Saint Mary's beacon., 1911-06-15
high, Low, Jack and Game.
St. Mary's Horses Take Every
Trick.
From the Washington Sunday Herqld
by D.. ID. SALE.

Mr. J. G. Mott of Washington, with
horses owned in far-on LeonaTdtown, st.
Mary County. Md, Is cutting mighty
wide swath in spring racing In these
parts.
II was not always 80; for we recall
to mind that In 1910 by reason of Ids
stable training on partly through errors
OF Judgment, he quit the season q loser
In reputation, and. also. in a monetary
sense. 10 Is as hard to gauge horses as
IL Is to judge men, sometimes for not
wi'hstan1ing that Mott began early this
year to get his stable in racing condition.
and. Notwithstanding weather coRditfens
were against him, he opens the season OF
1911 with the best field OF trottera and
PAGERS that has thus far answered 20 the
starters bell within loo miles of the
National Capital.
Probably not a horseman in the District
OF ColuTnbia could have, thirty days ago,
predicted the results accomplished with
the material at hand one of the lot the
black stallion Palm CozIne. was. In 1910.
a fairly good tErGe-year- r-Dld lie traIne1
on early. but came again in the fall AMI
closed the season I'm n very cresutabIe
manner, showing himself to be at least
a 30 trotter. Russell Cozine as n three
ycar-old last year was distinct disap-
pointmcnt to trainer and owner. lie
showed speed in spots hut was unsteady
In his very nest form he possibly might
have paced 4 mile in 2:i5. The writer
started him in two races nt LeonardIokn
last fall. and was not impressed with his
possibilities as race horse. Harvester,
the other trOtter I'm the Mott string never
raced Until the present year. lie Is rated
"A sure !:sU. ur better, trotter. N
No other Washington trainer. up to
date. has proved that he has In charge
such a promising lot of comparatively
raw material. Every one OF them was
bred Ia 81. Mary: two of them are by
the dead Don Coginc, 2:1O. A horse whose
merits az "A sire were not disclosed tint II
he had been under the turf for months
As the years go by, and his sons and
daughters make their RrrS nance on the
race track or in the stud, his fame as
sire will increase and We shall then
begin TO appreciate what a loss he has
been tn the breeding interests OF this sec
tion Of country
Last November we sat In the parlor OF
the Hotel Gettysburg. Gettysburg, Pa,
and listened to the details OF his early
life frrm the lirs of the maa who pur-
chased him in Kentucky as q colt, and
who trained and raced him. He was an
unwilling purchase but as oSher horses
had b4en purchased and the colt was
held at cheap price, ne was finally
taken to fill up the car While the
story vas being told there came into the
parlor "A gentleman whom the man who
brought Don Cozine East tried to get
Interested in him lie decHneCi he said.
eecans'' the coli looked too much like a
goat and too little like 4 horse. This gen.
tleman was skilled horse1pau. and his
Judgm+ mt as to horses Is a demonstration
that sfmetimes the best OF horse men are
deceived in weighing the merits of q
| horse .
The little black stud. with feyy advan-
tages II the matter OF training. soon pacei
himself into the 2:l0 List, and was rated
as a sure two-minute PAGER. lie was
| taken To New York city and raced some
| ON the Speedway. where he met with an
| accident that forever put him out OF
commission as a racing tool. Finally he
found hts way e. Madison Square Gar
| den. where he was purchased by Mr.. T.
J. Steubener. OF Ba6ensburg. and Mr. j.
II. Bryce. OF this cIfy. Later etilI he
passed to Mr.. +. c. Combs. OF Beauvue
| ~. Mary County, where he was bred IL
everything that came his way. He was
| Mr.. Combs property when he suddenly
DIED In the spring of $50.
AmGng the mares with which he vas
mated while owned by Mr.. Combs was a
breedr looking bay mare Of Il3 hands
| Through an accident the owner OF IN,
| mare was killed and the bay mare wa,
purchased from the estate by Georg,
hasselwerth. OF LeOnardtowR, for sIz
| BY her side was q colt now known a.
Palm Cozine, go IA which record n.
got at Prospect Fark on Thursday last
and inuetero was Palm Coxine sfal
brother. Wolverine. now. q threesyesf
old. and more promising as q cole trutfe
.han Faim. Neither the bay mare no
her offspring can be registered as stand
ard Bred. because the bay mare b.,los,s,
TO the long list OF unframed dams. mad
so by the negligence OF the man v,h
nrst purchased her. His neglect IL simI
4ar to that OF other men who bnIy mare
Witn9ut seeming TO csFe how they ar
nred All they DO seem TO care for 1
] the horse.