The Washington herald., 1912-10-27
TROTTER AND PAGER
The Windnp Of tie Most Successful Racing Sea
SON Washisgt gton-owned Horses Have Expert
enced Since George Founded Capital
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Harness
| Races. y,
i Laurel.
| Thursday, and Friday Of this week
4 Card for Thursday. October O.. 3I2
pace and IN trot
i. Friday. s:B trot. ad7 pace. s:S trot.
All purses 500 y
Frederick fair played in bad luck an
last week..
Rain. cold. and mud were the domi-
nant factors OF the week.
The agricultural exhibits were Of the
4 hie hest class.
The cattle exhibit was the best ever
seen In Frederick County.
The racing on Thursday was good for
such q muddy track. ~
Il In the matter Of sate receipts. the as
sociation ID several PAGES behind the
mag
I These are the crisp November days
the grandest OF the year.
III We now can get our sauerkraut and
wash II down with beer.
II The week At Frederick was frost for
Washington horse owners.
None got the word, on account Of rain
and . muddy track.
Don Carlos de Garmendia, Of Tusca-
j rora. Frederick County. who. II he likes.
may stand before King Alfonso without
barring his head. was much in evidence
at the Frederick fair on Thursday, at
which. as usual. he drove horses Of his
own breeding.
Senior Garmsndia is. we believe. the
only Spaniard in the United States ex-
\ tensively engaged in the breeding Of
l light harness horses
The elder de Garmendia, a wealthy
Cuban sugar planter. emigrated from
Barcelona, Spain. while the writer's FAM
ily emigrated from Catalonia, an ad-
joining province.
Won March. 2:1sk. which w. z. Mil
Ter traded In for the pacing mare. Mary
Ellen, 2:15x, Is in Trainer Crawford's 3
hands and jogs sound.
Veterinarians have passed upon him
| frequently and have assigned to him
every ailment in medical books except
hog cholera, the latest being shelibone.
| whatever that is.
Among the locally owned horses We
| saw at Frederick last week. none in tho
matter OF condition and soundness COM
pared with Alice NJ. 2:13h. All the
cthesr bore evidence Of their long and
! exhausting campaigns.
All OF the horses In the Miller stable
i were shipped yesterday to Laurel. These
comprise Alice NJ, 2:13&: Mary Ellen.
215h;, Axis. 2:f7i4. and the crack four
year-old sorrel trotter Boski. 2:csk. The
last named has been "on" the entire
| racing season.
Pleasant Fields Farm horses. consist
ing Of Patchen Bell. 2:l5k: Allie K.
| 2:22h. and the e-Ohline mare were also
shipped to Laurel yesterday.
Mr.. c. c. Waters. ownev Of Pleasant
Fields deeply regrets the death Of Dr.
Patchen. that recently fell dead at York.
He had been up in 2:l3 II. and was. Mr..
Waters says, a sure 2:lO or better PAGER.
Allie X. has been second in els IA quite
lrecently.
c. c. Waters and David Hershy, OF
Montgomery. large landed proprietors
and prominent light harness horsefnen.
leave for the happy hunting grounds of
North Carolina within the next two
weeks. They 60 loaded for bear: but
any old thing. from quail to wild hogs.
will do.
Harry Corbin. superintendent OF W. e.
Miller's stable Of trotters and PAGERS
tmostly pacers3, will retire from public
life for the winter after the Laurel races.
Mr.. Corbin exemplifes In the highest de-
gree the fact that the man behind the
guns-that is. the man who sees that a
stable OF horses is cared for properly
deserves the larger share of credit for
racing stables success.
The sagacious and faithful caretaker.
like the high private In the ranks. rarely
gets all that is coming to him. His name
rarely. II ever, figures in the press dis
patches. The driver who hops into his
sulky and wins the heat and race is the
only man the public sees. In a success
full battle the commanding officer ao-
serbs all the glory and looms big in the
headlines. All the man in the ranks gets
is his rations. clothes. and 30 much per.
| ]. L. Butt, owner of Buttonwood
Stock Farm. Gettysburg. Pa. the home
of Senator Hale. 2:0sk. and the Wilkes
Boy. 2:ak. sire st. Julius. will hold a
sale November 20. Of the output of the
sire named on the track of the farm.
The celebrated Col. Bains. Of Lexing-
ton. KY, will WELD the hammer. while
en- route to the big sale at Madison
| Square Garden q few days later
Charles c. Waters. Of Pleasant Fields
Stock Farm, and Carlos de Garmendia,
| of Tuscarora Stock Farm. will. about
the middle Of November. hold COM
bination sale Of trotting bred youngs-
| Md. The young things will be the get
of Kinster. 2:14&: Kinslee. 2:lsh; Mo-
nocacy, e:l5k. and Of Sea King. son Of
Lord Russell.
Trainer Billy Andrews. Of Forestville.
arrived by boat Friday morning from
IIeon0rotown with his 1914 futurity can
didate. and had the youngsters first
shoes nailed on him At Brown & Nc
ICarthy's. The colt is a well made boy,
by Lord Bingen, son Of Bingen. 2.0s "A.
and goes on the trot. It's dam 10 Miss
Eleanor. daughter Of Overstreet wilkes:
second dam Pansy. by Nutwood. 2:1s 81:
! third dam, Wright. by Wright
! Owners Of foals eligible to The Wash
ington Heralds trotting futurities of
1s13 should bear in mind that the stakes
open December 2. 1872. at D. j. Nc
Carthy's place Of business, In Eleventh
Street. near the Hay Market. Unless the
date Of the meeting ID postponed. colt
owners who are not present and present
their names Of their candidates and pay
the initial fee Of IS, are thereafter bar
tred.
| Owners who own eligible foals must
also bear In mind that names and breed
Ing of sire and dam and their color, and
the color and markings OF foals must be
accurately described ana the exact date
Of foaling given. Any attempt to de-
ce!ve made in regard to date of foaling
will cause the forfeiture Of any sum Of
money paid on December 3 1873 or there
after. ~
Owners Of colts that are now two-year-
olds. and who win be three-yesr-olds TN
1913. win be governed by the same con-
dtions. In order to prevent controversy.