OUR PONT HACKNEYS SPECIAL NEUS RELATING TO HORSES AND HORSEMEN. ' RACES OF THE ORLOFFS. Of STAMINA. He was bred by old Mr. Brough, near the FAVORITES. Earl of Londesboro's place, up In York¬ /f! *j * 1 .. shire, nnd was Imported to this country ut MAY BE QUEEN OF THE TROTTERS. The Grand Dimitri the Leading Winner of four yeafs of age in 1SSS by Mr. Henry the Late Season on the Trotting Fairfax, of Virginia, who sold him. In 1891, Tracks of Russia. Housefiofd Pets, Enofisfi Rustics to Dr. William Seward Webb for $15,000. a stallion to Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes's Great Mare Beuzetta, 2:06 3-4, a quite a nice little sum for Russia is second only to the United States harness horsas. (fiifdren's Tutors, Bowed Down to beget In the possession and development of a na¬ Dr. with his usual liberality, is Webb, Promising Candidate for This Year's tive breed of trotters. The Orloff has been . use of this horse actually permitting the systematically bred and developed for many Equine Logicians, Narsfifand Sfiafes, to farmers' mares tip in \ ermout free, Honors. generations, and trotting is an established j only claiming the privilege of buying the Championship In Russia. The statistics of the he sport pick of the foals at six months old; and season have been Ever since began as a sport, and horsemen In casting about for the trotter Beuzetta outraced the fiefld. At Cleveland past (Winter) trotting Just Is also giving the service of some other trotting: the week she (beat horses in In and show the Grand KNOWING, FUNNY, BREEDERS WHO ARE tlie records were commenced, the trotting most likely to'lower the record of Alix, if following aged published Europe, hackney stallions, just as he did that of his the last heat In 2:09%. Duke Dimitri Constantinvitch and the championship, as measured by the time it is to be lowered in 1898, have selected French coach horses some years ago; and A RECORD HEAT AX BUFFALO. Messrs. Koshevnikoff to be the leading win¬ SELDOM VICIOUS, HELPING EARNERS, test has been tho most coveted distinction. the New York mare, Beuzetta (2:06%), At Buffalo she met the field she he, further, provides special horse cars, strongest owners. The latter won 26,650 rubles, It carries with it a certain prestige that owned by Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes, the en¬ had the remarka¬ ning -hat make regular trips between New York yet encountered, Including while the Grand Duke's stable won 20,359 no mere racing success against other thusiastic admirer of the trotter and ac¬ ble Caiifornian, Klamath, who had been and Burlington, Vt., to carry mares visit¬ Mrs. Stokes rubles. The largest winning horso of the On the Powers horses, though this is, of course, the high¬ complished reinswoman. pos¬ carrying all before him. He was booked Ponu's Back the Youna Bright Star's Staying ing his farm. . est test of merit, seemed sufficient sesses the most notable stable of famous season was the* Orloff Polkan, 22.8N2 AT LOW FBES. genuine as the winner, but after one of the great¬ rubles. Next came the Grand Duke s four- GOOD STATJ/TONS to create. It may be freely conceded that horses of any woman in the United States. est harness races of recent years Klamath third to Can Best Beoin to^jatFier the Feats of Her If- several dn the The year-old Chwalpony, 18,678 rubles, and Recaff Speaking of liberality, prominent the time test has played too large a part Besides Beuzetta, she owns Miss Rita stood second summary. Cali- the American horse Fleche. which, though in this country are fornlan landed the first heat In 2:10%, but barred from a number valuable breeders of hackneys In trotting practices and trotting theories. (2:09K), the champion three-year-old pacer, Beuzetta 'beat him home In 2:07% In the great of Confidence and Skiff tustrious Ancestress either free use of their stallions or races, still won 14,134 rubles. giving Beyond all doubt, too much importance that was a wedding gift from Mr. Stokes, second beat. Miss Nelson chased the On- The prominence of the Grand Duke Dl- the fees at nominal figures to the to and that with D. to in wtfrd mare out Jn 2:11*4, in the third heat, in Phenomena. placing has been attached to the mere capacity Angle paced, pole, and In five last Klamath made his final mitri's stable recalls the great display he Riding. farmers In the vicinity of the hackney trot a mile faster than any other horse ever 2:12%; Josie B. 2:13%; Be Sure, 2:0G%, and drove Beuzetta out In the made at the Columbian Exposition in 189.