The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-09-04
OLD TIME
A Great Race That Was Run In Presiden
JacksOn's Time.

A Great Race That Was Run In President
Jackson's Time.
The sports of the turf were grow
ing in popularity in the United
States. The contest lay principally
between the Messengers and the
Bashaws, though for a time the
Stars in their courses had prevailed
against both. Probably all were Of
original Arabian stock. The Stars
were slight of limb and had a
tendency to contraction of the feet.
The stronger Messengers were more
to be depended upon for long dis
lance trotting. The Bashaws came
from Barbary, and were of nea and
unquestionable Arabian origin.
One of the most famous races in
all the history of the turf was at this
time fresh in the public mind.
Hunting Park course, in Philadel-
phia, was the scene, the time 1881.
The actors e such notable fiers
as Topgallant, Whalebone, Dread,
Chancellor, Collector, Lady Jack
son, Moonshine and Columbus. The
course was a three mile track, and
there were four heats. The horses
were generally docked, and the
riders wore gorgeous suits of silk.
Eight such horses" says Wood
ruff, land such riders had never
met before, and it is doubtful wheth-
er they will again"
Topgallant, a Messenger, was
nearly "a years old, and was spav-
ined at that. Whalebone had no
pedigree, and was minus one eye.
Columbus was known as the first
horse that ever trotted the three
mile course in less than eight min
utes. He had a record of 7:58. Col
lector won the first heat, Topgallant
the second and Dread the third and
fourth.
The victor was a gelding. Up to
this time all famous male trotters
were doomed to be the last of their
line. The era of trotting stations
was dawning. The rising hope of
the Bashaws was a famous PAGER,
who was destined to make a record
of two miles in 5:1S at the Center.
vile e. " race in 1885. His name
was shared with the great Demo.
cratic president, and reporters fol
the papers divided their space equi
tably between the two. Even a ref
erence to Andrew jackson the Ba
shaw was not sufficiently specific il
those days, for the Barbary title
was one by which nor than ont
lady Of the cabinet circle had desig
mated the executive himself.
The Barbary horse was really thu
Arabian horse, that had removed
; with his master from the deser
? peninsula to northern Africa. TIL
r Arabs claim that the horse was frs
tanned by Ishmael, the son of Abra
ham-or, as they style him, 1smail
ibn Ibrahim-and that their famou
~coursers of the present day are tn
descendants of the steeds of the pa
triarch's family. Indeed the orien
s tai horse trader will not blush t
present to you a written pedigree
if you require it, giving all tn
n names of the sires in ascending lin
to the days of King Solomon. Th
less the traveller in Arabia is az
quainted with the Arab characte
the more he will be impressed wit
these "claims of long descent"
Your true Arabian steed stands !
to Is hands high, with large hea
9 and deep jowl, large and gent
eyes, light neck, high wither, mu
cular forearm, short back, roun
Is "barrel," narrow hind quarter an
high set tail. He is not always gra
in color, as is popularity suppose'
s. He is a constant galloper, a bol
jumper, a docile, courageous ar
lovable creature. He has improve
Is in size by his removal to Barbar,
and as a consequence the Barbal
type corresponds more to the Amer
y can ideal.--Hubert M. Skinner
Arena.