The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-04
NEWS Of HORSES
AND H0RSEMEN
Longlane, the son Of Longstrcet
and Highland
Lassie.
JOCKEY MAHER's RAPID RISE
Mr.. Vaughan Buys Trotters.
Washington Jockey Club
Spring Meeting.
JOCKEY MAHER's RAPID RISE

Colonel G. Percy Halves, this city, has
purchased OF N. B. Cook. Taylorsville,
Va, for use as n sire OF hunters and
jumpers. the bay stallion Longlane, tho
roughbred son Of Longstreet and High
land Lassle Longlnne was foaled, 1895,
and bred at the famous Belle Meade Stud,
Nashville, Tenn. He .s horse OF fine
proportions, being sixteen hands high
and Weighing over 100 pounds. The
son of I.ongstreet was very highly tried
by the Dwyer brothers, from whom ho
passed to the Messrs. Hunter, OF New
York, and was brought South by Mr..
Haywood Hunter, who presented the stall
lion to Mr.. Cook, his father-ln-law. AS
race horse Longstreet ranked among
the best OF the famous Longfellow's get,
while on the maternal side Longane also
traces to distinguished ancestry. the
dam Highland Lassie being daughter OF
imp Highlander and Algeria, by Add ell
Kader. and she out Of Boston's great
daughter Nina, who brought fame ana
fortune to Bullneld Farm. Nina was
grand race mare, and in the stud became
llO leSS ulStlHSulsHeu. dS BIC
Planet. Exchequer Ninette and Others
of note while In succeeding generations
down to the present day her blood Is
breeding on with seemingly undimlnished
force.
Think of boy who earns $4,000
year!
This youngster, whose salary Is as
much as TINT of the President Of tho
United States. has no inherited wealth.
He works for every dolla. that comes in.
He has saved up $3.50. 600. and bids fair
to make himself millionaire before he
is thirty.
His name is Danny Maher; he Is TWEEN
ty-tour years old. and Is the best Amer
lean jockey that ever went to England,
for 1t Is in the land OF old John Bull
that he earns his $50, 000 year.
1t wasn't SO long ago that Danny Mahcr
! was bootblack In Hartford, Conn. and
glad to clean up half dollar a day.
| But now he has an automobile and a
| valet. He wears London clothes and
| fur overcoat and guinea necktie. He is
Mr.. Maher," even to the nobility and
the gentry. and lives in smart apartments
| which he keeps all the year around, in
London's best residence quarter.
-
JoHll NauSllStIi. OIL fSOdNOher VINO
| owns Edgehill farm. a fine estate over
1900 acres. near Shawyille, in Mont
| gomery county, now ranks among the
/! largest Breeders OF trotters In Virginia.
| Chief Director, a young son of The
| Director-General, now of one OF the most
| prominent sires in the county. heads the
\ stud. while the brood mares are choice
/ lot and trace mostly to noted performing
| and producing families. Recent pur-
| chases by Mr.. Vaughan include a bay
| colt. 2, by Red Chute, 2:2i IA. Chappral.
| by Bow ellis; bay colt, Q, by Arion. 2:07
| 3-i, dam Lotte Harold, by Harold: Dainty
! Brook. brown flly. 4. by Silent Brook.
/ 2:l6 l2. dam Milbrey, by Pathen Wilkes;
| Duchess of Versailles. by Arlon, 200 "a.
! dam Kremnel, b. Kremlin. 2:o7 ia; Miss
Bean, bay filly. 3, by Ashland WILKES,
/ dam by Mambrlno Patchen and Concilia.
ton, chestnut mare. s, by Alcatraz, e:l6
S-4. dam Pacifica, 2:3o. by Eectioneer.
4 One of the largest and best looking two
year-olds about here Is the bay colt by
/ Wealth. 2:l0. dam a fine trotting bred
] mare, bred and owned by Mr.. l.. Pugh,
/ OF keswick, Va. This colt is in the stable
OF George Il. Richmond. at the Deep Run
/ Hunt Club track and he thinks well OF
the youngster. Wealth. the sire OF this
| colt, Is the son of Gambctta Wilkes and
| Magnolia. by Norfolk. owned by Colonel
/ w. II. Chapman, of the United States
i Internal Revenue Department, this city,
| who has the horse at Clifton Stock
/ Farm Gordonsvile Va, where sons
! promising youngsters are to be seen by
! nm. While in training the Gambetta
4. Wilkes horse was very fast, as he could
| show two minute gait pacink and was
second in a race in EOS "a at the Indiana
| State Fair.
The spring meeting Of the Washington
Jockey Club, TO be run at the Bennings
race-course. Washington D. c.. begins
on Monday March Goth, and closes on
Saturday April 18th. Among the popular
events to be decided Is the Cameron Run
Hunt Club steeplechase, to be run on
/ Thursday, March 29th. the fourth day of
the meeting, and open to hunters four
years old and upward. owned by men,
bers of the Chevy Chase Hunt or by
members of recognized hunts in Virginia
\ that have been hunted In 1905 and 1905.
4 Other events Of interest to be run are
the Chevy Chase Pink Coat steeplechase
and the Southern Pink Coat Handicap
| Steeplechase, OF later dates.
| IT, M. Arrasmith, race secretary and
manager of the track and grounds OF the
/ Central Carolina Fair Association.
Greensboro n. c.. VIII train a stable of
| ~,