The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-27
NEWS OF HORSES
AND H0RsEME|Y
Palema, sisterof Admiral Dewey,
2:o4 "a, Now Owned BY Il
a Virginian.
TRADITIONS IIF': ID AS 70 COLOR
These Are Shown to Have Been
Erroneous The Upper
vile Show.

James Q. Winston. OF the big Virginia #
contracting firm of Winston and CON. 3
pany. who have offices at Richmond. ii
New York and Boston, owns a stable Il &
harness horses. oil trotting bred, that Rs
form collection rarely cxcelled In
breeding and promise for speed Mr.. IA
Winston is now at Kntonnh. N. Y, where
the firm has big contract, and he will 9ss
probably remain there with his family X
couple Of years or more. The brood nm
mares and some OF the young things nre
quartered at 1<atonah. Among the choice NJ
mntrons are Mabel s., roam dnu ghter ID
OF Ashland Wilkes and Matte swope, Z
$3.50. by Young. Jim. second dam Roar,
Fanny dam of five, by Mambrino King. &
ana MISS Caleta. by Bingen, dam Caleta.
BY Advertiser. 2:15A one Of whom w1s x
pred 70 Oakland Baron and the other TO az
Mr.. Winston's young horse. sahib. son Al
OF Bingen. Tho younger division 1t 81
hatonah also Includes several by Baron 81
Wilkes and the gray fllly. Toyah,a s. 5by
Arion, 2:07A. second dam Sally Benton. 81
2I7E, the champion four yenr-old trot-
ter OF her day. and now famous as q Il
producer Tss3
Mr.. Wlnston's horses In training arr s
IN charge Of Thomas Dolphin. who has 81
them at the Gentlen1en's Driving Park. II
baltimore Dolphin Is working four head III
shhtb, bay colt. 4, by Bingen, 2:oxaa, lam IS
Lady Ethylin, 2:24A by zach Dawy,{ 2 ::2sltt ;ss
Alice b, bay mare, 5, by Idolta, 2:oojta., IN
dam Wilbooka. 2:1sA, by Wilkes BOY, M
2:24A; Miss Katherine, bay Ally, 8, by.5;
Peter the Great, 2:07A. dam Miss Caleta. 81
by Bingen: and Palema, bay fllly. g. full u
sister to Admiral Dewey, 2:o42a by Bin
gen, dam Nancy Hanks, 2:04, by Happy
Medium. Little has been done with "
sahib, but he has q nice way OF going III
and being patterned much after the order
Of his famous sire. high hopes are CEN
tered in his future Alice B lis young b
mare OF exquisite quality. with lightning
speed at the trot. as she can show q two 81
minute gait. Last fall she was tho 81
at New York. Miss Katherine worked 81
sensation Of the Harlem River Speedway!
a mile last season in 2:e3 at Hartford.
and having no stake engagements, she
has simply been logged since, which also 81
applies to Palema, who cost Mr.. Winston "
$1,000 as n yearlng at the dispersal OF Isl
the late ]. Malcolm Forbes's horses at Il
the memorable sale at Boston in May
1904. Like her distinguished brother, Al rs
miral Dewey. Dolphin thinks that Pa'|s$;
ma will make a great trotter. while lnqs
addition, on the score OF breeding alonesa
even, 1t seems that she should be worth q &
small fortune for use in the stud when ID
retired to the brood mare ranks
There arc many traditions assigned to-
the color Of horses. although MS a matt
ter OF fact, It is Of very little conse-#
gquence. and no rule can be laid down as ].
to any special merit belonging to any,
For long time prejudice attached to a
white horse on account ofathe fabulous
tradition that they could not stand tho
cold, because white is q non-conducto
Of heat a hypothesis Mt once controversial
by the fact that polar bears, which habi-gs
tate the regions of eternal cold, are Il
white. The same prejudice existed Il
against black horses. on. the other ex-ass
treme. as black Is a conductor OF heat
q black horse would succumb to the ener-ss
waiting heat of summer. In this age OF
the world. It IS needless to say that the n
color OF horse has nothing to do WITH
his constitution. The powers Of endur-S@
ance may BIO Just as great In Fl q white
horse as in black, and In O black ns of Y
any other color. The diversity and Unit
versity Of color In horses Is q provision,s
of nature, and the cause OF 1t cannot be Il
explained by finite minds. Why there
should DO more bay horses than brown
moro browns than gray, more grays than
black. Is q sproblem that the human mind q
cannot solve No more than 1t explain
why the union OF a black sire with q 3
gray dam may result in a bay. chestnut
brown or black offspring, or a union Of II
two OF a color may produce the oppo-ssS
site color. s5sa
The prize list Of the ,Upperville Colt and I
Horse Show has been issued and shows
that over $4,000 Is tho amount offered
In premiums for contestants in the forty-s9
two classes to be judged. This showSwills u
be held on the Grafton Hall Farm, near
Upperville, on June l4th and 18th. The
association Is tho oldest in the country,
having been founded In 1856. Colonel n s.!
Fl. Dulany, who has been president since
1866, declined to serve longer and ID u
succeeded by Willie Fletcher. The other
officers Of the association are: First vice.
president. r. Hunter Dulany; second vices
president, Robert Neville: secretary and Il
treasurer. p S. Bochnauer; chief marshall
Dulany De Butts. The executive commit
tee Is composed Of Colonel r. II. Dulanys
George Frasier. A. B. Lawson, Joseph IA.
Gibson, Lewis Strother, w. 81. Cartbf,fi
willis Fletcher. r. Hunter Dulany, Joshua#
Fletcher, II. NJ. Luttroll. c.. NJ. Peach, HI
Roster Dulany and Robert Neville. Fiji
Paum,nk, the two-year- old bay colt, by
watercress, dam Braw Lass, was sold d
on Monday last, the Goth instant, by pub
lilo auction Mt Belmont Park, New York;
for $4,000, the purchaser being Fred Bur-sSs
lew. Draw Lass, the dam, now In the
stud OF j. B. Haggin was bred by Henry
stull, the artist, and sired by Eolus. dam,
Brown Beauty. The latter daughter OF ~
Reform or Imp. Dalnachardoc. was owned
by Mr.. stull and kept for some years at
the Ellerslie Stud, Charlottesville. Va,
where she was mated with, Eolus during
several successive seasons and produced
Bras Lass. Draw Lad and one or two
other fous. ssss
The Ainslie Carriage Company. Who
have recently moved to their new ana
spacious building, erected for them at Il
Nos. S. 10. and "a South Eighth Street, y
this city. report brisk spring trade.
In their well-lighted show rooms they
have grand display OF park wagons.ss
ladies' phaetons. two and four-passenger
traps, ladies' stanhopes and other pleas