The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-25
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Few thoroughbreds have any more
racy conformation or a more highly
bred appearance than Nightingale, the
speedy daughter of Mambrino King.
There is about her a very high degree
of quality, which, though difficult to de-
scribe and still more difficult to repro
duce. particularly by the camera,
would invariably attract horseman's
eye
Minnequa Maid, the dam of Night
ingale, showed more breeding than al
most any other by Woods Hamble-
tonian, which is. perhaps, not at all
strange when we consider that in this
instance the maternal inheritance was
of much higher breeding, her dam be-
ing a running mare captured from
confederate general in the famous bat
tie of Gettysburg, that had then never
worn harness and to all appearances
was one of the very best thoroughbreds
which is not at all improbable.
Nightingale began her trotting ca
reer as a 3-year-old. when she started
in two races. both of which she won in
straight heats, taking a mark of 2:3212
in the third heat of her race at Buffalo.
The next two years her showing was
only fairly good even for that time.
AS a four-year-old she started three
times. burt was beaten in both of the
actual races, though in a walkover she
which, as a 5-year-old, she reduced TO
2:251s. though that year she actually
won only two of the nine races in
which she started.
In 1891, then years old, she trotted
some excellent races, though she won
only two of the eight in which she
started, but one of those was a very
notable nine-heat race, in which she
clearly showed the endurance for which
she has been all along noted. and she
finised that year with a mark of 2:18A.
In 1892 she won nearly all of an excel
lent series of races, and reduced her
record to 2:1O, and that, too. In a fourth
heat. Three days after taking that
mark she started against Fannie With
erspoon's two-mile record, which on
the first attempt she reduced nearly 10
seconds, taking her present mark of
4:33k.
In 1898 Nightingale started In 10
races, and though she actually won but
a very small portion of them, and did
not reduce her mile record of the year
previous, she made a remarkably good
showing, and. as has been the case all
the way along, was nearest the front In
the races that were long drawn out.
At Nashville, Tenn, that same year
she started against the three-mile rec
ord of Huntress, which had stood for
so many years, and on the very first
y
seconds. placing the mark at 6:551s.
where ii now stands.
In the following year she started in 16
races, of which she actually won but
very few, and that without reducing
her mark of two years previous, from
which by many II was naturally in
ferred, while no one questioned her
gameness and endurance, that she had
reached her limit in speed, a conclu-
sion IL is never safe to make of any
highly bred trotter as long as he or she
remains sound. The most important
race to her credit for that year was
the two-mile match against Green
lander, which she won quite easily,
taking a race record for that distance
in the first heat of 4:36k, the best on
record. except against time.
Nightingale made altogether the best
showing of her long career in 1895, win
ming eight of her races. in all of which
she had plenty of fast company At
Fresno. Cal, she won quite a good race
in February, and another at Des
Moines, Iowa. in June. without reducing
her previous mark. At Rochester Aug
%, she reduced her record to 2:10A in
the only race for the year in which she
won a heat without winning the race
At Fleetwood park. the following week,
she won in straight heats, reducing her
mark in the third heat to 2:09Is. Her
next reduction was Oct. 4. at Terre
Haute. where she took her present rec
ord of 2:0s, won the fourth heat in
2:10 and the fifth in 2:09A.