The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-25
NOTES OF LOCAL HORSES.
VALUABLE STOCK AT HICKORY ' GROVE STABLES.

Winner and Brood mare-Hher Rtne
 Young FoaI That Resembles its Sire
 Cresceus, 2.O2 1-4. the Champion
 Holds Many Records-Brief Facts
 About His HIstory--other Notes of
 Interest to Horse Fanciers.
 The following news items were fur- nished to the Trotter and Pacer by it's New Haven representative:
 At Frank P. Clark's Hickory Grove stables in this city a noteworthy in- crease In the horse stock occurred on May Sd, when the trotter MISS Alice, 2:13 1-2, produced a foal sired by the trotting stallion Cresceus, 2:02 l-4. The foaI is q fine Ally, neither very large or very small, that already resembles her sire. She has the chestnut color or the stallion and a regular Cresceus head not large or coarse, but small and de- cidedly fine. In the opinion or the VII ter the valuable little foal will grow to resemble her sire more than at present.
 As the number of readers of turf news is. constantly increasing, there may be some who are not familiar With the creditable history of Cresceus. As a winning race horse he has been Just ly admired by all good judges of fast trotters. Tn match races, or in Grand Circuit company, where the fastest speed is required for profitable cam paign, or in exhibition races on a vari- ety of tracks, he has won the highest honors. He has been raced from the hot temperature of the southern states during warm weather to the freezing cold of ice races in Canada during the coldest weather, winning laurels In all conditions. The stallion is eleven years old this season, and will probably be- come celebrated as sire Three of his descendants entered the standard list last year. Tn future years the foal out of Miss Alice may become great cred it to her sire. He holds the record for champion trotting stallion, mark which he has reduced three times and placed where 1t will be hard to beat. He also has the honor of trotting the fastest two miles, making the distance in AIT. Half-rnile track records have several times been placed to his credit.
 Tn this connection a little about his pedigree may be of interest. Cresceus. 2:02 1-4, was sired by Robert McGregor. 2:17 1-2, he by Major Edsall, 2:29, by Abdallall, 15, a son of the celebrated Hambletonian, By his fast speed at the finish of a race, Robert McGregor earned the title, Monarch of the Home Stretch His dam was a mare fo some celebrity, viz, Nancy Whit man (dam of Madeline, 2:23 1-D by 5(Seelys') American Star, a sire famous in turf history.
 The dam of Cresceus was the good mare Mabel, dam of Nightingale, 2:10 I-2) by Mambrino Howard, etc. Nightingale, 2:10 1-2, known as Ander- sons, won the Charter Oak stake race for S10,0O0 in 1892.
 The statement has been made about Miss Alica, race record to high wheels, 2:13 1-2, that she has always had a good reputation remember a race at the Foxon track, when MT. Clark gave an exhibition race with Miss Alice as a special attraction. The mare was then in her race track prime and by her perfect condition, her speed and fast trotting action, she was the Star per former of the afternoon. In the year 1897 she became injured in one forward ankle and was retired from race tracks. Miss Alice, 2:13 1-2, was sired by the good Wilkes stallion Alcantara, 2:2S, whose dam was the celebrated Alma Mater, by Mambrino Patchen, another famous horse. Writers vary in opin- ion regarding matrons in the Great Brood Mare list, but think all turf journalists agree that Alma Mater was one of the three greatest brood mares that ever lived.
 After several of her foals showed their high value and were sold at great prices her worth as a brood mare be- came apparent. At one time her owner was offered the princely sum of five thousand dollars for her breeding ser- vices for two years. -
 The dam of Miss Alice was Thorn dale Maid by Thorndale. Her grandam was Bridesmaid by Hambletonian 10.
 Miss Alice was good prize winner at one of the former exhibitions of the National Horse Show. at Madison Square Garden, New York city.
 Miss Alice had her first race track experience in the hands of the late E. c. Walker, formerly editor of the News and Views department in the Trotter and Pacer. That year the trotter won all or nearly all her races and brought a large sum of money to her driver and others. st z.
 As brood mare Miss Alice has been success from the start. Her oldest foal is the valuable bay mare Alice Victor, sired by the pacer, Royal Vic tor, 2:0S 3-4, a fast horse formerly owned by the proprietor of Hickory Grove stables. According to reliable men Alice Victor has speed enough to win as much or more than Miss Alice ever did. She is credited with a mile in 2:20, and a quarter in 32 seconds last year. .
 The next foal out of Miss Alice is a larger bay mare called Miss Ebsie, and by the same sire. She is fast enough to be regarded as vaulable prospect. Both of the mares are square trotters.
 Frank F. Clark also owns two year-old colt whose dam is Miss Alice. The colt is good size, a trotter and was sired by the show winner, Ponce de Leon, 2:13, he by Pancoat, 2:2t 3-4,