The herald., 1896-06-29
THE HORSE

The meeting or the northwestern
Breeders association at Washington
park, Chicago, which commenced on
Saturday, will have many features en-
tirely new to trotting men, including the
open-air horse show. About 100 fast
trotters and PAGERS are at the park. Joe
Patchen, 2:04, has arrived. John r.
Gentry, 2:03%, and Joe Patchen will
meet during the meeting for $4,000. The
$4,000 Futurity, which will be a feature
for tomorrow, promises to be one Of the
greatest turf events of the year.
w. H. Stimson Of Los Angeles has the
following horses at Irvington park,
Portland, Ore: Ell Diablo, 2, by dab
2:0aN dam ElIwood. 2:17A, by "A. w.
Richmond; Miss Jessie. 2:1sA. by Cos
siper, 2:14N, dam Leonora, 2:24, by
Dashwood; Betty Gentry. p, 2:23h. by
Raymond, dam by Del Sur; Del Norte,
p., 2:141s, by Almont. dam Tecora; John
ME Trouble. green trotter, by Confer,
dam by Judge Salisbury; McBriar, 8,
by Mckinney, dam by Don Wilkes.
Willard H. Stimson of Los Angeles
Is beginning his seasons work we'll with
his little string. At Portland, Ore. he
won q good race last Saturday with his
Gossiper mare, Miss Jessie, in three
straight heats. and on Tuesday he
turned his bay gelding, Johnnie Trouble,
loose, and got a mark of 2:25H for him
and won his race easily. Before going
north we had an opportunity Of seeing
his little string, and after a careful in
spection were free to confess that he is
a thorough horseman and has every one
in his care in the pink if condition.
The first one looked at was Miss Jes-
sire, 2:19R, by GoSsiper, out of Leo
nor, by Dashwood. Her ailing leg, which
prevented her winning a number of
races last year, appears to be perfectly
sound, and she seems to be enjoying
perfect health.
Del Norte, 2:141a the brother to Che
halls, 2:071k, does not look like the same
horse 1t is true he has the same clear
cut head and fine neck that his brothers
have, but he has so filled out in every
other place he looks as if he had not been
neglectesd, and If he does not lower his
record this season we will miss our
guess. Mr.. Stimson will surprise the
many friends of this stallion in Oregon
when he starts him in race there.
Betty Gentry 2:22A as two-year-ol
by Raymon (son of Simmons, 2:2S), out
of a mare by Del Sur, 2:24 (the Year
Book has this pedigree incorrectly. is a
handsome four-year-old mare that will
win money every time she starts this
season.
A well-made colt out of the great
Mckinney, 2:11H, out of Briar Wilkes,
by Don Wilkes, was led out next. He
resembles his sire very much, having
the same even conformation, well-placed
muscles, deep shoulders, short back,
powerful loins, and well formed legs and
feet. He is called McBriar. and will have
2:20 opposite his name before he re-
turns from Montana. He Is only
three-year-old.
Johnnie Trouble is large four year.
old bay gelding that is formed like
trotter from the tip of his nose to his
fetlocks. He is by Confer (son of Lord
Russell, out of a Nutwood mare) and
his dam was by Judge Salisbury (son
Of Nutwood) out Of mare by A. w.
Richmond. Plenty of good Nutwood
blood there. backed up by the blood Of
A. w. Richmond, which enriches every
thing which it is blended with. We
have strong hopes that Johnnie Trouble
will not be trotting in 2:251a long. His
place will be with the 2:15 class when
Mr.. Stimson ships him to his lovely
Los Angeles home.
The last one of this string looked at
was one we had seen as a sucking at
Los Angeles a year ago last October.
His dam, Elwood, 2:17%, was sister
to Arrow, 2:13, and was as game PAGER
in her day as any ever sired In Califor-
MIA. She was by A. w. Richmond, and
when Mr.. Stimson saw Diablo, 2:O9A,
the season before, he determined to
breed the mare to him, for he believed
he would get PAGER ahat would out
pace all others. With this end in view
he bred her to the horse. When he saw
the chestnut ambling foal his resem-
blance to his sire was most marked. Mr..
Stimson began to handle him in Jan
uary a little. and, much to his surprise,
Ell Diablo, as he called him, began to
trot, and he seemed to know no other
He kept jogging him easily, and the colt
grew rapidly, until he is today perfect
likeness of what his sire was at his
age, dark chestnut in color, without
white; legs and feet as clean and hard
as thoroughbred, and neck and head
"just like Diablos"-once seen never to
be forgotten; a body like horse from
"eend to eend:" Mr.. Stimson says he
will get q mark better than 2:30 before
long. and no $500 will buy him. He