Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-09
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Washington horsemen will readily recall
to mind John w Sale, who score of years
ago drove and trained the gray t-otter IRON
Bar. 211A. Mr. Sale has recently returned
from Kentucky to Richmond Va. his for
mer home, and expects to remain there.
The tragic ending Of the famous stallion
Temple Bar, 2iTA. upward of fifteen years
ago, brought himself and his brother tho
late DIR. Seldom Sale of Kentucky. into un-
pleasant prominence and embittered the res
naming days of the latter. Temple Bar
was ruled off the tracks OF the country
when his earning power was at its greatest,
and the doctor saw comfortable fortune
slip through his fingers. To the day of his
death he always claimed 1t was through
no fault of his own. Mr.. Sale. who WIS re-
Gently In town. says he Is done with the
trotters and will devote his attention to
other matters.
A letter recently received from Gen. Nei-
son A Miles, Boston. announces that no
hopes to be in Washington when the
weather gets settled and try out the
speedway his latest acquisition, Quadriga,
20SS4. The general expects to summer on
the New England coast.
The great half mile track PAGER. Frank
Youkum, 204&. badly injured last season
in a railway accident, ha; rounded to. and
II is hoped by his owners that he will train
sound. Youkum was bred by Judge Yeo-
mans of this city and is one OF many fast
ones that the Judge has bred on his Iowa
farm.
Homer Davenport, the cartoonist, well
known in this city, recently met with
great financial loss by the destruction by
fire of his fast pacing stallion Hal b. The
latter was en- route to Oregon In CONF any
with Arabian stallion. when the car
caught fire and was consumed. The Ara
bian escaped with his life, which fact a
noted western horse paper takos OCCASION
to deeply lament.
tall hrtr 20 Ilrta
week from his Virginia farm five-year-old
son Of Henry Shepherd. dam half-bred
and granddam by Blind Tom. that he claims
is threatened with speed. Alonzo Corbin
will test Mr.. Halls judgment in the mat
ter, and If the colt proves all right Will
race him in the fall. Thomas Cannon IL
working a very bright prospect In the shape
OF a green mare by Monocacy, which Is
the property of Henry Bowling. Mr.. Riley
is very much pleased with the way his
brown pacing geldfng by Onycha Wilkes,
2.1212. is moving under the tutelage OF
Alonzo Corbin. The youngster has stepped
eighths trifie better than seventeen sec
onds, and as his dam is by the now cele-
bra.ed Little Tobe he has right by in
heritance to become a race horse of the
first flight of speed.
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Speaking OF Little lobe. his paternaI
grandsire. recalls to mind that the wonderl
since by Allen MerriaeId of Baltimore is
now with tail locked and name pulled as
topishing the freQuenters of London parks
with knee action that bumps the chin and
hook action that requires abnormally high
shafts and cross bar to enable him to do
with eclat his daily stunts when parade.
Vivian Gooch, London Eng, was attracted
country, and he quickly took him across
the big pond at a long price. running, It
is said, into four figures. Next he attracted
to 10 Fob Ia nyha In
the attention of the wealthy Walter Winans,
who paid an increased sum for the pigmy
trotter His mark of 2.194, which he got
at Readville Mass, two years ago, is not
the full measure of HIS speed. He has
2.15 trotter. His sire. Pamlico, was q great
race horse, but his career was cut of by
pneumonia at Hartford a few years since.
Representative Sibley of Pennsylvania Ia
always an interesting conversationalist and
especially so when he talks horse. A few
days since he was recounting to some mem-
bers of the House almost horsey as him.
self some Of the wonderful things expert
enced by Sinbad the Sailor. The latter. ac-
cording to his own account, was once upon
time cast upon island some~
natives had succeeded IN producing q
wonderful breed of horses. At certain
seasons of the year they took their
native mares to the seashore, when the sea
horses would come up out of the water and
mate with them. Thus were produced ami
mails that were valuable either sea OF
land; in fact, nothing was ever seen quito
like them Every of those present.
amid shouts of laughter, agreed with the
genial Pennsylvania.