The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-13
NE us Of HORSES
AND H0n5ENE:N
Pimcine and Prince Edward Are
Headed for the 2:Io List,
Trotting.
BOTH ARE VIRGINIA BRED
Big Stable of Runners Being
Wintered by William Garth.
Other Horse News and Gossip.

at least two virginia-bred horses are
credited with being factors OF 2:f0 capa-
city in 1907. and they arc Princine. 2:i5 IL,
the bay mare BY Sidney Prince. 2:2l IL.
dam Miss Stakes. by Great Stakes. 2:2o.
product OF the Floyd Stock Farm,
Bridgetown; and Prince Edward. 2:i4 IL,
the dlmlnutive black geldIng. by Prince
Hosarth, 2:26 Ii dam Dimple. by Won
Brock. son Of Mainbr!no Druid. Seeing
that Princie was sired by successful
ron of Sidney, the stallion that early
attained fame as a sire of precocious
youngsters. dam marc that traces right
back to old Sophie, the grand dam OF
Nancy Hanks. 2:o., the daughter of Sid
ney Prince, was regarded as an object
OF interest and care by her breeders from
the day she WAS foRled. this being amply
Justified by the phenomenal speed she
showed as a yearling, and then. too, she
has trained on. Princine made a record
of 2:26 Ia in 1906. and Just before her first
rnce Of the past season. at Norfolk.
Va, last May. passed from F. f. Not
tinGam, of Eastville. Va. to ]. A. Crab
tree, Of Boston. who. with his sis
ter, the famous actress, Lotta
owns the sensational trotter, Nut
boy. 2:6T la a former Richmond, Va.
horse. For the Crabtrees Princine won
five straight races, and made n new rec
ord OF 2:I5 Ia and then McHenry took
the stable In hand. For the latter. whose
return to the trotters was marked by
brilliant efforts Princine worked easy
halves In Ice. and quarter in twenty
nine seconds. as related by the great
relnsman himself, after which upon his
advice X was decided to keep her over
for the big events of 1907.
With Prince Edward, however early
surroundings were not OF the pretentious
sort, neither were his blood lines but
the trotting instinct was there all the
same The black pony was bred by
darby in the Northern Neck of Virginia,
from whom he passed In settlement of n
debt of $3.50 and that of long standing,
too. mark You. to j. e. Blakemore. OF
Millenbeck, Va. who began at once to
care for the little poverty stricken colt.
and with surprising results. too, as shown
by later developments. In the hands of
Blakemore Prince Edward made his first
essay In public In 1902, and won the two
year-old class, trotting half-mile heats,
in 1:A and 1:141-4. at the fair and race
meeting of the Southside Fair and Agrtcul-
tural Association of Mathews. va. When
Prince Edward was four years old Blake
more thought him good enough to take
away from homo to tho races, and the
debut Of the small black gelding at the
Electric Park spring meeting of 1904 at
Baltimore, was one of tho surprises of
the year.
That Prince Edward was pretty useful
campaigner that year Is shown by his
having started in twelve races, and be-
ing placed eight times. and closing the
season with a record of 2:191-4, while In
1905, he was placed couple Of times
In four starts. and kept in his class.
just how good Prince Edward was during
the past season is probably best known
to his owner. DIR. Iilmer, of Bingham-
ton. N. Y. but seeing that he took second
money in the Empire State Purse. IS, 600, at
Syracuse, N. Y, finishing second In the
second heat In 200 S-4 and coming back
a good third in the next heat In the
same time. evidenced plenty OF speed.
William Garth whose farm is In the
midst of the rugged and beautiful hills OF
Albemarle county, near Charlottesville,
Is winterng big string Of thoroughbreds
most of them being performers on the
nat, though q portion of tho stable is
made up of steepleohasers. among the lat
ter division being that grand old horse
Good and Plenty, by Rosington, dam Fa-
mine owned by Thomas Hitchcock. Jr.
Garth who was born In Albe-
mario, is about the most sue
cessful Virginlan that has ever es-
saved to perform tho trainers art, and
really to do him Justice the cunning of
his fine hand Is apart from the ordinary,
ms witness by his career Of recent
years. Now that he ranks among tho
most successful handlers of thoroughbreds
In the country, OF course, Garth has all
the horses he can handle, and the big
Virginian, who, by the way, is quite an
athlete. is a very busy man looking after
his charges. Garth has signed to train
In 1907 for Roy Rainey, the Cleveland
millionaire, and for David Danlop, who
inherited a fortune from his father, tho
late David Dunlop, a big tobacconist of
Petersburg. Va So far Mr.. Dunlop owns
only few raceh-orses. among, them be-
ing Pater and Orphan Lad. both sons of
Fatherless, but others will he purchased, I
as Garth has Instructions to lay out at |
least 100000, and more, too, ii neces-
sary The retirement OF Paul +, Rainey,
the brother Of Roy Rainey, turns hia