The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-06
WrrH rRorrEn AND rAonn.
John n. Gentry Going to Buffalo to Pre-
pare for the Pacing Handicap.

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Although the prospective handicap race
among tho three great pacing stations. Star
Pointer. 1:59I; John II. Gentry. 2;OOH, and
Joe Patchen, 2;Ola. Is more than six months
away. Trainer W. J. Andrews has begun to lay
his plans for pulling down the money with
Gentry. As soon as Andrews learned that the
proposed contest was likely to be arranged he
engaged n car TO take the Hartman horse
from Goshen up to Henry c. Jewett's covered
one-mile track near Buffalo, and he will start
for the winter training ground-to.morrow. On
this track Andrews fitted Gentry for the cam
paiRn OF 1896, in which tho handsome son OF
Ashland Wilkes twice defeated Star Pointer,
lowered the race record 10 DOL and set the
mark for PAGERS at 2:OOb.
Peter the Great, winner OF last years Ken
lucky Futurlty for three-year-old ~trotters.
was sold last week by his breeder, d. d.
Streeter OF Kalamazoo. to J. Malcolm Forbes
Of Boston. The colt has earned n remarkable
record on the turf. Having started only twice
his winnings amounted to something like
$4,000. and his mark la 2:l2is. He was sec
ond to William +. Spier's crack nlly jamie r..
2:l4. in the two-year-old division OF the big
stake race that he won last year. forcing the
daughter Of Bow Bells to trot in 2:15k. The
colt is by Pilot Medium. out OF Santos. by
Grand Sentinel. Henry liter will campaign
hiul WI Nni WV DiiHols . NlNO'
2:OS4. and Nowadav. 2;liA.
j. Malcolm Forbes has purchased from NJ.
W. Durham OF Wavne. ILL.,. two French coach
mares OF the highest class. which he will breed
to his noted trnttinE stations, Arion. 2:OTi4.
and Bingen. 2:06A. The young mares Alerte
and Princesse are by Indre. the: French coach
ing stallion that won The blue ribbon at the
National Horse Show OF 1896. and that was re-
Gently sold to V. Hardness for $1,000, Both
Alerte and Princesse are OF the French breed
OF ~trotters on the side Of the dam and they are
eaid to possess speed. Forbes is one OF sew
eral prominent breeders who are experiment
Ing with the cross between the American trot-
ter and the French .concher in hopes OF pro-
ducing, an improved type, OF heavy, harness
Hardness. J. s. Sanborn and other horsemen
are trying the same experiment. :,
George J. Fuller sailed from here last week
for st. Petersburg. where he is going to teach
the Russians how to balance. train and drive
s sse tFo of tEe R RTEsf; M Mover. ,nS snt a es feST S Ssd
a school fer trainers and began TO look
a salary of $4,000 year. lie is one Of the vet.
Grams Of the craft, being nearly 20 years old
drivers. Fuller gained q great reputation
about fourteen years ngo by bringing out Pa
e sfGt' ]tr 1; ! FROM E5E1rD1I j. Una &. Ms'rs snq G%s" GIen G Y
Farm near Louisville. When Glenview, went
out Of existence, Fuller trained for G, 7. Emory
of.Cleveland and later for the Hermitage stud
at Nashville. While there he brought out
Ponce de Leon and drove him TO q record OF
Belle Archer. 2:l2'.. and Philonidea. l2;ll&.
are among the other good ones that he has
TrottinG horse breeders have been welded
to the theory that inbreeding enhances the
chance of prodHcinE speed ever since the days
grandson OF Tredwell's .Abdallah and whose
dam was q daughter Of that horse. Nancy
record breakers have resulted from this prac-
tice Of doubling up the blood Of some great sire.
Is q notable Dlp OF close iDDrpetlnI. haV-
Ing Tor her sir ESgIe Bird, 2;2i, that wns BY
was got BY another son Of George Wilkes. Mont
Leaf, 2:27is: one Of the 40 @trotters Of 1S9S.
York. His second was by METROPOLIS, a son of
New York. and his third dam was by New
ing. however. by comparison With the. black
lilly Bessie Nice. bred by the Californi9 horse
9 @fp C. ont I; Of P q m r 81 she sbd Is horse by M sbd bST.
fee Is going to breed her to her own sire by
way OF experiment.. 1t is said that nowhere
tie Club can a. pedigree be found in which the
sire and the sire OF the first and second dams
n. A. Fairbairn Of the New York Stock En-
change has, applied to, Eice-President David
{np me OF the o Sgti s p II I, As5;9 zoe ndoT
NJ. 2:17s. she is to be shipped 70 Russia and
campaigned there this year. The mare ID
ana her dam was by Gen. E. 7; Beqle's, old trot-
tIuB sire. IIlIce. 'ElOn.- IulTDdlIu mas iseuL
a number Of t~rotters to Russia. Muta Wilkes.
2:i1. and Nominee; 2:l7+; among the rest
ner's noted road horse Praytell. 2:6ai5. has
been sold to F.; C., Sayles OF Pawtu,ket, who
owns the record holder. Alix. 2:03h.. and other
fast %trotters. The mare is by Look. a son Of
Nutwood, and her dam IL Forshea's Flaxey.
by Bucephalus. 2:2Si4. The Rhode Island
full sister to Praytell.
The noted old Boston trottinG track. Mys-
tic Park. which was closed last season on ac-
count Of the illness Of Proprietor Horace
Willis. will make up for lost time this year.
Dates have been announced for four meet
ipgs. The nrst:will be held June 1917. fol-
lowed .by.uthers as follows: July 1921. Aug.
1913. Sept. 1915 and Oct. lob.