Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — WHIP AND SPUR. [ARTICLE]

WHIP AND SPUR.

Allerton reduced his record to 2:13 at In dependence, la., on July 4. The half mile track pacing record was reduced to 2:14 by Hal pointer at Mans field, O. The thoroughbred sire Voltigeur, by Vandal, well known by western horsemen, is dead. If the rays of the sun are permitted to shine through a window into a horse’s eyes blindness may result. Both Nelson and Guy vainly tried to lower their records at the summer meeting of the Detroit Driving club. John A. Logan, Jr., has two colts in John Splan’s stable. One is by William L, and the other by St. Bel, 2:24%. The Chicago Horseman pertinently remarks that the man who wishes to make money raising horses must raise good horses. Walcott & Campbell have nominated one Longfellow yearling and three Rayon rt’Ors, among them brothers to Tenny and Chaos, for the English St. Leger of 1893. Frank Osman, the Tennessee pacer that made a record of 2:18% at Kankakee, Ills., on July 1, was the first new pacer to enter tbe 2:20 list this season. His sire is unknown. A colt two days old fell down a mineral shaft 140 deep at Dubuque, la. When drawn out the colt kicked up his heels and ran around the lot as if he had enjoyed the experience. Mrs. Leland Stanford, the charitable and large hearted wife of Senator Sanford, the master of Palo AJto, has given a fund of SIOO,OOO in aid of the kindergartens of San Francisco. The word sulky, as applied to a wheeled conveyance, had its origin in the fact that when it first appeared the person who saw it considered that none but a sulky, selfish man would ride in such an affair, which afforded accommodation to but one individual. When William and Edward Simms, of Paris, Ky„ were graduating with honors at Yale college, June 24, a horse named Yale ’9l won a fast race at Chicago. Yale ’9l was bred and owned by their father, Colonel W. E. Simms, and given the above name because his sons would graduate at Yale in 1891.