The Washington herald., 1915-01-03
BY l.. ID. SALE.

Vale 1914; hail 1915. May you bring us
! good luck.
Anarchy reEns in Mexico and hell in
J European battlefields.
! A new map will soon be in order for
| Europe, but Washington will be on the
same old trotting map.
If VIC can get a move on our cotton,
wheat corn and manufactured products.
| 1915 should be another good season for
sports
The unexpected has happened. Five
! trottinE-brcd stations and six trOtting
bred mares have recently been exported
to Russia.
All persons Interested in the two,
three and four year old trotting stakes
are requested to meet in J. NJ Boyd's
dining parlors, in PENNSYLVANIA avenue,
near Seventeenth street. Tuesday evening
next. at 80 TO agree upon and sign con-
ditionS for said stakes.
All persons interested in a new and
permanent speedway along the Potomac
are also invited to he present and agree
on future action in the matter.
The meeting is of the greatest import
anCe to local horsemen. and should bring
together all who are interested in keep
ing Washington on the horse map.
Those persons who rest under the i'm
year-olds in sight to make a respectable
stake. will he surprised to know that
seven can be counted.
Their owners are y. J. Mccarthy. y.
J. Ward. {. g. Waters. Ryan Brothers.
Javins Brothers. Wiessnrr Brothers, and
the owner of Beerstopper.
Doubtless four or five other owners of
fOur-y -year-olds could be located by the
time the stakes close. The greater the
I hgr pf stakes 70 will ha tho
interest involved
Some OF the best performers the world
has known were four-year-olds. Jean
was tn" champion four-year-old fIly.
Directum was the champion four-year-old
stallion for fourteen years. Crescius and
The Harvester were great four-yeaT -olds.
Etawah, in 1914. proved to be the great
est of all fOur-year-Olds. All of the
horses named above were horses of the
highest class as racing tools. and dis
prove the theory that four-year-olds do
not race well.
Not all the prophets of Holy Writ, were
they alive, could accurately forecast what
a youngster will do until the day he is
raced. Owners of eligibles should hold
on to their nerve to the last minute.
Whichever fair association gets the colt
stakes in 1915. should be made to pay
something near their actual value by the
Unless all signs fail it will be worth
travelling a distance to see Silent Annie
and Normanda fight 1t out some time in
August in the two-year-old stake.
Mildred G. and Red Russell will COM
pete against each other again in the
three-year-old stake, to which each is
eligible in 1915. The showing they made
I'm 1914 was interesting.
BY the way, those who have seen D. J.
McCarthy's flly by Alto Bell step it of
think she may have something to say
when the three-year-old stake is trotted.
The elder Hall, of Virginia, is over
wheImed with applications from persons
VINO wish him to take their youngsters
for development. He has decided to take
only a few, as his farming operations de-
mand his time.
f. F. Hall will, as soon as spring opens, |
begin the construction of a half-mile |
training track on his farm in Fauquier
County, Va. Mr.. Halls brother will have |
charge of his training operations.
n. J. Ward has decided to send his |
three-year-old filly Nancy Dewey to F. |
F. Halls farm in the near future. to be |
shaped up for her summers engagements. |
Nancy Dewey was thrown out Of training |
in the midwinter of 1914 She showed
fast but not as fast as Drawtan. She Is |
by Alto Dewey. and her dam is the fast
mare Lulu Stanford, by Governor STAN
ford, 2:2oh. She should be a good four
year-old.
All persons who own racing-bred four
year-olds can make them earn their eats /
by giving them proper training. and, by /
entering them, after they are prepared. |
in events in different parts of Maryland /
There viii be numerous chances to try
them out before the stakes in which they
may be entered will be pulled of, and
they should be all the better for the ex-
perience they will gain.
That proposed match race between J.
c. Forests Bale Axworthy colt and J.
NJ. Boyd's May Bell. by Kershan, seems
to drag tribe. Why not make three-t