The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-08-06
Tic Noted 3virgi,ia-l'rrcsd Racer Race ,
Planet, son Of
Revcntte.
HIS CAREER WAS A GREAT ONE Y
1sphraim 1'oodlcs, as;l8 1-44-Thc
Lynchburg Fair air Colonel
Laughlin's Trottcrs.

~ nc,haps more generally admired than
p.anet the grand looking chestnut stall
non Who was bred BY the late Major
THOMAS w. boswell, and foaled his
property In ls15 ut Bullficld farm. This
thoroughbred son OF Revenue was from
y Elnn, and tho first foal Of that famous
daughter of Boston ana imported Frolick-
some Fanny, by Lottery. Writing not
long since about great race horses. Col
s ono Thomas b. Merry, Iiidnlgo." OF Los
Angeles, Cal. M eminent authority, COM
Ihented as follows: NJ f5
Planet was the first race horse nnd
rten nfter grow old enough to know a
good horse from Il bad one. lie won s3l,
1W ut four years old and 1880 at five,
being the LARGEST individual winning horse
III either OF those two years.
Planet was "thc travelling, conquerlng
terror OF the Atlantic seaboard from
1855 I'll 1861, after which "the late in-
Jlcasnntncss" prevailed 10 such an extent
that southern horses dared not Visit
northern tracks for fear OF confiscatlon.
& il Is hard to imagine n much more trim
built or beautifully finished horse than
Il Planet. His hind leg was as broad and
flat as that OF imp. bennington and ne
had as much better temper Az could be
imagined.
8 When Peter Taylor and Ned Leonard
took on the gray mare Comet, known
ir; Oregon as the "Siin Oldham mare,
they landed In New York and went over
to Long Island to rest the old mare up
pti the Union course. N. 3. Young, COM
moncly called ''Bony.'' was there with
Planet, ICxcheqner. Slashcr and Fanny
Washington Taylor got talking about
the old mare one day and telling what
shc had done and, after listening re-
spectfully 10 him for few minutes, Mr..
Young said "I'll tell you what Ill do
with you, Taylor; Ill run Planet against
4 your marc with anything from IS to los
pounds on each-hc's four. and your mare
IS scven-at |onc mile, for $1,000 to 5000:
aud if she beats him, III give you $4,000
Inr her. for ! know right where can
20 and win her out In her first start
This bold defy met with no response.
The Aiontezuma Farm horse Ephraim
Toodlcs, bay stallion. ak years old,
has won three races recently, and made
a record OF 2:ls IA. trottlng. He is
being campulgncd through the Hudson
and Mohawk Valley Circuit, New York
and has been returned q winner Of two
K races ut Utica and another at I1lmira.
These contests were over half mile tracks,
but over n good mile course II Is likely
that the bay stallion can trot In 2:l2.
The paternity pf the h9rsc Is frefitea TO-
= I, ~ Iut,i,.' hrnd a. III Z, ~
$40 :. 49,, - % =, q,
1,,,,, ! ,ron,.,o. - nnd n Presn,,c Isle.
900" - - 49,, f,ii.olv his Maternity wll
s,-r,, x ~ ~ .hYtiod hv1tha Roard
- rensors ~ Inc American Trotting
Register Association. c.. A. Pussy. who
trained Toodles, Jr., in his ce-year..on
form. WORKED nun 'I'iles TIE ' 3hto ' -'-v
At thai aroy ase him aa ba Hne 9e an9 hon
pronounced the colt as the making of a
"a, hnrsn Win age and proper develop
, t"a, - - 49, :.
49,, 80.
With the fair and race meeting OF inc
Interstate Fair Association ,, !, Of Lynch \,
n1lrs, W. ~ 49, Nc eu1 ynchh,,rr Horse
oIa.. ~ ~ .a,,e ,imc residents OF
snow O., a. ,,. ny sn''', ,e .,. ,onn,.rd ~,
the i 10y are ,o'A,. ~ Ior 80 Me fall
Frank a. I.ovelock is the secretary OF the
Fair Association. and w. II. Liggnn holds
n like position with the Horse Show,
ono Of the most attractive features OF
the fair will be the speed ed prsans
the management q when Offers RS ov 81
$500 in purses for trotters ana PAGERS ad
runners ~, ne RoanoKe after tho scene
af,er ,nal =, North Carolina tracks rms
si''its " ~ ~. ~. ,,,hicb
circuit OF fairs and race meellhss' "n .tl
tnn,hor aftcr'. which comes Lynchburg
a,,,,a datna nnantioned and then mo
Norm Garoihh tau % W. r,, ~ :. 80
nIent one for horsemen 70 lolio"' ana 70
attracting attention. 81
s5&' 5.s9, i,
r,o,ono1 w Inughlin. of tho Ex-
, 1o,oaeI t1otc, r 1rrcderfcksburg Va, has
o .annn,otof PROMISING %trotters in Eicx-
a. dnn 9oup'1 iho hpv Stallion, by Supremacy,
2:eo and Militnht. hia'd' ~ i,afole' '
son Of patroh, -' ,,or.ed ouartor tb,a
season in thirty-six SECONDS, ana .it lis is
the Intention TO prepare nil' i =, 9, rrr,
ord this fall. Militant Mald IS graha
except TO break net. 20 a na shnws ", wa y
she thkes ~ an ~ snead With ope and