Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-30


| fact that the speedway course has been
| neglected the entire summer the footing Is
| safe and the surface soft as to be of
great service to sore-toed horses, of which
| there are not few. At the head of the
! speedway J. j. OKeefe has purchased
| large tract of ground and erected brick
| building, which will be Of great con-
venence to patrons of the course.
| Cooling out sheds will be erected
| and everything done to make the plant
favorite resort of the horsemen OF the city.
Mr.. O'Keefe contemplates starting Finch,
2.15A, at Cumberland this week, and f.. f.
Hall expects to start Kushan at the same
| point in the 219 trot. b. F. McCaully has
| been engaged by the Cumberland authori-
| ties to do the starting. Mr.. Corbin's Dr.
| Bell is expected to start at Cumberland In
| the 21S pace. From Cumberland the Cor
| bin string, comprising Belle Hazel, Kushan
! and Dr. Bell, will be taken to Hagerstown,
| where they will fill other engagements.
| From Hagerstown the stable Will be
| shipped to Frederick, and from thence to
! the Gentemens Driving Park, baltimore.
| Finch will follow substantially the same
route.
John o. Gheen has returned from his sea
| trip to Boston and his father, John ii.
| Gheen, is back from Johnstown, whittier
| he went to attend the meeting at that
! point. Oakdale Baron, bay gelding, by Bar
! onmore, is now the property of the elder
| Gheen. The gelding has record OF 2l6A
! at the pace, and is fine all-around road
! horse. He trots a good lick when jogging,
| but when the reins are frightened goes i'm
mediatey into the pace. J. May Morrison
| has disposed of every member OF his STA
| BILE except Florence Wilkes and Mary
| Tracy. They are at present in the hands
| of George Gheen. President DeGraw con-
| templates calling a meeting of the MEM
! bers of the Riders and Drivers Associa-
| ton the latter part of October for the cleo
| ton of officers and for the purpose of dis
| cussing the question of classified races
| over the speedway as long as the gong Is
| good.
| Thomas Cannon the welly-known trainer
! and driver has entered the employ of B.
| F. McCaully and will give his sole atten-
! ton to the care of and the driving of speed
| way horses. He is well fitted for the task.
| Otto linn is handling for speed very
| promising three-year- geldng by Henry
| Shepherd. Charles Chick has returned to
! the game again by buying of Charles Wea-
yer the pacing mare Nan Patterson:
| Charles Hanley has entered the employ OF
| Frank ]. Combs of Leonardtown, whose
| horses he will train and drive in the future.
| Mr.. j. ID. Y'omans, owner of the Ashburne
| stock fam. Loudoun county, is still in
| precar.ous state of health. George P. Eur
| horst. the CAPITOL Hill horseman, has re-
| turned from his Canadian trip which he
| made to get the better of hay fever, with
| which he is afflicted a certain season Of
| the year
| If any breeder in the District of Column
| bla. Maryland and Virginia or any other
district or state which The Star reaches
| has any doubt as to the potency of
the blood of Handle tonian 10, he has
| but to turn to the blood line of the new
30 trotters of 1906. The number of new
| 21O trotters is six and comprises Belfast,
| 2.0SA, by Bow Bells a son of Electioneer;
Early Alice. 2.O9A. by Highwood, a son Of
Nutwood; Embey, 2O9A, by Expedition,
a son of E,lectioneer; Lord Roberts,
out of a daughter of Nutwood and Talpa.
2.09A. a granddaughter of Harold. Every
sire named traces paternally to HANDLE
tonian. Belfast through his dam traces to
dam to Abdallah Is, a son of Hambeto-
| MAN. Emboy through his dam to Henry
Clay 8. Lord Roberts through his dam to
Happy Medium. of Hambletonian,
and Talpa through her dam to Henry Clay
s. Electioneer was a son OF Hambleto-
MAN; Nutwood son of Belmont. he by
Abdallah 10. of Hambletonian, and
Harold was inbred to Hambletonian, he be-
ing son of that horse, while his dam was
daughter of Abdallah l, sire of HANDLE
tonian. If one were to turn to the 10 list
of 1906 the same story would be told.
Whichever way one looks one Is confront
ed with the potency of the blood OF the
father of trotters,'' Hambletonian TO- AS
has been repeated in these columns many
times, all other strains are merely tribu-
tary to the mighty current of speed set
in motion by the son Of Abdallah and the
Charles Kent mare, by imported Bellfound-
er-Hambletonian 10.
Probably few persons interested In trot-
tiers in this bailwck know that John Seely
| of Ashburne stock farm, Loudoun county,
| Va, is a nephew of Jonas Seely who bred
! Hambletonian 10 and disposed of him when
| running by the side of his dam to William
Rysdyk (then day laborer) for, some say.
$125. 1t was the same Jonas Seely that
once owned the famous Seely's American
Star whose daughters have done much
to add to the fame of Hambletonian
sire of extreme speed. There is scarcely
a horse of extreme speed in the world to-
day at the trot or pace that does not carry
the blood of American Star and that blood
has never failed to enrich that which 1t
touched. In view of the fact that the de-
scendants of Hambletonian are winning
brief description of him may prove inter-
esting to readers of The Star. He was a
rich colored, deep mahogany bay, foaled
May g. 1S49, in Orange county, N. Y. In
height he was not much over 15h hands
His legs were black up to and slightly
above the knees and hooks. In his forehead
was a small star and on his ankles behind
he wore two white socks to the top OF the
ankle joints. The coronets of his hind legs
were dotted black that each hoof was
in good part black. or Of a deep blush
slate color.
Hambletonan's head was large and bony,
much like the head of Imported Messenger
his great grandsire, but his profile ran to
the Roman type rather more than did that