Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-05-25
HORsE GOSSIP.


l. j. Goodhue of 1t. Adams, has just So
cured three horses which are beauties. He
viii not keep them long, however, since
such fine specimens are meyer drug on
the market
| VIII Martin Of Grand Isle, has colt
that ne was offered $50 Tor when week
Old. He is Lambert, and sired by Gen
oral Logan of Grand Isle
| 1t is said that teere are more good horses
at Mystic Park this season than there
were ever at the track before.
The entries of the Poughkeepse and Is
land Park races close May 81 Also
Franklin Park, Saugus, and Lawrence,
close Monday, May 81.
John Trout is in Vermont after another
good one. He has lew dark ones left in
his stable at Allston. George Hicks got
two new ones in Vermont, aud is now at
Cleveland. attending the Fasig sale
| Boston Courier.
There are eleven stations doing stud
service at Sunnyside Stock Farm, Water
vile, Me, which IL more than any other
farm in. the United States has, with the
one exception of Senator Stanford's farm
at Palo Alto, Cal. There is not Il farm IN
all the fAr-famed "Blue Grass" region of
Kentucky that can boast of doing so much
stud work as is carried on at this farm,
| way down in Maine"
Kentucky Prince, jr., sire of j. q, 217-
4, and other well-known performers,
died at the Red Bank Farm, near Montre-
al, Can, after few hours illness. He
was a chestnut horse, IL hands high, foal-
ed in 1874, by Kentucky Prince, dam
Patchienie by Mambrno Patchen, and
had been owned in Canada for the past
five years. Wilkes Chief, chestnut stall
lion, four years old, owned at the same
farm, died May 4. of lung fever, which
disease is quite prevalent in that neigh
borhood. Wilkes Chief was bred in Ken
lucky and was got by Red Wilkes, out of
Maud Muller, by Clark Chief.
H. L. 4 f. d. Stout of Dubuque, Ia,
have sold their bay stallion Sentinel
Wilkes, 2499, to w. H. Crawford, LeXing-
ton, Ky e, for $4,000 Sentinel Wilkes will
make the season at Mr.. Crawfords farm
adjoining Lexington. He is one of the
best looking SOUS of George Wilkes.
r. w. Pilsbury, Derry Depot, n. H.,
has purchased of George y. Fuller, trainer
tor the Springfield, lii, stock farm, the
Prince, dam by Messenger Duroc. He
was foaled May l., 1857, bred by Charles
Backman, Stony Ford, y. y. This colt
is AS fast as anything ever foaled at the
JeIseyville stock farm, and can show Il
quarter very close to 10 seconds.
Messrs S.A. Browne X Co. of Kalamazoo
stock farm have replaced Bell Boy with
the bay stallion Warlock, recently brought
from England by john Madden. The
purchase price, We understand, was $lj,
COO Warluck is tull brother 10 Viking
= 20 and Is well placed at Kalamazoo
STOCK talm.-Spirtt.
The name of the stallion owned by WI
liam Mcneil, which died Saturday Of
iapopieXy, was Waldeusiau OOH.
There are but four entries in the free-for
all at Detroit, Harry Wilkes. Oliver H.,
Prince Wilkes ana Nambruo Sparkle
budd Dobie'- stable includes the p3cers
'JulIetOu, 2.uj it, Arrow, , II, ana Ed.
Arlau, =. Il l.4, aud the tfofters Oliver X
2.l6 +, Prince Arthur, Is, MlhadO. 20
"a, aud Geneva -.
Reports from Iouisvi le say that the
liVc-} eal-uld trutter. Red Light, which IS
entered in the 2:3O SO 600 stake ut lioches-
er. worked a mile in 2:?4 /. He is owned
by Captain O'Neil of PiutsDurg. Pa.
Mr.. f. f. Powers of Pawlet has Gold
Com colt, 10 III nths old, which he says
"can't be beat in Rutland county" an as
seitiOn that he says he is ready to prove
The report that Mr.. Leonard Fish had
sold Gold Coin is pronounced untrue by
that gentleman, who states that the non Sc
Is looking line and will start in his class
al the breeders meeting in Rutland.
L. X. Woodman Of Pennington, Maine,
mas sold his bay four year-old stallion,
Woodland, to Mayor McCusck,Ot Calais
aud man named Eaton from the pro-
vnces tor 5000 He will be used for stock
purposes.
William McNei's fine registered stallion
dropped dead suddenly at Sheburn Satul-
day while being driven. The horse was
sired by lIolabId's Ethan out OF Wal
XII! Chlet mare and was valued at from
$500 to $1,000.
j. b. Davenport of Heath, Mass, writes
rs follows regarding the pedigree of the
lrottng horse Major, winch is being
sought after Major was bred by James
McCIullen OF COleraiue, Mass, sire Gen.
Putnam by Rollo by HIPS Black Hawk,
dam by Flying Cloud by Hili's Black
Hawk second dam sheridan by Bard
well Horse, by Hae's Green Mountain
Morgan. The Bardwell Horses dam was
a Duroc third dam a gray pacing mare of
Messenger descent.
Col j. A. Harvard of Littleton, Mass
owns Il Morgan mare that is bred about n
strongly in Morgan blood as can be found.
She Is IA dark or mahO9 any bay, stands II l
and weighs / iO pounds. She was sired by
Young Figaro, who traced to Green Noun
tam Morgan through sire aud dam. Her
dam WAS Gipsey by Massachusetts Nor
Gan and he by Green Mountain Morgan.
Giusey's dam by the Harvard Horse, aud
by )ireen Mountain Morgan. Phic Nor
Eau mare is now in foal to Ben =. Frank
lin, another inbred Morgan, and the fotl
ought TO be a reliable one.
a writer in the Homestead, speaking OF
Hambletonian and Daniel Lambert say
| In my opinion, both horses found then
| proper locality. If the sons of HambetO-
man have been q failure in Vermont, there
is cause therefor, and possibly the same
cause would have made failure of Lam
bert in Orange county, \. y. Hambletonr
, | an was III pedigree and type Messenger,
and with the maternal BelfOuuder out
cross, he was in proper form to be bred
! back upon his Messenger kin Lambert Is
5 | ! should Judge, in type Morgan, and with
I | MS maternal outcross of a Idallah, he was
ready to be bred back to Morgan mares
and where should he find them but in Yer
e mon -
3 | was much struck by the fact that in
f the neighborhood of Poultney, Vt, there
/ We're SO many good horses, and when
came to Judge them, many of the best and
, highest formed We're closely akin to High
! land Grey. | had never heard of the
+ horse but soon found that mot to know
q Highland Grey was to argue ones self
Unknown | learned that he is over u
, years old, has always stood away up IN
a these mountains, and had few opportuni