The Washington herald., 1910-03-06
Racing Conditions Continue
Poor Owing to Weather.
MANY DEALS IN THE AIR
South Washington Horseman De-
cides to Send Axis to Heathviiie.
j. C. Mott Moves His Stable to +
street-GOOd Things Are Predicted
for Russell G-Other Gossip.
nv l. D. SALE.

Another week of sloppy weather and
horsemen In despair. But they now have
hopes for better things.
In the meantime there have been ru-
mors of a few deals in the damp atmos-
phere. Quite a few persons have been
Hooking at and pricing Frank Tippett's
Won March, "a very classy looking son OF
Red Medium. A deal is also on in regard
tn Red Princeps. the property of TiDpett
6. Nolan. E. f. Hall is credited with a
trip TO Stony Ford. n. Y in the near
future for a new consignment of trotters.
Alonzo Corbin is now saiG to be half
owner of Miss Hobson. A rumor comes
from Georgetown that Henry Copper
thite is in the market for some speed,
and from Autoville Driving Park that
Ed. Daniels sleeps with one eye open for
fear something fast will escape him.
W. z. Miller, the South Washington
horseman, has decided to send Axis TO
Heathville for a few months, and has
decided to give the breeders Of Leon
ardtown a chance to use his services
8 IL kHt1 QEStAt <AuSAeN IL eHAN AAes7
been receiving some very fattering
offers for his handsome young stallion,
The Captain 4 rumor ahoat which
every one hopes Is true, is that Louis
Hodges is looking for Speedway outfit
that cannot only trim DR.. Chase, but a
few others In town that are thought well
| of. Ed. Potts has sent his fast Kushan
TII.y "a Csrhfn af ST ACaph
J. c. Mott recently moved his stable OF
trotters from South Washington ID a
point on F street. near Twenty-sixtn
street. His stable now comprises Russell
G., 2Islt; Jubilanta. 2:16A; May Cozine
| %, 2.42i4; a very promising two-year-old
called King Redwood. jr.. by King Rcd
wood, 2:ls14. dam by Twilight, and the
three year-old FLY Flora May, a very
promising PAGER. by Don Cozine. 2:l0, its
dam being a daughter Of Garrison and
the dam also OF Russell C. Jubilanta win
be kept at the pace, as he seems TO like
that gait best.
Mr.. Enoch Abel. OF Leonardtown. Ma.
writes, under a recent date. that he has
decided to retire from the breeding ranks
and will no longer race his horses. Tn
der these conditions he is going to part
with the famous race geiding. Russell
g.. 3.ITL. and the fast three-year-ol1
pacing FLY Flora May half-sister of
Russell G. The FLY is considered one Of
the best pacing prospects ever brought 10
this section OF country. and with little
handling can show very close right now
a 2:l5 clip. Her sire. Don Cozine. 2:10,
was. until injured in a runaway. consid-
cred a coming two-minute PAGER. Her
dam. Bess. Is already the dam OF COM
ing 2:lO tr0tter. Russell G. The Wash
ington Herald has from time to time had
quite a good deal TO say about Russell
G. In its columns and of his performances
on the turf, but everything that has
been printed about him was warranted
by his extraordinary career on the turf
Russell G. is unquestiOnably the great
est race gelding at the trot ever trained
by a Washington man or owned and bred
by a Southern Maryland man. There Is
every reason to believe that before the
racing season Of 1909 closed he could
have trotted a good mile track very close
to 2:1o Had the purses been commensu-
rate with his ability to perform his pres
ent mark. 217H, which he got at Rich
mond Va. would be in the neighborhood
of 3:i2 1t must be conceded that a
gamer horse never looked through a
bride than this black son Of Happy Rus
sell. He goes at his work with a cheer
fuIness and with a determination which
show that he lizes IT, Those who have
seen him close on HIS opponents in the
home stretch, with ears pinned back and
teeth barred. as IL he would eat them up.
harness, sulky. and boots, appreciate his
racing qualities.
Russell G. descends from a family
noted for its racing qualities and staying
abilities. His blood lines are similar in
many respects to those of the great race
stallion Kushan. PISA which he closely
resembles in all that goes toward the
making of a race horse. His sire, Happy
Russell, 2;29i4 to high wheels, is son OF |
Mambrino Russell, whose sire was Wood |
ford Mambrino, o:al5 to high wheels, and
whose dam was the celebrated Miss Rus
sell, whose sire was Pilot, jr., and whose |
dam was Sally Russell, daughter of |
Boston.
Russell G.'s dam was Bess. by Garri- |
son, 2;26A; he a son OF Orange Blossom,
e:2614 whose sire was Middletown by /
10 and whose dam was /
daughter Of Seeley's American Star II. |
Russell G.'s second dam was by Pilot |
Knox, out of a thoroughbred mare. Gar |
rison, the sire OF Bess. was un1uestion-
ably the best son of Orange Blossom
Where the heats were split the Orange |
Blossoms were always dangerous; on the |
roads no distance was too long for them.
Garrison got his record of 2:26iG in ten
heat race.
In the racing season OF 1908 Russell @.
was in the making and was also sick the
brought him out again and he proved
himself a race horse worth making a
ong journey to see perform. He made
his bow for the season at Wilmington,
Del, in the $50 trot in q field OF fourteen
starters and wound up the race in three
straight heats. getting a record Of 2:22A.
rhe next week at Salem, N J., in race
which he won, he trotted to a record OF
':19A in the fourth heat. The next week
1t Fasley. Va. he beat Hailworthy and
several other good horses and was not
compelled to lower his record.
In the same week. at the same point,
70 started in the 2:15 trot and got second
money, finishing ahead of the famous
Baron Rogers. At Pocomoke he fell
Imong the Philistines and again got sec