The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-23

won the SlU,OUO race III ID ISHIoii oo''Ni
this week. and she is eligible to the
$4,000 Massachusetts purse at Read
Vile, which, if she retains ner form,
she will also have brilliant chance to
win. The prospect is if she stays
of the heaviest winners of recent
years.
Is Remarkable Trotter.
Sweet Marie is remarkable uotter.
She is also one with a remarkable
history. She halls from California and
is now something like years of age.
AS the story goes, she was bred by
rubber. or stable boy. of Los Angeles.
Cal. who got hold of her dam, we'll
bred mare called Lady Rivers, by Car
RE Mambrino, for song. He was then
working for c. A. Durfee, the we'll
known Los Angeles trotting horseman,
who allowed him, to breed the mare to
the celebrated stallion Mckinney,
2:11A. then Durfees property but sold
by him some three years ago for $c5,-
900 to H. B. Gentry of Bloomington,
Ind. Mckinney is today the sire of
more 2:10 trOtters-five-than any
other horse on record, while Cars
Mambrino, the sire of Lady Rivers, was
by Mambrino Patchen, for many years
the premier sire of the trOtting brood
mares. Therefore, while the breeder
of Sweet Marie was certainly plebeian.
her breeding is aristocratic in SO far
as her blood lines go
Would Not Race Her.
1t was three years ago last spring
in the world. She had then become
the property of hotekeeper named
Milo Potter of Lon Angeles. who BEGAN
racing ner at the matinees held in the
CITY of Angels" She was absolutely
green, but it was not long before she
showed herself next to a phenomenon,
for she beat everything brought against
her. both trotters and PAGERS. including
many with fast turf records, and made
an amateur record. to wagon, of 2:13A.
Naturally these performances at
tracted much attention to her, which
spread from California, to the east.
Many horsemen endeavored to per-
suade her owner to race her profess
sionally, but ne steadfastly refused. In
December of that year-1901-Mr Pot
ter left Los Angeles, and before doing
so held a public sale of his horses
Sweet Marie was offered at this and
was there purchased by her present
owner. William Garland. of Los An
geles, for $3.50.
Raced In Seattle.
But in the spring of 1908 much GU
riosity was aroused when it was an
nounced that she had been placed in
the hands of w. G. Durfee son of the
famous owner of her sire, to be raced
professionally. Durfee decided to cam
paign her first in the far northwest
and she made her turf debut in Au-
gust at Seattle. Here she won six
races in succession without an effort,
the fastest time in an yof them being
2:15l2.
IA n n
Here in Il race for Il $4,000 prize. she
won the first heat in 2:131a In the
next she VAS third in 2:121a. The
judges considered that Durfee had
pulled her and ordered him out of the
sulky for the third heat. He fatty re-
fused to obey, and after a sensational
scene the mare was led to the stable
and she and Durfee were indefinitely
suspended
Owned by Rich Invalid.
This ended her campaign of 1908 alb.
ruptiy. But last winter the suspension
against her was revoked and her owne,
then placed her in the hands of Rob.
ef' smith. Smith is a wealthy youns
man who went to California from Phil.
adelphia several years ago to regal,
MS health, his lungs being affactad