The Washington herald., 1911-04-30

the track by easy stages in three hours
time. Washington horsemen eager fo
money and glory can get both Decoration
Day at Burke without being compelled
to go either to Norfolk or Baltimore
besides, they stand a chance to win som.
easy change without mourning the dan
ger Of getting low record.
Our old and genial friend. DIR. ]. A
sansbury, owner and manager of tn.
swift Forestville track. is to the for,
condition for fast work. The track wa.
J formally opened to the public for th<
season Of 1911 last Thursday afternoon
when Tippett and Halls Won March
2:24s; the fast Sidney Prince gelding
Clifton s., and DR.. Sansburys three
year-old Austral stallion worked over Il
just to see whether the track and thu
horses we're on edge or not They were
The doctor has not as yet declared him
self for Decoration Day. but will prob
ably do SO in the near future.
Alonzo Corbin, known among the loca
horse fraternity as the silent man." IL
pegging away at Laurel. It is said tina,
he has several in his string of a bakers
dozen OF trotters and PAGES some most
excellent green prospects. among them
being ]. w. Corbin's Solagrs ph. John
Morris Bingara-Kren.lin mare, Berka,
and very promising PAGER by Hobson
sire Of the phenomenal pacing mare, Miss
HobSon.
BY the way some Of Hobson's get are
forging to the front this year it looks as
If a mistake were committed by permit
ting him to leave this bailiwick SO soon.
AS three-year-oId Hobson was some
thing of a phenomenal PAGER himself, as
he was up at that age in a race in 2:15A.
and was slated as a 2:10 prospect, when
he went wrong in front and thereafter
went into the discard list as a race horse.
Hobson had a legal right to be a good
sire.
He was a son of Happy Partner. the
latter a son of Happy Russell. 2:21ta. who
leads all other sons Of Mambrino Russell
in the 2:30 list. The other son of Man,
brino Russell that ranks next to Happy
Russell is the great Michigan sire, Great
Heart, 2:121e. sire of Wilkes Heart, 2:O6A +;
Octo. 2:0711; Auto, 2:04h, and four others
IN the 2:10 list Mambrino Russell. sire
Of Happy Russell. was by Woodford
Mambrino. 2:2lh, out of the celebrated
Miss Russell. Happy Russelrs dam was
Odd Stockings. by Happy Medium. sire
of Nancy Hanks, 2:04. Happy Russell is
one of the few sires who rose above en-
as his opportunities were few
after he had passed middle life.
Another stallion that is looming yearly
more conspicuously above the breeding
horizon as a sire Is the demon trotter,
2:1s5z. All of his get show speed
and quality in a most decided manner,
and every one of his sons and daughters
are good-gaited trotters. This is a high
compliment to be paid to q sire. Some
of his three-year-olds are this year al
ready magnetizing observing horsemen.
Secretary Dahlman. of the Laurel track,
has one Of Kushan's daughters that is
Jersey cream in the jar.
A three-year-old filly by him out Of
is showing phenomenal speed at the trot
If ]. A. Jones Miss Kushan does not
create a local sensation on the turf this
year 1t will be her owners fault, not the
mares. Lady Kushan, 2:2214. looks good
to those who have seen her work. An
drew Gleeson thinks we'll enough of Ku-
shan to breed his Happy Russell mare.
Nan Patterson. to him. Nelly r. has a
fine foal at foot by him and has been
bred back. and there are returns from
other sections yet to come in.
As we go to press other gold news
comes in from Burke to the effect that
Henry Copperthite will give $500 stake
purse for three-year-old trotters and
The Fourth of July. 1t Is the greatest
opportunity that has ever been offered to
owners Of three-year-olds in this section
% get financial returns from their young
'ters at an early period at a minimum of
PERSONAL expense. 1t is an opportunity
which We believe every owner of three
year-olds in this section will be swift to
AXE advantage Of Mr.. Copperthite is
o be commended for his liberaIity and
enterprise. No other track manager or
air association has thus far come pub
icly forward with so big a stake 1t is
o be hoped. however. that Mr.. Copper
hite will have plelty of imitators In the |
lear future.
The nag is flying high these days at |
Pleasant Fields, Montgomery County, |
where the Kinsters man the battlements
md between times nibble the succulent
'rasses Of the spacious fields. Kinster,
:14&. is growing old. like the rest of us, |
'ut 10 not too old to be q successful sire
4 extreme speed. Atdallah I. sire of
20. was twenty-five when
he latter was foaled, and the Kent mare,
iambletonian's dam, was eighteen. Kim
ter is only sixteen this year, and as he |
vas never severely raced, his vitality is |
intact. In the matter Of finish. gait, and |
ynamic force the Kinsters stand in a /
lass by themselves. A most remarkable
hing about Kinster as a sire is that he /
npresses his individuality on all Of his
ct.
Kinslee. 2:1sk, his best son, as a sire
J. We think. destined to take Kinster's
lace. He is one Of the grandest indi-
iduals 1t has been our pleasure to look
pom. His dam, the Ben Franklin mare.
bay. but Kinslee's color is that Of
ne richest chestnut. which shows that he
reeds back to his great maternal grand
Ire, Daniel Lambert, by all odds the
reatest Of the Morgans as q sire. Mr.. |
. c. Waters. owner Of the grand estate
Pleasant Fields. Is Of the opinion that
.inslee will rise to great fame as a sire.
Ie says he is now driving one Of his get I
lat, although scarcely bride wise, has
1own him an eighth IN Is seconds with
er frst set Of shoes on. Kinster and
inslee are still doing public service,
IT just how long they win be permitted
. do % is a serious question.
Asbufy Browns want GAnes.