>. raKy 2:06%, About a score of Ms horses were exhibited stock farms. Mr. Cassatt, down at Ber- has but so has the time and others, including the high- fastest fourth heat ever trotted. Few things strike a foreigner visiting New. more or done, thoroughly pacing, in the charge of Lieutenant. Ismailoff, mas¬ Nothing touching picturesque wvn. who owns the great Cadet and in of trotter J. J. 2:19, which The Buffalo performance 'was ^sufficient to old-fashlcr.ed little Pa., standard been interwoven the system strung Audubon, establish Beuzetta as a race mare of strict¬ ter of the imperial stables, and the Ameri¬ York for the flrst time, if he pay even pass¬ r'uan the following Little Wonder, makes most liberal arrange¬ the of hold¬ Mrs. Stokes drove at Branch last can trainer, Kavmer. It was seen that the be found In the history of the harness racing that prestige Long ly the first class, but in the estimation of ing attention to matters pertaining to the cameo can ments to breeders, as do also Mr. Fairfax, the fastest record constitutes world¬ Summer. It is worthy of note that Mrs. excellent judges tier race in the free-for-all Russians had ail the latest American trot¬ iiorse. It's a bit of romance about the ing stake at Fleetwood in ting equipments. In the way of harness, horse, than the dearth of who has a Darfegelt stallion of superlative wide fame for the animal so Stokes is said to prefer not only the Ameri¬ Park, August 28, ponies, or, rather, and it occurs in an old work pub¬ distinguished, which she was beaten by Azote, was an sulkies, wagons, boots, shoes, weights, etc.. hackney, Mr. Widener, who has Rufus owner an can trotter as a horse, but the event and Lieutenant Ismailoff assured the writer the much smaller part that ponies play in lished in the century: excellence; and makes the important figure driving even greater performance. In this early present and blood; Mr. MeCurdy, also a in the world. American driving "rig" as his natural and she met tho unbeaten Azote un- that it was the policy of the Russian stables the end of affairs here than "I was on the Castle Hill In the Danegelt trotting (2:04%), to avail themselves of equine abroad, standing Philadelphia gentleman who owns a grancl every up-to-date . American in some midst of a fair of horses. . . An old device trotting, and of especially in England. Whereas in England stallion; Mr. Shoemaker of our trotting Marvin's man draws ho Is monnted on a lean black-brown works, notably a nigh; who has done a vast dea "Training the Trotting Hors«," have been the pony is most important adjunct to and he leads by the bridle another Baltimore, a man translated into and pony, of In his district to Improve the Russian, the transla¬ every well established household, a bosom nag, than the rest, almost dun in good tion of the latter work was in the hands of gentler horse; Mr. Kimball, of German- all Grand Duke friend of the small and a of the and over one eye a thick film has farmer's Dimltrl's horsemen. The pet grown¬ color, Messrs. of South Man¬ fastest Russian trotter to that date was the Nothing veTy remarkable, say town; the Cheney, horse up folks, here he Is practically unknown In gathered. chester. Conn., who have placed the ser-. bay Karakas, who had a Russian about that nag. But stay; there is record equal to about 2:20, and was shown an Intimate domestic relation. you, vices of their famous stallion. Dr. Parke, at something very remarkable about him. Chicago., To the little ones he is a tutor In the ac¬ such a fee that no breeder can afford to When the Russians returned, left there is something in his action In which at they of the art of omit sending stock to him; Mr. George Karakas here for training in charge of quirement equestrianism, not he differs from all the rest As he ad¬ Peter Duryea, of this city, who turned him always a willing tutor or even Green, of Katonah. X. Y.. who is the happy over to Orrin tempered, vances the clamor is hushed. All erc« are Hlckok, but whether from but from his back the young idea learns to possessor of that magnificent chestnut sire, failure to become acclimated, or other ( turned upon him. What looks of Interest, causes, Hickok failed to him view the world from the superior eminence are Rufus. Jr., that took New York by storm bring to any of respect, and.what La this? People sort of form. The Russians put a value on of the saddle. His tricks and are & a year ago, and even before he moved out out of all pranks taking off their hats.surely not for that him reason in this country, and he matter of and alarm even his stall was the acknowledged champion was taken back to the land of course, scarcely steed! Yes, verily; men, especially old of the White the most timid child. There must of the show. Czar, and is presumably on the Grand be hunr men, are taking off their liats to that one- Duke's great stud farm in dreds of thousands of persons of British are otheT hackney men Southeastern eyed steed, and I hear more than one deep- There many Russia. birth, scattered there and could mention, to whom the horse world At the time of the Fair the here, everywhere drawn 'Ah!' of the Russian representative on the face of the globe, whose memories " I to a will be much Indebted, and among them Imperial Stud arranged an 'What horse is that?' said very exchange with the estate of the late Sena¬ bear the likeness of some shaggy