The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-18
NEWS OF HORSES
AND HORSEM vi. |
Trotters in Win:er Quarters at Mon
tezuma Farm.
KoDRAs AND FIREWooD [ THERE HI
The Maryland and Virginia Asricul-
.ural ana Trotting Circuit-Limit
aud Her Foals-Sale
Of Wyoming.
Trotters in Win.er Quarters at Mon
KODRAS AND FIREW00D THERE

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ready to lend helping hand, few horse
men in the South are better known or
more generally liked than Joseph Las
liter who conducts the Richmond Horse
! Bazaar, on east Franklin street. where
semi-weelz!y auction sales of all CLASSES
of horses are held and numerous of
! others are disposed of at private sale.
For more than a quarter of a century
Mr.. Lasitter has been identified with the
! horse trade of Richmond, and during that
tme has figured extensively as owner
and breeder, OF hiSh-class horses. as we'll
as dealer. AT his country home. Mon
{ tuzema Farm, near the city, he has in
( winter quarters stable of trotters and
| PAGERS and they are doing we'll. By the
records the fastest of the lot is the bay
! gelding IIodras, 2:13 Ia, by Norva.
OF Blanca, by Blackwood, Jr., who went
! down the line OF the Grand Circuit IN
Douglas Thomas hands in 1897 and trot-
| ted to his record. Then comes the bay
selding Firewood. 2:l71-4 by King Nut
! wood. out Of Medina, by Middletown,
Whose mark, earned last fall at Raleigh.
! is the trotting record for the State OF
! North Carolina. In addition to these two
fast geldings the stable includes Robert
! Ransom, 2:29 81, br. h., by Gambetta,
/ Gam .iolaCR e.. M Clay, Jr.,
J General Eastwood, 2:29 "a, blk. G., by
| Simons, dam Nelly Grant; Samantha, b.
| lis, by Norval, dam Milky. by Onward, sec
! ond dam Docia Payne, sister. to Hamlins
! Aimont. Jr.. ZIG; the brown mare Lady
! Simmons, by Simmons, dam Miss Sontag,
| 2:2S, by Victor Mohawk, who is in foal to
+; EsWood. 2iS II; Dcbbin, 5, a bay gelding
/ by General Eastwood, who is regarded
! as very promising; Suzel, b. M, by Nor
/ folk; b. g., by Egwood, dam Sally Hor-
! MT 10y Champ Ferguson; Oh. M, e., St.
! Just dam by Harold; CHI. f., 2, by Cen
| eral Eastwood. dam Anna Dawson, by
! Jack Dawson, and ch., c., 2, by Norfolk
! dam Belle of Richmond, by Daniel Lam
! bert.
| The recent meeting in Baltimore
! representatives Of agricultural and rae
| ing associations in Maryland and Vir--
| sinta resulted in the formation Of a cir
| cult OF fairs and race meetings to be
/ known as the Maryland and Virginia
| Agricultural and Trotting Circuit with
| - tracks and the probability Of several
| additions.
| The racing is to start August 7th and
/ TO continue to the end of October. Dur
| ing these months tine horsemen are Of
! fered not only good purses, track acco-
/ mediation and continuous racing, but
! there are just enough dates for racing
! -
! TO ind classes for any and all horses
j they have in shape.
| While conflicting dates are not desira-
| BILE as a rule. this circuit is of such
! ample size that the Implications may
! prove beneficial, especially as the dis
| tancss to be Travelled from one track 10
! another are SO short and the shipments
/ so cheap that inducements are thus of
i fered to owners to visit any. Ii stable
{ cannot win in a circuit where the ex-
/ pense is so small it Will be the fault of
7 the stable.
Yesterdays meeting was q business
/ consultation from start to flush. those
| present proving that they We're i'm
/ bued with horse sense. presi-
| dent William H. Evans, of Cen
/ tiemen's Driving Park Club, pre-
! sided, with Uol Robert Uough secre-
| 'tary. The circuit is arranged as fol-
| lows:
| Cape Charles City. Va. represented by
! lloyd w ". Brockenbrough, August
| { 10 10.
Tasley, Va, W. W. Cock, August II
| TO Il.
Upper Marlborough. Nd. DR.. r s
Hl. August 81 to 81.
/ Colchester. Md, Capt. W. c. Eliason,
| August Is to 81.
! Easton. Md. Joseph B. Harrington and
| Charles lloyd, August IS to 81.
! Rockville. Md, President Dorsey and
| Secretary Muncaster, September to
| 7th
Timonium, Nd, not represented, but
| has dates-September to T.
| Prospect Park Md, Secretary Joseph
| e Paul. Seputmber II to II.
Gentlemen's Driving Park, President
| William II. Evans and Secretary Joseph
| y. Ellis, September IS to 81.
| Electric Park, President a. Fenneman
| September % to IS.
| Norfolk Va IOSeOh A. ellis October
| tn ;.
Helair, Md, R. c. Richardson. October
| TO II.
| Dover, Del, is not in the circuit, but
has claimed the first week in October.
Frederick is not in, but has claimed
Hagerstown is not in, and has claimed
| October IS to 10.
! Brightwood, D. c., may hold a fall
meeting also.
| Secretary Housh was empowered to
| accent applications from the possible
| Association members and add them
| to the circuit if they desire to join.
The members OF the Association are
each to arrange their own classes,
amounts of purses, conditions, etc They
| are to be sent to Secretary HouSh, 1852
| North Charles street, not later than
! -Aprsl 18th. He will then issue a general
| circuit programme, several thousand of
which will be sent each Association for
| distribution.
One of the cleverest roadsters here is
! Mr.. Thomas Atkinson's good-looking bay
mare Lizzie s.. nine-years-Qld, who was
| sired by Jake. the son Of Messenger,
| Chief and Sal Swope, by Bourbon Chief
| that trotted to record of 2:23 81 and
| got the fast PAGER Nora L., 2:1O IA. The
| dam of LIZZIE S. was Kate. by Parkers
| Eatchen, son of the noted sire, Mann
! brine patchen.
I With very little handling, W. P.
Eiges drove Lizzie S. three trials over
| llalf-mile track at Baltimore, in 2:2S L.
! 2:29 and 2:21 81; while she could reel off
quarters at a 2:l5 gait.
In addition to Lizzie S. among others
owned by Mr.. Atkinson is handsome
| bay mare, Limit, by Vacher, dam Yer
ney. dam of Wauseon. 2:19; Ediflce. 2:2o,
I etc. by Haw Patch, the son of Hamb
letonian, 10. and sire of Magnolia. 2:O9 Ia.
| Bred in 1896 to the imported Hackney
stallion Danesfort. Limit produced
| bay fllly in 1897; from his service in 1897
came bay colt the following year. while
mated with the same sire in 1895 she
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