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NEW YORK CITY, MARCH 10, 1877 
VOL. XXXV. No. 1 U 
WHOLE No. HI 5. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by the Rural Vnl.lishiiix Company, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
speed, and when the purses for the Breeders’ 
Centennial were advertised, she was at once en¬ 
tered in the four-ycar-old class. . 
Her llrst appearance in public was at Lancas¬ 
ter, Pa., Kept. 5, in ft three-minute class, where 
she showed no signs of the unsteadiness that 
had previously been attributed to her. Hero 
sho won throe out of live heats in 2:30, and at 
the same place, Sept. 9, sho won in tho 2:50 
class, in straight heats; best time, 2:37^. On 
Hopl. 12, ftt Point Breeze Park, she trotted in 
tho 2:40 class, winning again in straight heats; 
best time, 2:32. Tn the Breeders’ Centennial 
race her opponents wore Woodford Chief, Mon¬ 
tezuma, Lady Pateheu, Eohora, Post Boy, and 
Girl E. Queen. Sadie Bell, however, won the 
first, second, and fourth heats in 2:34, 2,34%, 
and 2:34. 
This phenomenal maro stands fifteen hands one 
inch, and is rather lightly built. Her color is 
called chestnut, but is so light that it verges on 
tho cream, while her tail and mane are flaxen. 
Him has a good head and a neat set of rather 
lengthy limbs. Her quarters are strong, but her 
hips are very ragged. Sho seems to know uo 
other gait but trotting, and, when at full spoed, 
sho goes very wide behind. During private 
practice sho has, in bursts of speed, shown a gait 
far faster than in her public performances. 
dam, indeed, being entirely unknown, while her 
sire was a horse called Olden Boll, known to 
fame only through his now illustrious daughter. 
8he was brought up helter-skelter, doing plow- 
work rather than track-work, and yet she won a 
bitterly-contested battle over tho best-blooded 
and most care fully-reared four-year-olds from 
all parts of tho couutry. in a race where victory 
was the highest possible honor, and in which 
every contestant was driven to elicit tho keenest 
effort. 
Radio was bred by a Virginian named Duncan, 
who haB a farm on a little island off the penin¬ 
sula formed by Acooinao and Northampton 
counties. She was a puny foal and scarcely 
considered worth tho keeping. When three 
years old she was broken to harness, it being 
the intention of her owner to use her as a plow- 
horse, and in this capacity she did some service, 
working creditably, though small and young. A 
son of Mr. Duncan’s, however, soon discovered 
that Sadie was very fast, and ideas of winning 
great triumphs and “ bar’ls of money’’ with 
her on the turf, at once tilled bis brain. The 
father, however, was averse to such courses as 
race-courses, and to remove temptation from the 
young man, sold tho filly for $300 to Mr. T. 
McConnell of Pungoteaguc, Aooomao County, 
Va. Tinder training, sho rapidly developed 
THE PLOW-HORSE TROTTER. 
Among the valuable properties of the horse 
probably there is none which is so often unex¬ 
pectedly displayed as an unusual capacity for 
speed; certainly there Is none which, when 
manifested under exceptional conditions, excites 
to tho same extent, the admiration of men, and 
secures for the animal possessing it so wide 
a reputation. Tn the early days of tho raoo- 
course it happened not un frequently that some 
“dark outsider.” whoso pedigree was undistin¬ 
guished or unknown. boro away the Btakesfrom a 
field of the best-bloodod flyers, not a little to the 
disgust and loss of by-gone patrons of the turf. 
So marvelous, however, are the present results in 
the way of equine fleetuess, which breeders have 
wrought by careful selection and training during 
the past half century, that those inconvenient 
surprises can no longer either confound the cal¬ 
culations of the gambling fraternity who resort 
to the race-course as a place of business, or de¬ 
light the idle crowds who flock to it in search of 
amusement. 
Trotting contests, however, are of such com¬ 
paratively recent Introduction, and the merits 
