The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-09-19
news OF HORSES
AND H0RSEMEN
GLENLEA FARM, HOME OF Pc
TAURIST, son OF PETER
THE GREAT.
(By w. j. Carter.)

10y W. -. CortGr.D
At Glenlea Farm, on the Mechanics
vile Pike. which was established in
the latter nineties by the late William
Ellison, as the home of Mosul, 2:09X;
Nutwith, 2:29H, and other trotters,
Joseph LaSitter, of the Richmond
Horse Bazaar, now has Petaurist.
2:29A son of Peter the Great 2:O7A
and EellSa, by Arion, 2:07%, and four
Of his get in training. A number of
improvements have been made on the
place and with the half-mile training
track kept in shape Glenlea presents
quite pleasing appearance in charge
OF Mr.. Lasitter as lessee. Petaurist
will be shown at the Virginia State
Fair in October, with five of his get
and the bay stallion will attract at
tention. Among those of his get i'm
training at Glenlea are Lucard. chest
nut gelding, 3. and Edna Goodrich.
bay filly, 2, both of which are out of
Message Belle, by Message, son of Mes
Senger Chief. Lucard and Edna
Goodrich, likewise their dam, Mes
as blue ribbon winners, and the pair
of youngsters are also showing some
speed at the trot
/ Reverting to Petaurist, it is pleasing
to note that not only those of his get
of speed, but that one of the best
| fOals ever sired by the son of Peter
the Great is a bay filly, out of Stella
/ 6, by the Kentucky saddle stallion,
Knob Squirrel, next dam by Gam
bruno, son of Gambetta Wilkes. This
filly was bred by Thomas S. Winston,
of this city, and in the spring was
shipped to Saugerties Farm, the New
York breeding and trading establish
ment of his brother, James o. Win
ston, who owns more richly bred
trotters of real class than any Vir-
ginian has probably ever done. Writ
ing concerning this Petaurist filly
| from Saugerties, Mr.. Winston says:
Il wish to thank you for extended
pedigree of the twO-year-old bay hlly.
by Petaurist, which my brother sent
me and to tell you that she is GER
tainly some trotter. Although this
flly has only been broken since she
came to the farm, she has already
trotted a mile in 1884, and there is
no question that with a months train
ing she will go into the list. She is
beautifully gated and goes absolute
| ~ free from boots or weights of any
kind. In my judgment she is a nat
ural born trotter. We have nothing
at the farm, where my training
stable includes the get of Bingen,
2:O6 Il Peter the Great, 2:07A Justo,
2:0SA Walnut Hall, 2:OSA. and
other sires. nor have I ever had
better gated or going one than this
filly. ills really astonishing what re-
suits you unexpectedly sometimes OBJ
tain
In Axworth. 2:12A. the bay colt
by Guy AXworthy. 2:0S 81 out of Miss
Caleta, 2:29% by Bingen, 2:O6L it
appears that James o. Winston, of
the big contracting firm of Winston
* Co, with offices at Richmond, Va,
New York city ana Brown Station, n.
y. has one of the fastest three-year-
old trotters of the season.
AXwOrth was bred bF Mr.. Winston.
whose trainer. Thomas Dolphin.
started the bay colt 81 a couple of
races during the summer Of 1911 and
then drove him to record of 2:2f'
after which the son of Guyj ~. worthy
was sent 10 Thomas W. Murphy and
wintered at Poughkcepsie. Trained
ana driven by NIrphy this season,
ANworth won the three-year- trot
at Hartford n 2:13 and 2:135k, and
defeated~ field Of seven. including
the cVack flly Senorita, SoX De Forest
anc Benear, and Monday last at SYRIA
! G, e, n. Y, he was first in the Ka-
I Noo-No purse for three-year-old trot-
tiers in 2:12A and 2:I5H. Both
events were decided over slow tracks,
an indication that AXworth is a 2:1O
trotter. ana that he is likely TO join
the list of record holders in that cir
Gle this season if necessary to go that
/ fast.
In addition to Axworth. Mr. Win
ston also owns his dam. Lady Caieta
and along with her daughters Lady
"a
2, 2;2SA. Lady Caleta was pur-
| chased early in the year at a cost of
$4,000, and the daughter of Peter the
Great is looked upon as one of the
most valuable young brood mares in
the country In the spring she dropped
a shapely brown colt by Guy AK
worthy and was mated with Justo.
2:OS "a, the son Of Jay Bird and East
Morn. oam of Alceste, 2:O7A, by
Baron Wilkes. 2:1S. These are rare
ancestral lines
speed and breeding of AXworth and
Lady Caleta are of the sort to be
held almost beyond price by the ad-
Vanced student of pedigrees.
The death of siias smith, who re-
Gently committed suicide at Elizabeth
City, n. c., removes familiar figure
from the ranks of trotting horse
trainers in this section of the South.
In bad health and with his nerves
shattered by excessive drinking, his
throat was cut from ear to ear by a
razor in fit of dependency. A Ken
tuckian by birth, one of Smiths first
engagements in North Carolina was
with ]. w. Bethel, of ReidsviIle. who
owned Jolly Friar. son of William l.
and Mother Lumps dam of Lumps.
2:21, by Pearsall, and later he was
with NJ. H White, of Hartford; r. L.
smith, of GreenVille, and other we'll
known owners and brooders in both
Of the CarolinaS. For r. L. Smith
he won many races with Bird Eve.
2:14A; Lucy Ashby. 2:21A. and other
, trotters, while for Mr.. White he cam
paigned Conroy, 2:1OH, pacing; Col
onel Patrick, 2:1OH; EestrelIa.
2:13%, and more with slower marks.
The dead Kentuckian's last engage
ment in Virginia was with Griffith
: and Saunders, owners of Acca Stock
Farm now the most prominent of
Richmond's Jersey cattle and trotting
horse breeding establishments. While
at Acca, in "A fit of jealous anger, due
to drunkenness, Smith killed a groom
named Murphy, and served a term in
the State prison for the offense A
natural hOrseman and always display
ing an aptitude for pedigrees and
blood lines of the trotter, Smiths ac-
Quaintance was wide and famiIiarly
= known as Uncle ST. Tidings of his
untimely ending will be received with
regret by many who knew him in
more prosperous days
BELIEVE MURDER
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