Title: Breeder and sportsman
Identifier: breedersportsma651914sanf (find matches)
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: Horses
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THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN ( Saturday, September 26, 1914. , NOTES AND NEWS ; ii â Lord Derby 2:05% is still alive, and is running out on a farm. E. E. Sniathers, of New York, still owns the gelding. Single G. 2:07% met his first defeat of the season, last week, at the hands of the Western mare, May E. Pick 2:09%. Up to Portage. Wis., Charley Dean, Charley Jr., and second-trainer "Red" Callahan, accounted for five of the eight races contested, two second moneys and one third. Going some! * May Mack defeated King Clansman and Guy Nella in the 2:09 class trot at Detroit last week in straight heats and slow time. «> The dead Todd 2:14% now lacks just one per- former of being a "century sire." Toddress, p., 2:12% is his 99th standard record-maker. «> Sim Lindsay considers the three-year-old colt Pat- rick de Oro, by Copa de Oro, a pacing wonder. It is reported that he worked the Winnipeg track in 2:08. Ed. R. Smith of Los Angeles sold at the State Fair, Sacramento, the high schooled trick saddle horse Quarrie Denmark to Mr. John W. Considine of the Woodland Stock Farm for Mrs. Fred Beckman. The price paid was $2,500. «> â » Something like 2,000 horses bought by the British government at St. Louis have been shipped to Can- ada for export out through that channel and are still being bought at the rate of 200 a day. Prices on this kind of horses range from $110 to $170. «⢠James M. Hazelton of Frankfort, Indiana, the new owner of Bon Voyage 2:08, reports that this stallion was shown seven times, being first six times and once second. He has done a good stud business with him as he is well liked in Indiana and adjoining- states. Edwin R. Smith of Los Angeles has been appoint- ed representative of the National Trotting Associa- tion for the Los Angeles Harness Horse Association. His duties will consist in supervising and reporting all record meetings given over the Los Angeles race track under the supervision of the L. A. H. H. A. «> Walter Cox has paid $10,000 for the trotting stal- lion. Worthy Prince 2:11%, by Prince McKinney, purchasing him of Thos. Griffin, Moston, Mass. He will be shipped to Cox at Detroit from West Vir- ginia, where he has been racing successfully. Last year this stallion was very successful on the half- mile tracks and in the fall, Cox made an unsuccessful attempt to purchase him. J. O., driven by Charles Dean Jr., performed a rather unusual stunt for a five-day mile-track meeting by winning three races at the Michigan State Fair. This is the pacer purchased by Dean Sr. for R. J. MacKenzie after J. O. had worked a mile in 2:06 at Lexington. He was off early in the season because of cracked heels, but is now in top condition. Dean is out to win as much winter feed as possible. «> A novelty in the shape of a three-wheeled sulky was exhibited at the Michigan State Fair, by Dr. J. L. Benson of Winnipeg. The doctor claims it is four seconds faster to a mile than a two-wheeled sulky because there is no body motion. Dr. Benson is the owner of the three-year-old Brisac and the two- year-old Barsac, full brothers, by Bingara, dam by Kremlin, purchased from Wm. Russell Allen. â & The war cloud in Europe has set the horse buyers to milling around and England is the best patron thus far in the game. The Kansas City market is already shipping out great quantities of horses and mules to some, one up in Canada and this somebody knows what to do with them, for he is sending them across the ocean by the shipload and the call is for more. One of our Colorado breeders maintains that not enough attention is given to this species and says: "The mule is much more easily raised than the horse, and if well broken is more agreeable to handle, more trusty and gentle. In breaking a mule first bit and break with as much care as a Dan Patch colt. Be easy and explain what it should know. Do not imagine you are breaking oxen and apply the same methods, but remember that a mule is the most intelligent work animal living and too often knows more than the driver. Do not ever tease a mule to teach it tricks but be always gentle and kind. A mule never kicks and becomes untrustworthy until taught to be so. If mules are raised this way folks will wonder why they have not always been raising mules. For good sense and judgment and for a pleasant team nothing equals a pair of properly raised and broken mules. As soon as weaned they should be put in the feed lot and fed oats and crushed com or any suitable fattening feed until about the first of February when they will bring from $150 to $200 a head on any of the southern markets." There seems to be plenty of fast horses in Cali- fornia this year, but little for them to do, as week after week goes by and no meetings of any conse- quence are held. It is said that recently at the Pleasanton track fourteen different horses have worked in 2:10 or better, of which only a few have records that fast. It seems a pity that some organi- zation cannot be effected whereby a racing revival upon the Pacific Coast may be brought about.