The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-20
BY L. d. SALE.

Gentle Spring;
Ethereal Mildness Come"
We need it in our business and mucl
| of il.
The continuous rains of the past te
days have put training operations on TIN
blink
William Andrews Bingo CO, by Lore
Bingen. pulled down five blue ribbons a
the recent Marlboro fair.
We again call attention to the impor
tant fact that the second payment, $15
falls due April 1 in the three-year-olt
trotting stake. and that the three-year
old pacing stake still has no entries
What's up?
Lou Dillon. IS L. has foal by At
lantic Express CD 2:oS Ia. 1t is her fiftl
foal.
1t is reported that Alonzo Corbin ha.
at present in his Hagerstown stables
twenty horses.
The latest to come into his hands i.
Gentle John, POI Ia, formerly owned by
I. w. Dunworth.
And still no movement is being made
toward securing a half mile track fol
Washington horsemep.
Norman Corbin has finally shipped
trial.
The Profile 90 by The Peer, 2:15 "a
goes t. the Richmond, Va, auctions the
latter part of this month.
Nicholas Schlegle has forsaken the trot.
tiers, and has entered into business rela.
lions with a local firm.
Trainer Lightbrown is driving In the
parks and streets very handsome sorrel
filly by Notchcliff.
Miss Hobson's eight-months-o filly, by
Kushan, is a trotter, and shows no in
clination to pace.
]. C. Mott, of La Plata, recently pur-
chased from r. F. Tippetts, of Chelten-
ham, Prince George County, the quite
promising trotting mare. Mona Girl,
2:5 IA, by Columbo, a son of Bingen,
Mots will race her.
DIR. Patton has about despaired of get
ting foal from his good race mare,
Mysotis. PIP 1-2.
Everett Taylor. once so prominent in
speedway matters has disposed Of all
of his horse holdings, carts. sulkies. &c.
And the same may be said Of Larry
Mccormick. who brought Mysotis to
Washington.
h Dan r. went under the hammer only
a few days ago. The veteran trotter
can still show quite a deal of speed.
d.; J. Mccarthy is getting Black Patch
en-, go Ia, in shape for the Decoration
Day races.
Thomas Linney, owner Of The Clerk.
2:2o. was run into by an automobile a
few days since. at the corner of Q and
Streets, and was seriously in
jured about the shoulders and back.
Harry Corbin, of Hamilton. Va, is
busy these days training some very
promising youngsters by Bale Axworthy
and DR.. Bell.
DR.. Sansbury proposes to rush the rae
ing season by giving a matinee about
May Is at his Forestville track.
The Decoration Day heats at Forest
vile probably will ali be half-mile ones.
Harvest Hall will, of course, be much
in evidence. You can't keep Doc down,
nor John Bunny.
The Horse Review reports that it's 1914
stake shows an alarming fall
ing off in numbers, and can't account
for it,
AS evidence of how the American trot-
ter has grown in speed. the yearling
record for trotters is now 2:15 "a. Air
dale holds it.
The two-year-old record is 2:07 IL. and
is held by Native Bell. The three-year-
old record is 2:04 "a, and is held by
z.
The worlds trotting record is LIS in
the open, and Uhlan holds it. He has
drawn a wagon a half mile with his
driver, F. X. Billings. UP in 0:56 IA
This is at the rate of 1:52 1-2 for the
mile He trotted the second and final
quarter of the half mile in OFT "a.
I:51 clip.
1t is estimated that there were in
at Lexington. KY, in 1912 sew
enty-five yearlings that could trot q mile
N standard time.
Word comes in from Berwyn, Nd, that
the grandest yearling around there or
near there is that owned by Mr.. Keefau-
YER. He is by Solograph (2:N 1-D, dam
he McGregor mare, thus far untraced.
put a fast and natural trotter.
Ryan brothers candidate for the two
vear-old trotting stake of 1913 is by Alto
Bell, instead of by Alto Dewey. Its dam
s believed to be by Monocacyt 2:15 "a.
w. P. O'Brien, of West Washington, is
iaily expecting a foal by Guyman, now
owned in Canada, and for which his
present owner says he has recently re-
used $4,000.
Ollie Clark, of Silver Spring. Nd. still
irives on the road Director Hannis, now
eighteen years old. The black stallion is
lmong the very last of the entire sons of
Director
The late banker, Horace Clark, always
maintained that the dam of Director
1annis was by Hannis, 2:17 3-4, and 1t is
to believe that she was.
Notwithstanding Director Hannis was a
asst youngster and his breeding excel