Shetland man wl'l be found Mr. Fred C. Bourne, of In¬ tor old fellow, the counterpart of the oH Stanford, by which a number of the or more graceful Welsh pony, on whose .n save that the laft wore a dian Neck. L. I.: Mr. T. B. Hidden, of Palo Alto youngsters were for the pony, some Orloff exchanged back many a scamper has been enjoyed. this one was Short Hills. N. J.; Mr. William D. Sloane. mares, which are now In use faded suit of velveteen, and at Palo Alto. To teach a child to ride a horse la 'The best In of Lenox. Mass.; Colonel Higglnson, of Bos¬ on. big dressed In a white frock. an altogether false Confidence Is old man, ton. and last, but by all odds not least, principle. Mother England,' said the very Byron McClelland Is the to be first as m from his mouth Mr. H. K. Bloodgood, who owns the Star point attained, just taking a knobbed stick either possessed of Put a little lad on a horse and at first careless¬ of and stands him In the neighbor¬ swimming. j and looking me in the face, Mepal most excellent Judg¬ he at once feels himself on a like In¬ hood of New Marlboro. Mass. Stable perched danger¬ ly, but presently with something ment, or ds one of ous eminence. The of a Parke is one of the very few real prospect possible terest. 'He is old, like myself, but can Pr. and Fortune's favorites. It fall terrifies him unless he is of exception¬ an hour. You Old-fashioned typical hackneys In America. Is not still trot his twenty miles hmany years ago ally stout heart. He naturally misdoubts live swain; tall and over¬ It's Impossible 'to mould a purer model Stud. since lie was subjected wont long, my his ability to control the great mass of living ones like thee never does; yet, If of the Lor*! Derby strain than this one. to the frowns of the grown bone and muscle beneath him, every move¬ should chance to reach my years you Foaled in 1880. now 15.2 hands in height, fickle goddess and sud¬ you found himself at the bottom of the lad¬ ment of which conveys to him a power and to that and the richest shade of dark chesLnut. denly may boast thy great-grand boys he that he has never before Marshland Shales.' Parke thrills the nagsman the moment he der; but, nothing daunted, started upward vigor encountered. thou hast seen again, and has been steadily climbing. BaUge, His small will barely straddle the broad THE CRACK TROTTER OF HIS DAY. turns his head. The expression is fascinat¬ legs HeNry of Navarre, Sallie McClelland, The a real of the saddle is "And I did for that horse what I would ing; the poise of the head and whole fore- back and grip Impos¬ Commoner. Halma and other good ones have sible. And yet thousands of children have neither do for e«irl or baron.doffed my band royal; the lay of shoulder throwing helped his ascent in the past, and in PrlpCe I doffed hat to the wondrous the wither well back Into a top line that been taught to ride in this way In the rid¬ hat. Yes, my Lief and Nimrod he now appears to have two. clubs of this and the fast the best in Mother Is reallv beautiful. The roll of the quarter of the ing schools and other horse, trotter, most promising threi-year-olds in thr cities. and drew a 'Ah!' and set of dock Is Derby throughout; so West. Tli« former showed his on th< England; I, too, deep ability POOR MARKET FOR PONIES. and the words of the old fellows Is the curve to gaskln. The middle piece metropolitan courses last season, and o' repeated Of course there are around: 'Such a horse as this we shall is well rounded, and there is great depth Monday last won the Distillers Slakes at many ponies annually " bred In this but at that a a that he Is so old.' and heart room. He goes, too, does Tarke. Lexington in time which lowered the local country, compara¬ never see again; pity small of Had these old chaps lived until to-day, especially forward, and in the hands of record for a mile and a sixteenth. Nimrod tively percentage these are what is a full brother to race mare be called children's they would have realized that tfiere was that clever little Carr never stretches his the great Hunt¬ may genuine ponies. ress, and was purchased last season Mc¬ The market for them has been little cause to old Marshland Shales, line, and when at the halt extends In by always poor pity Clelland. He is not in the Kentucky Derby, and few have cared to take the to ^ have seen what k magnlfl- camper, turning to show his crest and re¬ trouble but is one of the entries in the Clark Stakes breed them with so small a chance of profit. tent train of horses like himself the Nor- pose like no other nag I know. Like Mr. Mfs. W. E. D. Stoikes's Great Mare, Bei(zetta, 2.06 3-4. [ at the approaching Louisville meeting. Cassatt's sire, Ca#et, Parke Trotting For example, Mr. Pierre Lorillard's Ran- great traces, Chaflcs Head Smith, the millionaire stock¬ in another line direct on cocas breed of Shetlands was well known though maternally, We measure our race horses harmonious equipment. j questionably