Charley Kibler showed Malcolm Wilkes to
the gray haired veteran breeder pretty fast
over the new track, last Tuesday, and when he
came in Mr. Walton's face was bedecked with
a beautiful smile of appreciation. He said:
Gentlemen, he's good one! I'll breed Dell
to him, by gosh, will He's trotter, sure,
and I'll tell you right now that the man who
buys the colt will have to give good deal of
the yellow stuff that they dig out of the can
yons of California. Good day, boys" And
Emery Walton started home again. the lightest
hearted man the boys had seen any day yet at
the new driving park.
RACE TRACK NEWS.
Billy Williams keeps up his clip in harrow
ing up and smoothing down the velvety soil of
the new track. The old campaigners whose
hoofs have been racked to pieces over the prac.
tically macadamized courses of other towns on
the various trotting circuits are as frisky as
colts as they head into the home stretch, TO
crafty the whims of the twittering rail.birds.
Their old feet are free from pain, and they
can go down the new home stretch like colts
again.
saw pretty little race the other morning.
You have all read what / have already said
about the Scotch lassie's horse from Palmyra,
otherwise, the chestnut gelding from the West
ern Reserve, with the METEOROLOGICAL name
Pho Davis We have seen him go a quarter in
33 seconds; we caught him half one day, in
1;OS and we've all been layin', a-watchin' and
a.waitin' to see him do mile. Patoche, (p\,
2:274, was out for an airing with Morford on
the bike. She's John Hadley's mare by Prin-
ceps, dam by George Wilkes sire of the dam
of the PAGER, Manager, 2:O8 3-4. Nobody could
make her go before she fell into Morford's
hands. He put the machine on her and placed
the figures after her name, the time he went
away in palace car, last summer. She had
been worked the year before by the Kitzmiller
crowd, but she wouldn't go right, somehow,
and Mr.. Hadley picked her up for a song last
spring. Sho got her mark in race, and
mighty hot race il was, too, and If don't miss
my guess she'll be better yet this year. if
know what Pm talking about; and l think /
do.
Well, as was saying, Taylor drove the
chestnut fellow up to the wire at right lively
clip and Patoche took hold of him right from
the word go. II looked rather pretty at the
half with the chestnut little to the fore, They
went along little faster then and the mare
gained a triAe and began to quicken her stride
as she reached the three quarter pole. Pho
Davis plunged forward like demon, but the
nimble feet of the little bay mare almost dou-
bled their quickness as she speeded by the
lady's horse, and then, when Morford at last
made his drive for the wire, the daughter Of
Princeps made the heat as easy as you please;
but, all the same, the Cardinal horse was pIet-
ty close up in 2:30-the fastest mile of the sea-
son thus far, and pretty good time, by the way,
for the last week in the month before the ad-
vent of the one Of the roses.
Mr.. Welty's horse, Karl X, 2:2S "a, by
Prophet Wilkes, was out on dress parade one
morning this week. Charley Nell was team
ing him. Now, Charley is one of those fellows
that knows how to make them go, and no
driver ever got up behind nicer little fellow
than this black gelding. Hewarmed him up
nice and easy like, and then he gave him his
head for mile. She half WASN'T SO fast, but
at the three-quarters | tell you he was going
some, and when he got home, my clicker in.
dicated 2;2l1. This Is the fastest mile yet
trotted by the horses possessed Of the diagonal
propensity, at the new track in the beautiful