The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-05-12
NEWS OF HORSES
And H0RSEMEN
BY "Broad Rock


Patrons OF outdoor sport. both In
local circles and other sections OF the
State. are looking forward with a lot
OF pleasure TO the annual spring meet
ing and horse show OF the Virginia
Racing and Horse Show Association.
10 come off on Saturday, the 18th, and
Monday. the 10th Of this month. The
horse show feature includes some
eight or ten classes daily, with fields
made up Of some of the best high
steppers, rOadsters and jumpers seen
out in recent years. Charles Z. Whit
lock, who has collected some Of the
cleVereSt rOadSterS owned in Rich
mOnd, has made several entries, while
w. 5. Forbes. L. a. Saunders and 9TH
er well known local owners will also
be represented. The classes for hunt
crs and jumpers filed with some of
the best horses TO he seen on the Nir-
ginia horse show circuit this season.
In the free-for-all jump sVch horses
appear in the catalogue as Sunday
Morning and King Edward. champion
ship winners at Madison Square Gar
den. Atlantic City, Chicago and Bryn
Mawr; kegycOmer and Sans-A-Tout.
The stables Of w. w. Osborne, James
Andrews and other well known own
ers of hunters. jumpers and fancy sad
die horses Will contest for the ribbons
i'm those classes.
While the horse show features are
first on the program. the.racing prom
iseS TO furnish eXhilarating sport. as a
greater number of horses in general
more of real class, will be seen here
than during previous seasons. Among
the stables to be represented are those
Of David Dunlop. r. NJ. Taylor, II. O.
Lyme, J. w. NJ. Green and others from
distance. while the local contingent
Includes those of w. G. Saunders, J.
r Temple. w. NJ. Parrish, Jr, Alvin
and Louis Cartwright, W. w. Hutch
insOn and George b. Bull. Ben Lala,
Essex and other well known chasers
will take part in the cross country
events, while the fat races will fur
nish good sized fields Of horses that
have been shipped from the various
meetings in the South and other
points.
The early closing events Of the Vir-
ginia State Fair Associations meet
ing. at Richmond, during the week
of October 3d-Sth, have been an
nounced, and include purses Of $1,000
each for the 2:19 and 1927 classes,
trotting, and the 2:15 and 2:24l
classes. pacing, while one Of $500 is
offered for three-year- trotters and
under. 1t is expected that each of
these classes will be literally patron
lied by breeders, owners and train
ecs in different States. as in other
years. Among other Virginia horses !
the 2:1s trot are William X, 2:19A |
by Baron Dillon, Pip; Eblight |
2:1sL, by Eblis. Jr; Judge Palmer, |
2:1SA. by Bursaro, and probably
three or four more. with a good con-
tiRgent from other States. The 1927
trot also promises to attract a nice |
list on entries. as during past years
the slower classes for trotters have
furnished the largest fields of the
meeting. Both the 2:15 and S:24
classes. pacing. are likely to prove at
tractive to horsemen and both events
will furnish interesting contests
Doubtless the bay colt, Red Prodi-
gal. by Prodigal, 2:15, will be entered
in the three-year-old trot by Walton
Farm, or Falls Mills, Va. where this
younger brother of Vito, 8, 2:12%, is
owned. Red PFrodigal was handled
las1 season in his two-year-old form
and could then trot around 2:25 over
the half-E1ile tracks of Virginia and
the Carolinas. Other entries to this
class for Juvenile trotters will prob
ably include Earlwood, bay colt. g.
by Alliewood, 2:es Il, owned by II. A.
Brehm, of Baltimore. The open
purses to be offered by Virginias big
State Fair will likely be Of the uni
form value OF $500 each and two
classes will be each days card.
The races at last years Virginia State
air were lnc most SUCCESSFUL IN It's
history, rs both the harness horses
and runners were we'll looked after
and conflict avoided by an equitable
division Of money offered and evident
desire of the management TO provide
liberal conditions; in fact, each after
noon many Of those practically inter
csted in the harness races, which were
first on the program, viewed the run
ners and steeplechaSerS and the con-
tests furnished exhilartinE sport.
william II. Richardson. for many
years past identified with the light
harness horse interests of Baltimore.
which hundreds of fast trotters and
PAGERS have passed through his hands.
is still actively engaged. He has been
located at Norfolk for year or more
past, and at his stables on Union
Street, the sale district for all classes
Of horses and mules in that city, there
is usually a lot OF speed on tap. Re
cent sales from the Union Street sta
BILE include Billy G., 2:Osk Hannis,
Jr., 2:1G u , and number more with
records and fast trials along with
some well-bred mares and youngsters.
OF the good things. however, that
have been handled by the big Vir-
sinian most interest attaches to Lolita,
2:eS "a the daughter of Guy Thistle
from an unnamed mare by EImcliffe,
ana she out of a Shetland pony. As
the story goes Richardson was at a
sale in Philadelphia with some
friends, and as the evening waned the
party grew merrier and merrier,
when a black filly, then known as
Lady Thistle, was being offered and
bidding had stopped at an even hum
dred dollars, and it was at this stage
of the game that the Norfolk man
made an advance of SIS and she fell
to his bid, though that event claimed
only small share of his attention,
as the following morning her name
ana breeding were furnished, while
her lack OF size and unprepossessing
appearance in general also caught the
eye OF her new owner, who soon dis
posed of the little black daughter of
Guy Thistle to an ice cream dealer
IN Baltimore, for whom she won some
good races and trotted a record of
2:l5 a, as Lady Thistle, when the
era btree family, of Boston, turned up
as buyers and changed her name to
Lolita. For the Crabtrees Lolita proved
a good winner on the grand circuit
and later was sold for export to Eu-
rope.