The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-03

Acca Farm by William L. Bass and sired
by Willis, dam Miss Baldwin, by Henrico.
son of Hambeitonian, 1a1 HetzeTs. He
is seven years old and right much faster
than his record indicates. The small
son Of Willis was first brought out by
Duncan Livingston, then his owner, as a
three-year-old, who drove him miles I'M
der 2:225 that season, but the gelding went
wrong and was sold as a road horse.
kossuth is now owned by r. C. Stokes, Of
Lynchburg, by whom he is used as a
roadster and was not regularly trained
for the above race.
Mr.. 3. n. Merchant, who for several
years occupied a clerical position with
the Southern Railway here, but now a
resident of his native town, Manassas,
Va, where he has a stable of hunters,
Jumpers and running horses in training,
reports good season, having made some
very satisfactory sales to Northern and
Western buyers. Mr. Merchant is quite
an able all-round horseman and schools
all of his hunters and jumpers.
The thoroughbred division of the stable
includes Hurry Up, chestnut gelGing, I,
imp. Lovegold, dam imp. Haste, by Ener-
gy; Tanis, bay gelding, s. by Hanover,
dam Longcloth. by Longfellow; Yeoman,
chestnut gelding. s. by Himyar, dam Yo-
lande, by imp. Glen Athol, and Baritone
l., chestnut gelding, S, by Falsetto, dam
Pearl Thon, by Pat Malloy.
To parties in Kansas City, Mo-, Mr.
Merchant has recently sold the roam
gelding Fearless, nice middle-weight
hunter, by Inspector, and to a gentleman
in Philadelphia the bay gelding, Kio, T.
by Victor, and the bay mare Armour, s,
while a brown gelding, 6, and a brown
mare, s. went to New York. These horses
were good hammered and well schooled,
consequently good prices We're obtained.
meeting of the Warrenton Horse
Show Association was held at Warren
ton, Va, en- October 10Th, and the follow
ing officers We're elected:
President, w. Golden Davis; Vice-Fres-
idents, E. A. Cooper, Albert Fletcher,
Sr., and Scott Nesbitt; secretary, Z. r.
w. Barker; Directors, Howson Hooe, r.
B. l.. Fleming, John D. Hooe, Maxwell
Wyeth. F. D. Gasllins, H. p. Barry and
Charles Daniel
These gentlemen are nearly all pract-
cal horsemen, and among them are sew
eral crack cross-country riders. Warren
ton is the center of a fine grazing dis
trict and some of the best hunters and
jumpers in the country are bred and de-
veloped there. Among the high-class
hunters sold from this town during the
W. S. Sewers. price, $500; Royal Arch.
owned by f. D. Gaskins, $500, and Old
Glory, from the stable Of James K. Mad
dux, owner Of the well-known jumpers
Grey Cap and Torchight, price, $1,000.
At Morris Park on October 2lst, ]. +.
Widener's brown colt, 4, by imp. Rigo-
letto, Dam #=Vestalia, won the handicap
zsteeplechase for four-year-olds and up
ward, distance about two and a half
miles, time 4 :32 %. Eophone carried 1872
pounds and started at 10 to 1. Behind
him at the finish were j. W. Colts Wal
ter Cleary with514o pounds up, and r. G.
Towe's Curfew Belle, carrying $50 pounds,
while Jessie S., Boisterous Baby Bill,
Sitter and Clasher also ran. Eophone
was bred by Robert Neville. Welbourne,.
Va. who owns the dam, Vestalia, by
Tom Ochiltree, and also owned the next
dam, Vesta, the daughter Of Catesby,
that, bred to imp. Rigoletto, produced the
noted steeplechase mare White Carriers,
brought out by Charles Hurkamp. Fred
5ericksbudg, Va.
Mr. II. L. Smith. Of the City Water
Works. Norfolk, r.. has a very prom
Using youngster in the bay colt. two years
old, by LeeWood, dam Racket, dam Of.
Red Boy, ::27, by Red Wilkes, second dam
ERacduette by Emf ield. 81 and thirf Ia r,