The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-10
NEWS OF HORSES
AND H0RSEMEN.
Amaret, Son Of Young Brennan, a
Great Jumper,
sKYLAND GIRL, 2:24 Ia
At tie Deep Run Hunt Club Track -Mr
Newmsn's Stable at At!a1ta-To,cs-
light and Gray Cap at
Neptune Lodge.
sKYLAND GIRL, 2:24 Ia

4 Commenting on the prize-winners at The
/ Richmond Horse-Show, one of our cX-
changes said: The big bay gelding
Amaret, winner of the first prize in the
class for high Jumpers on the last day OF
i the show, clearing the bars at six ieet
: one and a half incnes. ridden by his own
: or, Mr. Charles IL. Hurkamp, of Fred
! cricSsburg Va, was raised in Loudoun
/ county, and formerly owned by Mr.. j.
4 w. Baker u miller in that section. Mr.
/ Hurkamp recognized in the horse quail
i ties of a record-breaker and purchased
1 him for many times less than the price
that he is now held at. The Fredericks-
J burg Free Lance denies this statement
4 and says that Amaret was raised in STAT
/ ford county. to which the Warrenton Eir-
! Ginian replies and says: I'VE do hot
know where the horse was raised, but we
recall distinctly that he was ridden about
I; the STREETS OF Warrenton and might have
been bought for s75.'' To which / may
add that apart from Amaret's being by
Young Brennan, by Brennan, the thor
oughbred son of Orion, by Revenue, that
little seems to be known of his breeding
! or early history. l know that the horse
1 was purchased for a small sum and TO
/ Mr.. Hurkamp is due the credit of develop
I ing and bringing out the son of Young
Brennan and in this slashins big bay
geldng he has one of the most valuable
I high jumpers in America. During the
/ Richmond Horse. Show Doc Colvin, re-
i presenting the Barnum & Bailey circus
\ people. of New York, was here and Of
(, fered Mr.. Hurkaynp a tidy sum ior
/ Amaret, which, however, was refused aid
the black mare Black Bird was pur-
chased from Wyeth & West of Baltimore
and shipped direct from this city to New
York, from where she will be taken to
sy,. ~,
i the large cities of Europe, as would haze
been done with A1naret
The dark bay or brown mare Skyland
Girl eight years old. by Simmons, 2:2S,
dam Mamie Woods. 300, by Woods Ham
bletonian, won recently at Winston, n.
c., anG entered the list of standard speed
with a mark of 2:24 -. Skyland Girl
4 was breG by the estate of the late w.
= IL Wilson. Cynthiana, Ky. but foaled
the property of z. j. Reynolds, Winston,
j N. c. who purchased the DAM Mamie
4 Woods, while in foal at the closinG-out
sale of the Wilson horses in the fall of
1892, and so Skyland Girl was dropped
4 on North Carolina soil. Mamie Woods
will be remembered as one of the sensa-
"a fional two-year-olds of her day, as at that
y age she trotted to n record of 2:27 Ia.
4 which was way back in 1856. However, the
roam daughter of Woods Hambletonian
has not distinguished herself as a pro-
Queer, only one of her foals having en-
tered the list and that being Skyland
Girl. The latter is registered in Volume
s NV. as the property of Mr.. Reynolds
but she is now owned by A. p. Craddock
of Lynchburg. Va Sllyland Girl was
brought out by George f. Dyer in 1899
and won a race or two, taking a record
of. 2:2S, but in other hands she did not
show up well: in 1900, however. again
placed in Overs stable late this season
she won a SiX-heat race at Lynchburs
last month and another at Winston. Dyer
who. by the way. has been quite success.
full with horses placed in his charge, vii
winter stable Of horses, including Sky
land Girl at Greensboro. n. c.. and he
looks for this mare to be good in hel
class next season.
An exchange says: Scarcely ons
breeder in ten realizes the shortage tha
exists and will continue to exist in the
supply of broken horses. When ] sa,
broken near horses that have beer
taught to pull a buggy or a wagon ane
that will be gentle under the saddle Fol
sound horses that have these qualitica
sions there is an unlimited demand a
the present time. and Will be for year.
to come. 1t will pay the owners of twt
and thrce-year-olds to hire men to breai
them during, the next few months as the.
will sell for good money as soon as the.
are reasonably gentle. Palmer Clark
the we'll known ilorseman and turf-wr.ter
of Chicago. had an interview recent,
with DIR. Patterson, a prominent veteri
nary surgeon of ST Joseph, Missouri, wlt
has made no less than six trips to -Afric.
with horses intended for the British force
in the field. who advised him of condl
lions that while they hode little for tn
peace of the. world. must be exceed,ngi,
p]easant for American breeders of horse
to contemplate. Dr. Patterson state
that with neglect, hard service and tn
African fever the British forces are los
ing at an average of 600 horses ever
month. and there is no indication tina
the rtcr.--a warfare now inaugnrated. an
which is so hard on rct.nted troops.
/ likely TO end for several years yet. No
is this all. Every available horse tina
the United Kingdom can spare has al
ready been transported. so that when til
troops return to England the remount
necessary on that occasion will requir
q number of horses even greater than ha
~ already been used. With a knowleds
+ OF this fact in view. the agents of tn
British Government have already lease
4 tract OF ground approximately 4,ooc acre
near I4athrop, No.. which will be use
. coraaling and preparation station