The Washington herald., 1913-03-23
TROTTER AND PAGER

, there are not sufficient entries. the execu-
tive committee reserves the right to de-
clare the sale of and the money will be
refunded. John o. Gheen. well and favor
ably known among light harness and
| horse show followers. has been made
sales manager, and all interested may
be assured In advance OF square deal.
The light harness horse parade. which
| has usually opened the horse show. has
been eliminated the present year. The
lack of interest shown last May in the
! parade of last year. when only a beg
gardly number of light harness people
turned out has probably much to do with
the decision made. 1t Is to the eternal
discredit of District horsemen that so
little attention has been paid to this I'm
portant feature of the horse show. The
prizes in all of the show classes are
valuable, and IL behooves every person
In this bailiwick to rally, around the
men who have made this rare entertain
! ment possible and a permanent fixture in
Washington.
Those Interested In the two-year-old
trotting stake for 1913, should not allow
| their memories to slip a cog and forget
that on April a second payment Is due
on the stake, and that three days grace
10 allowed to make good. IL. after the
| expiration Of three days. the nominator
, does not make good, he forfeits. In an
other month the second payment In the
three-year- trotting stake will be due
| The horse business, like every other
branch OF business under the sun. Is
one thing after another. We again call
attention of persons who have entered In
| the two and three-year-old stakes. that
their entrance is not legal until the con-
lxat uasr nnd
Only a few nominators have signed in
the three-year-old stake. The matter
should be attended TO without further
| delay. The conditions are in the hands
| Of ID. J. Mccarthy awaiting signatures
The three-year-old pacing stake people
seem a long while in getting together.
| There is much talk. but no decisive ac-
ton. They are free to boast what pacing
wonders they own. and right there If
where they stop. It's money that talks
best in matters OF this kind. and Mr.. Nc
Carthy would like TO see the color of the
| money of these loud takers, although,
OF course he puts his views in mild
| form. It is quite as hard to get the
| average Washington horseman into ac-
| tion as is the case with battery OF
| heavy artillery. We would not ike 10
estimate the seas of ink We have sduan-
dered how many tons of paper We have
l
have expended in the past twenty years
| to get Washington horsemen screwed up
| to the proper pitch to do things that were
| in their own interest. Job was remark
able for his patience and he died quite
number OF years before Washington
was conceived. but had he lived in the
present days and tried his patience on
District horsemen 1t would have soon
| been exhausted.
| II you were called upon to name ten OF
the greatest trottinG sires Of all time.
what ones would you select and In what
order? The Horse Review recently put
the question to seven men supposed 10
be experts. DR. j. c. Mccoy, probably
the greatest scientific writer on the light
harness horse now living. names his list
as follows: Hambletonian 10. Electioncer.
George Wilkes. Abdallah Is. Happy Med
: ium, Dictator Baron Wilkes. Bingen,
Axtell. and Peter the Great. Grover H.
Perrigo names Hamiltonian, first: George
Wilkes. second: Electioneer. third: Mann
brino Chief. fourth; Abdallah O5,. fifth;
Baron Wilkes, sixth: Dictator. seventh;
Happy Medium, eighth: Mckinney. ninth.
and Axtell. tenth. Ten Eyck White of the
Chicago Tribune. names Hambletonian.
first: George Wilkes, second; Electioneer.
third: AIexanders Abdallah, fourth: Die
gen, seventh: Nutwood. eighth: Baron
Wilkes ninth. and Mckinney, tenth. A.
G. Leonard places Hambletonian, first;
George Wilkes, second: Electioneer. third;
Baron Wilkes. fourth: Bingen, fifth; Todd.
his son, sixth: Dictator. seventh; Moko.
eighth: Axworthy, ninth. and Peter the
Great, tenth.
Everett H Smith names Bingen. first;
NfrE
| the Great. fourth: Todd. fifth; Baron
Wilkes, sixth: Jay Hawker. seventh:
| Electoneer. eighth: Moke, ninth. and
Hambletonian 10, last. NJ. Fl. Smollinger
places Hambletonian, first; George Wilkes
second; Electioneer, third; Bingen,
, fourth; Baron Wilkes, fifth; Dictator.
sixth: Jay Bird, seventh; Allerton,
| eighth: Axtell, ninth. and AbdaIlah Is,
| last A. ]. Meston, the eminent statisti-
clan. lodges the direct issue. He names
Bingara. sire of >Berka. as the only twen-
tieth sire. and thinks he should lead the
list. the more SO as his four trotters have
all race records better than 2:os. Todd,
Mr.. Meston calls the most successful sire
| of this age. Jay McGregor he ranks
| next, and then follow Moko. Oakland,
Baron. Mckinney, and his son. Zembro.
| and then AXtell and Axwarthy. This
| makes a list of twelve two more than
asked for. Mr.. Meston makes his selec-
tions from the standard of 2:lo speed
| Speaking of Hambletonian 10 he says
| that his record list is less than 4 Der
cent of 2:30 trotters. Such results, he re-
| marks, from present day sires would
bankrupt a Rockefeller or a Morgan, IL
they persisted In breeding extensively
from him. On the other hand he thinks
\ II not unlikely that If modern methods
of training and modern equipment had
been applied to the get of the ten foun-
dation sires every one of them would be
listed among 2:lo trotting sires.