The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-01
NEWS OF HORSES
AND H0RSEMEN.
Eonite. the First Two-Year-Old
Winner. Credited to Eon
in 1907.
ARRAsMITH's STRONG STABLE
Jamestown Jockey Clubs Meet
ing Begins Tomorrow.
Prince Royal Wins Ribbon.
ny W. j. CARTER c.nrond nocis.'o

ny w. j. CARTER t.1,rond Rock.'o
1lonite the bay geldng. by Eon. dam
Mermaid who won recently at Fort
Erie. doing FIVE furlonGs in 1902, is
tile FIRST two-year-old winner to be
credited to his sire this season The
bay gelding is a full brother to Eonic.
winner of the rich Burns Handicap
some seasons back in California. and
both were bred In the Ellerslie stud,
charlottesville Va. Eon, the sire of
F.onite was a great racehouse and
bred in the purple. being by Eolus.
from famous War Song, Eole's dam by
War Dance. but of his ability to beget
winners not much can be said, yet with
different opportunities than those &C
corded him at Ellerslie 1t seems more
than probable that the splendid look
ing big brown stallion would have
done better, especially had he been ia
vored with mares Representing other
strains of blood than those bred to him
during all these years, seeing that
lie is now twenty-one, and his stud
career began some fifteen years back.
Certain 1t is that Captain Hancock,
now dean of Virginia breeders. looked
upon Eole as the greatest racchorse
of his day and Eon was almost as
highly regarded by the sage of Ellers-
lie. but the failure of the latter TO
live up to expectations has been PROB
ably offset in n measure at least by
the success of Fatherless, as that Eng
Iish-bred son of Isonomy and Orphan
Agnes is now one of the most promi-
nent of Virginia sires, with, no less than
TWENTY-FIVE winners credited to him al
ready this season.
r. NJ Arrasmith. of Greensboro. N.
c.. has returned from a trip to Lexing-
ton. KY. and while there sold TO 5. I.
HARRISON e. Co., the elegant bay stall
lion Moko Pearl, by Moko, dam Little
Pearl, by Hinder Thomas, son of Hin
der Wilkes, 2:20. Moko Pearl was
purchased IArrasmith Mt the winter
sale of the kentucky Sales Company,
of Lexington. last February, and the
son of Moko was well patronzed in
the stud at Greensboro this season. 1t
was the intention to start him In some
races this fall, but a tempting offer
induced the sale and the bay stallion
has been shipped back to his native
heath in the Blue Grass" Moko Pearl
Will be shown at the Kentucky fairs
this season. at which he made prac-
tically clean sweep In his class
couple of years or so back. While in
Glen Beachy, Jr., the gray gelding
Postum, 2:30; Pilator, dam Fannie
Patthen, dam of Ave with records bet
ter than 2:20 by Mabrino Patchen, and
from HARRISON & Evans, the fast green
trotter Alfred Price. The latter is a
bay geldmg, four years old, and re-
Gently finished third in race, the
time of the heat being 2:15. Arrasmith
is race secretary of the Central Caro-
Ir,;, ,Eo.t 81 bnr
and under his experienced hand that
department. has greatly increased in
Importance. He has some ten or twelve
trottars and PAGERS now in his stable.
and they are all doing well. He has
stake enga gements in the Virginia and
North Carolina circuit, and Will prob
ably make the. first start OF the season
at Radford, Va. and then go right on
down the line to Charlotte. n. c.
The Richmond trotter. lack. owned
at Montezeuma Farm, and being cam
paigned this season by Samuel Earring,
has won number of races and been
placed in others this season over the
llalf-mile tracks, and reduced his rec
ord from 2:l7 ga to 2:l6 l2. Jack is
seven years old and a son of Sidney
Prince, 2:2l Ia, from the great brood
mare Thrift. dam of lack and two 9th
ers, by Meander. the sire OF that great
racehorse Pamlico, 2:10. Another trot-
ter that has done we'll for Earring this
season is the. California bred horse Alto
Down the bay. gel9tng. 8, by Iran Alto.
dam Elsie Downs, by Doodle At Utica,
n. V. Alto Down won siN-heat race
and trotted to a new record of 2:19 Ia.
Both lack and Alto Down have been
driven in all of their races by Earring,
who also has other bread winners in
his stable.
The fan meeting of the Jamestown
Jockey Club near Pine Beach Va.
begins tomorrow, the I'd instant, and
is scheduled to last thirty days, with
probably further continuance if JUS
tilted by conditions. There will be six
races daily and no purse uuSer $500
Sheridan Clark, well known in Chi
cago racing circles, is the secretary
Hon. w, A, Young, of Norfolk, former
Congressman from the Second Virginia
District, is the moving spirit in The
jamestown Jockey Club.
The meeting Will be conducted unde
American Turf Association rules, as
license could not be obtained from TIL
Jockey Club of New York, the gov
erning body in the East the ruin;
being that Virginia has no racing law
similar to those in New York, From
this the inference is plain that horse
men may race at jamestown and no
fear molestation later on Wester
tracks, whatever may be their stand
ing under the jurisdiction of the Jock
ey Club, as the outlaw rule has bee
abolished in the West save for per
sons ruled off for fraud.
Prince Royal son of A. Randolp
Howards brilliant high-actng harnes
T. u l. M,