The Portland daily press., 1886-08-10

Mr.. E. Norcross favorites the Fearnaughts,
are doing some grand trotting in the West.
AT the recent races in Michigan, at East Sag
inaw and Detroit, the following performed
in manuer to cast great credit on themselves
and on the family to which they belong:
Prince Arthur, bay gelding by Western Fear
naught reduced his record from 2.214 to 2.1S4; ;
Benny gray gelding (pacer), by Fearnsught,
Jr., reduced his from 2.24 to 2.181. Silver
Thread (pacer), by Western Fearnaught has
record just inside 2.i0, we believe, but the
figures escape us. Juno Fearnaught, by
Western Fearnaught, is very fast and game
mare, and has a record of 2314; Prince, also
by Western Fearnaught, has shown his abili-
ty to beat 2.3O by a large margin These are
not all, there being five or six more, mostly
youngsters by Western and Royal Fear
naught The very fast Wilkes stallion, Tom
Rogers, 2.20 is the produce of the daughter
of the founder of the Fearnaught family, and
Katz, 227, by Golden Bow, is the produce of
one of the daughters of Western Fearnaught
By the way, we shall expect Mr.. Norcross to
make fine exhibition from his own stables at
the New England Fair.
The profits of well managed stable of
throughbreds are perfectly enormous. Take
for instance that of the Dryers of Brooklyn.
The earnings of July I'D were $121, LOG. Of
this sum fremont won $4,000 Inspector B.,
$4,000, Miss Woodford, $4,000, and the rest
was won by fourteen other animals The
Dryers are plucky and no price is too large
for their purse when their judgment has Sc
lected horse. For instance, at the IA
nous Lorrillard sale of last winter they
paid $4,000 for the two-year-old lilly
QHn
| lights on an item that in very recent race she
won a large stake. which has increased her
earnings up to the present time to 1925.
This makes it evidents that with no mishap
she will have more than won herself out
| by the end of the season.
The recent great performance OF the four
| year-old Franklin colt at Fairfield stamps
| him as one of the greatest colts ever tried in
| the East. A mile, on half mile track, in
| 2.2S4 is very fast four year olds. 1t was I'M
fortunate for Franklin stock and for Law
renee that he should be of the same age as
Nelson, as but for that fact his true merits
would be much better understood. For the
past two years Nelson has monopoliZed all the
but that one exception, is the best colt ever
raised in New England. Speaking of Mel.
son reminds us of the plucky challenges OF
of his owner, who, in the last number of the
Horse Breeders Monthly offers to trot four
| year-olds by his horse, DR.. franklin against
horse in the State. Mr.. Lawrence particu lar
| ly desires to trot his colts against the get of
| Constellation, Glenarm, Gen. Withers, Black
| Pilot, ETC. 1t is doubtful if such match W i'll
| be made, and Mr.. Lawrence makes mistake
| when he says that the stations named above
"have each as many, if not more. of this age
| than DIR. Franklin, and have had the patron
| age of the best brood mares in the State, 2 for
we think that with the exception of Gen.
Withers none of the stations named have as
many colts of four years of age as Franklin
In the case of Black Pilot there are no four
year olds. This horse was not in the stud
| that year, and he has nothing but yearlings
and weanlings under six years of age. The
| challenge of Mr.. Lawrence is plucky and
| evinces a faith in the power of his horse to
| get trotters that we would like to see. Ii
more of our breeders were as ready to trot
and keep their trotters as is Mr. Lawrence we
should have some rare sport here in Maine
A very similar challenge to the one issued
by Mr. Lawrence, is that of Col. r. Y. Pepper
Of Kentucky who is out in card In which
he offers to trot his horse Onward, and four
of his colts, against any stallion and four OF
his colts in the entire country, the races to
| be for from $4,000 to $4,000, and the winner of
| the events to take the entire stakes and
money, etc. This challenge ought to find
some takers somewhere. Perhaps Mr.. Law
renee, failing to make a match in Maine
| might make one with Col. Pepper.