The New York herald., 1921-08-07

Nimrod was an English trotting stall
lion OF the breed now known as the hack
ney, and Useful Cub was one OF the
earliest celebrities of this breed. John
Lawrence, the first English writer Who
recognized the trotting horse, said Of
Useful Cub in his now rare "Philosopni-
cal and Practical Treatise on Horses.
published In 1896:
ITO Shields (Shales) and Useful Cub
the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire and Nor
folk are in a great measure Indebted
for their fame in the production Of cap
ital hackneys. Cub was got by black
cart horse out of a Chapmans mare
Of course his trotting stock has run
too much upon the round shoulder and
buttocl. and have been more remark
able for their speed than stoutness.
In his History and Delineation Of the
Horse" published in 1909, Lawrence
says that Useful Cub was owned Ivy
Thomas Jenkinson OF Lincolnshire, and
that he succeeded Shales as prominent
trotting sire. HE was got by black
cart horse, resembling. as Jenkinson m
formed me. the Suffolk breed" he says,
and was out of q Chapmans mare.
Much of the stock (fast trotters) above
mentioned has been bred from this
horse. They were distinguished. In the
first produce, by the round buttock and
wide bosom Of their cart bred sire, and
as | observed in many OF them. speed
was their best; but the stock was soon
improved by crossing with racing blood.
Pretender, "A son of Cub, was out of
well bred daughter OF Lord Abingdon
Pretender, by Marske. Pretender, by
Cub. ] was informed, without being com
pelled to believe the fact trotted mile
In two minutes and a hall
"In 1892 a five-year-oid son of Pre-
tender trotted in Lincolnshire sixteen
miles In SO minutes, carrying fifteen
stone
Writing 100 years ago In tine English
Sporting Maonsine, Lawrence said:
when | was In Lincolnshire, In i7T0,
ola Schales was In the height Of his
reputation lie was either riTalled or
succeeded In that respect by Jenkinson's
Itgeful Cub, a horse or very different
brc ed, and fully master OF twenty stone.
ii 1879 trotted nearly mile with THIS
horse and his speed as l Judged by my
own hackney, a tried one) was above
the rate OF twenty miles an hour, though
lie carried seventeen stone"
The identity and history of Useful Cub
have never been established In England.
His name is not among the stations reg
istered i'm the English Hackney stud
Book, which credits the paternity OF
Pretender to Jenlkinson's Fireaway. re-
puted son of Driver, by "Old Schales,
Shields" or Scot Shales. as he Is known
in the stud book.
The name r. Jenkinson in the adver-
tisement Of Nimrod is quite rs interest
i.g as that Of the horse himself. 1t l.
identical with that OF the English horse
man located at Sutton. near Long sut-
ton. I'm the county OF Lincoln. who bred
Jenkinson's Fireaway. as well as Useful
- n,4H Ftill
II the old announcement IS 10 be be-
lieved,
In this connection II Ia worthy OF note
that Mr.. Pond also discovered in the
PennsUtUdnta Gazette for March 22, 1885,
the advertisement OF a stallion called
sharp. by Golden Farmer. out of VIII
ing Maid, owned by William Tod, nine
miles from Cooper's Ferry Gloucester
county n. j. The sire Of this horse, II
viii be noticed. Is of the same name ms
the sire of the dam of Nimrod. Golden
Farmer was a noted sire of trotters in
England prior to 1772. Horses called
Young Nimrod. by Old Ninrod,' were
at Newport. II. J., and Dover, y. H..
while variations OF tho name Golden
Farmer were numerous among stud
horses In Pennsylvania at a little later
period. Pretcnder. a son of Jenltinson's
Fireaway. landed at Norfolk, Va, In
1901, and loft his mark 90 the horse
stock OF Virginia In ls22 ry's Bell
founder, a great grandson d F'ireaway.
arrived from England to become famous
a the sire Of the dams ~ Rysdyk'a
Hamblctonian and Conqueror, one the
great progcnitors OF the present day breed
of trotters and the other to trot 100
miles I'm s 1855 81. which record has stood
unbeaten since 1853.