The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-10-13
STANDING START WOULD
HELP TROTTING GREATLY.
1t Would Save the Spectators Much Time and Annoyance and Help
to Prolong the Horses Usefulness.

I the five-heat limit and modified european
plan Of starting. will please some horsemen
Telephone Gets His First Standard
Horse.
The 1e-year-old bay stallion Telephone,
2:15i.s. secures his first standard performer in
the handsome bay mare Bay Leaf. 2:29h.
who is owned by w. ]. Buchan, Kansas
! City. kas. Bay Leaf was bred by A.
Kerr, Eureka, Kas.. owner of Telephone.
and is out of a mare by a thoroughbred
stallion. Leveler. 1t would seem as though
Telephone ought to sire speed. and of a
pears strange that he should be Is years
old before a single one OF his foals secured
a standard record. Telephone was sired
by Empire CHS. dam Lark, one Of the
greatest brood mares known to students Of
observation-disclosures literature. Empire was a
| son of Mambrino Patchen, out Of the great
Q5, Favorite. out of the noted thorough
bred brood mare. Lizzie Pebbles, by Wag-
ner, was the dam of Favorite Wilkes. 2:24h.
Wilkes. Empire, Fass:ite Wilkes, Kenova
and westwood. Lark, dam of Telephone, is
the dam of eight with standard records,
ords, one as a trotter. the others as PAGERS.
which would really make Lark the dam of
eleven performers. With all OF this pro-
ducing blood back of lin. is it not trang
that Telephone has failed as a sire? The
only reason that can be given Is that En-
pire. with all Of his rich breeding, did not
1CpIOVuSS llkISC tnIouku kIS SOlS us DIG.
potency, like many other sons Of Nam
brine Patchen. passing to his daughters.
In the same little city-Eureka-a stallion
s WITH Te Ihsauet the X hon Msa of f being a a1 popa.
lar horse. Domineer was never the race
horse that Telephone always proved him
self to be, but Domineer has proven a very
likely sire, while the same class Of mares
was bred to each stallion.
In connection with the above item 1t may
be interesting reading to peruse a letter
! from WI Rflrh9n nUnor nf Raw Loaf
Says that gentleman: bay Leaf IS a brown
mare, 6 years old. stands about 16h hands
ported to have been a winner. of running
races. Bay Leaf is a nice little. old-fash-
toned mare, very pleasant to drive. and ex-
hibits none OF the peculiarities of the thor
summer in 2:25 to a cart. The race in
which Bay Leaf secured her record was an
Easy a one, and did not test her qualities:
OF 1sa-at Eldorado and Wichita. Kas.
Last year. owing to sickness. she was not
trained. I will probably start the mare at
how good she is. I have another good mare,
same age as Bay Leaf. in Silk Tie. by
silkwood. 2:07. This mare was bred by Mr..
others during the Kansas City horse shsw
Joseph in the 3-minute class.
Cresceua's Last Year ON the Track.
This will be Cresceus's last year as a
performer. and at the close Of his exhibition
season this winter he will be retired per-
manently to the stud. This announcement
was made som time ago. and ever since
then stray items have been reaching the
public prints concerning various mares that
We're already being booked to him.
1t will be recalled that twelve years ago,
when the 3-year-old Axtel set the stallion
record at PIP and was sold for $10o, 900 by
w. c. Whitney to the 'AxteIl Syndicate
he was also Mt once retired to the stud and
his book filled almost as soon as opened, at
the extraordinary fee of s1.00O. a host of
breeders being unable to secure places in 1t.
Times have changed since then. and the
days Of $1,000 stud ~fees-even for a cham
pion of chamnions-are no more. But in so
far as the quality of the mares is concerned.
Cresceus's, book for his coming inaugural
stud season will far surpass even the ia
nous one of Axtell. Among those so far
booked to him for 1902. Mr.. Ketcham in
forms us, are the following: Alix. 2:0SN, the
trotting queen and former worlds cham
pion ~trotter: Eleata. 2:08A, at 4 years this
seasons wonderful stake winner; Dione.
2:07k: Martha Wilkes, 2.0S: Bush, 2.09l1a:
Kentucky Union, 2.07k: Dorothy Redmond,
2:10ia. winner of this seasons 5000 Hamline
trotting stake; Vent II, 2:11k; Angina,
2:11T; Lurline McGregor, 2:1lA: Mary Best,
2:12h. at 4 years: Consuela. 2:13h. all trot-
tiers; Whisper, 2:0SA, and Mary Centlivre,
2:l2. PAGERS: Carrie Blackwood dam Of At
lanfic King, 2:09&: Major Centlivre, 2:1OK,
and Mary Centlivre, 2:10; Ben Bon. 2:2S
dam of Bonnie Direct. 4. 205A. the cham
pion green PAGER. and Bonsilene. 2:14IE); Jean
Look, 2:2SA dam of Praytell. 2Osls); Lady
Mackay dam of Oakland Baron. 2:OsM, and