The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-14
COLVILLE HAS STABLE
OF CLASSY TROTTERS
Local HOrSeman Owns One Of Best Training
Plants in New JerSey--NOteS OF Light
Horse Harness World.

American derby In July last. This was to
have been expected, for the parent assoc
Citations have always maintained that the
judges shall be the sole judges Of facts.
and the only ground on which the protest
could have been maintained would have
been that the judges were incompetent or
dishonest. The judges had a difficult Dues
ton to handle, so close were the seven or
eight horses punched behind Allen Winter.
the winner, but it is well to remember that
the officials are better placed to judge In A
case like this than either the drivers of the
contesting horses or the public.
just because j. Pierpont Morgan has dis
posed of his horses and pensioned his coach
man, daily paper readers are RECALLED with
headlines such as these: Passing of the
horse best evidenced by the action of j.
Pierpont Morgan While Mr.. Morgan has
perhaps substituted the automobile for the
horse. E.. II. Hartman has recently In
vested something like $25 600 In t%rotters, SO
that so far as the financial districts OF New
York are concerned, 1t looks like an even
break. In the meantime the demand for
high-class %trotters right in New York city
was never SO great as at the present time.
as was evidenced by the Old Glory sale.
In this city aud other sections of the coun-
try the same condition truly applies. The
demand for brood mares is unusually great
and indications are that 1909 will be the
greatest breeding year in the history of the
American trotter. THE passing of the
horse has so often been recorded by the
metropolitan daily papers that a head-line
situation.
Goes Into Meyer Brothcrs' stables.
Ike Hully, the local trainer, will move his
string into the stables owned by the Meyer
Brothers, at the head of the Speedway,
some day this week, and 1t Is needless to
say that the plant will assume a very diff
ferent aspect. with a wide-awake, clean,
energetic horseman at the helm.
At present Ike is wintering only nve
head, owing to a lack of room, but it is
believed he will fill his new quarters to
its capacity in a very short time. His pres
Hannah Lake, Lady c., 2:21A; Prince Aiar.
2:2SA; the gray pacing flly. Daisy p, ani
a roam pacing mare by Jay Bird, which Is
troubled with extreme speed.
won't Be Raced.
General Watts 90, 2:06%, will not be
raced next year, as was originally con-
tenplated by his owner, but instead will
head a select stud in kentucky Gen
a band of brood racers to the blue grass
early in the spring.
It is reported that Doc Bodenweiser has
refused two fattering offers for the black
speedway champion. Chief, and that it is
his present intention to drill him over y
big ring in the spring, where it Is he
lieved that he is capable of taking q rec
ord below 2:10.
The bay %gelding. Summit L. owned by
Henry Jaeger. of this city. who has been
troubled with an ailing foot most of the
past season. is again going sound, and
George Mcbride, who has charge of Mr..
JdegerS nOrSeS, looks Tor MIN to be an ex-
tremely fast horse next spring. There
seems to be no good reason why this pre-
diction should not prove true.
Among the good ~trotters that have landed
In Newark recently is the brown geldine
Prince *, 2:22K, owned by Harry Mckee
He Is II particularly upheadedsu rxctlxei F
dlVldual. with a good way of going, and Is
looked upon as q 2:20 trotter next season,
He took his present record the past season
Under the most adverse conditions, and
under more favorable circumstances would
undoubtedly have raced TO a lower record
Next spring he will be given all the adj
vantages afforded by flrst-class training.
ard raced at the pumpkin shows and at
the local matinees. Prince X is ~afnatiye
of this State, and was foaled at Glen
(sire of Hampton. 2:22A), a son of Prince
George (sire of Princess Clara, who took
a y~earling record of 2:26ha), dam Clip X,
by Antonio, 2;2SA.
One of the best looking ~trotting colts
in this city Is Henry Bower, 3,S43, in the
stable of Henry Jaeger. He Is a handsome
chestnut, we'll put up. and q disposition
to keep on the trot. He is being sciloole,l
by George Mcbride. n man with a Wild
range of experience with colts. and for
years the superintendent of East View
Farms. In his opinion Henry Bower is
the making of n nrst-c1ass horse. being
good gated, some speed. and q clear head.
He has had practically no work on thu
course this spring. He was bred by w.
I. Kneeper., Clearspring. Md. foaled in
1904 and got by Georgian, $500. n son OF
Mazatlin Qn facD, LILO. by Electioroer,
125. dam, Riddle, $50, nv Aberdeen. q, gran
dam, by Cassius NJ. Clay. ir., %.