â Horse Review. Esperanza ,the three-year-old trotting filly in the stable of W. G. Durfee, is the best three-year-old trotter ever seen in California; she holds a record of 2:09 which is the Pacific Coast record for that age. She also went a trial mile in public at Santa Rosa in 2:07%, the fastest mile ever trotted by a three-year- old on the Coast. Her racing career has been brief but sensational: as a two-year-old she won the State Fair Futurity and the Oregon Futurity; at three she won the Breeders' Futurity, the State Fair Futurity and the Stanford and Occident stakes. She is Cali- fornia bred, sired by Mr. Durfee's successful horse Carlokin 2:07% out of My Irene S. (full sister to Zulu Belle 2:12%, p. 2:06%), by Petigru, next dam Johannah Treat. Secretary W. H. Liggett, of the Herington, Kans., Fair Association, also the proprietor of Bald Knob Stock Farm, at that place, has purchased from J. O. Vroman, of Pomona. Cal., the noted trotting stallion Zombronut 2:08%, by Zombro 2:11âMont Rose, by Pilot Lemont 2:21%. During his racing career Zom- bronut acquitted himself with much credit on the Pacific Coast and elsewhere, winning eleven races and being first or second in nineteen out of thirty- two starts. His record was made at Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. 11, 1910, on which occasion he won the first, third and fourth heats in 2:08%, 2:08%, 2:08%, showing himself to be both game and fast. His winnings reached the sum of $7,795. He is now thir- teen years of age. With the sole exception of San Francisco 2:07%, now one of the stallions at Walnut Hall Farm, Zombronut is the fastest trotting stallion bv his famous sire. Just at present we have upon the turf two per- formers which are as yet unbeaten, but their careers are unfinished, nor has that of either been sufficient- ly protracted to submit him to an unequivocal test. We refer to the trotter Peter Volo, 2, 2:04%, 3, 2:04%, and the pacer William, 3, 2:05%, 4, 2:00. Thus far Peter Volo has raced four times as a two- year-old and once this season, at three, winning every race. William has raced six times at three and three times this season at four, and has won every race. Both Nancy Hanks and Dan Patch lost a solitary heat; Peter Volo also lost one heat this season. William has not, thus far, ever been headed to the wire after receiving the word "Go!" Having gone thus far on the path to glory, the interesting question arises, Do they possess the requisite indi- vidual qualities, and will they have the racing luck, to preserve their unbeaten certificates to the ends of their careers? The thoroughbreds belonging to the estate of the late William O. MacDonough of California were sold at auction at Sheepshead Bay on September 1st. The stallions sold were the get of the Derby winner Or- monde. The prices realized were far below the ex- pectation of the consignors. The top price of the sale was paid for the eleven-year-old futurity winner Or- mondale that was sold for $2,000. Twenty of the brood mares were purchased for prices ranging from $50 upwards; $1,600 was the highest price realized for any of the mares. Kentucky breeders picked up the best of the others at prices so low that only in four instances was as high as $500 reached. The twenty mares brought a total of $6,575, being an av- erage of $324. For the 38 animals soldâsome being passed for want of a bidâthe estate received the sum of $15,200, or only about one-tenth of the amount that Mr. MacDonough paid for Ormonde a number of years ago. John Anderson of Burlington, Kans., and his good reliable pacing mare, May E. Pick 2:07%, dropped off at Indianapolis on their way home to Kansas from West Virginia, where they created consternation in the camp of Single G. 4, 2:07%. May beat the four- year-old in a thrilling six-heat battle at Clarksburg, in which she and her Kansas owner were pitted against a formidable field of horses and some very resourceful sulky diplomats. This event really set- tled the ownership of the drivers' purse in the triple- town circuit of Clarksburg, Parkersburg and Fair- mont, W. Vaâ in which the drivers' stake of $1,000 was offered for the reinsman winning the most money in the circuit with one horse. May E. Pick landed it for Anderson and incidentally proved her- self to be one of the best pacing