The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-26
news OF HORSES
AND. HORSEME|N.
Lamp Girl, Fastest Nirgiilia-Brcd
Trottcr, in Far Off Copenhagen.
Becomes Famous There.
MAI. JoHNsT0N's HIGH HONORs
This Noted E1orseman Is a Nir-
ginian 70 the Manner
Borll.

Y ny WI. CARTER t.BROAD ROCK.
From far distant Copenhagen. Den
mark, Julius Pajoncek, the American
q trainer. who has been located there
4 for some years. writes that the great
est young trotter ever seen in that
country lis tile three ycar-old lilly by
( The Tramp. out Of Lamp Girl. 200,
by Walker Morrill,; second dam BERTHE,
dam Of Gold Bur. 2:og 81, by Signet
2.261-i. BY the record Lamp Girl is
\ the fastest OF Nirginia-hred trotters
while size could also show lightning
allstrange for her to produce young
performer of more than ordinary pre-
tensions by such stallion as The
Tramp, who is credited Will, string a
worlds champion like Tramp Fast,
sc:1o H., at two ycars old. This flly
I'd Is now known as Sweet Marie at
Copenhagen. and was purchased al
Lexington, Ky. in the fall of 1901, by
Faioncek. along with her dam. and
taken to Denmark by him. Sweet
Mario was sold by Pajoncek tn the
Maurizzen Brothers. but he still owns
Lamp Girl. and regards her as the
most valuable brood mare In that coun-
try, although during recent years he
y has taken over some pretty well-bred
/ material. That Lamp Girl is showing
up we'll as a producer In Denmark is
pleasing to Virginia breeders, as tho
daughter of Walker Morrill, was the
L first trotter bred in this state to enter
the 2:10 list. while dam Berthe, also a
Virginia bred mare. gained further
distinction by producing Gold Bur. the
second member of that select coteric
of performers credited to the Old Do.
minion.
Both Lamp Girl and Gold Bur were
bred by the SAME man. and that was
Nv. g. West, n farmer, of Onancock.
which is the county seat of Acconac,
s on the Eastern Shore OF Virginia, where
Z a great deal of attention is paid to
breeding and developing the light
harness horse for speed than in any
other section of the State. The racing
careers of the mare and gelding began
alike on the half-inile tracks of Vir.
ginia and Maryland, from which they
graduated into Grand Circuit company
Lamp Girl was rather small mare
with light bone and double gated, so
that at the commencement this daugh-
ter of Walker Morrill, was not looked
upon as the making of o:16 trotter
wiz pretentions to real class, but wifi,
ioH Bur, who was sired by Bursar
2:f I'D. son of Stranger and the great
brood mare, Brooch. by Jay Gould, and
perhaps the stoutest and best bred
trotting sire of his day in Virginia.
sarly surroundings were far more
favorable than those enjoyed by his
plain looking half-sister. because the
latter had already shown sensational
flights of speed when the son Of Bur
sar being broken to harness. the
chestnut gelding, who was highly
formed and very stylish in appearance.
with trotting action that betnkened q
bright future, was an object of in
terest certainly in Il local way Lamp
(. Girl was foaled in 1893 and trotted to
her record in sensational race at
: Lexington. KY, in 1900, when the Vir-
ginia-bred mare won the first and sec
ond heats. was second in both the
second and fourth, which went to
Georgeanna. who was laid up earlier
in the conquest, and then the latter
took the fifth heat and stood for sec
Is pnd money iii the summary.
Gold Bur was foaled IN 1896, ana
trotted to Il record of 2:13 ii in 1902,
j afterw which he was matineed and driven
+ and driven OH the speedway alternately
until 1907, when the comedy chestnut
gelding created a surprise by entering
~ isl ~ Viz NEW s1OTk state
q Fair meeting t Syracuse in September.
Gold Bur was then eleven years old.
and during Grc ,semson of 1905 he may
still further -redute his record
Major p. 2. Johnston, who is a Nir-
ginian TO the manner born" but for
many years past a resident of Lex.
s5inston, n.y., where lie has long beer
prominent as a breeder and in lega
circles, too, being formerly Judge Of
the Circuit Court. has recently beer
appointed Acknowledgement OF tho
IA state: certainly high tribute to Major
Z .1Ohnston's abilities. Referring tt
b Major Iollnston's appointment the Ken
FL lucky Stock Farm says.
The appointment Of Major p. p
81 Johnston AZ Adjutant- General by til,
ESj Governor of Kentucky is a mertted tri
butte to n gentleman who stands do
seryedlY high not only in the rcgar,
of the people OF this Commonwealth
s8 but of the entire. South. He was a Con
federats soldier. and 1t can truthful,
Ssbe said that no man in that servic
s8 stroYe harder during during the fou
wears of the Civil War 10 meet all tn
requirements of his position than Majo
Johnston. lie WAS prominently idan
titled with Pelham's Battery. and afte
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