the best aged race (horse holder, of Chicago, has started out well with to the Phenomenons and Performer, who thoroughbred the turf dn 1895, besides Klamath and Dan and used to cut a prominent figure at each with their contemporaries, BECZETTA'S BRILLIANT CAREER. She 'was in th^ the Eastern string of his stable, his tWo- was foaled In 1810, and who in turn was by comparison Cupid. slightly unsteady succeeding horse show, but he has finally but it often involves a false esti¬ The career of Beuzetta has been a brill- opening heat, leaving KlamatJh to carry year-old Domitor ¦winning et Eennlngs on Wroot's the horse that though iant one. was bred E. \V. Ayers srown tired of the unremuneratlve venture. got by Pretender, mate, the world persists in awarding the She by the favorite home in 2:09%.f Monday last. Mr. Smith is quite a plunger went from Norfolk into Yorksire about and first saw the light at his Mapleton In the second heat Beuzetta made her when he has assurance from his trainer that This and similar experiences have resulted trotting championship on the time basis. the horse 1800 and lived to the old age of thir¬ Farm in May 11, 1891. Her sire effort, carrying gigantic Whips his horees are right, and it is more than in the exhibitors of pony breeding stock ripe There is just one thing commendable in Kentucky, to the quarter in 0:30% and to the half in at an exhibition ^as one of the most pro¬ likely that he won a comfortable sum over dwindling down to a small but devoted band ty-three, giving thirty this. A horse may defeat all his contem¬ Onward, 2:25%, 1:01%, stil'l clinging to 'him up the hill to of that into the ductive sons of whom the three-quarters In 1:33, and coming the victory of the son of Inspector B.. as of wealthy people, who, doubtless, get their trotting powers put quite and be Inferior to horses of a George Wilkes, 2:22, In shade that of other stallion poraries, yet horsemen as the of gamely under a drive, forcing him out that colt was neglected by the public for reward through the enjoyment they derive every brought day preceding his. Hence there Is some many regard greatest 2:05%, the fastest heat ever trotted at against him. It is through the pedigrees of trotting progenitors; and her dam, Beulah, Fleetwood.and all this in spite of the fact Florian and Winged Foot, and started at the from the little animals. The Western cow reason In withholding the laurel crown odds of 4 to 1 in a field of four. such horses as Parke that we trace the was a daughter of Harold, the sire of Maud that she threw a shoe in the second quar¬ pony, whether improved or unimproved, Is from the new aspirant until he has was her back to and have record S. Beuiah's dam was ter. Her mile in 2:06%, which Major Barak G. Thomas, of Lexington, still not a child's mount. He may make a clink¬ hackney 'way 1300, not his contemporaries, Sally B., daughter official time for the heat, under the cir¬ the of famous ancestors. only vanquished of son of the blind clings to the name of Dixiana, although his pony, or even show of performances but the performances of all pre¬ Lever, thoroughbred cumstances, shows what a sterling, nat¬ ing polo racing qualities, surpassed hero, Lexington, grave, as Is Har- urally balanced trotter Beuzetta is. Im¬ stock farm, which originally bore It, has but after all is said and done he is nothing RE1IARKAEI,K FEATS ON THE ROAD. decessors, thus setting up a new advance whose, Peter into other hands. The of old's, is at Woodburn. mediately after this heat Duryea passed pride his but an undersized horse, and seldom has the Mr. Blooclgood's mare, Bright Star, like line In the progress of the breed. bought Beuzetta for §16,000, and it was heart is the once famous race horse Himyar, Individually Beuzetta falls considerably later announced tfhat her new owner was manners or the characteristics that render a hundred others I could mention, Is a cast- The of the trotting championship now a most successful stallion.head of the history short of being handsome, but viewed strict¬ Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes. In the final heat it safe to intrust a tender bones to iron sort. She is a black, 15.2 hands, born Illustrates the mighty difference in turf of race after a forced winning series in 1893, second in 1S94, and child's ly as a she is almost en¬ the Beuzetta, break, his in 1886, at Mr. Arthur Gittus's place, in fame between the first and the second racing machine, Azote out in 2:07. among the first five in 1S95. Hlmyar's get safekeeping. admirable. She is of the When a child gets his or her first experi¬ Cambridgeshire. By Star of the North, place, though the margin that separates tirely about right WILL SHE BE CHAMPION? are tyiusually good campaigners. Fourteen of racing size, is a with a star best sons and have won a total ence of riding on the back of a pony who was grandson of old Denmark, and them be but a fraction of a record. During chestnut, This