The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-25

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gallant style and there was no mistake
about it being a good week for the New
Hampshire senator's stable and his
clever driver Marsh.
About the past record of Hal B. there
is good deal of uncertainty on the
part of those who have to rely upon the
Year Book for their information. There
are two Hal BIS and in 1897 the races
of both horses We're recorded as being
won by one horse. while in 1898 the
compiler of the Year Book has the
horses gloriously mixed. According to
his owner, DR.. j. l.. Wentz of Scranton,
Hal B. won several matinee races in
1896 and obtained record of 2:26A. In
1896 he won II races, all he started in.
and gained a record of 2:16A. Won the
2:25 class at Kinsman, Ohio, Aug. rs;
won 2:24 class at Youngstown, Ohio,
Sept. 8; won 1925 class at Greenville,
Pa, best time 2:1SA. Sept IS; won a
special at Jefferson, Ohio, Sept. "a; won
the 2:1S class at Minerva Ohio, Oct. Z;
won the 2:1s class at Cleveland, half
mile track, in 2:16A. In addition there
to he won another special race at JEFF
ferson and four races in Michigan,
which are not recorded in the Year
Book. The other races credited to Hal
b. in that record belong to the other
Hal B. In 1898 Hal B. won II out of IL
races, taking second in the other two,
they being his first races of the season
at Erie, Pa, and the 18th race at Lex
ington. His winning races were at
Dunbar, Mckee's Rocks, Wellsville, n.
j.: Utica, N. Y; Auburn, n. Y; Beth
lehem Readville, Mass; Dover, n. H..
and two at Lexington, Ky.
1t has been reported that the fast A.
year-old young mare has short pedi-
gree, and that her dam is of unknown
breeding. 1t is her second dam that Is
of the unknown division. The dam of
The Maid is Frankie, by St Elmo, and
The Maid was bred by Messrs. J. T.
Ferguson & Son of Eylon stock farm,
Memphis, Tenn. The Horse Review
speaks of St. Elmo as 'the trotting bred
SIRE" whereas Iconoclast says he was
by Guinn'S Clapper by Clark's Tom
Hal, out of the thoroughbred daughter
of Sir Archy. If this pedigree is correct,
then It is a most surprising book with
the past, for Sir Archy died in 1888 and
to cover that time we have The Maid,
foaled in 1895. dam Frankie, by ST.
Elmo, his dam daughter of Sir Archy.
If this daughter was foaled even the
year after Sir Archy's death, she would
be 20 years in 1854, give another 20 for
st. Elmo lands us in 1874 and another
20 for Frankie would make 1t right, but
is such a case possible?
Lord Vincent's pedigree in tabulated
form, is published by Colonel Chester
in this weeks Turf. Field and Farm,
and he comments upon the double cross
of Betty Brown, dam of Wilkes Boy
and Aileen, sire and dam of st. Vim
cent. sire of Lord st. Vincent. also of
the double cross of Starlight the Amer
lean Star mare in the pedigree of Gold
Lie Lord Vincent's dam. Gold Lie Is
one of the atrocious combination
names, being by Gold Leaf out of Ro-
sale, hence Geld-lie. 1t is no haphazard
breeding that produced Lord Vincent.
Twenty-Five years ago Major wade or
jefferson, Ohio, purchased the Ameri-
can Star mare Starlight and the stall
lion New York. Starlight was sister
of Silvertail, dam of Driver, and the
good price of $500 was paid for her,
as she was in foal to Hambletonian,
and in those days it was all the craze
to get the Hambletonian American
Star cross. Starlight was bred to New
York, producing Maple Leaf, who was
bred to Nugget and then Gold Leaf.
She was also bred to Revielle, by New
York out of Fleet by Kearsarge, and
the result was Rosalie. That is close
breeding, but it is all good stuff. Ro-
sale was thought to be too closely re-
lated to the former sires to be of use
as a brood mare, SO she was sold to
Messrs. Foster & Wright of Sandy
Lake, Pa, when 8 years old, but these
breeders believed in inbreeding and left
her with instructions to breed her to
Gold Leaf, and the result was the filly
Gold Lie, who. when years old, was
mated with st. Vincent In 1894 Mr..
Foster was killed in railroad accident
and a few months before his death re-
marked to close friend: Il have the
purest lot of young things coming on
at my home l have ever had. i have
weeded out and bred up. and bred up
and weeded out, and got about all the
trash off the place at last. What is left
is the cream. and you'll hear from more
than one of these some day" Among
the cream was Lord Vincent, 2:0S&;
Walter j., 2:1SA. and Wayside, 2:21A.
Lord Vincent is engaged in the Charter
Oak and Pennsylvania stakes.
1t has been noted for some years
past that when horse gets into the
2:10 list he is not apt to change his rec
ord. This year, however, there is quite
a change in this respect, as the follow
ing list of the 2:10 trotters of 1899
shows:
Bingen, b. h, by May King, 2:06% to
2:O6A.
Cresceus, oh. h.; by Robert McGregor,
2:091a to 2:0715.
The Abbot, b. g., by Chimes, 2:OS to
2:07K.
Fred Kohl. blk h.. by Guy Wilkes,
2:07a.
Tommy Britton, b. h., by Liberty Bell,
2:091a to POS.
Dlloree, ch. M. by Axtell, 2:09@ to