Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21

side the money in the 2:22 pace at the York
fair.
Charles McDermott's Montauk, which was
recently matched for 1000 side against
J. ]. O'Keefe's Finch, was outside the
money in the 2:17 pace at Point Breeze,
Philadelphia. October II.
Linkwood May, which won the 2:27 class
at Hagersiown recently, was formerly
owned by Charles Myers of this city.
Frank A, which was distanced in the
first heat a Frederick October H. is a fun
brother to Belle Hazel.
The dam of Miss Rosedale, the mare that
has been campagned during the present
season by Charles Longbottom of Philadel-
phia, was bred by the late Gen. E. F. Beale
at his Ash Hill stock farm, Prince George
county, and was by Prince Orion. Miss
Rosedale wat- trained and developed by
Robert Brawley and can trot miles around
2:15.
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Senator Joseph w. Bailey of Texas has
of late been engaging in more kinds of
racing than any other public man in the,
United States. To begin with, he IS en-
gagged in a senatorial race in his own be-
half. In addition, he has for two weeks
or more past been racing some youngsters
In Ohio and Kentucky with not always the
best of luck. as at Cincinnati in the three
year-old Horse Review Futurity he was
compelled to take third money with Vera
Prodigal. At Lexington, in the Kentucky
! FUturity for three-year-ods, the filly fin
ished fifth and died three days later of
assesses of the kidneys. She was by
the senator's Prodigil, PIG; her dam being
the fast pacing mare Vera Capel, 2.o'A,
| by Wilton. .19A. Although outclassed by
her fe DIS this year, she was a promising
young mare and doubtless a great finan-
cial loss to the senator. In the two-year-
old Futurity. on the same day, the senator
had slightly better luck his bay hlly,
I'm lie NARROW nv PrOdiCa1 second
money to the great cot Blue Hill, by
| Bingen, and later the same filly won al
| most in walk the Lexington $1,000 stakes
| beating some of the best two-year-olds OF
the year; among the lot the fastest two
year-old of 1906-Kentucky Todd-after the
latter had won the first heat in 215&l. 1t
was a great victory for the Texas senator
and some compensation for previous dis
appointments and losses.
After demonstrating that he was one of
the greatest stations at the trot of any
| year, and one of the greatest of race
horses, Mainsheet, 2.05k, is to be retired
to the stud by his owner Howard Cobb,
| ithaca, n. Y. In the $1,000 2.OS trot
! Wednesday last at Lexington he was dis
/ tanced in the first heat in 2.11A mere
| jog for the stallion when in his true form,
and which shows how stale a great per-
! former can become with constant honng.
| 1t is little over ten years since the
writer first saw the sire of Mainsheet, the
| Director General. running by the side of his
| dam, that great speed producing matron.
Josephine Young, by Joe Young, 2.1S, dam
also of Joe Patchin, 2.o1A, sire of Dan
| Patch, 1.5o. 1t was at the Cloverdale
stock farm, Montgomery county, Pa.
twenty-five miles from Philadelphia. that
| this happened, and the writer little thought
at the time that great sire in embryo
was being viewed in the black sucking.
| Taken to Kentucky. where great oppor-
tun:ties awaited him as he approached
maturity, as a sire he has added laurels
| to the family founded by Director III son
| of Dictator, and one of the greatest race
stations of his day when such race stall
lions were going down the big line as
Frances Alexander. Nor little did the
writer dream, when his attention was called
to a long-legged upheaded bay colt, that
he was looking upon another youngster that
would speedily grow famous as the kingpin
PAGER of 1905, Matthew Strauss, 2.03A. But
such was the fact and beside him stood his
famous dam, Mary Marshall. 2.21a, by Billy
Wilkes, mare that c. w. Williams of AL
lerton fame drove to victory in many fierce
contests In after years 1t was day long
to be remembered as one of having viewed
more champions in the bud and more great
brood mares than were to be seen on any
other stock farm in the world where the
ltght-harness horse was bred. For as the
procession moved by there could be seen
among matrons of extreme speed Nancy
Lee, dam of Nancy Hanks, 2.O4, once a
champion, and the dam of Direct, 2.051A, a
worlds pacing mark when made.
Il
The blood Of Distator, through his son
Director. was thick at Cloverdale. OF the
one hundred and odd foals frisking about
their mothers, or munching the succulent
grasses. 50 per cent were~by Director, the
remaining per cent by Red Wilkes. one OF
George Wilkes. Director, for which Mr.. A.
H. Moore, master of Cloverdale had a
year or two previous paid $4,000, was
even then in the sere and yellow. The old
hero of many hard-fought turf battles was
in his eighteenth year and showed the
scars of his numerous contests, and yet
he lived to be nearly thirty before he sue
cumbed to old age and the strenuous life.
Red Wilkes, for which Mr.. Moore paid
$4,000, was also at Cloverdale at the date
of the visit. He twenty and showed it
by the gray hairs in his face. He, too, was
much the worse for wear. although he had
not been campaigned since his three-year-
old form. He resembled a cart horse sire
more than he did that of a sire of trotters.
He also lived to be upward of thirty years
OF age. Although Mr.. Moore's venture
turned out disastrously financially, and his
fine stock dispersed to the four quarters
of the earth, others have reaped the fruits
of his efforts, and INDICATED his foresight
judgment and courage.
Speaking of Red Wilkes, a few sons of
that prolific sire of race horses, George