The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-11
LOST ONE N NINETEEN
Gold Standards Remarkable
Record for '99.
WAS FIRST IN TWELVE
Queer Horse Cases Before the
Board of Review.

H. T. White says in the Chicago Trb-
une: The trotter, Gold Standard. thatin
1899 won twelve races-a greater number
than was placed to the credit of any
other trotter-and that in addition was
| the champion performer on half-mile
| tracks, has been purchased by George
Castle of Chicago.
He is remarkable horse in more re-
spects than one." said Mr.. Castle in talk
ing OF his purchase. ITO begin with, let
me tell you of his personality. He is a
plain bay gelding with black points,
little on the coarse order, and he has two
OF the biggest bone spavins you ever
saw-one on each hind leg. His sire is
Count Louis, son of the well known
sire Louis Napoleon, but his bans breed
ing have forgotten. How did l come to
pay 5000 for aspavined horse? Well, it
was like this: Long ago 1 decided that
L would race on half-miIe tracks only in
800, and accordingly kept an eye open
Tor winners on that style of course
Along in the early summer 1 saw that a
horse called Gold Standard was winning
pretty ooften rown East, and when he
didn't get first money he was sure to
come in for second or third He kept
right on all summer, trotting race every
week, and sometimes two, so that by
fall he had started nineteen times. won
twelve races, and been behind the money
only once. That was a record that few
hoa
mad acquired mark of 2:1414 he showed
himself to have a pretty high order of
speed. So last month 1 went to Laporte
Ind, where the horse was owned. Say,
L saw those two bone spavins before 1
did any of the rest of the harse, and, to
tell the truth, they cooled my ardor a
little. But when it was explained that
the horse had made a record of 2:3112 as
2-year-old, 2:25A at years, 2:23A when
years old, and then trotted nineteen
races last season and never took a lame
step, it was evident that the spavins
were not of the pernicious variety But
still they were in my craw. little, even
after L had an option on the horse, so 1
sent veterinarian down from Chicago,
and he said the spavins would never
make the morse lame.
Now, that's a great showing-for
horse to begin trotting when a baby.
make four busy campaigns on half-mile
rings, and keep winning most of the time.
SO bought him. He has come right off
a work wagon, too, every season and
Just gone out after the money. The man
who owned him up to last spring was a
butcher in a little town eight miles from
Laporte, and every fall after the trotting
season ended he would use Gold Stand
ard to a democrat wagon in his business.
What do you think of that for utility?
Last spring he drove into Laporte on
May 10 and stepped him a mile over the
poor half-mile track there in 2:251k This
was at matinee, and the next Satur-
day the butcher and his horse were on
hand again. This time he trotted in
2:21A. Just think of that for a 18th of
May mile The butcher wanted to sell
the horse, and finally County Clerk
McClung gave him $500 for him, with an
agreement to pay $500 more when the
horse had won it. The middle of the
following week he was shipped to Ge-
neva, n. Y, and trotted there, thus be-
ton than 1 ever heard of in the case of
a successful trotter. Gold Standard
wears bell quarter boots and tendon
bandages in front, scapers, shin, and
ankle boots behind. He goes with an
eight-ounce shoe and a two-ounce toe
weight in front, and six-ounce shoes be-
hind.
THE other horses that 1 shall person
ally campaign are four in number-Sher-
man Clay, Joe Rhea Norvaline, and
Marlinspike. Sherman Clay's record Is
2;044, and he is known as the best hob
bIed PAGER that ever was Joe Rhea is
a little PAGER. with a mark of 2:13A, that
I saw go three races last fall and liked
much. He is by Don Pizarro. and won
six races in 1893. Norvaline is the fast
est and best trotter 1 ever owned. and
if he goes sound will give a good &C
count of himself in any company. His
present record is 2:22A. Marlinspike Is
a 5-year-old gelding, a trotter. and he
seems like the real thing. He is the
only one 1 ever bred that acts like
trotter. He has stepped quarters for me
in :33, and 1 think will do.
There Is a good story about this fell
low. When he was a yearling l gave
half interest in several mares and colts
to F. S. Gorton, he to keep them spec
flied time, and then TO sell them 10 the
best advantage. MarlinspiEe was in the
bunch. Mr.. Gorton succeeded in selling
all the others, but nobody nd look
twice at Marlinspike, so Nj Gorton
handed him back to me with hi COM
plments and best wishes, and nov it
trnspires that he is the only one in IL
10; worth having. That's the luck Of the
horse business.
My PAGER. scapegoat. viii be trained
and driven by George West, who takes
him in hand Jan. Is. It IS a question OF
behavior with Scapegoat. but probably
West viii get along well with hirn- My
trotter. Robert J.. 2:I1I4, goes 70 the New
York auctions next month. as does the
PAGER. Independence Clara. daughter Of