The Washington herald., 1912-01-07
TROTTER AND PAGER
Lack of Trotting Track Near Washington Is
Hurting the Game-Forestpiue Circle the
Nearest One-Other Comment.

Iriches" As soon now as a mare in this
country becomes distinguished IN the
stud as a producer OF speed, especially
early speed, she is generally snapped up
by some wealthy breeder at a price that
an ordinary farmer breeder cannot af-
ford to pay.
The most valuable brood mare, up TO
date, In this community is the mare Ku-
mara. by Kushan, 2:1s1 mother OF
Bruges 90, Els, and Boski 60, 2:2s 1-2
She is at present the property Of T. F.
Tippett OF Cheltenham- Prince George
County, and Mr.. Tippett says he values
her at $1,000 Mr.. Tippett Ia also the
owner OF, the dam Of Country Jake,
2:1e Ia; Country Boy, 2:201-4. and OF the
8, 500 stallion, Prince George, that DR..
]. r. Sansbury, of ForestvilIe, recently
sold TO New York City parties. These
are two very valuable mares-such as
propabiy no other farmer owns within
pecially, is the sire OF early speed, and
this kind bring top prices in the public
market
Kumara was purchased from Mr.. Will
lam Russell Allen, OF Pittsfeld, Mass,
some FIVE years ago, for the nominal
sum, We believe, of g, 800. She was then
carrying in utero the promising trotter
Boski. Bruges had not then made a repu-
tation for himself. Kumara last spring
dropped a foal by Red Princeps (2,
2:29 IL, and is now safely in foal to Won
March, 2:20 IA. Another valuable pro-
ducer Of early speed Is the gray mare
Elsie DOnegan, dam OF Kenworthy (S),
2:22I-4 This mare is owned near Hamil-
ton, Va. and should be very valuable for
breeding purposes. Another mare in the
same vicinity that promises TO become
famous as a mother OF early speed is
the dam of Norman Corbin's FoNworthy.
He is showing well in the little work
that has been given him thus far. His
dam Is by Axtelloid. a son of william L.
]. r. Jones, Of this city, also owns a
mare that shows great promise as pro-
ducer of speed. She is already the dam
Of Miss Kushan (JonesD and the dam
also of a three-year-oId flly by Bale
AxwOrthy that is trotting fast.
From latest advices, Won March will
soon change hands. His prospective
purchaser is 7. F. Tippett, his former
owner. Mr.. Tippett is authority for the
statement II he again becomes Mr..
Tippett's property, he will be used for
breeding purposes and driven on the road.
He may also be raced some on nearby
tracks. T. W. Dunworth is happy man
these days, as a report comes from, Ham
Ilton that the dam OF Miss Hobson.
which he owns. will produce in the
spring a foal by Bale Axworthy. Miss
Hobson was foaled Mr.. Dunworth's
property. As Miss Hobson possesses
phenomenal speed. Mr.. Dunvorth Is in
the mood for setting them up all
around for the boys" D. J. Mccarthy
is also inspired with happy anticipations,
WN~a IL,
Lass will produce a foal, in the early
spring months, by Alto Bell. a son Of
AdbeII. and he by Palo. 2:Os 80 to high
wheels. The dam OF Adbeil was the
famous Beautiful Bells, dam Of ten in
2:30 or better.
The remark is often made that this
or that horse has a racing conformation,
and, for a long time. prints devoted to
the blood horse contained dissertations
on the subject more or less interesting,
although based on mere theory. II has
come to be acknowledged, however, that
horses race successfully in all forms and
sizes. The early English thoroughbred
rarely averaged over thirteen hands. BY
a process of careful selection he aver
ages nowadays not far from fifteen and !
three-tenths hands. and there have been
thoroughbred horses that have measured
as high as seventeen hands. In Australia
the thoroughbred grows to a much |
larger size than the average English or
American thoroughbred. II is upward Of
200 years since the English Flying Chill
ders set the world ahame by his wonder |
full speed, and yet he was a horse fifteen |
hands high and of short and compact |
conformation. |
Fifty years after Childers disappeared |
from the turf came the greatest race !
horse England had ever known, and the |
greatest sire Of high-class race horses |
Eclipse. This most remarkable horse was |
sixteen and one-half hands high, and is |
described in early turf annals as being |
long, large. and coarse in quality. His
shoulders, we are told. were thick and |
SO low and fiat that some writer of the |
period remarked that he could carry a |
bushel of loose oats on his withers with !
out losing a grain. Size did not seem TO |
count in this case, nor conformation. any |
more than they did with Flying Childers, |
nor do they, as a matter OF fact count |
so very much in speed animals. After |
Eclipse's death, the theorists got to work. |
The autopsy showed that his heart weigh |
ed fourteen pounds-something hitherto |
unheard of-end II was claimed that this |
organ was the seat Of the wonderful |
he had always manifested while |
living. The theory now held by Sc1en- |
lists is that the motor-power which drives |
the horse over the ground at a high rate |
OF speed is located In the brain, and |
while they cannot demonstrate the theory |
to a mathematical certainty, Il seems |
enough to be believed.
As a rule, the horses that have made \
trotting history on American soil have |
been those Of medium size. Great East
ern was an exception, and so was Mosul, |
and we have read Of other equine giants |
on the trotting turf. But the rule is as
we state. Lady Suffolk, the first trotter |
to trot as fast as ESQ or better. was scant
fifteen hands. Flora Temple. the first
trotter to beat 2:2O was about 1L2 hands. |
Dexter, the first horse to beat F1ora's |
time, was about l5-2 Sunol, on the other
hand, was nearly, II not quite, sixteen |
hands, II we remember rightly.
Nancy Hanks was scant fifteen hands.
Arion and Directum, both champion trot-
ters in their day, were about Is 1-2 hands.
Gen. Watts the first entire three-year-
old to trot as fast as 2.06 "a, Is scant
fifteen hands. Colorado E.. the greatest
trotter ever foaled, prom
Ises to develop into a sixteen-hand horse:
Uhian, king of trotters, is close to 153
bands high. Cresceus, king of trotting
stations for many years, was close to I
sixteen hands; while The Harvester, who
In 1910 seized the crown that the noble