. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XXXIII. No: No. 813 BUSH STREET. EET. i^_ . _i >33 147827 SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 2,1898. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A TEAR A GRANDLY-BRED STALLION. Diotatue, Son of the Michty Red Wilises and a Mare by Dictator. INTO THE 2:20 LIST. Many Horses Have Lowered Their Reoords Since the Breeders Meeting; Began. Among the horses that have reduced their records at the Breeders' meeting at Oakland during the past week is Dictatus, the handsome son of Red Wilkes and Miss Lollie, by Dictator. No more grandly bred stallion ever lived in America than thi
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XXXIII. No: No. 813 BUSH STREET. EET. i^_ . _i >33 147827 SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JULY 2,1898. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A TEAR A GRANDLY-BRED STALLION. Diotatue, Son of the Michty Red Wilises and a Mare by Dictator. INTO THE 2:20 LIST. Many Horses Have Lowered Their Reoords Since the Breeders Meeting; Began. Among the horses that have reduced their records at the Breeders' meeting at Oakland during the past week is Dictatus, the handsome son of Red Wilkes and Miss Lollie, by Dictator. No more grandly bred stallion ever lived in America than this fellow, and we doubt if a speedier one ever existed. More than once has the writer seen Dictatus go to the half mile pole in one minut«, in actual races at that, and while the driver waB doing his best to pull him back to a less killing gait In his youth Dictatus was spoiled for a race horse, ac- quiring the habit of rushing away at the start at the very ut- most limit of his speed, a fault very bard to cure, and one that will prevent the very gamest horse in the world from winning at a mile. We have seen him in races where the heats were paced in 2:12 or better go round the entire field on the outside of the track and reach the half in one minute or a second slower, when if he could have been rated there was no question but a mark cf 2:05 was within his reach. But he was spoiled and he will probably never be a race horse. That he is game no one who has watched him will deny. He came the last half of a mile at Napa two years ago in 1:02, after being two distances out at the 'quarter, and saved his dis- tance. At Oakland last Satur- day he won his first race, get- ting a mark of 2:19J^, though he had previously had a record of 2:21, made in the fourth heat of a race at Stockton after fin- ishing second three times in 2:14 or thereabouts. On the same day that he won his first race, a three-year-old daughter, DictatreBS, paced a mile in 2:18^, winning first money. Dictatus is s
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