Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-05-17
,ossip about Horses and Their Breeders

and fine roadsters, from Warren wilkins
of Gardiner; seven good ones from f.
VI. Gilman. Pennington; and ten from
Mr.. Butler of Berwick. the last named
string consisting of two pairs of fine
matched black carriage horses, and six
extra drivers of good form and breeding.
These all sent to the Hub in one week.
1t is worthy of mention as showing the
extra fine class of horses now owned in
Oxford county, that nineteen of those ell
tered for the coming stakes of the Trotting
Horse Breeders Association of that coun-
ty, are standard bred animals.
Interesting facts about the great horse
Dexter continue TO be made by the turf
papers. The Breeders Gazette SAYS the
last time Robert Bonner drove him was ia
the fall of 1855, since which time the old
horse has never had harness on him. He
was the second horse to beat 2.20, and he
records below his mark of ALL He
( also outlived every horse which ever start
ed in a race against him. But he was
vicious to the last and only few hours
groom and also tried to bite him as we'll
! Herolight, Mr.. Nelson's new stallion,
had not been in the Sunnyside stable five
days when his book for the season was
| then fitted for the track, and Mr.. Nelson
thinks it will be an easy matter to place
him in the charmed 2.30 circle this fall.
The little trotting beauty, Katie B., one
of the handsomest horses ever raised in
Maine, has just been sold by Mr.. Luther
Hutchinson of Weld, to a gentleman living
| in Rhode Island for 5000. She is nine
years old, is by Lord Nelson, by Lander's
Knox, by Gen. Knox; her dam Brandy
wine mare. Katie b., was bred by Mr..
Irwin Hutchinson. and has record of
I 23O.
1t will interest many of our Maine
readers to know that the renowned sires.
Gen. Withers, by Almont, owned by Mr..
G. j. Shaw of Hartland is now in the
hands of the trainer, Charles Iapp, who
has private stables just outside the Beacon
Park gate, Medford, Mass. Among other
horses now being handled by him are Il
gray PAGER by Gen. Withers, now in the
three minute class. and very handy; Il
bay mare five years old by Pickpocket
(2.32) by Pequaket, by Gideon; and Il
2-year-old by Gen. Withers.
The celebrated pacing mare Matte
Hunter, PIP II, recently dropped a tilly
foal by Patron, 2.l4l-4. The Breeder
Gazette says this youngster ''combines the
fastest combination of records in the en-
tire annals of horse breeding" Those
who 90 by the record, should now re-
member whether this tilly ever beats her
src's time or not.
MI. +. Thayer of Norway has lately
bought of +. G. Lowell, Auburn, the 3
year-old filly Enigma, by Glenarm; dam
by Gen. Knox. She stands Is hands, and
weighs 1850 lbs. 5. ID. Wakefield of Lewis
ton has sold to Charles Lowell of Auburn.
the bay tilly Ehl, by Glcnarm, dam by
Touchstonc, (the sire of Frank Hill 2.2S-
LID She is l6 hands. and will be bred
this season to Bayard Wilkes. These sales
are in good demand as broodmares.
A 3 year-old stallion by Kentucky
Wilkes; dam Hattie Clay, by Billiards. c.
NJ. Clay, has just been purchased of Ruel
Carter, Swanpscott, Mass, by l.. p.
Hawkin's of Portland.
The Spirit of the Hub for May 10th,
says: "Mr. John Winch is very highly
pleased with Kitty F., 2.4 II, by Joe
Irving, by Whtcomb's Fearnaught. This
mare ought to be good enough for any
thing" Kitty r., was bred, and formerly
owned by Albert W. Bracket of Pitts
tield,-owner of Harbnger-and she made
the above record on the Fairfield track in
1850 when years old. The dam of Joe
Irving was by Gen. Knox, and the dam OF
Kitty p, was by Gideon
1t is said to have been an open secret
that the horse Howard, by Electioneer,
who was one those destroyed by fire at
Palo Alto, had trotted better than 2.l7.
and was to have been brought east this
fall on a campaigning tour.
Mr.. c. II. Nelson of Waterville has
gone to Buffalo. n. Y, for the purpose of
purchasing another stallion-the books
of his entire band of horses being full, he
is obliged to purchase another.
"Breed to trotters to produce trotters,
and to running horses to produce runners,
seems to be well proven axiom among
/ breeders. In confirmation of the truth OF
this it is said that Ex-Governor Stanford
of California is getting rid of his horses
the trotter, as fast as possible. He is
reported by the s"IIorseman" As having
said that 'although the experiment of
crossing trotting stallion with thorough
bred mares may once in while produce
colt that trots fast, it is not on the
whole the best cross to make
''This year over six hundred mares
will be bred to Mr.. Nelson's Sunnyside
stations, Waterville, notwithstanding
the fact that within radius of five miles
of Sunny side there are kept for service
fifty stations. Surely the breeding of
horses in Maine is on the increase -
/ Spirit Of the Hub.
/ Every breeder of experience knows that
it is almost impossible to select from a lot
of Young colts the one which will prove the
/ fastest trotter when matured. MANY that
are large and well proportional, show
what is termed a 'slashing gait have
good knee action, and indicate by every ac-
ton that they have great speed, are never
heard of after having been trained and
driven. On the contrary. many small
rough. unpromising colt, which gives no
indication of unusual trotting action. be-
fore reaching maturity. at last comes out
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