race closed Beuzetta's campaign, and his daughters genuine stripe and snip, but no other marks. Her of 350 races, an average of 25 wins for each. a strong affection Is almost sure to grow out of the Wood Nymph mare by Reality, the many years from the retirement of she was immediately turned over to Orrin up ioad is rather a mure last season, between the a time the sensational staLlion of Maud S. until her record was beaten, plain, though decidedly good Hickok, of St. Julien fame, who took her Greenwich, six-year-old pair. Many older the younger days, has races and been placed in in their came mould, but Is not pleasingly set on a neck with the rest of his stable to winter in captured forty persons in the establishment have found, this mare contains In her veins the cream other champions supreme day others out of one hundred and that is somewhat short, and this consider- California. Recent therefrom are sixty-three somewhat to their amusement, but also^to» of hackney blood. I had the privilege of out, but they failed to beat the seemingly reports starts. fr0m aa othe.lse excellent to the effect that Beuzetta is in rare forty-three their chagrin, that Bran, or Spot, or what¬ seeing this mare go in harness a mile in¬ Invincible 2:08%, and only evanescent fame shape It is a notable fact that of the three larg¬ lacing conformation.,°tS in Hickok's hands and ever this particular pony may happen to side of three minutes, and she was one of was their reward. Finally Sunol trotted that this skilled est winners In the six-year-old and upward aS are a,most the really horseman has corrected de¬ have been point blank refused t® obey the leaders in a coach that Mr. Bloodgood In 2:08Vi. and earned a niche in the gallery fi^eUfetta' certain little class In America last year, two.the Iron¬ called, Mfs. W. E. D. Stokes. Then came °DeS' Vei'y hlgbly strunS- fects of deportment in work which still master and Others their wishes, however docile he might ba drove up the hills and down the dales of of the immortals. Nancy as a two m Faraday.are by Himyar. two-year-old she was so intractable noticeably the Onward mare that have raced for several seasons with his small master or mistress. folk trotter became the progenitor of. At the BerkShlres at pretty near eighteen Hanks in 2:04, and later the 2:03% of Alix, and handicapped by him perverse that it was feared her great in her races last season. Beuzetta has are Wall Rosa, The THE PONY AS A PHILOSOPHER. thousands of old-fashioned shows and horse miles an hour. made her name the most famous in the Dago, Correction, Jim, speed might never be made avail¬ shown as high a flight of speed as any trot¬ Hero, Estelle, etc. His greatest representa¬ The tricks a pony can learn are legion, fairs held In the market places and on the Mrs. Bloodgood has handled this great trotting world. able111 7 education required abund- and that she can it and tive. Domino, in three years on the turf won and would almost seem to prove the exis¬ roads of of t'he real marc with ease, I believe, at over fifteen HIGH RENOWN FOR EXCELLENCE. ed ter, carry doe* country England nags and patience, and her surplus of. n#rve and it with remarkable resolution and more than $200,000, passing the winning post tence of at least some degree of old have their knees mlfes many a time, and old man Rams- Lofty and enduring renown indeed is carry reasoning stamp snapped and wayward determination at time was very stamina was aptoarent to every critical ob¬ first in 19 out of 25 races, and, running un¬ I have run across a number flexed whose Is In the stud book on carried with the title of or of server power. myself. fheir hocks exactly as the Shales dell, picture king queen discouraging, so much so, indeed, that of her last campaign. Orrin Hickok placed but three times. In fact, you never small eauine knew horse and at the his of all mares.the Norfolk Phe¬ the turf. Hence the continual is one of the most experienced and gifted One philosopher enough did, ring-side horsemen. greatest trotting though well engaged as a two-year-old, Mr. trainers and drivers in the and know when the Hlmyars wear out. to that If he to be hla not, In smock but nomena.must turn in his grave every time effort to reduce the record, and the always profession argue pretended lame perhaps. frocks, more Ayers declared her out of everything ex¬ a very wily manager withah Ex-Jockey and starter, and now trainer and head would be turned homeward, but hla probably In fancy covert cloth breeches and a stake at in cept $5,000 Maysville, Ky. philosophy failed him at this point, and once gaiters of stylish cut.have doffed their this she started and was August 23, 1893, headed for his he went as sound as bats to worthy scions of the t0 th® n0ted NeIlle A- ln m°d- manger hackney blood, a new-milled dollar. Another found that just as did "f owld" breeders for the one- eratl
Special Neus Relating to Horses and Horsemen. ' Races of the Orloffs
