The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-21
news OF IHORSE
And HORS EN- EN-.
Some Of the Fast Ones Owned .instfe.
City Of Roanoke /:
JACK COOK Is. AMONG HEM.
The Ncwbcrny I.accs-W Water Level and
jim Gray ut Annita Farm-Mr.
Macombcr Buys Sterling, Lord
HaIcourt and Ole Ohsson.


Chief of Police H. n. Dyer, of Roanoke,
one OF the best-informed horsemen in
Southwest Virginia, and whose special
fancy is for trotters and PAGERS, of which
one or more good ones are usually to be
found in his private stables, sends me
the following items Of interest from that
section:
w. F. Bryant. commissioner Of rev.
enue, has sold to DR.. E. 7. Niles, of
Blacksburg, Va, the bay mare Nelly
Jewett, by Jerome Eddy. ZIG II. dam
Nelly, 2:30, by GREEN'S Hambletonian. She
is handsome and speedy and will be
driven on the road. G. D. Marston has
lost by death the bay mare Alma, by
Kentucky King. dam Zenobia, by En-
chantcr. She was in foal to Dick Ma
lone, son of Smuggler, 2:15 Iii three
year old filly by Jnck Cook, out. of Alma
B., is owned by w G. Stevens, who re-
CARDS her very highly as prospect LOT
speed Capt. J. II. Wingate, city ensl-ss
neer, has grand roadster in the bay
mare, five years old, by Stambula, out
of Jessie B., by Bayard. She was bred
in 1899 to Jack Cook and appears to be
Z in foal. l.. Delaney is driving on the road
the fast black mare Hilpa, by Wilkes
Boy, dam by Blackwood. This mare is
good-looking and speedy enough to trot
to a low record If given the opportunity
Probably the best road horse in the city
is the brown geldipg Keno, by Charles
Caffrey, son of Cen Knox. I purchased
this horse in Lexington. KY last spring
and sold him to his present owners, Hon.
John w Woods and Mayor James +.
Woods. Along with Keno 1 shipped from
entucky the chestnut colt. Ash Boy, by
Ashland Wilkes, 2:17 Ia, out of Jessie
Woodson, dam Of Edward O., 2:14 Il, etc.
AS Ash Boy Is good gated, by the sire Of
John H. Gentry, eco 10, and out Of pro
ducing dam, we look for him to 90 ven.
He will be bred TO a few mares and then
placed in training. Mr. ]. E. Pierson mas
a very promising yearling lilly by King
Max, out of Lady Dudley, by Norfolk,
second dam Filigree, by Mambrino Dud-
ley This tilly and her sire, King Max, a
son OF King Nutwood and Maxim Beauty,
by Maxim, who is also owned by Mr..
Pierson, will be placed in training during
the coming season. w. c. Dyer has Sc
cured an interest in the three-year-o.d
gelding by Scarlet Wilkes, out OF the dam
of Mercury Wilkes, Ella L. and Will
place him in training. Mr.. ]. B. Train
tho three-year-old colt by Jack Cook,
dam by Sam Purdy; also 4 yearling colt
of the same breeding and the mare IS
again in foal to Jack Cook. The latter,
a well-forned, handsome son OF General
Wilkes and Irene Fell. by AIambrino Abb
dallah, is one Of the most popular hor-
ses ever kept in this section. More than
one hundred Of his colts are owned In
this and adjoining counties, but none or
off for gallo
one Of Jack Cooks get has been handled
for speed, and that is the black gelding,
five years old, owned by ]. S. Burreli, OF
Franklin county, who is a pacer,E' and
with very little work last season, could
pace fractions Of mile at 20 gait
4 his geldinS has been secured by W. y.
Dyer ana hls speed will be developed.
DR.. Lee BuCkner has recently purchased
from parties in Washington, D. c., very
handsome and speedy geiding by Musco-
vite son Of Nu.wood, and has placed
him in the hands of W. c. Dyer, VINO
will train during the coming season at
the Roanoke Driving Park track.
Secretary George Green, of the East
Carolina Fish, Oyster, Game and Indus
trial Association. Newborn, n. c., has
issued the speed programme OF the an
nual fair and race meeting of the asso-
citation, which will be held in April in
stead Of in February, as in past years.
sMessrs. William Ellis and John Dunn
are directors of the speed department,
and 5000 will be offered in purses for
trotters, PAGERS and runners. While $1,000
has been reserved for specials. The pro-
gramme:
TUESDAY, APRIL 18TH
1.-Trotting to harness, $3.50 class, purse
$500. mile heats. best three in five.
Running race. purse 500. two-thirds
mile, best two in three.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH.
3-Trotting or pacing to harness, 2:O
class. purse $500, mile heats. best three in
five.
4-Running race. purse $50, two-thirds
mile, best two in three.
5.-TrottinE TO harness, 300 class. for
horses owned in Craven county, N. G.,
purse 500, mile heats, best three in five.
THURSDAY, APRIL 18TH.
e-Trotting to harness. 2:1S class, purse
$500, mile heats, best three in five.
7.-Trotting to harness, $50 class, purse
500, mile heats. best two in five.
Stunning race, purse Slo0, two-th1rds
mile, best two in three.
a-Trotting or pacing to harness, 2:3O
class, purse 500. mile heats. best three
in five.
FRIDAY, APRIL 2OTH.
1O.-Trotting to harness, 2:4o class. purse
5000, mile heats. best three in five.
& I.-Running race, purse 500, two-thirds
mile, best two In three.
l2-Trotting to harness. e:24 class. purse
500, mile heats, best three in five.
a. D. Payne. OF the Annita Stud. Char
lottesville. Va. big. genial and kindly as
of yore, Is branching out quite extensive
ly as a breeder Of thoroughbreds. At
Annita Farm. which is fine estate OF
several hundred acres near Charlottes-
vile. he has the good stations imp. va
ter Level son of Isonomy and Water
Lily. by Lord Lyon. who has sired Water
Crest, Water House and other winners;
Jim Gray, by Ten Brock, out Of Mamie
Gray, whose sister. Alice Gray. produced
the famous domino. and Ltnsey Wool-
sey, full brother to knight Of Ellers-
lie, sire of the peerless Henry Of Ma
Byarre. Jim Gray has sired Crawling and
other good winners, but Linsey Woolsey,
the SON Of Eolus and Lizzie Hardwood,
by Seattle Lock, is young and is yet to
earn fame as a sire. ~
Hr,on-y tho mareS to be bred during the