Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-04-13
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TROTT|NG PAIRS
CORRECTLY DOPED
Gocher Tells of Antecedents of
Brood Mares With Turf and
Road Records.

OF all the great mares that. have APP
peared in double harness. there has
been but four pairs that We're as
signed as prominent place in the
brood mare ranks as they earned on
the turf or road They are Amazonia
and Sophonisbia which John Tredwell
drove on the Long Island roads prior
to 1922. when he bred both of them to
Mambrina; Belle Hamlirl and Justina,
the Village farm pair 1e1t placed the
worlds record at 2:13 in 1890 and with
Globe placed the three horse team rec
ord at 2;14 the following year; Sally
simmons and Rose Leaf, whose race
record of 2:15A made at Columbus in
1884 remained unbeaten until last year
when Lucy Van and Roy Miller cut it
to 2:l0H at Syracuse; and the Wilton
mares Silicon and Scourine, both of
full performers.
John Tredweirs team was the best
pair of trotters in their day, Amazonia
being credited with mile in 1854 to
saddle prior to 1920. In 1923 she pro-
duced Abdallah, the sire of Hamble-
tonian, to whom practically all the
present day trotters trace. while the
same year her mate Sophonisbia foal-
ed Almack, the head of the Champion
family, the first of which in 1916 trot-
ted in s.: 05 as a three year old.
LINE OF FAST ONES.
OF the Village farm pair, Justna
produced the PAGER, Evangeline Rex,
2:19A, and her mate, Belle Hamlin, be-
came the dam of Lorenzo Hamlin,
2:24l4, as well as the grandam of a
number of fast performers. Sally
Simmons. however, leads them all. as
she produced Hamburg Belle, the trot-
ter that reduced the worlds race rec
ord to POM and was sold for $780,
600. Rose Leaf also became the dam of
number of useful performers, Or
monde Rose, 2:12A, being the fastest.
AS race mare, Silicon was the most
successful. She won six events in her
two year-ol form, her last appear
ance that season being at Nashville
where she defeated a field of IA in
2:15A. As a four -year-old she also
won $4,000 purse at Terre Haute in
2:13A.
Hckok drove her and after the race
he had merry time with the man
ager of the meeting, when the latter
decided to retain the excess over the
$1,000 guaranteed for the event.
Scourine was raced as o two and three
year old when she won in 2:1Sla. She
was also in the money in the futuri
ties which were won by Oakland Baron,
Boreal and Impetus. John L. Madden
hitched her with Silicon and sold the
pair to Ed de Cernea for Charles NJ.
Reed of Erie, Pa, for $4,000 for a
road team. In time he sold them to
o. T. Mackey of New York. He sent
the pair to Kentucky, where they were
bred.
WINNER OF BIG EVENTS
Silko was Silicon's first foal. He
won the Lexington stake in 1905 and
the Kentucky futurity in 1906 The fol-
lowing year he was sold for export and
in 1908 over the ive-eighth mile track
at Vienna, Al Pennock won the sum-
mer prize with him in .: 0S $40, a new
European record, which remained I'M
beaten until 1910 when Frosty defeat
ed Krepish in EOS at Moscow. Brigh-
ton. a brother to Siliko, trotted in
2:i1a4. He sired Brighton b, 2:05h,
who with Lettie Lee trotted in 2:07%
to pole. Silicon also produced Sister
Francis, 2l1 Y. and the PAGER Winans.
o:10A. Four of Scourine's foals made
records, the fastest being Roma,
2:1Sh.
Silicon and Scourine We're got by
Wilton, Silicon being out of Silhou-
cite, a daughter of Hambrino and
Silyerlock, the dam of Silverone, which
was one of the leading three year old
trotters when Patron and Manzanita
were making worlds records, while
Scourine is a member of the Mamie
family, that has been represented on
the American and European tracks by
such horses as Jack Leyburn, 2:04A
Willy, 2:05, viii Leyburn, 2:O6, and
Fred Leyburn, 21O&. OF the other
pairs, Sally Simmons was got by
Simmons out of Sally Adams by John
Burdine, son of Almont. Atlantic
another son of Almont, got the dam of
Rose Leaf her sire being old Leaf by
Nugget. Belle Hamlin and Justna
were both by Hamlin's Almont it, an
other son of Almont, out of mares by
Iamlin Patchen.
There is a skip of 20 years between
them and the Tredwell pair, which
We're put together at the dawn of
light harness racing. Nothing definite
is known of their breeding, although
AmaZonia is supposed to have been got
by son of imported Messenger and
Sophonisbia by grandson of i'm
ported Baronet.
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