The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-06

one respect Nancy Hanks surpasses AliX
and all other trotterS. She started IN
fifteen races and won them all, without
losing a heat, except the first neat OF
her first race. After that maiden heat,
she was never headed in the forty-tive
heats she had to trot to win the fifteen
races in which she was started Every
trotter went down before her rapid gait
and indomtable courage, and in her last
race she met the mighty Allerton, the
champion of the Wilkes family, and
Margaret s., the largest money winner
of 1890. and the great racing daughter of
her uncle. Director. The total winnings
of Margaret s. amounted to over SCI ,0o3.
She battled unsuccessfuly with Nancy
Hanks twice, Allerton met her once only.
Nancy's record has been beaten just q
quarter of a second by one mare during
the past seven years.
Nancy Hanks is dark bay or brown
mare, foaed in 1886, about Is Il hands
high, bred by Hart Boswell, of Licking
ton, Ky, and was named from the
nobe-hearted woman Who gave
mothers care to the great American.
Abraham Lincoln. The mare was
driven to her record by Budd .Doble, who
had previously made worlds champions
of Dexter, 2:iT Ia, and Goldsmith Maid,
2:14. Her total winnings were over
$4,000. She is sired by Happy Medium,
son Of Hambietonian and the old time
trotting mare Princess. Her dam is by
Dictator, ana her sranddam by Edwin
Forest. Mr. j. Malcolm Forbes, OF Bos-
ton. paid $4,000 for her, ana she is now
a brood mare at the Forbes Farm.
Ponllapog, Mass Nancy has had three
foals, and this year should nave another
by Arion. Her first is the bay FLY
Marion, foaled in 1896 sired by Arion,
four year, 2:oI 81. Arion, as all know.
was the most wonderful of two-year-
ODDS. In 1928 Nancy had a bay colt by
Bingen, 206 La. which has been named
Admiral Dewey. These foals have the
fastest speed inheritance of any trotters
yet born. The third. a bay FLY OF 1889
by the English thoroughbred, Imported
Meddler, has been suggestively named
Princess AIonaco-the mixed running and
trotting ancestory, though the best OF
their kind, introducing the larger ele-
ment of uncertainty. Yet worlds honors
may be the portion of the Princess, or
if not hers. then to her progeny
Lady of the Manor. 2:0I IL. is third on
the list, and the first among pacing
mares. holding two worlds records. she
was raised and is owned at Village Farm
near Buffalo, n. Y.,-that great race
horse nursery the pride of the Messrs
H1amlin. She is long, racy looking chest
nut, with three white legs. and a narrow
strip in her face; was foaled in 1894 on the
last day OF May, and measures Is IL hands
high. Her sire is Manbrino King, once
mildly sneered at as the Dude Stallion. :
now recognized as one of the most sue
cessful of speed getters. Her dam IL
Princess Chimes, sister of Princess Royal
2:2o She was driven in her races by e, f,
Geers and now will get a Well earned
rest, for Mr.. c. j. Hamlin, the shrewn-
est, Oldest, most experienced and sue
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her to Direct Hal, the 4-year-old son or
Direct, Go - that he recently paid $40
600 for Although this colt has no record
he is Mr.. SHamlin's choice for Lady of the
Manor. Queen Of pacing mares. His dam
is Bessie Hal 2:1S L. Little Brown Jug
. IL 81, Hal Pointer 2:04 81, etc ia nds1re
of Star Pointer 1853 Ia and The Maid
2:05 Sd who now shares this record with
Bessie Bonehill and Lottie Lorraine; great
grandsire of Hal B. s2:G4 IL, winner. OF nine
races last year and nearly $4,000, nine In
1898. and seven in 1897, etc. Bessie Hal
is Tennessee bred, her dam being by the
PAGER Prince Pulaski, out of a mare by
Bosrwick's 3Almont, Jr. Direct Hal rep
resents- the fastest line of the cham pion
Dictator famiiy5o on one side, and the whiri-
wind pacing blood Of Tennessee that has
carried the record below two minutes,
on the other. That's good enough for a
Breeder of Mr.. Hamlin's originality OF
thought and experience. The result viii
DE watched with interest, and the belief
is here expressed that such mating will
be an eminent success.
Lena N, 2:05 tits the fourth one OF
our list. Andy DoWell drove her to her
record in 1898 at cleveland, o., and from
that day she reigned the pacing qusen, I'M
til supplanted in 1895 by Lady Of the Ma
TOR. ffer record also tied the rssee rscord
with that of Ali3 and Directum Lena m
is a bay in color. abplrt Ia 1-2 hands high,
and was bred by W. e. Dean of San
# Francisco, Cal She is now owned by
that prince of auction buyers. Mr.. John
III. shultz. and is at his Parkvilie Farm
Broaklyn. N Y, Will .stlnol 2:es III and a
host O. other nntables. The sire of Lena
~. is Sidney 2:l93-i a prolific sire of