The Washington herald., 1911-05-14
TROTTER AND PAGER

Bingara- Kremlin (2:07sD mare Berka, and
the director general mare Winifred,
owned by E. F. Hall. Corbin is not
expecting fast miles yet, and does not ask
them from the horses in hand. He Is,
however, giving them their heads the
last eighth of their workouts, and they
are responding with a vim and a wind
that augers well for them in the future.
Outside of her training quarters little
is said about Miss Hobson, believed by
many to be the most phenominally fast
PAGER ever bred in the District She is
said to have all of her old-time speed,
and those interested hope that she Will
get to the races in a sound condition ana
do what every one has right to expect
Of her.
Out at Silver Spring there is a very
promising three-year-old mare. by Mars,
that is setting tongues to wagginS. Her
dam is by Monte Gould, a son of Jay
Gould, 2:2115, once the champion trotting
stallion; second dam by John H. Gheen's
Bashtine, 2:35 TO wagon, by Bashaw, jr.,
and third dam by Exile, a horse of note
at one time in Montgomery County. Mr..
Zach Mangum, of Silver Spring, Is the
proud owner of this precocious miss, and
a competent trainer. And, by>the way.
there is another three-year-old in the
vicinity of Silver Spring by Mars, dam by
Truxtun, son of George Wilkes, jr., that
Is exciting great attention on the part of.
judges of form and speed.
Mars loomed us as a sire of speed after
his death. While living he met with scant
apprecia ton. He has at present to his
credit Country Jake. PISA. Country Boy,
2:2014. and Prince George, which some
think the best of the trio of rather re-
markable performers. Mars was the
most intensely inbred Hambletonian
ever owned in this section of the cOUn-
try, and was a horse of almost perfect
gait. which he got from the sire of his
second dam, Ethan Allen, 2:2j.
Won March and Clinton S. by Sidney
Prince, get their fast work over the
Forestville track. They are doing all
that is asked of them. And. by the same
token, DIR. Sansbury has a three-year-old
PAGER by Austral who. by the way he
handles his legs, sends the doctor to bed
every time he works him with a smile so
broad that an ordinary pillow does not
suffice for his perfect comfort. Oh. you
doe: oh. YOU He is called Peter Ford,
this embryo world beater and record pull
VeriZer, and it is expected that the doctor
will flash him up to the public view be-
fore the frostS touch the vines of the
squash and pumpkin.
f. F. Halls horses. at his farm tract,
have begun to work miles around 20
They will be allowed TO step around this
notch some days vet, when they will be
shipped to Burke and gradually let down
in their work. Most of the lot will be
seen at Burke Decoration Day. About
the Hall horses. it is whispered that j.
NJ. Hall is the owner of a three year-old
PAGER, dam the dead Alma that met death
so preSnaturely last summer. that can
pace bR holes In the atmosphere. His
name Isl Jubilee. and it is promised that
he will be seen here and hereabouts very
shortly with all his frills and thrills.
kushan as a sire Is in more demand
than ever this season, and it now looks
that he will not get to the races until
very late in the season. if at all
2. F. Tippett's Red Princess is the most
popular sire this year in lower Mary
land. His get warrants the faith breeders
are putting in him as a future great sire
of fast trOtters and useful road and farm
horses for light or heavy work.
\ sire that attracted great attention
on the Speedway Thursday last was N
B. Turner's Gyman. 1t is rare that one
sees such individuality. coupled with such
high breeding and speed. Gyman is hav-
ing a busy season, and those who patron
ize him will make no mistake
d. J. Mccarthy, that genial son of the
"ould sod" and light-harness fancier, is
sitting up nights in anticipation of an in
crease in his horse family. The would
be mother of the wonder to be is Vir-
ginia Girl, by DanyilleS s Wilke, and the
dam of Virginia Girl is the celebrated
Virginia Maid. by Sam Purdy, by the
California Bashaw, jr. The foal, when it
arrives, will have its sire Alto Bell,
a son of Daybell, the latter being by
Palo Alto, 2:0S2.. the champion stallion
If his lay at the trot, and whose dam was
the celebrated Dame Winnie. by Planet,
OF all the men in the
trotting game in this baillwick, none de-
serveS world beater more than Mr. Nc
Carthy.
There are at least two horses owned
in Washington that look good enough to
put to plowing or drawing coal One is
Louis Hodges handsome trotting mare
Flexina. and the other is D. J. Nc
carthy's Black Patchin. 1t looks now
as if it will take until next spring to |
get them in fit condition to race, on ac- |
count of their bulk