Saint Mary's beacon., 1911-06-15
High, Low, Jack and Game.
St. Mary's Horses Take Every
Trick.
From the Washington Sunday Herald.

Mr.. ]. c. Mott, OF Washington, with
horses owned in far-orf Leonardtown. st.
Mary County, Md. is cutting a mighty
wide swath in spring racing in these
parts.
II was not always so: for we recall
to mind that in 1910 by reason of his
stable training OF. partly through errors
OF Judgment, he quit the season q loser
in reputation. and. also. in a monetary
sensc. IL Is as hard to gauge horses as
II is to judge men. sometimes, for. not
wiihstaniing that Mott began early this
year To get his stable in racing condition.
and. Notwithstanding weather conditions
were against him. he opens the season of
1911 with the best field OF trotters and
PAGERS that has thus far answered to the
starters bell within l0O miles OF the
National Capital.
Probably not n horseman In the District
of Columbia could have. thirty days ago,
predicted the results accomplished with
ia" material at hand. One OF the lot, the
black stallion Palm CoZine, was, in 1910,
a fairly good tETCe-y1aT-old. lie trained
on early, but came again In the fall and
closed the season In a very creditable
manner. showing himself to be at least
a 2:2' trotter. Russell CoZine az a three
Sear-old last year was n distinct disap-
polntment to trainer and owner. lie
showed speed in spots, but was unsteady
In his very pest form he possibly might
have paced 4 mile in 2:45. The writer
started him in two races at IeOnardtown
last fall, and was not impressed with his
possibilities as "A race horse. Harvester,
tn" other trotter in the Mott string. never
raced until the present year. lie IL rated
"A sure 2:2U. OF better. trotter
No other Washington trainer, I'D TO
hnf h..S Akae
such promising lot of comparatively
raw material. Every one of them was
bred ia 81. Mary. two OF them are by
the dead Don CoZine. 2:I0 A horse whose
merits as "A sire We're not disclosed until
he had been under the turf for months.
AZ the years go by. and his sons and
daughters make their RTps saTance 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 To the breeding interests of this sec
tIon Of country
Last November we sat I'm the parIor of
the Hotel Gettysburg. Gettysburg. Pa,
and listened TO the details of his early
life from the lips of the man VINO pur-
chased him In Kentucky as q colt, and
who trained and raced him. He was an
unwilling purchase. but as other horses
had been purchased and the colt was
taken 10 fill up the car. While the
story was being told there came into the
parIor a gentleman whom the man who
brought Don CoZine East tried to get
Interested in him He declined, he said,
because the colt looked too much like a
goat and too little like horse. This gen.
tl"man was n skilled horseman, and his
judgment as to horses Is a demonstration
that sometimes the best of horsemen are
deceived In weighing the merits of a
horse
The little black stud, with few advan-
tages I'm the matter OF training soon paced
himself into the 2:l0 list, and was rated
as sure two-minute PAGER. He 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 his way r. Madison Square Gar
den, where he was purchased by Mr. p.
J. Steubener. Of Bla6ensburg. and Mr.. J.
X. Bryce. OF this city. Later still he
passed TO Mr.. +. c. Combs. of Beauvue
st. Mary County, where he was bred to
| everything that came his way. lie was
Mr.. Combs property when he suddenly
diel In the spring of lslO.
Among the mares with which he was
| mated while owned by MIR Combs was a
breedy looking bay mare OF I53 hands
Through an accident the owner OF the
mare was killed and the hay mare was
purchased from the estate by George
| hassel"erth. OF I>eonardtown, for SIS
| BY her side was q colt now known as
RAIN Cozine. 30 Ia. which record he
got at Prospect Park on Thursday last,
and inuetero was Palm Cozine's fun
brother, Wolverine. now q three-year-
Old and more promising as a colt trotter
than Palm. Neither the bay mare nor
her offspring can be registered as stand
ara bred. because the bay mare belongs
10 the long list of unframed dams made
so by the negligence OF the man who
first purchased her His neglect a simI-
lar to that OF other men who buy mares
| without seeming to care how they are
bred. All they DO seem TO care for Is
! the horse.