The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-27
HORSES AND HORSEMEN.
A VISIT TO THE HOME OF JOHN *.
GENTRY AND BARONET.
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Judge saiisbury-E'cent Sales CT Tfof.
ting Stock Other Matters.

vou 10 Graham. the county seat of Ala
ma-ce THE place .s old-fashioned, with
wide streets. adorned by an abundance OF
fine shade trees. The manufacture of
cotton cloth forms the chief industry of
the town. and the hum OF spindles in
the big mills Is familiar sound
on the outskirts Of the town is Ala
nance Farm. where is owned John X.
Gentry 2:O3 81, who holds the pacing
stallion record. The distinguished son OF
Ashland Wilkes and Damewood was pur-
chased last summer, but has not yet
trodden North Carolina soil. He is being
wlntered In the stable OF VI. T.. McHenry,
at Freeport. Ill. who drove the bay stall
lion to his champion record at Terre
Haute In September. McHenry Will cam
paign Gentry again this season, and at
its conclusion IL is the attention to bring
him home and retire him to the stud.
Messrs Holt & Scott look for him to
reach the two-minute mark, and. trained
and driven BY the master hand Of Nc
Henry. It seems very probable that he
Will.
Twenty mares will be bred to him in the
spring, ten OF which Will be sent from
Alamance Farm. The idea of leasing or
buying place In Kentucky has been
abandoned, and Mr.. Scott will remain at
Aiamance. where extensive improvements
are being made. Plans have been drawn
up for new brood mare barns and stallion
quarters, in addition 10 a large training
stable. Near the proposed site Of the lat
ter WOrkmen are busy on a new Malt
mile track. the turns of which will be
well thrown up for fast work.
very charing feature of the system OF
improvements is the construction. now in
progress. of about two miles of woodland
Ill . In h.,
which will vary the monotony of track
work. and be a most excellent exercising
ground.
Baronet. the nve-year-old son of Baron
Wilkes and Lamberta, is at home again
ana takes his ease in Toomy box-stalI.
His individuality is superb. and he bears
no marks Of two seasons campaigning.
At three years old he earned a race
record Of 2:l9 81. which he reduced 10
2:li IL last season in hard-fought
contest. His sire gets race horses. and
his dam. a daughter Of Daniel Lambert
produced three with records. and another
that trotted a trial In 2:15. The Chestnut
stallion. Gregorian. 2:29 3-4. by Prince
George, out OF Beltina. by Mansfield, now
six years old, has grown very stout. He
is a handsome horse and his colts are a
gOod-lOoking lot. He finished second In
2:23 IL in race at Baltimore last season.
and Though his record was made at the
trot. he can pace fast, and in the future
Mr.. Scott will probably give him mark
at that gait. Both Gregorian and Baronet
Will so into training at the close OF linn
tied stud seasons.
In the training stables are LISA, 2:l6 81
dun mare a., by Patchen Wilkes. dam
Lady Shaw. by Rochester; Flare. 2:26 "a.
brown mare %. by G. T.. Clay, 2:lS, dam
Kills, by Jay Bird Blondette, bay mare
o.. by Leland, dam by Kentucky Prince.
Dlondette got a record OF 2:36 IL at two
years old, and was fast in her three
year-old form, but was bred TO Pamlico
this season and thrown out of training.
A bay colt, two years old. by Pamlico,
out of Blondette, is stoutly made and
handsome. and could make a trotter and
a race horse.
Pamlet, chestnut colt two years old, by
Pamilo. dam Pearl Lambert, by Ben.
Franklin, IS superb PAGER ard give
promise of making a very fast horse.
Nelly Jewett, 2:3j, a bay mare; by Je-
rome Eddy, 2:16 IL dam Nelly. 2:3O, by
Hambletonian, l:5S, Bonnie Ethel, brown
flly, by Bonnie Boy, out of Lady Cooper.
dam of Je,tie, 2:lS g.. Pepper Sauce, bay
lilly 60 by onward. dam by Mambrino
Patchep second dam Flaxy, dam of Auto
graph, 2:i7 Blondine etc. Patcheno,
brown gelding 90 by Eric Wilkes, dam Le-
da Patchen. dam Of Jaco, 2:99, gray filly,
90 Pamlico dam by Robert Medium, 2:29;
bay flly 90 by Great Stakes, 1924 Ia, dam
Bonnie. dam of King Bird, 2:2 3-i. and
Belle Ferguson. 2:2S IL; bay colt t2). by
Brave Boy. dam Pilot Rose, by Melville
Chief. Most of the farm mares are In
foal to Barone: and among them are
Norene, 2:3l -. chestnut % by Nor
folk. dam Aldude by Woodbridge. brother
to Wedgvood: Savonne. a roam 90 by Jay
Bird. dam May Morning. by Mambrino
Iatchen. second dam the famous Betty
Brown; Kills, a bay 90. dam of Flare,
2:25 81; Flaura, a chestnut 90 full sister 10
Flare; Kitty Wells. 2:30 IL Il bay 90 By
Goodremonts st. Lawrence, Marant!na.
o lay 10 by Macey's Hambletonian, dam
Fantine, dam of Jean Vatican. PA, Alice
Burlew, 2:22 IA. bay O. by Charley H.,
2.2j, dam Lady Cramer, Is foal 10 Nam
irinO Russell and Mary G. Turner.
bay 80 by jerome Turner, 2:l5 II. dam by
Aberdeen.
While in the Wesb last fall Mr. Scott
in company with NcHenry looked over
the chestnut flly Falfa. 2:20 by AlvertOn
owned by G. W. Williams. at Galesburg
III. and the report OF her purchase was
widely circulated, which proved untrue as
while having plenty Of speed she did
not fill certain requirements and Mr.. Scott
declined to take her.
Mr.. Holt. the senior member Of the con
Germ, is an interested student of the
breeding problem though manufacturing
interests keep him occupied and his time
is divided between Graham anu Raleigh,
where his family are spending the winter.
but Mr.. Scott resides at the farm and
directs the affairs I'm person.
Not only is Graham the home of John
r. Gentry, The pacing stallion king, but
il is there that you find the owner OF
Miss Lassiter. distinguished as the dam
OF Norfok's fast daughter. Miss Nelson.
2.l2 o. probably the greatest trottins-
race performer OF the renowned Nutwood
family. In either the first or second gen
Grafton. Mr.. j. w. Menefee. who OWNS
Miss Lassiter, resides IN Graham. and
uses a ; a road team pair of dark chest
nut geldings of elegant form and style,
known as Pat. cleburne and Saint Sing,
both by Franklin Chief. They captured
the red ribbon IN the class for roadster
teams shown to pole at the Baltimore
Horse Show last fall. Mr.. Menefee has
IN his stable. also. a yearling daughter OF
Grecorian. out of an Aristos mare, and
the bay mare, Happy Girl. by Petoskey,
dam Elenora, by jim Jackson. son Of
Ericsson, second dam Maggie. sranddam
of King Toska, 2:n. and Iary Lou,
2I91-2. Happy Girl is in foal TO King
Nutwood, sire of Queen Nutwood, 2:2i II.
At the Fashion Stud. just outside OF
Graham. Mr.. Junius II. Harden has four
stoilions a fa1y brood mares and some