The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-10

Show. and one likely to add much to
the attractiveness OF the ring, Or at
most other affairs OF the sort, for that
matter, is the bay gelding Fremont.
owned and driven on the road for
couple of seasons past by Charles A.
Brown, of this city or the right size
for road use. being about 10 1-2 hands
in height and Weighing around 1000
pounds, this geldng has good style,
along with much duality and finish,
while above most things to be priced
He Is n Kentucky product, having been
bred by Warren G. Graves. of George
town, from whose farm the bay gelding
was shipped direct to Virginia.
He was then known as Little Jim,
and later started in few races as
Jim c.. but Is now registered as FIRE.
mont, a name more BETTING this richly
bred son Of Woodward. 2:l9. and
Princess Wickliffe. by Wickliffe the
son of George Wilkes. His second dam
was Tennie c., daughter OF Robert
McGregor, 2:17 IA. one of the hand
soonest trotting sires yet seen, and who
got Cresceus, 2:02 Ia, the stallion king
that has just been sold to the Russians
for $4,000. Fremont is inbred to both
George Wilkes and Robert McGregor,
WITH Tie SOlucn DlOOu OIL .tlIIlOul,
as foundation, and had he been kept
in training there is little reason to
doubt that he would have taken a fast
record, as he showed plenty of speed
and went on square trot.
Fatherless. the English bred son of
1sonomy and orphan Agness, who rules
as premier at the far-famed Ellerslie
Stud ut Charlottesville. Va, stands well
up among the leading stations of 1908.
as no less than fifteen of his sons and
daughters have been returned winners
of nearly $4,000. Included among
these are the four two-year-olds, Alice,
Orphan Boy, Blameless and Chipmunk,
while the other winners from the loins
OF the brown stallion are Aiken. Billie
Hibbs, Canada, Giles. Godfather Han
cock, Marster, No Father, Red River.
Workman and Workmaid. The steeple-
chaser 7. S. Martin, is also showing
up we'll in his work. and II he Keeps
right should prove good winner again.
as last season he won about $4,000 and
showed real class.
Imp. Hawkswick. by ST. Simon. dam
Plaisanterie, by Wellingtonia, in the
Blue Ridge Stud of Henry T. Oxnard,
Rectortown, Va. has to his credit a
quartet of winning two-year- Odds, all
OF which were bred by himself OF
these the largest winner is Hawkwing,
whose dam is Daisy W., by Halma.
HawkwinG won the Dinner Stakes the
juvenile classic of the Washington
Jockey Club spring meeting.
The other two-year-old winners
credited to Mr.. Oxnards good stallion
are Cheek, cut of Dimplc by Mirthful;
Disagreement. out of Disagreement, by
Tyrant. and Roulon, out of Noura, an
imported daughter of Hagioscope
st. Simon is considered the great
/ est bargain in a race-horse ever pur-
chased. For this famous English thor
oughb;ed the Duke of Portland paid
1900 guineas when a two-year- old and
lit is estimated that the dead son Of
Galopin lnd ST. Angela earned in stud
fees alone over f4OO.
One of the most promising steeple-
chasers that started at the Baltimore
meeting was Sir Wooster, the chest
nut, gelding, 4, by Arlington, dam
Lady Wooster. who was returned a
winner for his owner and breeder, Col
| onel Robert Neville Of the Pelham