The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-09

She won both the M. and M. at De-
troit and the $4,000 stake at Kalama-
zoo, but these were the only five-figure
races that she placed to her credit.
The previous year, 1908, Spanish
Queen had performed a precisely sim
liar feat, achieving a double at Detroit
and "Kazoo;" but it was six weeks
more ere another $4,000 event came
to her at Syracuse, N. Y. Still later
she captured another at Columbus. O..
making four for her that season. Her
complete gross winnings for the year
were $30,613, this being the largest
amount that a trotting race mare has
ever won in one campaign in regular
| stake and purse events.
1t is up to" Dude Archdale to
eclipse this record, and from the pres
ent outlook she Is bound to do it. She
has now started in four races, winning
them all, with the loss of but one heat
Her gross earnings to date are pre-
cisely $16,00G-the sum which her own
err Frank G. Jones of Memphis. is
believed to have paid for her on the
eve of the first of her races. Among
her future engagements are one of
$4,000 this week at Cleveland, one of
$4,000 the next at Buffalo, one of
$4,000 the next at New York. one of
$4,000 the next at Readville. one of
$4,000 the next at Hartford, one of
$4,000 the next at Syracuse, one of
$4,000 the next at Columbus and an
other of $4,000 the next at the same
place, while at Lexington, where her
campaign is due to wind I'D, she will
have before her a choice of the 81. 900
Pennsylvania and two other races, one
of which is worth $4,000 and one $4,000
during the ten days of the meeting.
This is 100000 worth Of engage
ments, first money in which will
amount to some $4,000 If the daugh-
ter of Archdale and Dude Ednont
(2:13h) wins only half this sum 1t
will bring her total up to $91, 900, or a
trtfie more than that won by Spanish
Queen. But it is apparent that pro-
vided only she stays sound and keeps
her form, she ought 70 win far more
than half of 1t, as 1t is now thoroughly
well demonstrated that in class she
decidedly excels nearly all her pro-
spective competitors.
VIII she stay sound and keep good?
There is every reason to think that
she will continue to throughout the
season. For one thing, she is an ex-
cellent "doer." being of an eouable
temperament and wasting none of her
vitality in fretting or obstreperous
conduct, on or off the turf. For anoth-
er, she Is an exceptionally sound mare
now, and goes so smoothly, wearing
few boots, hitting the ground lightly
and consuming modicum of force
to accomplish a given task as to pro-
claim her Of the wear-and- tear vari- |
ETY.. For still another, she is in the |
hands of Mr.. Geers, the master horse
man of the trotting turf, who has SOW |
ed the problem of getting horse fit !
early and keeping 1t so late oftener |
than any other horseman. And, lastly |
Dude bids fair to win her races with |
such ease-witness the M. and M. |
which was a mere play spell for her
that she should encounter few of those
exhausting struggles which Spanish
Queen and Billy Buch were obliged to
live through.
Billy Buch, in his great year. won
$33, 800 in stake and purse money, that
being the record sum for trotting
race horse IN single campaign in
which regular events only are counted
and specials left out Of yhe reckoning.
1t will thus be seen that If the Jones
mare had any sort OF lack, she will
in all probability, retire this fall with
more money won than even Billy Buch
corraled. This, however, will merely
be double feather in the cap of Mr.. |
Geers. for 1t was he who campaigned |
the redoubtable Billy.
We win know still more about |
Dude Archdale within the next three
days, for on Wednesday OF this week
at Cleveland she will meet several of |
the better class of stake horses which |
she has not previously been asked to-
beat, these including the sensational |
4-year-old stallion Billy Burke (2:06&). |
the fast gelding Hailworthy (2:07A) |
and the game and speedy Major |
Strong (2:07A). II she can hold them
safe, as she has her fields In the past,
we may as well expect to see her name