The Washington herald., 1913-11-30
Faint heart
And acnld feet
BY L. ID. SALE.

And cold feet
Never brought anybody anything.
Only men Of courage, judgment and
.persistency
Should engage in the horse game, for
only the fittest survive.
ID. ]. Mccarthy has turned Kathleen
Dewey C2) out to pasture.
Hanson, the Michigan colt trainer. ex-
poets TO winter at Pocomoke.
w E Miller returned from his long
and successful campaign Monday.
He lost his match race with Axis
against Palm CoZne.
Hall and Javfns will winter their two
year-old Peter the Great in Baltimore.
John Crawford will train weisner Bros.
Cof BALTIMORE horses in 1914
Charles c. Waters and Dave Hershey
are hunting bear in North Carolina.
Alonzo Corbin is still Drawing the win
try winds at the Rockville track.
Francis Javins is driving Gallant Maid,
2:2o1-4. on the road.
Charles Weaver is on a hunting trip
in the wilds of St Mary.
Charles, when home. attracts much at
tention behind handsome gray trotte:,
bred in Old Kaintuck-
DR.. ]. D. Robinson is now owner of the
handsome stallion, Lord Jay, by jay
Tine
The doctor thinks OF shipping him TO
= his fine farm in St Thomas, Canada.
Henry Copperthite, of Burke. Va. has
not got a horse Of trotting blood on his
farm
An of his work horses will be ex-
. changed for mules and oxen in the
: spring.
. Michael Inscoe is driving his handsome
daughter of Red Rock on the ROAD.
Willie LeapIey is still looking for some
thing to take the place Of the dead Aus
trail jr.
Ford to an admiring friend IN Congress
Heights.
James Boyd can be daily seen behind
handsome sorrel hlIy by Notchc!iff: dam
by NutwOOd.
Austin LOTUS has registered his veal
ing horse colt by hUshan; dam Berr'e
L'ghtfoot, 2:I2 IA.
Peter Menehsn says he will buy trot-
ter as soon as the new speedway is in
commission.
''Knap" Mccarthy is expected TO win
ter the fast mare Berka, PA L. and,
perhaps, Koroni, 2:17 Ia.
John Norris for the first time in many
years. is without a horse of any kind.
Walking is good enough for him.
Peter LOTUS horse holdings have
dHindled to one lone old mare, Bessie
Lightfoot, in foal to Kushan.
Frank Thomas may become a perma-
nent attache OF Brightyiew Farm, Coles
willie, Montgomery County.
Frank D. Young is wintering his trot-
ters and PAGERS on his farm, near For
estville, with the single exception OF
Ringo.
F. A. Robinson. OF Brandywine, Nd,
may not race the good colt Hal Hardin
in 1914. but retire him to the stud.
Persons who have inspected F. A.
Wards young trotters, now located in
Loudoun County, pronounce them to be
a promising and highly bred lot.
All will be developed in 1914. and Mr..
Wards training quarters will probably
be in Baltimore. A trainer has not been
selected.
Charley Widimeir. who Cnce trained and
drove for George Goodacre, and is now
2 prosperous merchant of La Plata, was
in town last week.
J. c. Mott, the well-known driver and
trainer, is in town for the winter. He
may decide to train for the McHenry
brothers, of Washington and Hagers-
town.
Frank c. Combs of LeOnardtown, won
two match races with Palm Cozine.
2:19 IA in 1913, and is much elated with
his success.
Mr.. Combs thinks there will be a re-
'vival of racing sport in St Marys in
1914 if a proper site for new track can
be located.
Kushan, jr., who won the big end of
the two-year-old trotting stake Novem-
Der u, is being wintered at Brightview
Stock Farm, where he is owned by
Javins Bros.
The Javins hope he will ultimately de-
velop into a high-class trotter when his
rough edges wear off and he gets into
the hands of capable trainer.
An 'unauthenticated rumor is to the eff
feet. that Frank D. Young, owner of the
sensational Bingo. thinks of selling him
to some apDreciative buyer. He looks
fine.
Kushan, jr.. bay gelding by Kushan,
2:IS l., recently Won the three minute
trot over the Kilmarnock, Va, track in
straight heats; best time, 2:52- Grattan
Girl, driven by F. c. Combs was second.
Detroit is seriously thinking of chang
ing the class of her famous $4,000 NJ.
& NJ Outside horsemen thus far heard
from oppose the change.
1t is an eyeIash finish between Peter
the Great and Walnut Hall as to which
is the leading sire of the year. The
returns are not all in. Up to date, each
has twenty in the 2:3o list
As a money winning sire, Peter the
Great leads all sires for 1913. Full re-
turns will soon be at hand. The full
statistics are in hand and Will be printed
early in December.
Few men, if any. cling to the racing
game like B. Hagin. He is ninety
three years old and is still in the market
for a horse that suits him. regardless of
price.
B. F. McCauley now has the noted local
trotter, Bob R., 2:29 IA For some days
he was consigned to do hack work about
the streets when McCaully went to his
rescue.
Lee Hechinger's high stepping blue rib
bon winner, for which. he paid $1,000
when a three-year-old, is now drawing
a night-liner about the streets of the
National Capital +. Winners OF the Oaks
and the Derby have drawn cabs on the
streets of London.
Wanted-A nerve fluid that will restore
life and vigor to the spinal columns Of
certain entrants in the two-year-old trot-
ting stake of 1874. Three gross cans at
once can be disposed of to J. NJ. Boyd.
J. c. Forrest, and T. W. Dunworth.
There may be few others.
Benton NJ. Ray. of Colesville, Nd, owns
2 handsome five-year-old daughter of
Kinster, which he will have trained. and
raced some time IN 1874 Mr.. Ray does
not breed trotters, but buys q promising
young trotter for driving purposes now
and then.
The Moko stallion. owned by Fields
brothers, of Rockville, is exciting quite
a good deal Of attention among breeders.
The usefulness of this highly bred young
horse might be considerably extended by