The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-02
news OF HORSES
AND HORSENEN.
Come Promising I'rotters and
PAGERS in the Tlickson Stable
at Lyilcllbnrg.
GET or A MARE, or / WIN, BAH
Russell, son of Eol,ls, Sires Win
ners Of Over 100000 i'll
nn 81. D. cAnrhn t..l,rond b l.ocl.,,l.

y III w. J.s('AEtitsit t"lSrOffuf HOCKEY. 81
NJ. e. dickson. Lynrhburg. Va, is
whitening his trottcrs there, and re-
ports that they are doing nicely. He
+ has six head. and they tire uuartered
in IA new barn, GnX3D. with hot and cold
water, electric lights and other con
veniences throughout the building.
During the coming season. us for some
years past, Mr. Hirkson's horses will
be trained and drivenby himself, which
furnishes diversion and has brought
hin4renewcd health. Two of the most
promising young things in the stable
are d black iilly, 2. by Genteel H.,
2:i1is, dam Manda owens, and II bay
EeldinE. 3, full brother to this filly.
Genieel II. was purchased q yearling in
Kentucky BY young HiclSson, who de-
veloped the handsome brown son of
Gambetta wilkes and Lena, by Mann
brino Star,le, and after racing the
stallion with success u couple of sea-
sons, sold him for n round price to A..
III. Miller, of Buffalo. Genteel III. was
Il grand circuit winner in 1907, and
trotted to his record of 2:11h, while
in several instances he finished Sec
ond in heats trotted we'll under. 2:10.
Generally conceded TO be one of the
best informed and ablcst authorities
alive on pedigrees and blood lines of
the thoroughbred horse is Major Fox
hall. a. Daingerfcld. who directs the
famous Cnstloton Stud, at Lexington,
Ky. II is also a pleasure to note that
this polished Virginia gentleman Is
DESTROYS of seeing Il refining influ-
ence exercised In language pertaining
to the turf by tie adjustment of
slang phrases, as evidenced by the
following interesting contribution ap-
pearing in u recent issue of The Thor
oughbred Record:
Are we not debasing and vulgarizing
the breeding and racing of thorough
breds and doing violence to the Eng
lisli language when we recognize the
faddists who speak of the GET of a
MARE or the expression. Il WIN
for the fait accompli ! have won,
Il stand TO win" may be we'll enough
before the race. though slightly slangy,
a cant or flash phrase and of sucIi
the lamented DR. Oliver Wendell
Holmes has well said, as n general
proposition, Cant or flash phrases arc
the blank checks OF intellectual bank
: ruptcy: YOU may fill them out with
what idea you like, for there arc no
funds in the treasury on which they
are drawn
But II win" orr LOSE in the past
ense is a trivial misdemeanor against
the English language when compared
with the expression, THE GET OF
MARE This is n high crime against
all peoples who use that language as
their wade mecum. 1t is an offens,
for which no child old enough to hav,
read the "begat" chapters in the Ok
Testament Scriptures can frame tn
slightest excuse.
Language is the handmade o
thought. and should not be allowed I
be debauched by the unthinking.
The foal is the PRODUCE of hi
dam. the GET of his sire.
The excuse for the use of the wor
GET when applied to the PRODUCE
of mare by Americans who affec
ii, is that 1t is fad direct from Eng
land. and that their English shoul
e no be criticised by Americans.
TO this i rely that the language
s as sacred a right and trust of all ma
tions using 1t as their wade, mecum a
OF the Inhabitants of the British Isle:
i especially deprecate the use of out
landisf yulgarisms in the journal
treating of breeding and racing tho,
oughhred horses. They have enoug
) sins to answer for without addn
.verbicide." Some metropolitan jout
nails seize upon English hobbies an
ride them under heavier imposts tina
they.eyer carried i'll the land of the
y birth.
Cannot the legitimate turf jollrna
and reputable breeders do somethin
s to stem tn tides corruption and |,
us be KNOWN as giish-speakin
Americans
Let all breeders of thoroughbred an
mails determine that no young anim
which first sees the light on the
premises shall be the GET of its DAl
Such movement will have IL
= hearty endorsement, win" or close
of FOXHAIL4 A. DAINGERFIELD.
Thomas Burns. Of the law firm
Burns & Burns. Watertown, N. V, h,
sustained quite a loss in the death, d,
to an attack of collie OF the bay ma
Nelly D., 2:lsA, by Toodlcs. Tr., o620
dam Young Nelly Woods, by For
ney, thoroughbred son Of Curles, |
Revenue. second dam Nelly Moods, !
Kossuth, the pioneer trottinE sire
Virginia, by Long Island Black Haw
# longer pronounced, and later she WI
Hambletonian.
Nelly y. was foaled in $50 and br
by the late Joseph b. Davis, of Ric
mond. Va. Trained and driven by j
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