The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-01
NEWS OF HORSES
AND HORSEMEN.
Eonite, the First T'wo-Year-Old
Winner, Credited to Eon
in 1907.
ARRAsMITH's STRONG STABLE
Jamestown Jockey Clubs Meet
ing Begins Tomorrow.
Prince Royal Wins Ribbon.
ny ". j. CARTIER t.I,rond nocl,."l

ny w. j. CARTER t"Isrond Rock.")
Ionite, the bay gelding. by Eon. dam
Mermaid. who won recently at Fort
Erie. doing five furlonEs in 1902, is
the nrst two-y ear-old winner to be
credited to his sire this season. The
bay gelding is full brother to Eontc
winner of the rich Burns Handicap
some seasons back in California, and
both were bred In the Ellersie Stud,
charlottesville. Va. Eon. the sire of
F.onitc. was great racehouse and
bred in the purple, being by Eolus,
from famous War Song, 2ole's dam, by
War Dance, but of his ability to beget
winners not much can be said, yet with
different opportunities than those ac-
corded him at Eilerslie it 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 racehorse
of his day and Eon was almost as
highly regarded by the sage of Ellers-
lie but the failure of the latter 60
live up to expectations has been prop
ably offset in a measure at least by
the success of Fatherless, as that Eng
lisb-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 M. Arrasmth, of Greensboro, n.
c.. has returned from a trip to LeXing-
ton, KY. and while there sold to 5. Il.
HARRISON & Co.. the elegant bay stall
lion Moko Pearl, by Moko, dam Little
Pearl, by Hinder Thomas. son of Hin
der Wilkes. $50 Moko Pearl was
purchased Arrasmith ut 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 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 a
couple of years or SO back While in
Kentucky Arrasmith purchased of
Glen Beachy, Jr., the gray geldtng
Possum, 2:30: Pilator, dam Fannie
Patthen, dam of five with records bet
ter than 9: 30. by Mabrino Patchen. and
from HARRISON & Evans, the fast green
trotter Alfred Price. The latter is q
hay gelding, four years old, and re-
Gently finished third In race, tn,
time Of the heat being 2:15. Arrasmitt
is race secretary of the Central Caro-
lima Fair Association. of Greensboro
and under his experienced hand tina
department. has greatly increased ir
Importance He has some ten or twelve
trotters and PAGERS now in his sta BILE
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
Mt Montezeuma Farm and being cam
paigned this season by Samuel Earring
has won a number of races and been
placed in others this season over the
half-mile tracks. and reduced his rec
ord from 2:l7 ga to 2:l6 1-2 lack is
seven years old and a son of Sidney
Prince, 2:21 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. gel&.ng. 8. by Iran Alto
dam Elsie Downs, by Doodle At Utica
n. Y. Alto Down won a siN-heat race
and trotted to a new record of 2:l9 Ia
Both lack and Alto Down have beer
driven in all of their races by Earring
who also has other w IN
his stable.
The fan meeting of the jamestown
Jockey Club, near Pine Beach, Va
begins tomorrow, the I'd instant, an,
is scheduled to last thirty days, Wit
probably a further continuance if Jus
titled by conditions, There will be 81.
races daily and no purse under $4OC
Sheridan Clark, We'll known in Chi
cago racing circles. is the secretary
Hon. w. A, Young, of Norfolk, forlne
congressman from the Second Vrgini
District, is the moving spirit In tn
Jamestown Jockey Club.
The meeting will be conducted undo
American Turf Association rules, as
license could not be obtained from II
Jockey Club of New York, the go,
erning body in the East, the rulin
being that Virginia has no racing Law
similar to those in New York Fro
this the inference Is plain that hors
men may race AT Jamestown and M
fear moIestation later on Westei
tracks, Whatever may be their stan
Ing under the jurisdiction of the Joel
ey Club, as the outlaw rule has be,
abolished in the West save for pc
sons ruled off for fraud.
Prince Royal, son of A. Randoll
Howard's brilliant high acting harne
horse Royal Regent, dam Forest Mai
2;24, by Jay Hawker, was the bl
ribbon winner in the class for lig
harness stations at stanton, Roy