The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-22
300 FOR KENTUCKY UNION
MR.. CROKER BUTs THE GREAT TRor-
TING MARE At GARDEN SALE.

TING MARE at GARDEN SALE.
seoo-Paid ss.OOo for Her Once and Sold
Her for se0o-Ninsty-two Horses Wont
Yesterday at an Average OF @ss3.As.
Richard Croker added another crack trotter
10 his collection yesterday at the FaslR-Tip-
ton sale In the Madison Square Garden.
HI. latest purchase 10 the noted free
for.all marc. Kentucky Union. 2:07H. By
Aberdeen. out OF Kentucky Central.
2:3l, by Balsora. 1t Ia said that he bought
her TO drive on the Speedway. "Tucky"
is bred right for a Tammany roadster. as her
sire was raised and owned for many years by
the old.time Tam many politician. Capt Isaiah
Rynder. Of this city. Mr.. Croker was repre-
sented in the bidding by Jack Curry. who cam
raigned the mare couple OF years ago. 1t
was largely on Curry's advice that the pur-
chase was made for $500.
The great trotter is now 10 years old. She
has been campaRned ever since she was 8
years old. yet her legs are as clean and sound
a, they were when Sam Fuller brought her
rom Missouri In 1892 and astonished the
talent by beating Dlrectum with her
Mt Independence. Ia. In q sensational race.
Although Dlrectum atterward defeated her
in the fastest three-year.old race on record.
the admirers OF the gaxelle-like. white-nosed
faster than the black whirlwind from Califor-
MIA. She was thin aud WORKOUT when she met
Dlrectum. In 1895 Kentucky Union lowered
her three-year-old record OF 2:13S to 2:11A.
hut she had become sour and cranky and was
not successful as a campaiRner Then she fell
into the hands OF Ras Ecker. who booted her
all over like football player and put a rope
around her neck TO control her in scoring on
the track. She made great campaign thus
risged in 1896. beating Klamath and nearly
ali the best trotters on the turf. At Indian
arolis she trotted three heats In 2:07S. 2:07k
and 2:O1.
In 1898 Curry took her and discarded all her
rigging. He drove her to a record VI 2:l0k to
wagon and made her as sweet-tempered as a
ret lamb. Ecker har died her again last season
aud drove hor in 2:0S In her 1rst race. Both
Ecker and Curry say she viii make a perfect
road mare.
one OF the moot notable transactions yes,cr.
LAY was the. purchase OF the fourtsen;year-old
700 shuts bought her once before Tor
5000, This was nearly ter. ysars ago, In
ems he Sag SsF Nt Das RaS
10 seIl. and Shuts bought her back.
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lr'S is the trainer OF Col. kuser, 2:l1S.
day "S week ali Is" saot,er. and p ar
MALTA owned py The late Col. Lawrence Kip.
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