Evening star., 1933-01-15

ington, KY. lowered toe time to / So Senator
Leland Stanford of California bred the Abbot's
sire and owned the grandsire as well In The
Star Of September e. 1900 We are told:
The father of the Abbot was Chimes, a very
fast trotter himself, who trotted faster than
his sire. El>ctioneer. the premier Of them all
1t Is not q surprise therefore, that the Abbot
should trot very fast, and not very surprisinS
that he should take the worlds record, wonder
ful as the performance was. Chimes was the
son Of Beautiful Bells and Electioneer and one
or family that brought more money than any
similar number Of horses in the history of the
trotting turf. His brother, Bell Boy, and his
other brother. E1.ctri- Bell were terribly fast.
though they were out-trotted think, by a still
younger brother, Arion, owned by J. Malcolm
Forbes Of Boston and for which he paid Sena-
tor Stanford $125,ooo In cash. / happened tc
be with the Senator the day he sold Arion to
Mr.. Forbes. The price was fixed at s125oo0.
cash down ON the spot Mr.. Forbes held OF
for . while. but finding he could not do any
better, asked If ut that price an old halter could
be thrown IN, which the Senator by the way.
declined to do, though the day Mr.. Forbes took
his horse away the Senator gave him a pair of
horse blankets, the finest probably that were
ever made, costing $500. Electric Bell, the
brother of Chimes, Arion and other rare ones,
you may remember, was valued by Senator
Stanford as being worth 81 900 per day every
day that he lived Ex-Representative ]. c.
Sibley Of Pennsylvania asked for a price the
day the colt was IL days old and was informed
by wire that it was $11 900. Three days after
ward he asked if that was the best that could
be done on cash basis. He got q reply that
the price went up 81 900 day. When the colt
was Ii days old Mr. Sibley became his owner
at $4,000. Senator Stanford had the satisfac-
ton Of beating the worlds record Of 2:o3Ha,
which was held by Maud s., the long g-reignang
queen when his filly, Sunol, passed the wire
quarter of . second faster
He regarded this performance as only a
natural consequence, saying that Sunol was
bred ON lines laid out to beat the record and
the colts Of the second generation of Election
eer would, If his theory Of breeding was correct
be considerably faster. This performance of
the Abbot heard outlined, therefore in almost
every detail, four years before he was born for
the Senator was thoroughly convinced of what
he was doing and what would follow Yes
there is such thing as . price on the Abbot
but no one can reach it. There Ia no necessity
or purpose Of selling horse who can get 81 900
per day for every day he Is allowed to trot for
that is the price paid the present season for
his appearance as a star, with an extra purse
OF $1,000 put up in case the record Is lowered
There are no horses that can be sent out
against him and the Abbot has been without
class during the entire past season The
grandsire Of the Abbot, Electioneer, was sup
posed to be worth $4o0 600, though the Senator
would not hare sold him at that price"
1 iORSE racing In the District Of Columbia
was for many years the greatest of all
sporting events, until base bali came along to
share honors with it, and even before the Dis
trict was formed horse racing was . part of
the HE Of Georgetown As early as 17se
~On April 10 of that year" we are told, "a
notice was published that on May 30 there
would be race for a subscription purse of 25
: pounds free to any horse mare or gelding, the
best two Ct three heats OF two miles each. II
rising zcfr years every animal was to carry 8
ston, c-d pounds. bride and saddle included;
III five years, stone; If six years. . stone and
pounds and If seven years. 10 stone; an
trance fee of 25s. and satisfactory vouchers as
to age to be required. And on the following
day q race for the balance Of the subscription
money and entrance fees free to any horse
mare or gelding, those running in the race OF
the previous day only excepted. In the second
days race every horse IA hands high was to
carry stone and pounds, bride and saddle
included and others to rise fall according
to the rules of racing. The horses were to be
entered on the day preceding each race with
Messrs Joseph Bell, John Orme or Cornelius
Davies" ~.
Over on this side of Rock Creek the first
race recorded took place in the Spring Of 1897
ON an oval-shaped +-eear E,lls,h crossed Penn
sylvania avenue at Seventeenth street and also
aS Twentieth street. the judges stand being
about ON the line of street between Seven
teenth and Eighteenth streets This race was
between horses owned by Charles Ridgeley and
John Tayioe and was really to determine the
supremacy Of the Maryland or the Virginia