The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09

sire of Beauvue Stock Farm, Lord Bin
gen S4fa by Bingen, 2-06A; dam Kahls
dam of the coming Maine sire. Colombo,
with five in the 2:ao list, by Allerton.
2:o9A. is making good as a high-ciass
stock horse. All of his foals that have
appeared UP to date are of good confor-
| ration. are of good color strong and
active on their pins, and upheaded like
| steers IN the corn. An of the planters in
St Mary, he says. who own feals by
! Lord Bingen are highly pleased with
them. and the son of Bingen, 2:O6h.
promises to do an unusually large bust
ness in the stud during the season of
| 1911. The dam of Palm Cozine, Grace.
| also has Lord Bingen foal at foot, as
has also Miss Eleanor, the dam Of An
drew Gleeson's fast Lady Cozine.
Superintendent and carctaker OF Beau
vue Stock Farm, Samuel H Bouck. is
jogging at present four youngsters for
Mr.. Coonlbs- Two are two-year-olds and
the remaining two three-year- Two
Of the four are full sister and brother of
| Lady Cozine and the others are out of
the dam of Happy G., 2:22t4. Mr.. Bouck
is also jogging a five-year-old mare by
Eingen. 2:0614, dam Winola, 2:09A, by
| Lookaway. Mr.. Combs confirms the
statement made in these columns last
| Sunday relative to the local track at
| Leonardtown. The grounds have been
| leased for the season of 1911, but the reg
ular racing dates have not yet been de-
| cided on: Matinees will be held on the
track at intervals during the summer.
]. c. Mott, of Washington. located for
! the racing season at LeonardtoWn, has
five good horses in his stables at present
Nd INoIin 10, l.
| coup this year his losses of the season of
1910. Mr. T. G. Hodges. of Oakley. St
Mary County. who is quite a prominent
breeder of high-class harness horses in
his section, writes that the once famous
local mare, May T, 80, owned for many
years in this city by Harry Lansdale and
later by Mr.. Louis Hodges, who sold her
TO his brother, has "a foal at foot by
Claywill. a horse imported into St Mary
from South Dakota by a Mr.. Andrews.
Mr.. Hodges says he is very proud of this
youngster and that he will be entered in
the futurities of 1915. Another foaI that
has just arrived at Oakley Stock Farm
is by Lord Bingen 54fo trial 2:1S1G.
The granddam of the youngster is a
daughter of DR.. Carriers Onycha Wilkes,
2-2oA, the latter being by Longward.
son of Onward, e:SA, Onycha Wilkes
dam being by son of the celebrated
Volunteer. Mr.. Hodges, in order to be
up to date, will also enter the Bingen
foal in the futurities of 1913 and expects
to carry off first money with him. May
more be added to the power of Mr..
example TO all breeders of weIl-bred
foalS.
The first colony planted in Maryland
was in st. Mary County, on Britain Bay.
ST. Mary has been famous for its good
horses ever since. The first bIooded
horses imported were throughbreds di-
rect from England. The Combses and
HodgeSes and other gentlemen planters
were prominent in turf affairs before the |
war of the Revolution and for many
years after our independence was won |
from Great Britain The light-harness
horse began to gain a permanent foot
hold soon after the civil war. His popu- |
lartty has grown so rapidly that st !
Mary now stands among the foremost
counties of Maryland where the light |
harness horse obtains recognition As |
the original inhabitants of St Mary
were of cavalier stock. as distinguished |
from the Round Heads that settled New |
England. they brought with them their |
spOrt-loving proclivities. such as racing |
still exists among the inhabitants, and a |
genuine horse race attracts them in large |
numbers for miles around.
The gamblers now located for a brief |
season at jamestown, Va, are in great |
glee because of a recent decision rem
dered by a local judge which enables |
them. through a flaw in the law, to |
evade the plain intention of the law-mak-
ing authorities of Virginia 1t is char
acteristic of running Nurse gamblers to !
search for Ioopholes in legislation, and it !
is this continuous endeavor to outwit the |
authorities that has brought them into |
such disrepute among law-abiding citi- |
zens and made the path of ligflt-harness
men everywhere more rocky than would |
have otherwise been the case had they
shown more regard for State statutes.
1t is a pretty fair 30 to ! shot, that
when the Virginia legislature conyenes
1t will take a fresh strangle hold on the
running game in Virginia, and put it !
once and for all out of business, as has
been done in other States of the Union.
A British officer, who was in this city \
recently, in the course of an interview
with a Washington Herald reporter took
occasion to lament the scarcity of horses
in this country, fit to do service. The
government of the United States is con-
fronted with the same problem. The
secret of the difficulties met with lies
in the fact that governments fix an
arbitrary price, which is lower than
breeders and owners of horses think they
are worth. There is plenty of horses in
the United States to be had if the price
offered suits their owners. The light har-
ness horse, from which cavalry mounts
are largfy recruited, is being improved in
grade every year. With the prevailing
price of grain and hay it has cost more
TO feed and raise them to the proper age
than in years past The weeds are those
that can be purchased at government
prices, but there are not enough of them
10 go around
Good horses-that is well bred and
sound ones-cannot now be purchased
for even $40 per head. The average price
nowadays is about $780, and this kind are
cheaper than weeds, at any price, becausei
they will do better service and last
longer. The better bred a horse is the
more wear and tear there is in him-take
or example the thoroughbred. But the
by reason of his high spirit
Ind hot blood is too rank for army use
We're q war to ensue between the United
States and some foreign nation, the
chances are that in the first action the
would be found in the
ranks of the enemy; at least a goodly
portion of them would very likely be
'ound uncomfortable and exchange own
ership, carry their riders with them willy