The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-09
Pays $4,000, Wins Over S., 500
and Sells for $4,000.
WAS NO GOLD BRICK.
Matte t." Dam of Colonel
Bill, Remarkable Mare.
Sensational Career of the Filly
Sceptre for the Year.

Lexington, KY, Oct. s.-John E. Mad
den made a good investment when he
bought Colonel l}ill of Colonel George
Wilkes" simmons lest winter At the
time the owner OF Hamburg Place re-
fused to say what he paid for the colt.
stating that he was ashamed to tell the
price until he won race with him. as
he aid not want Simmons to have the
laugh on him by selling him a gold
brick" for a race horse at a long price.
1t has now leaked out that Madden
gave the noted trotting horse man $4-
GOO for Colonel Bill Since he has sold
him for $14 ,G0e after winning $500 IN
stakes and purses. it appears that the
sturdy 3-year-old brought Madden $5lS,-
500 profit. He also played lucky in Sc
curing Myrtle Hardness, whose first
foaI is the sensational 2year-old Ace
full. He gave Gus Straus $4,000 for the
Ashland Oaks winner.
Straus first offered the mare to Mill
ton Young, her breeder. who would have
BOUGHT her but for the fact that the
season had proved bad one and UNI
der such conditions Young was over
stocked. Had she gone to McGrathiana
there would have been no Aceful FOR
Madden. though it is likely she would
have thrown a race horse mated to any
OF The stations owned by Mr.. Young
Matte T.. Colonel BilPs dam, is near
" &c years old She is one year older
than BelVidere and two years older than
Sir Dixon, both of which famous horses
are her full brothers. Present racegoers
are not familiar with the fact that over
ten years before Colonel Bill was foaled
Matte T. dropped a high-class FLY
named Ethel S. which raced successful
ly on the metropolitan tracks as well as
in the west, and as 2year-old won IA
races, the record for a FLY up to her
time. Though on the verge of 20 years
of age, Matte 7. is a remarkable breed
er. Colonel Simmons now owns 2
year-old colt by imp Top Gallant out
Of her which has yet to race, while her
yearling colt. a Chestnut in color. is an
own brother to Colonel Bill. and she
has at her side a sucking brown FLY,
sister 10 Colonel Bill. and Is safe with
foal this year TO the F'uturity winner
imp. Ogden.
I.acien Appleby ard Schwalbe are
having battle royal for first honors
as the leading race winner of the year.
The former 70 date has won is and the
latter 16 races. Now that the son of
imp. St. George is in front it does not
head him this year.
The sensational maiden 3-year-old
FLY Loretto Gale. by Magian, dam Bon
ME May, by imp Benny Brown, owned
by J. b. Bowman, has been shipped to-
ST Louis where she is booked for az
killing at Delmar park in the next few
days. She has shown to be a hish-claSS
flly in her work here and only few
Of 81 500 for her, the tender coming from
eastern parties. After racing time or
two at the mound city she will go to
New York to wind uD the racing season
at the Morris park and Aqueduct
meetings.
Owing to the death of their noted stall
lion, Prince Royal. Baker & Gentry OF
the new Kingston stud will sell about
dozen of their brood mares at the COM
ing winter thoroughbred sales. decreas-
ing their stud to twenty-five mares,
which Will be about all the stud ma
irons they VIII permit to be mated to
the great imp St. George. The latter
stallion is advancing in years and they
do not want to tax his powers.
Instead of buying a horse to take
Prince Royals place they will reduce
their stud. The mares they will retain
are among the best the breeding world
affords, while a majority of the stock
they viii sell are FLIES, some of which
are untried as race mares and are ready
now to go into training. This firm will
not extend their breeding operations
since they do not propose to enter the
yearling market, but will race the colts
and fllies raised at Kingston stud in
their own colOrs-
The following table has been compiled
here by a noted racing authority and
shows the record this year of the sensa
tional FLY Sceptre, which has earned to
date s131. 1868 on the turf, $10i, 1852 of
which she has won this year She leads
all horses in the world in money won in
1902, and save La Fleche. the great
French-owned performer of several sea
sons ago, she is the largest winning
mare in racing history. The wonderful
record follows:
Race-Finish- Amt. won.
Lincolnshire handicap (second) ......S ass
Two Thousand Guineas (first) 1900. % .4e2
One Thousand Guineas (hrsD ......... 1853
Derby (unplaced) Observation-Disclosures. 49,.
Grand Prix de Paris (unplaced) $50. -.
Coronation stakes (unplaced) ........- 1900
St. James Palace stakes (irsD ........ II, SO
Sussex stakes {second) ................ go
Nassau stakes firsD .......-..........- 3.SSc
St Deger (firsD OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 20, 0G0
Park Hill stakes (second) .--.........- 4S5
As a 2-year-old Sceptre started three
times, winning the July and Woodcote
stakes, earning at that age s12, 416. She
has this year won 1882 and $S,3S6 re
sDectively more than Miss Woodford
and Firenzi the two leading mares of
the American turf won during their en-
tire career. Sceptre's closest relation
in America on the maternal side is the
imported stallion Star Ruby, owned by
J. B. Haggin. that horse being her half
brot2,er.
Yost SAYS Secret Practice.