New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-19

grocery stora near Broadway and Prince st. Dolly
had an annoying habit of switching her tan whici
caused Feter to send her out to billy va" 'o''
TO have her locked. Mr. Kerner says TINS opcIa,'o"
affected her spine that her owner soon TOOK 'e'
off the road and sent her up to Newburs 10 DE
bred to Rvsdvks Hambletonian. then an obscure
horse. The stud fee. the story goes wa" "
$50 gold piece. The colt that came the next Si
was afterward known as George Wilkes, the c"a,'
p!on trotting stallion OF his day. ana the Io"''ue
Of the great Wilkes family OF trotters' MT REM.
who knew Dolly Spanker and who says that w ~
De,avap one Of her former owners. told him she
was by Henry Clay, now drives the chestnut mar
Acyone Belle 2:29%. great-granddaugh'el .. nv
bob-tailed brown mare that was on the roau ~ ''"
York more than forty years ago
WELI~KNOwN LOVERS OF GOOD Ifoi Emo
Contemporaneous with the Commodore were Cap
tain Jake Vanderbilt. an enthusiastic holse"'a'''
yho suryived his brother many years the h'"pi"
"shep" William and 'Gid the latter IN after years
prominently identified with the runners as s'ewa.u
=, tho Jockey Club A. b. Darling. or the r"'"
Ayanue Hotel who drove the speedy. game' ""iu
Willing old gray mare Daisy that hsu'eS '' VIZ
nedigrees OF Axworthy, 215l2; Axteloid zIo']' N's
harrington. 2l6 Grayght. 2:lel., and other ho'eu
trotters OF to-day; Charles BacKman' ~ wa"
= New-york merchant and afterward widely known
- ~. hraeder Of Eectioneer: Jay Gould, VINO i'heu
= ,rotter passing well and who once owned JOHNNY
Nth Jim Fisk and George G. nan the ui'De"
400 ooo 90 u,op that bore his name; H. N Shii'h III"
go -, tho rich men Of Wall Street and an mt
800. -, NJ Gould's who drove the handsomest pan
-. ,ho road in Tidy and lie Blonde, TWO peau.iu
daughters Of the famous Ethan Allen gwen 10 nj"
49,, r. T Hamlin: Joseph Goodwin, who' Win james
~ voNann owned the Incompatible PAGER roc"
hnr,as in her best days; George b. Aiey. W." a"
houoht D.xter for 500 and sold MIN lot si''VVV
Iosonn tIarker the owner OF Breeze, young Diui'o
Nav Queen. Lula and other old-time ceeD', NE
"Enb" simmons partner OF the late Johh a. n maker
ris owner of Georke Wilkes an asu oro Vanderbilt:
and a great fayorlie with Commodore Western
Harrison Durkee the vlce-president OF ume like
Union Telegraph Company, VINO pal1 soi',e fnS Cox
$40 oSo Tor Hardwood and who sofa i'ic.htOI
or0 when the brother TO Dexter was t"e.ts TnI-
old. William Humphres the owner OF Suu h o., me
Ierton; Captain Isaiah Rynders o"Heh ~ great son
old Widow Machree and breeder OF ner sIeat
Aberdeen: Dun Walton. the foremost uouoa , a,ratw
driver OF his time; the old-tlme spo1'dns 1vs Annie
.JIm'' Irving who for many years INV .,ho
Laurie the daughter OF Harris's Hambetohin, %. M
was the dam Of Anne c.. 2:S, Dictator mr. w W
trotter; Lew" Pettee Dr. ALEXANDER fhy ~ mmmv;
C;riswod. Caleb Weeks, Morgan l.. Mott ot nanijyas
Weeks. Harry" Eldred and Jim Bevans. pesiues
scores Of other well-known horsemen.
SOME NOTED DOUBLE TEAMS
After Commodore Vanderbilt ceased to drive
short time before his death In 1877. William II; van
derbt became the central figure In the coterie VINO
made the Romantic their headquarters He was II
anything. keener horseman and more accom-
plIshed reinsman than his father. and with grea.
stable to select from he held his own against an
Corners on the rped Like the Commodore pc NM