. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 162 m\je $reeteir ~ottfr §p&vt#mtxttl [September 10, 1898. STEIN WAY AS A TROTTER. Samuel Gamble Tells Something: of the Great Sire's Speed as a Colt. San Fbancisco, September 4, 1898. Editor Breeder and Sportsman :âWhile in a lead- iog down town club room last evening with a groop of light harness horse lovers, and of coarse talking of horse afiairs, one of the gentlemen asked me if I would give to your read- ers a history of Steinway and the races he was engaged in. Steinway, 2:25j, as a three-year-old, then the champion of bis aze and sex, by Strathmore
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 162 m\je $reeteir ~ottfr §p&vt#mtxttl [September 10, 1898. STEIN WAY AS A TROTTER. Samuel Gamble Tells Something: of the Great Sire's Speed as a Colt. San Fbancisco, September 4, 1898. Editor Breeder and Sportsman :âWhile in a lead- iog down town club room last evening with a groop of light harness horse lovers, and of coarse talking of horse afiairs, one of the gentlemen asked me if I would give to your read- ers a history of Steinway and the races he was engaged in. Steinway, 2:25j, as a three-year-old, then the champion of bis aze and sex, by Strathmore, in my opinion, his poor opportnnies considered, the greatest son of Hambletonian. First dam Abbess, dam of two better than 2:28, and two pro- ducing daughters, by Albion, one of the first stallions to trot in 2:40 in Kentucky, by Peter's Halcorn; second dam by Marshal Ney, thoroughbred son of imported Emancipation; third dam by that race noise Bertrand, a son of Sir Archy. Steinway at three years old was a handsome bay colt $ hands high, with two white feet behind, a good, resolute head, set on a long, stout, arched neck, running well into well placed shoulders that did not mount very high at the withers. He had great length, a large, capacious middle piece, with good bone and substance, and was one of the big- geet-gaited and squares! trotters that I ever saw. He trotted bat four races in his life, the first in the fall of 1878. At two vears old at Lexington, Ky., mile heats, beating Memento, Jewett, 2:14, Admiration, 2:33, Mystery,2:27,and Verbena in 2:39, 2:32, 2:31}. Memento won the first heat. This made him up to that date the champion of that age and sex. As a three-year-old at Sharpsburg, Ky., early in the sea- son, in a free for all, over a miserable half mile tiack, he beat Bushwhacker, 2:24, and Blackwood Jr., 2:22, at four heats in 2:38}, 2:38, 2:37, 2:38, Bushwhacker winning third heat. At the Lexington Fair in August the same year, he won a six-heat race i
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