The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-19
NEWS OF HORSES
AND E0RSEMEN
Winston Fair, Races and Carnival to
Follow at Raleigh.
A GALA TIME is LOOKED FOR.
The Albemarlc Horse Show Organized.
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Me; 9 = r-Grcat Stakes
us IL Sire.
A GALA TIME is LOOKED FOR.
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| The annual fair and race meeting OF the
| Piedmont Park Company, WINSTON, N.
| c., to be held October 3Cth to November
! Sd, inclusive, promises well, ana with IL
! will >e combined horse show, county
| fair, street fair and semi-centennial ceie-
! bration. Secretary G. L. Webb has charge
| OF affairs now as in 1899 when the initial
! fair and race meeting OF the company was
such a success. His assistants are j. /"
! Patterson. PRECEDENT: z. II. Lybrook, first
| vice president, and z. III. Hanes, second
vce-president, while the directors are
w. n. Reynolds, f. j. Lipfert }. Il.
NIcGruder and ID. II. King. In addition
TO the attractions already mentioned
there will be a splendid military display
and firenens tournament. The Piedmont
Park Company's fair and races come off
during the week following the North
Carolina State Fair at Raleigh and the
| the horses taking part in the meeting
there will be shipped to Winston, where
the speed programme includes purses
ranging from 500 for runners to $500 and
$500 each for trotters and PAGERS.
The fair grounds and track of the Pied
mont Park Company are but a short dis
lance out from Winston and beautifully
locs ted on an e1ninence overlooking the
surrounding country. New buildings
have been recently erected and the stab
ding capacity will be nearly doubled by
fall in order to accommodate both show
horses and those that will be entered in
the races.
George r. Dyer, of Roanoke, Va,
member Of the we'll known firm of Dyer
Brothers, trainers and developers OF trot-
ters PAGERS and fns harness horses IS now
located at the Winston track. Dyer is a
careful, painstakins man and has been
quite successful as & developer of speed,
having turned out amons others who came
into his hands green, the fast mare Mary
d., by Cheyenne, who was purchased last
spring by Roy Miller for 5000; Lady
Phillips, 2:19 IA, by Cuckoo. son of Am
bassador; Laura D., 2:2a II, and others
with slower marks. Dyer's stable now
includes Queen Bess;1 roam mare. by Blue
Bird, dam by Florida; Princeteil, PAGER,
chesnut geding, by Drextell, dam Minnie
g.. by Kentucky Prince; Kate Campbell,
chestnut mare, by Mercury, dam by Ten
nessee Wilkes; brown geldins, 5, by King
Jewell dam Amanda Martin by Aparha;
bay ;geding by Jolly Frar, dam by Mel
willie Chief; chesnut gelding. by Baronstein,
son Of Baron Wilkes. and several others
that are likely to show UP we'll with fur-
Their handling. George Dyer is assisted by
his brother Coleman Dyer, who has recent
~ brought down from Roanoke, the hand-
some gray stallion Jack Cook, by General
Wilkes, out of the great brood mare Irene
Fell. dam of this seasons crack PAGER
Johnny Agar, 2:05 Ia, and several other
fast ones. Having just closed stud season
Of sixty mares this horse mas peen given
no fast work yet, but he has plenty OF
speed and will be gotten IN shape to start
this fall, and when sent Tor q record TINS
b.ooti-lke scion OF the Wilkes family VIII
be added to his dams list Of standard per
formers Along with General Wilkes,
Dyer also brought his four-year-old son. a
shapely brown geldins. called Hayseed'
whose dam was daughter OF sam PuraE'
2:2o IL. Among others who are training
horses at the Fair GROUNDS track are
Smoak & McCary who have some good
looking Youngsters by Red Leo, 20 Ia. and
Planeteer, son of I1lecdoneer, out of dams
that were full sisters to the roam mare
Annie Lawson, 2:2l. by Prince or!oli' tie
son OF Messenger Duroc.
j. Thack Snydar, who directs affairs al
the fine farm of p. II. Hanes, a.so WORKS
his horses over this track ard mas some
good prospects Snydars specially IS
shap;ng up and handling fine harness and
coach horses, but he can also get speed
out OF a tco.ter or PAGER, and MS Stable
includes John Pagan, q brown MORSE. ny
Wals;ngham. dam by Pagan, son OF
Wedgewood; Lady c.. by Gallant Dam oy
Thomas jefferson; bay geldins oy "1ttoli'
dam by Mamhrino Patchen. and some sood-
looking colts and flies by Trotwood, the
son OF Walsingham.
It is pleasant to note that Aihemarie
county has fallen in line with Loudoun
Fauquier, Prince William, orange Cui-
pepper and Rockingham and formed
Horse Show Association. as each OF those
Associations have met with generous pat
ronage and support from the best classes
,-iCi,1
the Albemarle Horse Show Association.
whose headquarters are al charlottesville,
WILL without a doubt, be as taEorabiy re-
ceved This circuit of Virginia horse
Shows has been of great service through
out the State to the horse interests IN
general not only encouraging breeders to
produce a higher class OF horses. but
attracting buyers from other States that
are always willing to pay prices which rep
resent a good profit TO breeders and |
owners who exhibit their stock. There is i
no more prominent breeding section in |
Virginia than Albemarle and some OF the
greatest horses ever bred IN the South
have been sent out from that county !
while, as a horse show center. there is |
NJ reason why ii should not become prom !
inent. The following gentlemen have !
been elected to serve the Aloenlar!e Horse
Show Association as officers: !
j. Tr!plett HaNafl Preslhe tharlas
Fl Moore. First Vice-Prasident: r. y.
Scott. Second vice-Presdent; Arthur B. ,
Hancock Third Vice-President, and John |
i. Cochran, Secretary and Treasurer
Ginter. the brown geldns, seven years |
old, by Quartermaste-, out OF Winnie D., |
by Hannis. bred and formerly owned by
the late Charles P. Stokes, of this, city.
who also bred his dam. is proving nlInsef
quite a fair horse this season. winch he be-
gan with a mark of 900 II. reducing it
first to o:o2 Ia then - o1a II Witt 1T
Dover. n. r.. on the nth. this sn1ail son
ef O,.n"+ >N,,n >,-.., 80 80 rfn-s,
tTottirs,-u-se $500. IN straight heats TIVE.
2'1S IA. 2.16 "a c:1e IA. Ginta- earned
trnttirg record Of e.s1 IA at three years
old, was set to pacing the following sea-
son and later got a. record OF "a Il at
that gait. while in 1899 he was sn.1tsa .eacS