The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-01

with him, asking whether a mare by
Smuggler had ever been bred to his
horse. and found that Grace Smuggler
by Smuggler, out of Lady Grace. by
Hamlet, and she out of Black Bess
(dam of Gloster, 2:17), by Stockbridge
Chief. had foaled bay colt by Nut
pine in 1885,,
Mr.. Barnes, it appeared, had called
the colt Bengaline and had sold him
when four years old to DIR. Spaulding.
of Decatur, ILL.,. and that was the last
ever heard of him. Following up what
looked like the wrong trail Mr.. Gocher
learned that after Bengaline had run
away with DR.. Spaulding and had
been steered into the side of a house
to stop him. that horseman had sold
him for song to dealer named
Bates. hailing from Richmond, Va.
Further inquiry developed the fact
that Bengaline had passed into the
hands of man who worked in the To-
connective shops at Richmond, and had
been used by him for time as a
driving horse and then sold for what
he would bring, which was not much.
After being passed around from one
owner to another in Virginia he fell
into the hands OF w. J. Carter, we'll
known horseman OF Richmond. who
consigned him to the Fasig-Tipton
company's auction sale at Madison
Square garden in November. 1903.
John H. Shuts was then in the market
for we'll bred brood mares for his
stock farm near Port Chester, and,
mistaking Bengaline for mare as he
stepped around the show ring at the
garden one evening, bought him for
$500 on account OF having once owned
his sire. On learning that Bengaline
was gelding Mr.. Shuts resold him
at discount without taking him out
OF the garden, little guessing that he
was parting with the fastest trotter
he had ever known.
Paul Connolly bought him from Mr..
Shuts and sold him in one of his
sales the same month, under the name
OF Ingram to Eugene Ryanthaler,
we'll known contractor. Nutboy pass
ed from the latter's hands into
Thomas Young's in 1904. He was en-
tered in sale conducted at the Phila-
delphia horseexchange by VIM. Mac
Farland. He was not sold and the
latter dealer offered him later in Bos-
ton. but he was not sold and was
OiOu6AC U1Ch " Tullduclpnld.
His name was then changed to Nut
boy and given to Harry Davis to train.
he pronounced hi mno good and he
was sold to up state parties and he
whom George Hindermyer purchased
him and placed the horse in the hands
of James B. Morris, who gave him his
early education before going to the
races. in 1905, and at Pottstown, he
was handed over to C. N. Payne, who
drove him tao record over the Potts
town tracks in 2:16 Ia. After having
been shut out of the half mile pole,
but he came the last half SO fast that
he won by six lengths and then got the
race. He was bad breaker in all of
last years races and was shut out at
Baltimore, Nd, last fall in the first
heat.
At the end of the campaign ]. H.
Crabtree visited Philadelphia and
bought Nut Boy from Mr.. Hinde-
meyer The price was variously re-
ported as $4,000, $4,000 and $4,000.
When making the purchase Mr.. Crab
tree declined to state who he was or
whom the horse was bought. This cir
cumstance gave rise to the belief
among Philadelphia horsemen that
Nut Boys name was to be changed
again and that he was destined for
ringing tour this season in the hands
of his unknown purchaser. Secretary
Gocher received several letters during