St. Paul daily globe., 1895-06-02
ROBERT j ONE OF THE FLYERS
Who VIII Contest for HOnOrs-
List of Some of the Speedy
Horses.

get 'em up," indicating that with the
rise of the sun the soldier boys are
getting ready for work for another
day at the magnificent salary of about
80 cents per" But while they were
up with the lark as a natter of duty,
the people at the driving park were
not behind them. They also rise with
the lark. In fact, some of them, like
Colby and Shuler, can occasionally get
around in time to ask of his hardship
where he was last night, that he was
so late in getting up this morning
They are out with the first intima-
ton of the approach of the coming
day, and in the quiet of the early
morning are speeding their equine ia
Vorites around the track For these
are training days I'm earnest at Min
nehaha.
There are probably 185 horses at the
track nowadays. and nearly all of
them are being prepared for the cam
palgn. For the benefit of the until
ated it may be stated that the cam
paign" in this case refers to the trot-
ting meetings which open with Osh-
kosh the last week i'm June, followed
by the Minneapolis meeting the first
week in July, and after that by the
Eastern meetings down as far as Buff
falo and back to Galesburg the last
week in August. There are some fine
campaigners, but the great majority
are expected to earn a great deal
more than their oats during the next
three months. In order to enter
horse it costs whatever he earns If
ne only gets fourth place. and if he
hnlshes worse than that he is a loser.
80 that every one which is now being
put through his daily course of
sprouts is expected to win at least
Ialr snare of the races in which he
enters in order to pay expenses and
lay by a store for the proVerbiaI rainy
day
Ihere are some "green" horses at
the track, of course. How come they
there, and why are they there? Ger
talnly, that question was to be ex-
pected Well, there are a great MANY
people in Minneapolis who like a fast
horse for driving purposes, and the
best way to get speed out of him, or
rather to get it into him, is to turn
the horse over to some man who
knows just what to do and how to do
Zahnen-every one knows Pete-is one
Oh TINS class. He has a fine colt and
wants to make of him a roadster
which can pass anything on the boule
ward, and he accordingly sends him
to the track. He hires a trainer To
look after the horse-there are aIWays
trainers TO be found-and the result
Is that if the animal has anything
IN him it will be developed. In Zah-
mems case the horse will probably
never be thought of in connection with
the race track, but he will come out
Oh the trainers hands with a record
which few years ago would have
been good one on the track.
Ihese drivers, or trainers, are peripa-
tetlc fellows, most of them. With the
opening of the season of trottfng meet
lngs they are off for the "big circuits"
or at least the smaller circuit. b11t
Whlle they are here they handle local
horses as well as those which thew
Will take with them to the various
trotting meetings. There are MANY
excellent handlers of horses, however,
VINO make the Minneapolis track their
constant abiding place in the summer
among the horses at the track now
are Mark Sirius, Genie L, Guido, Seal.
Mayhill, Jersey Belle, Abadonnp, Red
strath, Drelincourt, La Belle, Tcrnpter.
Vi B, Blanton, Joe q LeaYitt. Kate
Phallamount, Myrtle y, DR.. Cron:n.
LII. d., Charley T, Drum Major, Green
Stotts, Alta, Blackfeld, Fairhaven,
Orinoco, King Princaps, "elbeck. Del
ia, Cervus, Minnie Wilkes, Lena Vii
Its, Thurston, Rowdy Boy. and Il hos t
of others.
Many of these horses, as well as 9th
ers now at the track, will make their
initial race for the season at the meet
ing of the Minneapolis club which
opens on July /, although a few vii go
to Oshkosh for the week preceding and
return for the Minneapolis meeting.
The Minneapolis meeting, by the way.
Is to be one of the best in the history
of trotting in the Northwest. On ac-
count of the tabooing of the running
races at Hamline the interest in turf
events for this year centers in Min
neapolis, and the driving club has done
it's utmost to make the event one
which lovers of trotting will long re-
member. The entries show some of
the best known horses in the world
and the most famous horse owners
Of the country will be present. The
Village farm, owned by C. J. HanIin.
Of Buffalo, which is famous the world
over, will be represented by one of the
finest strings that was ever sent out
from that stable. The Hanlin farm is
situated three miles from the village
of East Aurora, N. Y, in one of the
loveliest sections of all that nAr;n .,,g
garden Of Eden known as Western New
York, and a horse reared in such n
pasture, with such SURROUNDINGS
would be positively ungrateful did he
fail to give good account of himself
away from home. Among the speedy
animals from this farm entered for
the July meeting is Robert J, the fast
est horse in the world, and Fantasy
the queen of the turf, with a. reco-d of
2:06 fiat. Robert is entered in the
free-for-all pace, while in the free-for-
all trot Fantasy will contest with such
horses as the four-year-old stallion
King Directum, who comes from Cali
fornia, piloted by the celebrated teams
ter, James Dustin. Ed Geer will hold
the reigns over Fantasy in this event.
Among the other entries in this race
are David 3, from that state of fine
horses, good whisky and handsome
women, Kentucky; Kentucky Union.
from Missouri; klamath, from Cali
fornia, and Nightingale, also from the
East Aurora farm. The only local
entry is Mark Sirius. These horses
have been drawn to MINNEAPOLIS by
the liberal money offered, that for this
race being a stake of $1,000
This rapn ic bIIf
which will be witnessed every day of
the meeting. There are four on each
daily card. and from the opening day
when the Derby with its seventeen
entries will be pulled off. up to the
be poor race on the programme.
California sends her champions, and
nearly every race has horses from the
East, South aad the Northwest. A bet