The Washington herald., 1913-05-11
Photo BY Woods.
BY l.. ID. SALE.

BY l.. ID. SALE.
Ideal training days these. II this
brand of weather continues, II should
be easy to get to the races In this lati-
tude in June.
Corbin. at Hagerstown, reports that
his horses are as forward In their work
as they were last year at this time
Crawford, at Baltimore, hopes to be
able to score down for the word the
first week In July. Hanson. at Pros
pect Park, reports steady progress
with his young and aged horses. Mott,
of La Plata, has. within the past few
days, shipped his horse holdings to
Hagerstown, thus making that city
one Of the most important training
camps in Maryland.
Motifs horses are not quite as for
ward as some Of the others. But when
one recalls to mind what the little man
did with Palm Cozine and Russell CO.
zine three summers ago, he may have
reason to expect he will not be very
far in the rear when the bell rings.
Andrews, at Forestville. was quite a
good deal handicapped by bad weather
in April, and by some other things.
But, il the month OF May acts good, he
hopes TO make up for lost days. His
two-year-old stake colt, Bings, is, we
believe. trife more forward in his
work and speed than the other mem
bers of the two-year-old trotting stake.
This Is owing to the fact that he was
logged the better part of the winter
and spring and worked on the brush
system. We journeyed to the Forest
willie track on Tuesday last for the
n h,S III.
email youngster for this latitude work.
Unfortunately, however. We were a day
late. We are creditably informed he
can reel of eighths in 10 seconds
talked back" and his trainer believes
an eighth in IS seconds is easy for him.
AS his sire, Lord Bingen. is a son Of
Bingen. 2:06h, and as Lord Bingen's
dam is a good daughter of Allerton.
2:09A. one has a right to expect phe-
nomenal speed, especially as Bingos
dam. Miss Elanore. 2:1sA, was a good
and speedy race mare by Overstreet
Wilkes. Bingo is a model Of the Amer
lean trotter, as he is viewed today, ex-
cept in the matter Of size. He is a
richly colored dark bay or brown, and,
in conformation Is, to degree, on the
Bingen order. Most stallion colts de-
velop one end at at time-usually the
forequarters first. Bingo at two years
is an exception to this rule. which fact
makes him symmetrical for so young a
colt. His best asset, aside from his
speed, is his head. This could serve as
a model for an artist. The head is ar
tistically Joined to a neck of the right
length and of the right proportions,
back of which are shoulders, back and
loins of which no one can find fault.
His crop denotes that he might be
PAGER from choice. His tail is FUN and
sweeps the ground. His tout ensem-
bic is that of a horse in miniature. We
go into minute details in regard to
this colt because of his advanced speed
for this locality, and because, again,
he promises to be much in the public
eye during the coming summer and
fall months.
Bingen, 2:06L. is dead, and, as a
sire of speed, has taken his place
among the immortals of the American
trotting turf. Were his deeds as
speed horse and as a speed sire and
the deeds Of his sons (for he is notably
stronger in the male than female line)
stricken from the written pages Of the
trotting turf the blank
space would be something immense.
We take II for granted that 1t is up-
derstood by all of the readers Of this
column that the greatness of a sire is
measured by his capacity to breed on
through his sons and daughters. 1t Is
not our purpose 10 enttr into invidious
But. when one passes in
review. one by one. the great sires Of
the twentieth century, and bears in
mind the environment, of each sire
(Which Is only another term for OPP
we find it hard to get very
far away from Bingen. He began his
stud career In that part of New Eng
land which, for over half century.
has been called the graveyard of
great stations, Binsen's stud serv-
ice began In. 1895. His standard per-
formers, according to the Year Book,
number 1913. and. Of that number only
PAGERS.
Unquestionably his best son was
Todd, 2:14A, who died when only eight
years Of age; and, according to the
latest returns. is the sire of SO stand
ard performers, among which are Bob
Douglas, 2:04h; Northern Man, 2:06h;
Gordon Todd. 2:o7K. and Kentucky
Todd. 2:0SA. In all he has eleven In
the 2:10 list. All Of these grandsons of
Bingen are breeding on. Next in value
Is Bingen's sensational son Bingara,
who was never trained. At twelve
years Of age he has forty-three trot-
terS- to his credit. Included In this
number are Baden, 2:05N: Belvasia,
2;0sk; Bergen. 2:0sx., ana BinvolO.
s:07x. The latter 10 already . sire.
Baden and Bergen are yet to be heard
from. Others of Bingen,s sons that
have or are string speed are AArntro1
Dewey. 2:04z. who died young; vice
2:11, and The Exponent.
s:Ex Lord Bingen. owned by that
estfmabie gentleman. r. c. Combs. of
3eauvue. st. Mary County. has. vet to
prove his worth as q sire OF extreme |
speed. In Bingo. at least. he has one
promising prospect. While BingenS is
by number OF sons that
we're speedy md have sired speed and