The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-23

the breeders association it to keep the
breed Of thoroughbred horses to as high
class as possible, and with this end in
view the brood mares whose claims to
being thoroughbreds are laid barren by
the unsatisfactory results obtained by
their gets are corralled throughout the
country at different intervals. Repre-
sentatiVes of the breeders association APP
pear at the breeding farms at various
times during each year, and they have
but little difficulty IN purchasing for the
association any and all brood mares of
this stripe. The animals are consigned to
place Where the association proposes to
hold a sale.
Each one of the animals so purchased
has pedigree, of course, but when The
day of sale arrives this distinction is
taken away from them because of their
unjust claims to being a thoroughbred,
and they are branded, put up at auction
and forever banished from the magic cir
Gle of high class running horses Few
lovers Of the thoroughbred rarely attend
these sales. The bidders are made up, as
rule, of the general public-people who
are looking for an animal to drive to n
vehicle Of some kind. The sale is q sort
of a blind mans buff game, as it were
Mares from all quarters of the country
are led up to the auctioneers stand, and
an attempt is made to bury whatever
pedigree the animal possesses when she
passes into new hands. The purchaser
knows that the branded marks forever
forbid her association with the thorough
bred, and. in fact, he does not buy her
with such a purpose in view. The prica
paid at these sales for this specie OF
mares is very small, as rule, the asso.
citation disposipg of them with the sole
object of preventing an Indifferent lot of
horses coming into the world at the
numerous Stud farms of the thOrO11ei1-
bred.
It was at one of these sales that Silken
Gown, the dam of Garry Hermann, the.
wonderful two-year-old who was named
in honor of the president of Cincinnati's
water works commission, and for whom
the sum of $4,000 was refused last fall.
was put up at auction, and In the grab.
bag luck somebody has unknowingly got
the dam of the greatest tWo-year-old of
last year. Board of Trades Charles
Smith, of Chicago, who owns the fleet
footed Garry Hermann, is using every
means to locate the dam Charley
Hughes, who has trained Mr. Smiths
stable for some time, has made a number
of trips in quest of Silken Gown, but he
has SO far been unsuccessful Up to
the time Of the foaling of Garry Herr
! mann, the get of Silken Gown, was of a
very yellowish kind, and the mare was
| disposed of at one of these breeders
auction sales before her last colt the
remarkably speedy Garry Hermann, had
| even been broken to the saddle. Mr..
| Hughes has been in Kentucky for some
! time with the object in view of pur-
/ chasing a stable of horses for his mil
| lionaire employer, and has constantly
| been on the lookout for the dam of the
| great two-year-old. At present Mr..
! Smith owns no race horses but Garry
/ hut &c lie inf 70 no
| gin the racing season with a thoroughly
| equipped stable of high class horses.
| Let everybody who has purchased one
of these branded brood mares during the
last two years try to discover her pedi-
gree, and 1t is more than probable
| that some one will wake UP to find him
self as rich as if he had struck oil on his
| farm.
| I have it from the best of authority
obtainable that Jockey Tod Sloan will
leave for England on March and ask
for a reopening of his case by the Eng
lsh Jockey club. Sloan has many
friends among the nobility, who are pa
| irons of the English turf, and before
leaving for the West last week the pre-
mier little jockey expressed himself as
satisfied that he will receive fair treat
ment at the hands of the stewards of
/ the English Jockey club, and that he had
! no fear but that his case will be re-
opened. I have also been informed that
when the American Jockeys invade the
| tight little isle next spring there will be
one more of our most prominent Jockeys,
| whose name has not Yet been contami-
| mated with the bad odor that has stirred
| up at the English race tracks, who will
| be barred from riding on the English
| turf.
$50
| W. ]. Scully, the veteran horse owner
| and trainer, is a firm believer in the
| preservation of the thoroughbred in the
| strictest sense of the word. If Mr.. Scully
had been given his way some years ago
| there would have been established a GER
| tain class of races at the different run
ming courses throughout this country
! that would have insured only the sur,
! Vival of the f1ttest, and would have at
! the same time rid the turf of all the in
! different horses He attempted to carry
| the laws of the Breeders association onto
/ the race tracks, and he made application
to the stewards to have several events
| set aside at each race meeting in order
] to accomplish his purpose. Mr.. Scully's
| scheme was to offer a purse of $500 to
| consistent non-winnars, with no limit to
| the number Of starters. One of the con-
| ditions of the event proposed was that
The winner was to become the property Of
| the Jockey club. Upon passing into the
hands of the latter the animal would be
| branded and disposed of never to be per.
mitted to appear on the race track again
| As $500 would be a large price for the
| owner of horse that could never win in
| anything like a fair field Of horses. he