mares of the year. As stated, she also won at Indianapolis, on points, and by a narrow margin. She is one of the most pleasant and attractively rigged pacers seen this yearâa medium sized black mare by Silkwood, p., 2:07, dam Celia Belmont, by Allie Wilkes 2:15; grandam Bonetta, by Commodore Belmont 4340, son of Belmont 64. Plain harness and few boots describes her equipment, as she goes in an open bridle, wears the minimum in protection and so far as reliability in racing is concerned, can be said to be always on the job. C. X. Larabee, owner of the Brook Nook Ranch, died last Wednesday at his home in Bellingham, Wash., in his seventy-first year. As a banker Mr. Larabee was well known in Montana, Idaho and Washington. Thirty-one years ago Brook Nook was founded and devoted to the breeding of the light harness horse. Of the better known trotters and pacers foaled at Brook Nook are Kingbrook 2:07%, Donax p. 2:07%, Mandolin p. 2:10, Knick Knack p. 2:11%, etc. «> * One of the remarkable performances of the past week was the winning of the free-for-all class trot, purse $100, "at the Berea, O., Fair by Gertrude in 2:27. This mare has now reached the ripe old age of twenty-one years, is by Chinesbrino 2:28% and out of Lucy Wilson by Williston, a son of Happy Medium; grandam Irene Wilson (dam of Myrenne 2:27%) by Sherman 2:23%. During her entire life, this mare has been used exclusively as a family driver and, though never trained, was occasionally used in the matinees at Berea, O., by her owner, John Heffner, a "real dyed in the wool" horse lover of Gresham, O. Last season, when twenty years of age, Gertrude was started in a slow event of $100 value and secured a record of 2:28%, a performance probably never before equaled by a twenty-year-old mare in her maiden race. Last week she won another $100 event at Berea and reduced her mark to 2:27, which is indeed a remarkable performance for a trot- ter of similar age. This mare was foaled in 1893, the property of Malvern Farm, Malvern, Pa., and con- signed by that farm along with Acolyte 2:21 and others to the Fasig-Tipton sale at Cleveland and there purchased by Mr. Heffner.âAmer. Sportsman. o YEARLINGS AT AUCTION. Fifty-three thoroughbred yearlings were disposed of at the combination sale at the J. B. Haggin private stables at Sheepshead Bay this week for a total of $41,025, an average of $774. Considering the rather uncertain outlook for racing both here and in Canada next season, breeders looked on the sale as a satis- factory one, particularly as a number of the offerings were from practically untried stallions and mares, and so had to be sold on bloodlines alone. Popularity of sires was shown in the sales of three of the get of Star Shoot for $4,450, four by Peep o' Day for $5,700, seven sired by Peter Quince for $5,425, and six of the get of Trap Rock, brother to Tracery, for which Mr. Belmont refused $200,000, for $5,200. Robert Davies of Toronto, Canada, was the buyer of several of the highest priced animals sold, paying $3,000, the top price of the sale, for a bay son of Peep o' DayâMy Gyps, by Kyrle Daly; $2,800 for a bay son of Jack Atkins and Miss Marion, by Him- yar; $1,100. for a chestnut daughter of Trap Rock and Avon II., by Avington; $1,000 for a chestnut son of Trap RockâGolden Bush, by Oriflamme, and $600 for a bay daughter of Trap Rock and Miss Marconi, by imp. Albert. For $2,000 Moses Goldblatt obtained the chestnut colt by Star Shoot out of Berry Maid, by imp. Odd- fellow, and Schuyler L. Parsons paid $2,300 for a bay daughter of Waterboy and Hamburg Belle. James Blute bought the brown colt by Peter Quince out of Sweet Marjoram, by Dinna Forget, for $2,000, and the Oneck Stables paid $1,000 for a bay daughter of Ormondale and Lady Bramble, and so a half sister to the speedy Helen Barbee. For $1,500 each there were sold a chestnut colt by Star ShootâEl Salado to J. T. McDonald and a bay son of Peep o' Day and Vic Kinney to Frederick Johnson, the latter making several other purchases at lesser prices. James Fitzsimmons paid $1,400 for a colt by Mc- Gee out of Any Day, by Locohatchee, the first of the youngsters that came under the auctioneer's ham- mer. R. T. Wilson gave $1,300 for a half brother to Fireball, a dark bay by Trap RockâSly Nun, and James McManus paid $1,100 for the colt by Trap Rock out of Africa, by imported Saville. Of the others disposed of sixteen sold for $500 or more and the balance for sums from that amount down to $100 for the unfashionably bred ones, which had no individuality to commend them to bidders.
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JIM LOGAN JR. (3 Mos.) By Jim Logan 2:01%, dam Berta Logan by Bert Logan 2:16. â Owned by H. G. Angevine, San Jose, Cal.

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