The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-10
Sir Dixon Leads the List of
Winning Sires.
His Get Won Over 100000
During Last Season.
HANOVER WAS SECOND.
Son of HindOo's Best Colt is the
Fast Hamburg.
Some of the Youngsters Who
Have Won Fame.

Lexington, Ky. March 40.-7In COM
pilation here a turf statistician figures
that the get of Sir Dixon won $165.6S2. Sc
on the American turf last season to that
of Hanover $163, 243. Their English Win
nings swelled the totals to Sir Dixon
S2O6, $3.50. to Hanover $1s4, 400.
While that great race horse and
greater sire. Hanover, has passed away,
and the last of his get raced last year,
as two-year- olds, he has left behind him
a number of his sons which have al
ready proved their worth as race horses
of a very superior order. and which, II
is likely, will fill the place made vacant
by their sire in the stud.
Hamburg is generally regarded as the
best colt sired by the son of Hindoo:
With Halrna, which has already sired
a number of winners, Ben Holiday,
Buck AIassie, Handsome. Handban and
Handspring also serving in the stud,
the future is bright with promise OF the
success of his progeny.
Any stable that had within its con-
fines a son of Hanover was envied, for
to own a son of that great horse was
equivalent to having a winner in its
raced has won one or more races
raced has won or more races.
Last year the progeny of Hanover
colts and FLIES, numbered eighteen WIN
ners OF forty-seven races. Abe FRANK
headed the list, in point of number or
races won, with ten victories. rms colt,
which belongs to George c. Bennett &
Co. was raced exclusively in the west.
and is now the first favorite in the win
ter books for the American Derby, the
realiza ton of the western circuit.
Hargis and Herodiade. which also only
appears on western tracks. won five
races each, as did Lady Sterling, which,
last year, was frequent performer on
the local circuit, and is now performing
in California.
king Hanover and Yankee each won
three races. Dolce Far Niente. Lady Go
diva, Serpent and Kaffir two. and Com
pute, Evelyn Maud. Hand Rail. Han
over Queen, Jane Oaker, The Widow,
Northern Star and Passover one each.
Yankee won the most money, his Flu
turity victory being responsible for the
most of the S39. $50 which was his share
of the winnings of the year
The others all won fair sized purses
King Hanover won nearly $4,000, and
Abe Frank an even larger amount. The
get of Hanover almost invariably i'm
prove with age.
The total number of Hanovers that
raced last season was fifty-six. The
most noticeable disappointments, as re-
CARDS winning races. were Saturday.
Charity These two, however, although
they did not succeed in winning. per-
formed creditably on several occasions,
appearing in company with the best of
the age.
Several other Hanovers were raced on
only one or two occasions, their owners
preferring to reserve them for the COM
ing season, when they can be expected
to redeem themselves.
The allowances to maidens in many
of the big stakes give them a big pull
in the weights over those which have
won as two-year-olds, and many of the
three-year-old classics have gone to
maidens.
Scottish Chieftain and Ildrim were
non-winners up to the time that they
captured the Belmont stakes in the
years 1897 and 1900. Petruchio was a
maiden and gained that allowance when
he captured the Brooklyn Derby of 1900
from Kilmarnock
In former years the tendency was to
race two-year-olds almost to death. OF
late years the youngsters have not been
so severely campaigned as was form
erly the case -