The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-08-21
Charlie Wicker.


Charlie Wicker, whose daughter,
Josie D., scored II record of $3.50 at
Scranton, Pa, July A, is the sixth son
of Daniel Lambert to be represented by
his get in the 2:30 list. lie is a very
dark chestnut, with strip in the face and
left hind ankle white stands ID hands
high and weighs $50 lbs. He very
much resembles Motion, but is not
quite SO blocky. lie was toaled in 1867;
bred by w. w. Moore, Shoreham, VT.
sire, Daniel Lambert; dam, Il chestnut
mare, bred by B. f. Powers of Shore
ham, sired by Smiths Young Colun-
bus; second dam, a bay mare bred by
Spencer Armstrong of Shoreham, said
to be by Burdick's Engineer. As a colt
he passed through the hands of III. M.
Atwood of S%horeham to Chas. G.. Wick
er of Ticonderoga, N. Y, who kept
him till he was FIVE years old, and then
in 1872 sold him to James NJ. Ward of
Towanda, Pa. (now of Syracuse, N.
Y.),who used him principally as a driv-
ing horse until 1888, when he passed
through several hands to his present
owner, Mr.. Walter G. Tracy of To-
wanda, who bought him early in 1854.
l. - Col NV az II oSd, lIC
got something less than twenty foals,
but from that time until 1888 he did
very little stud service; what little he
did being upon a very ordinary line of
mares about Towanda, from whom he
got not to exceed thirty foals in all
prior to 1888. Since coming into Mr..
Tracy's hands he has been given better
opportunities.
Charlie Wicker has always been
something ola cripple, having had both
hips knocked down when he was a colt
running in the pasture. He was able,
however, to win a ~three-year-old race
at Ticonderoga in 2:4S, and also won a
race there as a tive-year-old, as Mr..
Wicker states, in about pap. These
races were on the track, but do not APP
pear to have been reported. Since then
Charlie has never been put in condition
to trot, but has always been an excel
lent roadster, and so kind and gentle
that a lady has driven him a great deal.
Mr.. Tracy gives us some information
on the stock got by this horse, in which
is a letter from A. b. Abbott, Glens
Falls, N. Y, owner of "Stockie" a
small chestnut gelding, bred by Mr..
Wicker while he owned the horse. Mr..
Abbott says: "Stockie is about II IL
hands, chestnut color, handsome,
prompt and intelligent ever to the I'M
derstanding of ordinary conversation,
that is, if you can take my wife's word
for it, as that is what she insists upon.
She pets and drives Stockie mostly in
the summer and | handle him a little in
the winter. | never have hitched him
in summer lighter than to a road was-
Cd and do not know in what time he
could trot. For the past five years he
has been speeded with hundreds, and
on the public roads he has never been
beaten. He has frequently gotten away
with horses with records in the thirties.
| have never had him in a race. | have
made a standing offer of 81 80 per Id.
for his match, but | don't find him"
Mr.. George w. Dove, assistant SUI
%perlntendent Buffalo Creek Railroad
company, Buffalo, N. Y, owner of the
chestnut PAGER 'llarry' by Charlie
Wicker, writes: ale Is in prime con-
dition at present. | think with a
weeks work he could turn a mile track
in 2:2O if not better. a year ago he
made d full mile on Buffalo track in
2:24."
Mr.. Tracy writes that he has been
able to find but twenty seven animals
got BY Charlie Wicker from the time
he left Ticonderoga for Pennsylvania,
in 1872, till 1888, and he thinks these
comprise his entire get for that period.
lie states that not one of these was from
IA mare with any %pretensions to a pedi-
gree, and says: "kvery one of them
has naturally a fine gait, and almost
any one of them would have made a
trotter. One of them, Frank Lambert,
last season as a five-year-old trotted a
full mile over a half-mile track i'll 2:24.
= This same horse this year won
a race at Binghamton in slow time,
but not as slow as it was given out.
At Norwich, N. Y, he won a race this
season which was also in slow time, and
at Scranton, Pa, he won second money
July 3, getting a record of 1888 -,
which, if remember right, is his fast
est public record. A perfectly green
mare that was owned here trctted over
a poor half-mile track drawing a heavy
road wagon in 1902. Another green
mare owned near here has trotted in
the same time. own a very stylish
pair of bay geldings that always work
ed on a farm until this spring, since