The Washington herald., 1912-07-14
=TROTTER AND PAGER
ForesfWle to Be Again in the Limehght Labor
Day-Interesting Stories About w. E. Miller
and Michael Mor1is-Local Gossip
of Horsemen and Horses.
Grand Circuit Doings.

greatest horse quip in the Valley Of the
Mohawk: DO unto others as others
would do unto you. and do IT first.3
There is q young man living In the We
cinity of Fort Washington. Prince George
County. named Z. D. Ward who, for
pure nerve, has every other horseman
IN this neck OF timber beaten TO pulp.
One year ago he read about three
year-old stallion by Dan Patch for sale
at Savage Farm. Mimi, price, $500
After some correspondence on the sub
ject Ward inelosed his check for the
amount and the colt arrived at Fort
Washington on schedule time. When
the freight agent showed under Wards
nose the freight charges Of Ss5.o5. they
say not hair on Wards head grew
moist and not az eyelash quivered. He
was dead game
He liked the looks of the youngster as
soon as he saw him. He was all horse,
rich bay in color. Of good size. over
fifteen hands. and hinged together like a
racing automobile That country boy
should invest such a sum of money In a
colt he had never seen. made the Reu-
bens in Prince George gasp with asth-
matte pains. They are not quite yet re-
turned to their normal state. The colt.
now a four-year-old. Is registered in
Volume XVIII as Goldie Patch ls24. and
his dam is Polly Poor fvol xv). by Al
ucu 1oiusiIlltn Brdnuddm py rat
he by Swigert. and the colts only mark
ings are a star. three white ankles, and
a white postern.
And. like his sire, Dan Patch, 1:55 IA,
and like his grandsire Joe Patchin.
2:0l Ia. Goldie Patch is a PAGER; and, IL
signs do not deceive one, will be light
ming fast one. Mr.. Wood extended him
some for the benefit OF the public July 4,
at Fcrestville, and he was the focus OF
all eyes. In fact. throughout the entire
day Goldie Patch's stall was the center
of attraction He will be worked some
| the present season. probably by William
Andrews. and next spring placed IN the
hands of Thomas Murphy or Geers.
Augustus Morgan, 34ls N Street North
west and one OF the best-known and
4 most prominent horsemen of West
Washington, sold. on Monday last. the
/ handsome Helen Kushan four-year-old
filly TO Francis Andrews, Of Tennally-
| town: price not stated. but believed to
1 be good sum- II is Mr.. Andrews in
] tention to use the mare on the road
| this year. and next spring develop and
race her, Mr.. Morgan says the flly
ought to race to a low mark.
Mr.. Morgan, however. stiH retains
quite large string OF valuable trotters,
from which he will part for reasonable
sums. These comprise the Kushsn-Flor-
enee Wilkes filly, now four, a sorrel
filly by DR.. Bell, 2:17lt. dam Little Pearl.
trial 2:2Sk, by Onward. 2:25I. and the
fast-trotting gelding Fsax, by Baron
| Dillon, 2:12-
Florence Kushan and Fsax are at the
| Rockville track in training, and can
be seeen at work in the afternoons of
Monday and Friday Mr.. Morgan offers
! to show a 2:15 gait with the gelding
and he is now ready TO take him to the
races. Florence Kushan is also in con-
dillon to race, and Is very fast. In her
! last workout she trotted the last quar-
| ter Of her mile in 3iii seconds, without
apparent effort, and Morgan thinks she
ought TO trot a mile in go the latter
| part Of August
The DR.. Bell-Little Pearl flly is in Mr.
Morgan's town stable in West Washing
| ton. She is fast. well-mannered "a lady
can drive herb, and is a prize for some
one looking for her kind.
The opening of the Grand Circuit. at
Grand Rapids, Mich, Tuesday. was ex-
ceptionally brilliant Our old acquaint-
ance Sunny Jim carried of the big end
OF the purse in the 2:0 pace, and that
good Sidney Dillon mare. Helen Stiles
got the best end of the 5000 purse in
! the 2:07 trot Beirne Holt was too fast
for his fast relative, Dictator Todd. in
the Grand Rapids Railway purse of
s.. 900, after the latter ham won the first
heat Holt is by Cochalo, a son OF the
dead Todd, and Dictator Todd is by
Todd, a son of Bingen. The 2:14 pace
which went TO Henry H, on Tuesday.
was fast race, the second heat being
paced in 2:0S 3-+
The classic OF the week, pulled of on
Wednesday, the New Furniture Manu-
facturers' purse, was awarded to Baden,
a son of Bingara- Bergen. distance in
the third heat. Is also by him It was a
five-heat affair and, as the purse was
$4,000 one, there was a desperate strug-
gle on the part of those engaged to an
mex it. Esther NJ. and Miss Archdale
each got momentary glance at the rich
prize; but the Richmond. Va, owned
stud outlasted them. Baden Is owned
by President Brown. OF the New York
Central Railroad.
The much-touted Snow mare, ZoinL
brener, must have burned up a ton of
money in the 2:o4 pace. After winning
the first heat in the lightning-fast time
Of 2:A IA, she faded and, the Searchlight
stud c. The Limit. romped home with
the rich end OF the purse, in, we believe,
three of the fastest heats ever paced at
this season of the year, in a race