The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-23
By l.. d. SALE.

Every horse Win Uotung lineage
owned in the District Of Columbia with
four good legs and some whose under
pinning is a trine shaky were out dur
ire fair DAYS of the past week taking
their jogging work on the Potomac Drive
way.
The horse attracting special attention
was =. J. O'Keefe's handsome black
seiding. by a son OF Baron Wilkes, e:lS
cam 10y Joe Patchen. 2:0l4 The geldlng
is one Of the handsomest horses owned
in Washington lie is upheaded has a
bold way OF going. and is said to pos
sess 20 speed With his excellent breed
Ing he has a right 20 trot to a low mark.
Alonzo Corbin announces that he viii
open his training stable at st. Asaph
February 1. which is now near al hand.
10 begin with. he viii have for training
purposes Country Boy: Sweetheart 2:l7i;
Miss Hobs0n, 2I14; a green fouT-year-
od geiding by Kushan. all owned by +.
F. Han. a three-y ear-od illy by Kushan,
owned 10y Frank Grove; the fOur-year-
Cd Lady Kushan, owned by Fred Potts;
the Morris fcur-year-old Bngara- Krem-
dn hlIy and Cora Virgins. owned by
Philip J. Steubener. M Corbin also ex-
rects to have IN his stable several horses
intended for the Speedway and will rent
about forty stalls.
The wel-knoWn local horsemaR. j. r.
Jones. mas for some time been playing I'm
hard luck Last fell he placed his hand
some kushan FLY in the hands of DR. J.
y. SansbUry, OF ForestvlHe. for the pur-
pose Of having her broken TO harness
She vas. soon after being placed in the
doctors hands. seized with dstemper and
came near dying. A short time since the
hlly was seized with a cold which prom
issd 10 develop into pneumonia. She is
now on the road 10 recovery and Will
soon be placed in the trainers hands
Last week Mr. Jones pacing gelding
Monteuk. 2:i6 II, by Brown Hal. 2.le fell
while playing. broke leg. and had 10 be
destroyed. MOntaVk W8s a brown geld
ing, fun Is hands. and was bred by
George NJ Garth, OF Alabama. few
years since he passed 10 Patrick Grady
Of Philadelphia. at the treputed price OF
$4,000
While en route he was injured. and
Grady sued the railroad company for
si5,010 and finally compromised for S1 .0O
About three years ago Charles McDer-
mott purchased him for Speedway pur-
poses for the reputed prise Of s.. 100 Dur
lng the past year Mr.. McDermott pre-
scented him 10 Mr.. Jones The latter was
saving the geldins up for matinee racing
Now he has one less horse 10 feed at the
high price Of grain ard hay
J, c. Mott has been unusually active Of
late as regards deals in horsehesh tie
last week purchased the pacing eelding
Jubianta. 2:151<. from r. T. Hail. and
has put the geding on the trot In addi-
uon. he has sold Frank c. Combs flly.
Lady Cozine, 70 Andy Gleason for a good
long price Mr.. Combs was in town a
few days since from his LeOnardtown
home and made Il visit to point below
Fredericksburg where ne inspected a
stallion BY Binsen that horsemeR here
Hhouts who have seen him speak highly
o..
Mr Combs has been casting about for
some time 10 md a stallion to take the
place Of the dead Don Cozine. 2:lO f. T.
Hall, accompanied by Alonzo Corbin.
made a hasty trip a short time since TO
inspect The son OF Bingen Mr. Hall
round the price trife higher than he
felt warranted to pay. He already owns
a grandson OF Bingen i'm Alto Dewey. by
Admiral DtWey. 2.4z
" E. Miller. Of South Washington. has
exchanged Charley Hal z:o5ia. and a
four-year-old SeldiHg by Kushau with f.
+. Hall for the green Austral stallion
Axis. The latter is "A very promising
fonr-year-oid, which showed during the
past racing season that he was capable
of taking 4 fast record when KEYED M
for the occasion. He was bred AT the
celebrated stony Ford stock Farm. oyer
which the multi-millionaire Howard Ford
presides, and which was once the prop
erty OF the late Charles Bachman. It
was a Stony Ford that Electioneer first
saw the light and where MS dam, Green
Mountain Maid. lies buried. At Stony
Ford the great brood mare sire Kentuckv
Prince for many years stood for service.
and Nh Bachman owned more of the
blood Of the great brood mare sire Amer.
lean Star. Il. than any other breeder ir
the United States
Had Mr.. Bachman not had pas
sion for gambling in stocks he would
have died very wealthy man. As il
turned out. he lost all by an unIuckv
turn in the market. and died pensioner
on the farm on which he had entertained
At one time or another some Of the most
prominent men in the United states and
Europe,
On one occasion. while on the eve OF
bankruptcy. the late Senator Leland
Stanford, Of California. dropped in upon
him. and before he departed the next
day the Senator handed him check for
S900m as payment for horses that he had
decided to take back with him to Menlo
Park. whore the Palo Alto breeding plant
vas located. Among the horses selected
vas EleCtioneer, 20. then unknown 10
fame. the sum paid for him, 1880. being
the largest sum paid I'D to that time for
a. untried sire and for i horse that had
NJ record. The check saved Mr. Bach
man from bankruptcy az that time, and
20 grateful was ne TO the eminent Cali
fornian that he threw in three FLIES that
now figure prominently in the great
broOd-mare list.
1t is understood that Mr. Miller will
give Axis brief season in the stud and
then race him TO a record Axis traces
to Electioneer on his sire's side. being
by Austral. son OF Bowbells 2:IS%.
which in turn is a son OF Electioneer and