The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-06-06
NEWS OF HORSES
And HORSEMEN
BEN COLE WINS CONSOLATION
SIIEPLECHASE OVER COUN-
TRY CLUES COURSE.

An outcome Of the Deep Run Hunt
SteeplecnaSe, run over the Country
CIup course on May 18th, was a re-
neWal OF the event one week later.
with +. d. Harris Gates and ID. ID.
/ Fnllllps Zaffre, as added starters. Luz
CHE d., winner of the initial event
( was lame and did not start in the re-
( neWal, which went to Fred. Scott
/ CanpOeIs Ben Cole; Iron Prince,
I again ridden by John Aiken Branch
seConu; Gates, with l.. ID. Harris up,
thlrd, ana Zaffre fourth. L did not
/ see the race, but note the statement
! that game old Ben Cole, one of the
pest timber tOppers in the State. gal
/ lOped past a field of four and won
! the consolation steeplechase at the
| country Club of Virginia, over
/ course about two and one-half miles
IaIlre lea Tor three-quarters of the
Instance but straining a tendon,
pulIeu up lame and did not take the
last two jumps. Mr.. Campbell kept
, zen Cole IN the rear most Of the
Journey and then sent the unsexed
son OF Zen Strome to the front in
good time TO win.
John Coffey, who developed Royal
regent the champion runa bout horse
OF America, for a. Randolph How
ard, the banker Of Fredericksburr
Va, has been in Richmond since last
tail, but expects 20 return TO New
OK soon with some heavy harness
horses' roadsters and park saddlers.
among the latter being a four-year-
Uiu thorouSnbred daughter Of Silver
FOX, VINO should attract those who
insist upon beauty Of form and fin
lsh, along with manners. Coffey was
formerly located at Cleveland, and
from there went to Fredericksburg.
where his patience and skill in hand
ling Royal Regent made a champion
show horse of the high strung trot-
ting bred son Of Bow Bells and Red
more. daughter of Red Wilkes. After
coming to Virginia COffey met with
Father David l.. Coleman and for
years past has been held in high es-
TEEN by the genial and polished Cath |
Ole Divine, who has owned himself a
number of show ring winners. among
them Lord Chesterfield a winner |
right through the Virginia Circuit in |
1908. and Richmond Boy, the sensa- /
ton Of the Richmond Horse Show, !
some six or seven years since.
The handsome and weIl-mannered |
roam stallion, Blue Ridge, 2:21 IA, by !
Ceciiian Chief. 2:27 IA. out of Grace /
Linney, dam OF 3, by Jay Bird, who |
was owned and campaigned last sea- !
son by NJ. 3. Hickson, OF Lynchburg. /
Va, has passed to DR.. II. 3. Marriott, |
of BattlebOrO, n. c., and r. II. Den
ton, Tarboro. n. c.. who are using him
as a stock horse now, and later will |
probably have him prepared and /
started in a few races. While in the
dickson stable last season as a four
III "a, with the latter half in /
1:O5 3-4. Tilla, the second dam Of |
Blue Ridge, produced Fred S. Wilkes. |
I'll ga, sire OF Fred S. Wedgewood, !
2:O5 3-4, former member of the |
noted matinee stable of c. K. C. Bill
lings-
Virginia-bred horses to be returned !
winners at the Pimlico meeting. now
in progress at Baltimore. include |
Daingerheld, chestnut gelding, 8. by
Dolce Tar Niente, dam Cherry Wild, !
who finished in six furlong dash
over field of nine. and Mystic Light. |
bay gelding, z, Arlington, dam Vesta |
grand dam OF White Carriers, by
Catesby. Mystic Light. who was bred
by the Colonel Robert Neville. of Wei
bourne, won steeplechase. at miles,
in 4:1S 4-5. Daingerfield was bred by
Thomas F. Ryan in the Oak Ridge
stud, his dam, Cherry Wild, being a
daughter of Eon, son of Eolus. from
Cerise, dam of the great race horse
Morello. by imp. Moccasin. Cherry
Wild was bred in the Ellerslie Stud,
Charlottesville, Va, as was her sire.
Eon, the son OF Eolus and famous
war Song, dam Of EOle. St. Saviour,
etc, by War Dance.
The brown mare, Lady Frances.
thoroughbred daughter of imp. RAJ
PABLO and GraZiosa, by Ben Ali, whose
hip was capped last fall. is again in
service and being used by her owner.
John Aiken Branch, by whom she has
been ridden TO hounds and taken over
the Jumps for several seasons. Mr. |
Branch finished second in the steeple-
chase at the Deep Run Hunt meeting
with the chestnut gelding Iron Prince
on May 18th and again landed that |
unSeXed son of Iron Crown in 4 like
position over the same course ova
week ~, tl,o A.. ~ 1