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Show EX-CHAMPION TROTTERS. Where Some of the Fast Ones Have Gone to. HOW ST. JULIAN SPENDS HIS DAYS. They Seldom get the Care to Whioh They aro Entitled. What becomes of the geldings that are prominent on the trotting turf, after they become too old for road use? is the question ques-tion that is frequently asked, which few can answer. Many of the faster ones are for a time easily traced, but they soon dropout of night and dually disappear. disap-pear. Such is the case of .St. Julien, 2:1 IJ. who is now passing his declining years In a comfortable paddock nt Peta-i Peta-i luuia, Cab, under the sky where he llrst ) showed the bursts of tun-ed that nltimate-j nltimate-j ly made him king of the turf, liarus, , i:UU. tho horse he deposeil, tttands in his box stall in Robert lionner's New York Liable, in West Fit'tv-titlh street, await- ing death. For three years lie has not felt the pavement beneath his hoofs, and as the champion thai swept away all records at Piiiiiulo eleven years ago turns his head to look at n visitor a feeling of sadness sad-ness pa-siies through those who knew him in the morning of his career and when Ins name supplanted that of Cioldnmilh Maid In the infections of the public. With Hopeful, 2:111$, another phase of equine life is found, llu was iu his day as celebrated as liarus or even St. Jtilten, was a magnificent race horse for harness or wagon, and an ideal road trotter. When his racing dayB were over tho gallant little gray began to drift about the country, eventually pulling up al Sing Sing prison iu New York state, where ho was kept and owned by a prominent detective. Of Into, however, lie has passed into the hands of a Maryland Mary-land gentleman, who considers it on honor to own thu trotter that has tho fastest heats to wagon among his achievements. achieve-ments. Few If any of the horses campaigned by Dan Maco were as popular as Darby, 2:104, Darby was a good racehorse, and trotted twice to his record. Ten years ago he defeated Diclt Swiveler, i Liannisund Driver at Utica, making his record in the third heat, und the following follow-ing year disposed of Hopeful and Great Eastern at Hoehester, nfter tho formor had won two heats iu 2:ir and 2:16i. Tho time was fast, but ltrby was equal to tho emergency. As old ago crept ou tho brown gelding ho, liko many another that had been prominent, struck a down (grade and was sold a little over a year I ago in New York for $2(55, Tho gray I gelding Charlie Ford, 2:1UJ, who is now in his 10th year, was more fortunate, as, j after his eventful track career, during .which he won thirty-eight races, he was i treated like u child by Jerry Monroe. I Nothing was too good for Charley until a few years ago, when Monroe sold him to a popular Chicago judge, who treats the old champion with thu kindness he deserves after his Btrugglo for fame on all liindn of track's, from, tho country fair ring to a grand circuit course, j Many of thu old time champion geld-! geld-! fngs have passed away, Dexter, 2:17, j being the most prominent to die during j the IjisI lew years, (Jreat Eastern, 2:18. disappeared almost as soon as ho left tho grand circuit tracks, while Judge Fuller- Urn, 2:18, had a more checkered career j after Humphreys sold him. llo mot his fate ut Boston, where he was being exhibited ex-hibited in a clothing store, and would have been presented, had ho lived, to the pure 1 1 user that guessed nearest his weight, While being exercised, however, how-ever, he fell on a railroad track, and was Injured so seriously that he was destroyed, de-stroyed, lied Cloud, 2:18, if still alive, is 23 years old, and Cnl Lewis, 2:18J, is now IU. Midnight, 2:lSi, is 17, and still has a great flight of speed, being one of John D. Rockefeller's favorite pair of blacks. Of the other old timers that were performing per-forming iu tho '70s, Comee, 2:104; Iron Age, 2:l0i; Troubadour, 2:101; Camors, 2:lHi. are dead, while Deck Wright, 2:198; liodine. 2:19: Driver, 2:19J. and possibly Moose, 2:19?; Thomas L. Young, 2:194; Capt. Emmons, 2:191, and Albemarle, Albe-marle, 2:19, are still alive. Many of tho names are new to the present generation of race god's, but all of them were stars during the heydey of their careers, and not a few of them retired with enviable reputations Time, however, does not respect the fast any more than the slow, and eventually gathers them all into hU embrace, Chicago Tribune. |
