The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-27

strong racer. I fought several hard and
some long drawn-out battles with her.
MY next venture in trotting horse
nesh was the purchase from Dean Sage
OF half interest in Instant This mare
was by Startle, dam by Indianian. She
was then six years old and the year be-
fore she had foaled a colt by Kentucky
Prince. paid $500 for my half interest,
trotted her two years, during which she
made record of Ella, and sold her at
auction in Cleveland, Ohio, for $4,000. Mr..
Sage had another colt named Moment,
which took to train, and at five years
OF age gave record of 2:20 to her She
dled OF pneumonia at Burlington, VT,
where raced her in cold weather and
Mr.; Sage thus lost very promising
trotter, capable of great development
Before took on the big sorrel geld
ing CobWebs trained the green horse
5. j., owned by Austin Lathrop, super
lntendent of the state prisons at that
time. He was a big sorrel gelding and
seven years old, but green. l trotted S.
]. two years and gave him mark of
2:l512. Mr.. Lathrop then took him for
roadster. CobWebs was owned by Joseph
Turf when / hitched up with him. He
had been trained twice when four years
Grin sIiickok in California, and pronounc-,
ed by him of no use, in fact. worth
less as a, trotter. The sire of the horse
was Whips. When 1 got him l took him
on the big track. This was in the spring
of 1894. After I got him working fairly
well 1 entered him in the Grand Circuit
races then coming on, and started him
first in the M. and NJ. stake for $4,000
at Detroit. There were "a number of the
best in the land in this race and many
thought | had great deal of presume
ton to enter this discarded nag with such
lot of steppers. In the very first heat
they gave us a false start, the word and
the bell at the same time Three or four
of US did not pay attention to the bell
and went the whole mile. Naturally we
thought the judges would give us a show.
But no, they called us right up again for
another start. Cobwebs had no record up
to this time, and | was certain that 1 s,
could not send him another mile so soon
that did not go the mile The only. thing
we could do was to be allowed in the
Consolation purse later in the week.
1--WE next started him in the Cleveland
twelve entries here and I had no trouble
to show the whole of them our heels in
three straight heats, best time being
2:l3. The next week met Hamlin's
great horse Rex Americas, who had been
barred from all four and five-year-old
races because of his great speed. In this
race was j. M. D., who had won the
Detroit NJ and NJ $4,000 purse because
The Rex and J. NJ. d. were looked upon
as sure winners. Cobwebs was not 1.
2, 5 with the sports that followed the
races. They were dead sure that my
horse could not win ana the track had
been narrowed up and fixed to suit the
Rex, who was made first choice with the
belief that j. NJ. d. and Cobwebs would
have a battle royal for second place.
1t was on the card for Rex to lay up the
first two heats and then come on and
win out from both of us. 1 gave the
first two heats to J. M. D., holding Cob
wchs in good shape and reserving his
strength. 1t was a great plot, but we
were on to it and profited by what we
knew. When the third heat took place
CebWebs was equal to the occasion. !
called on the heretofore discarded trot-
ter and he answered bravely. Rex came
at me to win but | beat him by half
length in 2:12%. In the fourth heat l
beat him quite handily in 2:14, and in the
fifth / came within an ace of shutting
him out in 2:15 No more crestfallen lot
of trotting sports followed the track that
year than those who got so badly taken
in at Buffalo. At Rochester Cobwebs
succumbed to Dandy Jim in 2:1G. AT
Poughkeepsie he hit his leg badly and
was defeated, as he was also at Fleet
wood shortly after. Later in the same
year Cobwebs was started in a good field
dence. Here ne laid them all out his
best time being PIP. That was where
he took his record and was the last race
he was in. Mr.. Turl then sold the horse
at auction to Andy Welch for $1,750 and
WEIGH transferred him to Nathan Strauss
of New York, who has since worked him
on the speedway, where he has been
king. Mr. TurI bought Cobwebs at an
auction in New York for $780,