Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1868-02-21

sixteen and a half hands high, with two
white feet and white nose. She is some
what heavily built behind. but has fine
head and clean sweep from the shoulder.
Besides her famous time with Flatbush
Mare. she has trOtted two miIea to 316-
pound wagon and driver in 4:59-the great
est feat of the kind ever performed.
! PocahOntas is snredy the handsomest
tro!ter, and one of the most symm .trcal,
graceful and perfectly. formed horses in
this country. Standing about fifteen
hands, dark. rich bay. with small, fine
head. proud arched nostril brilliant eye,
her cars wide apart, her tail sweeping the
ground for at least a foot, and luxuriant as
fox's brush, she is splendid picture of
equine development. Her appearance in
public is always the signal for enthusiastic
admiration among connoisscurs; and Com
modore Vanderbilt once said to Mr.. Bon
ner that it 'was worth one hundred dollars
a day to ionl at her, This beauty tr0t-
ted in 223 when only six years old, but
has made even better time since in Mr..
Bonner's hands.
The Auburn horse is sorrel, with four
white feet and IL white face; he is not
specially handsome nag to look at but. as
a sporting butcher said he is IA nasty one
to go.' He has. however, never been fairly
tried in public. Mr.. Bonner having boug,.t
him Immediately after his first appear
ance on the turf, On the strength of Hiram
Woodruff remark. that he was the fast
est horse he ever drove
Last, but greatest, go far as speed is
concerned, comes the famous Dexter
This champi N Of the trottng turf of
Amcrica.s IA sturdy, short barrelled dark
brown horse, with four white feet and a
white nose and streak, q large. though
wcll-formed head, a rather wicked eye and
a flowing tail. There is nothing partic-
ularly attractive about the appearance OF
Dexter he is to the gaze of ordinary look
cr, ,ou Il very ordinary chunk of Il horse.
as the Jcrseymen say; but then he has
made mile in 2:I7 | A IN harness, and
2:l5 to saddle: feats which are. SO far, un-
equalled in the turf annals Of tho world.
This completes t'e list of 'stlrs, that
now occupy Mr.. Banner's stables. No
such array Of remarkable horses, nor any
approach to it was ever before gathered to-
gehcr under The ownership of q private
gentleman in any country. And when il
is remembered that Mr.. Bonner has pur-
chased these horse for his pleasure, that
he does rot permit them to be driven for
any wager under any circumstances, nor
will drive them himself for any such wager
the cyistance Of such stud becomes the
more extraordinary
A curious circumstance, by the by, will
he n0.iced i'll connection with these horses.
1t will be observed th Lantern. Lady
Palmer, The Auburn aud Dexter are each
marked by two or four white feet and a
white naSe. These are or have hcpn ay0w-
edly the sovereign. So to speak of the turf
in ;hrir 1everii degrees. Yet their is an
old uuartraiu, familiar to turf itueu, which
says:
| ''Fuur white feet
| Ana one white nose:
| Gu oI his head
And fling MIN to the crows"
| Dexter. the fastest tr0itor; Lexington
the fastest runner: and Pocahontas, Sen
ior the fastest PAGER in the world. have or
ia -four white feet and one white nose,
So much for Id saws
sIoEING AND GENERAL ENLARGEMENT.
The proper shoeing Of horses is a matter
of great Importance in all cases but those
Of drlic .te-hooftd high hloodcd trotters it
becomes a vital question both for speed
nlcomtort. Mr.. Bonner is ST. part tuar
about the manner in which his horses are
sAo1, that he always suprrintends the OPP
peratiuns himself, rcillaiuing in the shop
during the Citing and mailing of the shoes,
both If which details he not ony directs.
but e. en- assists in personally.
AS the perfect tlatness of the shoe is
nessessa:y to even and comfortable step.
ing, Mr.. Bonner has procured smooth and
flat block of marble, upon whose sur
face he laccs every shoe before 1t is
nailed to the horses hoof. and il the iron
does not lie plumb on the stone it is ham
m, red and fled until thoroughly level
surface is obtained He has also theory
about fastening the shoe. He makes the
smith hammer the nails alternately on
each side, stroke for stroke, nail by nail.
left and right, so that the lightning OF the
shoe is gradual and equal on both sides
He also has the shanks Of the shoe stretched
very little wider than the hoof; and by his
system of driving the nails, the foot Is
! brought out to the shoe. and the frog and
heel are expanded in the operation. The
result is highly conducive to he sonndness
and toughness Of the hoof and freedom and
| frmless of the step of the animal.
Mr.. Bonner's horsss are driven solely by
himself, Occasionally a trusted man
drives one or span under Mr.. Bonner's
eve, but he never allows his yrooms to take
his horses out for exercise into the public
streets or roads. unles he is present HIM
self The only exercise they have, be-
sides that which Mr.. Bonner gives THEM
in his regular daily drives. is the monoto,,
nous walk around" as the minstcs Woud
call it, on the stable path, under the boy
before mentioned
The food of these famoUs steeds is the
same as that of the most ordinary horse
Oats are the staple of diet, with OCCASION
al "mashcs," and now and then little
corn or carrots, in proper season. Inc
vehicles. used by Mr.. Bonner are simple.
aud of the ordinary read form and though
lightly and we'll made, without any at
tempt whatever at ornamental display
Some are with and others without top.
some double and others single; but all
equally plain and neat. The harnesses
are in keeping with the vehicles. light but
strong, "neat but not gaudy," as the say
ing has it, with nothing to attract the ghze
of the passer by. In fine, Mr.. Bonner
keeps Ills horses for use and personal en-
ioylnent, and not in any way, directly or
indirectly. tor show or pecunary gain.-
lie has resolved to have the fastest trotter
in tho world, and so tar he has kept his
determinations, Dexter being confessed ~
without a rival.-N. Y. Evening Post.
A paraeraph has been going the rou IDS
of the papers to effect that Mr.. Nasty was