The Washington herald., 1911-01-29
TROTTER AND PAGER
E. F. Hall Buys Half Interest in Fast Horse in Won
Marct-Other Gossip of Interest

methods. The recent changes made in
the leading fair officials in Montgomery
County would Indicate that that assOcia-
ton has awakened from its long slum-
ber and that it will be in the field in
1911 with good purses.
AS good-sized purses usually draw good
horses and create good sport, those who
| reside in this bailiwick have a right to
expect something out of the ordinary
| when the bell rings at Rockville the pres
ent season.
Interest among owners Of three-year-
| olds in the stake race that Dr. Sansbury
proposes to pull OF July at Forestville
is rapidly growing. There never was at
any time so many speedy three-year-old
owned in this section as can be found
here to-day. The latest conner to the
three-year-old fold is Charles Weaver, OF
West Washington. He has recently de-
cided to try his luck with Green Boy in
! the three-year-old stakes. and within the
next thirty or sixty days he will be
| placed in the hands Of Harry Bowling
who is fully capable of bringing him to
! the post in condition for his race and
equally capable of driving him to victory
| If he has the necessary speed.
| Certain it is that Green Boy promises
| to be very speedy. like all of the rest of
! the Gambetta Wilkes t2:19l4) family. An
! other promising candidate from West
Washington is a bay gcldirg by Duke w,
| owned by Michael J. Inscoe. Mr.. Inscoe
has not owned the geiding very long and
has only tried him out few times. He
| is coming fine and steps out as if he were
| a sure trCtter.
| And speaking Of rotters. the writer
| never sees F. F. Halls Alto Dewey that
his memory does not travel back some
| fifteen years when on a frosty morning
| little. one-eyed black mare was led out
| OF her stall at the Cloverdale Stock Farm
Montgomery County, Pa. and a warning
given by her groom to look OUT This
multum in parvo Of horseflesh. friSking
about and laShing out every few minutes
was none other than the granddam of Ad-
nliral Dewey. Nancy Lee. dam of Nancy
Hanks. 2:4. Nancy Lee at the time Of
| which We write was upward of twenty
years OF age. yet her spirit was not
ahated nor her single eye dimmed.
She was active on her pins as 4 four
year-old and if one Were to judge from
/ outward Appearances. she would not be
! selected in a field Of horses as the MAX
! ing OF great brood mare and the moth
cr Of worlds champion.
In conformation and size Nancy Lee
was the counterpart of her famous
| daughter. and from the nerve force she
| displayed one would be justified in be-
| lieVing that what she contributed in this
| respect to Nancy Hanks aided her in
| trottinc a mile in the then remarkable
time of 2:ci. Nancy Lee was daughter
| Of Dictator. that prepotent son OF HAM
! hletonian 10 and old Clara" and which
could also boast Of horses were gifted
with the power of boaSting) of being a
full brother of that Dexter whose vicious
eyes and vicious way awed more than a
score of the best horses of the land into
submission.
"Old Sophy." dam of Nancy Lee, was
the most productive daughter of Alex
ander's Edwin Forest ~. Mated with
different sires, she almost invariably pro-
duceu speed. and this power to produce
speed adhered to her descendants far
down the line to even Nancy Hanks and
her sons and daughters
Nancy Lee was not the only great
brood mare sheltered at Cloverdale. now
mere memory. There could be seen
then. al the time write. Mary Mar
shall. dam of Nathan Straus. 2:O33,. the
dam of Joe Patchin. -:GII4: Josephine
Young. the dam of Direct, 2:C6lt. and the
dam of The Director General, Winnifrcd
! he Cdh or JOnn X Gentry mad dled at
the farm 4 few days before our arrival
OF pneumonia. Under the same roof
were such sires as Director, 2:17, and Red
wilkes. c:4f both proCenitors of extreme
speed.
Mr.. 4. H. Moore. master of ClOverdaI .
who at great expense had gathered 50
much highly bred and speed producing
hOrsefieSh together kindly but
rather erratic gentleman. He had had
no previous experience in breeding and
the business was with him more of a fad
than a serious experiment He held to
the theory. however. that speed produces
speed: that it was better to pay a high
price for producers than to pay low
price for untried mares His father.
wealthy diStiller. gave him the limit of
his check book for a time. then tired of
1t, put every horse on the farm under
the hammer, and closed his son out of
business, on the principle that it was
cheaper to support him that WAY than
to indulge him in business ventures of