The Washington herald., 1913-03-30
|TROTTER AND PAGER
Big Grst of Local Happenings Among Washington Horse
Owners-Pertnent Remarks Anent HalfMle Track

, to a highly bred son Of Peter the Great.
2:O71-4
J. L. Butt, Buttonwood Farm, Gettys-
burg. Pa, where Senator Hale. 2:10 IA.
Is owned. will retain at home the serv-
Ices of the Senator. Mr.. Butt did think
at one time Of shipping him to Kentucky.
Charles c. Waters. Pleasant Fields
Stock Farm. Montgomery County, Is look
ing this year for a proper nick for the
dam of Kinstress. 2:09 "a. and others.
! Mr.. Waters no longer breeds extensively
since. the death of Kinster. 2:143-.
The untimely deaths of Bale Axworthy
the breeding operations OF Loudoun
County. 1t will be some years before
their places will be filed. II ever.
T. F. Tippetts sold last week to f. +.
Hall a three-year-old trotting stallion by
Won March. go Ia that promises speed.
Mr.. Tippetts has also recently acquired
the good trotting prospect Nova Girl. by
COlumbo.
Ryan brothers, OF Mt Pleasant. are
driving on the streets of the city a very
racy looking two-year-old trotter by Alto
Bell, dam by Monocacy. .2:15 "a.
May the second payment Of the three
year-old trotting stake VIM be due. Nomi-
nators In the stake should bear the date
in mind.
Stallion owners will do well to remem-
Der that publicity never injured a good
sire and never aided a poor one.
What would sane person think Of q
merchant with goods on his shelves, who
never let the public know what he had
to sell? The answer Is obvious.
Owners OF stake colts are puzzling their
brains as to who shall do their training
and where they shall be trained. There
L.
trict of Columbia. and the nearest track
twelve miles distant.
Such a lamentable condition OF affairs
does not speak well for a city approach
ing a population OF half a million Of in
habitants. and destined soon to boast of
a million OF people.
West Washington, better known as
Georgetown, has surely gone into the
discard in the way of dead game light
harness sports. Time was when one
could not toss aside a quid Of tobacco or
stub Of a cigar without hitting one.
Timothy Shrugue. John Dugan, and his
brother Michael the Hilleranis, a host
in themselves; Charles Stohlman, Henry
Copperthite-aIl have dropped out Of the
game, and even the Weaver brothers.
Charles and William. are no longer
active.
Michael Morris is the lone active repre-
sentative of the light-harness cult in
Georgetown, and. while he counts for
great deal. II makes old timers sad
when they reflect on what was and what
is now. Possibly the lack of a trotting
track close at hand has something to do
with it,
Washington can never hope to become
a powerful light-harness center, ranking
in importance with other large cities, I'M
til it has a track distinctively its own.
with all the adjuncts that go with q
well kept up-to-date track.
We horsemen OF Washington. must
present inducements for trainers to come
here and remain here. and insist that
they shall remain here and train. This
very racing season, between fifty and
sixty colts of two and three years of
age must be developed in the matter of
speed.
A dozen or more aged horses must be
prepared for their engagements. The
greater part OF them are now at Hag-
erstown-some seventy-fve miles distant.
Horse owners can only see their horses
and at q needless expense.
Training bills, heaven knows, run high
enough without the added expense OF rail-
road fare.
Many persons living here. interested in
light-harness matters, would buy a speed
horse or horses IL a suitable track was
near at hand. so that they could see
their horses work and watch their de-
velopment. Other persons. not now ac-
tive in light-harness affairs. would be
to buy a good horse IL We
had a track and clubhouse where
horsemen could meet in social converse.
A track at this point is an absolute
and. until We have one. Wash
ington horsemen will never be anything
but tailenders, mere pikers, as COM
pared with their brethren in other cities.
Two important trotting stakes are to be