The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-29
WITH TRoTTER AND PAGER.
a ID, 200 Challenge on Behalr OF ProdIsai-
IBnren Roaers Sold.

Baren Rogers Sold.
Ed Upton, former Secretary Of the Kentucky
Trotting Horse Breeders' Association, and now
tho manager Of the Montana circuit, in which
Marcus DAILY 10 interested, 10 at the Hotel
Netherlands. There will be no harness racing
ct the Montana meetings this year. it having
been found impossible to attract enough high
class horses to Butte and Anaconda, which are
moro than 1000 miles from the nearest trotting
centres East or West To o reporter Of II
Sun Upton said that DAILY had not made any
more match races that he know anything about
with either E. II. Hartman or / Malcolm
Forbes, but he thought Daily would DO willing to
do SO.
II will mako this proposition, however" Tip.
ton said. ION behalf Of the Prodigal two-year-
olds. There are just six of them out at the Bit
ter Root ranch. l will bet S. DOC or $500. play
or pay, on that little bunch Of six two-year-olds
against the get Of any other trotting sire in
America. / don't care how many the other fell
low MAI have to pick from. II he has forty
against the six, the bet goes at even money just
the same. We will put up the money now; trot
the race next fall on any good truck that can be
agreed upon and name our starters the night
before the race. The winner to take the pot, or.
IL that doesn't suit, we will divide the money
the same as at Goshen last year in case two or
InUTG UT6CuGTb COlue IL.
Prodigai, the horse referred to. is by Pan.
coast, 2:2I&. out OF Beatrice tdam Of Patron.
fP; a;rsnar By t SSsy sire II H AK Il +" e! 81! OrS M ! to
from John $. Clark Of New, Brunswick' in 1858,
MsFeFrs sa' 81 Louisville, Ky, who sold Kim to
Clark when thIrty.one days old for $4,000.
era allp s%pors. 1nn1ifRsI pr Siaa Fl res ana L IS is pretty a aSi
certain to bring out a response from the owners
Of such Eastern t%rortipE, eires as Chimes, STAIN
J. Malcolm Forbes Of boston has sold to Mrs.
+ so Z; ea s?osM the < SF iSax t pTisa Ea s.G paia FOB sf Si%
day iby, the steamship Phanfc1a; II is under.
nent Russian HUFFMAN. Baron Rogers is prob
ably the most valuable trotting horse that has
s7.oo sse for 'f bin II IN Is 1885 g M whenp Ills f reeord p %as
2:10A. Since then he has won many impor.
tant races. cutting his record down to 2:O9N.
n 1sSS. and msGsSs sss ~ D. Col S i. e.. isss,l'sn' f fealsd KY ~
Col. stoner sold to col. john i. Thayes Of B Boz
5 sam f %as s2 A:Sisnd Z M soSpl by q Pr ssaiff, aE Esbla his
Pepper. by Mambrino Chief. At Nashville in
1892 Baron Rogers gained q two-year-old record
cess in 1895, winning among other races the
$1,000 stake at Louisville.
In 1890 he defeated nearly all Of the best
horses In the 2:1O class, winding up the cam
paign Mt Lexington. where he won the "a, 900
Ashland Stakes. Five days later at the same
meeting he beat the Pennsylvania winner
Senator A.. along with Franklin, Fred B., Lily
Young. and Que Allen. Last year he won a
number of high-class races on New England
tracks. but got Of at the height of the cam
American.bred ~trotters as Countess Eve,
2:osAi Que Allen, 2:osN; Brayad9., 2:lo4;
2:13M, and Other. good ones. After his'racing ca
reer Is ended he will be retired toith h stud. He
10 one of the fastest representatives of the
great Wilkes family Of ~trotters that has ever
been sent abroad. Mrs. Cation arrived at Ho-
boken yesterday with the horse.
The Phgnicls win carry awsy more than
%trotters. One Of the lot Ii the brown stallion
George A.. 2:l2A. by. Glencoe Wilkes. son. Of
Alcantara,, dam Pntchen May. by Godfrey's
Patchen. Jr. He was purchased from F. II.
Foster of Boston. and goes to Herman Strass-
berg, Vienna. He is In charge of Arthur
Brown. the son Of Horace Brown.
The New England Trotting Horse Breeders
Association will hold two tro ting meetings at
The following stakes have been opened for tho
Grand Circuit meeting In August:
Blue Hill stake. $4,000. 2:30 class. ~trotting; Mas.
sachusettB stake, o.. 900, 3:lb claSs. ~trotting; 81, 600.
2:II class. trotting; 5000, $3.50 class. three.year.
olds, ~trotting: $4,000. 2:eb class. pacing, $4,000,
s:sO class. hree:year Odds. pacing. ~
s~ociation II was decided to recommend to the
congress of the N. T. A. that the distance in
trotting races be reduced to seventy-fve yards
whore not moro than eight horses start and to
100 yards where there are more than eight
starters.