The age-herald., 1901-05-31

have in all ten foals Seven of these carry the blood of Dictator. This strain of blood Is found in ffty-nine of the worlds champion harness horses that have made their records during the past thirty-five years, or since the days of Dexter 2:1714. No single strain of blood has so persistently chung to champion ship honors for so many years, and no family ever produced braver, better race horses Just think of the wonderful speed that is fairly expected from these ten youngsters, none of whom have yet been track-worked, for campaign purposes.
 Bonner, who founded the New York Ledger, will judge the light harness horses at the Cleveland Horse Show.
 The Belmont Plate.
 Men who had studied breeding for years informed us in New York week be- fore last that Commando would be beaten by The Parader. for they pointed out that his sire being Himyar, he was not bred to go a distance beyond sprint. They showed how the great Domino had shown a faint heart when asked to go a distance, and then they pointed to the splendid form The Parader had shown in recent races. All these arguments failed
  who left his busy ticker in Wall street to see his well beloved colt run. and when Jimmy Rowe, the colts trainer, told him he could run for a king g ran som, he bet twenty thousand dollars that he would run The Parader Into the very earth. From the dispatches and turf papers we learn that when the starters for the Classic Belmont" lined up in front of the grandstand that Commando dalay hU hiq antics bIIf then there was a sudden swish through the air of Fitzgeralds little red flag and the horses breasted the barrier at an even start. Spencer knew that the result meant lot to, him and with his sharp features drawn tense by the strain, be- at once sent Commando to the front, and The Parader trailed length behind him. All Green was a length In the rear, and the order of running remained the same on the way up the back stretch
 Commanders Heartbreaking Pace.
 The son of Domino set heartbreaking pace and The Parader struggled gamely to keep up with 1t. his rider hoping that the sprintina blood of the flying leader would soon fail in strength, and on the way across the rise Landry, who rode Parader. must have chuckled to himself, for his mount was slowly but surely clos ing on Commando. It was only mo- mentary chuckle, however, for when Spencer felt the hot breath of The Pa rader near he unloosed a wrap and there was no sign of sprinting blood in Com mando then for Domino's son went away from his pursuer again, and taking the rail, skimming along lie swallow before the blast, passed the final sixteenth pile only in an easy, swinging gallop while The Parader was straining every muscle, and at the end under the whip, but to no avail Commando won almost pulled up by length and a half, breaking the track record of 2:211 by half second, and trotting back to the judges stand to the strains of Hail to the Chief"
 Honors for Spencer and Keene were not over however, for the day for Spen- cer piloted Convoy to victory In the locked club weight for age for 3-year-olds and upwards. Convoy looked every Inch a race horse, won with ease, and 1t was even then presaged that he would prove a factor in the Brooklyn Handicap to come off in few days.