Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-04-26
Talk About rroster. ard Horse Natter.

A correspondent in Oxford county |
among other inquiries in a recent letter
asks: ..Who. in your opinion. owns the
best Wilkes stallion in the State:" Tol
answer this question would involve more |
explanations as TO ,eh We gave the opinion |
We did. than our readers would care 10
hear. perhaps, although we may refer TO
it at a future day. Such an opinion might |
also imply unfairness to some breeder. and
our sole aim in these and other matters is |
to be- just and fair to all who are aiding to
improve the horse breeding interests of
our State. In brief. however. We may
say that in our opinion the best bred
Wilkes horse would be one the nearest
to Rysdyk's Hambletonian, united TO the
best bred dam that could be found. That
there are so goodly a number of Wilkes
stations in the State makes il a quite easy
matter for our intelligent correspondent
and others 10 select for themselves with
out much difficulty.
At Mr.. q. J. Shaw's sale which takes
place in Boston on Wednesday of this
week. nineteen trotting bred horses will
be offered at auction. among them Godfrey
Withers, years old; a pair of bay geld
ings. full brothers, ) and years old. by
Gen. Withers: pair of bay mares, full
sisters. 6 and years old. by Gen. Withers
black stallion, ) years old BY DR. Frank
lin; and several fillys and geldings. The
sires represented are Winthrop Morrill,,
Gideon. DIR. Franklin. Harbinger, Defiance,
and Gen. Withers.
Mr.. c. ii. Nelson is now in Kentucky
for the purpose of purchasing one or two
good stations to place in his Sunny side
stables.
| Maj. b. G.. Thomas of New York is one
of the best known breeders of thorough
bred horses in this country. but he has no
belief in the theory advanced by many
that to improve the speed of the trotter
there must be introduction of thorough
bred blood in the breeding lines. Mai.
Thomas belief is that trotting bred stall
lions and mares produce trotters and run
ming stations and mares produce runners.
II is said by the Breeders Gazette, that in
recently sending copy of his catalogue to
Il friend Maj. r., wrote saying: There is
not an animal in this catalogue from which
2.l0 trotter could be bred in hundred
years"
Mr.. j. +. Burnham of Houlton has one
of the best two year olds in Aroostook
county. 1t is named Sunday Heralder.
by Wiuchester,by Edward Everett. by Rys-
dyk's Hambletonian; dam, Daisy Knox. by
Sagadahoc, by Gen. Knox. Sunday
Heralder is u hands, weighs 80 pounds,
and is in the Ioulton colt stakes to be
trotted in August next.
Andrew Childs of Boston has got a big
good one from the wilds of Maine. 1t is
a bay gelding, II hands, and weighing
ll35 pounds. He can haul Goddard
buggy and two men round Il mile ring. or
down the road eight furlongs in three
minutes. He is by Gen. Withers-Spirit
of the Hub, April 10. And the wilds OF
Maine can send any number of similar
good ones, and is sending them to Boston
and New York every week. '.The woods
are full of en-.
Maud $, Robert Bonner's wonderful
2.0S "a trOtting mare was twelve wear
old, March %, last. The Horseman saws
Mr.. Bonner went to the stable to see his
pet and offer congr itulations, and johnny
Murphy. her trainer, gave her an extra
pat and drank to her health
The Spirit says that W. +. Jones OF
South Boston owns handsome little
5-yeaI-old bay mare, sound and fast, who
lately paced trial in 2.27 and can go even
faster. Her dam was IA IIambletonan and
she was bred in Maine
The recent sale of Gilbreth Maid is an
nounced. She is now sixteen years old
She is by Gilbreth Knox; her dam said tc
be Morgan. Her record is 2.25 II.
f Some days ago we stated that trottins
sres and dams did not always produce
trotters. and asked why? Well. it is ''Ont
of those things no fellow can understand.
Here is one fact to prove it. Hattie
Woodward. 2.l5 1-2-repOrts the Breeders
Gazette of April lSth-has been bred tC
Jerome Turner, 2.l5 II, which is about
the fastest combination of sire and dam
so far as the combined records are con-
cerned, yet produced. Soon after her
great race when she made her above
record. she broke down, and has for several
years past been kept as brood mare
But although always mated only with the
best stations, 'she has never produced a
colt that has amounted to ANYTHING as a
irotter
The discussion of the limit of trottng
speed is an interesting and harmless pas
time. Twenty years hence whoever lives
will know more about it than at present
Most breeders are anxious to know how to
produce a trotter capable of reaching the
present limit-Imericaa Cultirator.
i Elmo is one of the fine kennebec count V
horses not to be overlooked. He is owned
by o. $. Chatfee, and is by st. Elmo, by
Gen. Knox: dam, by Tiger. by the DR..
Call horse, by imported Cannon Ball, a
strain found in the 2.2G mare, Lady Dag
gett. Elmo got a record of 2.32 at Bel
fast, in the fourth heat of a great race, in
1856
The Messrs Briggs, Auburn. informs us
that the book of Messenger Wilkes. (by
Red Wilkes. dam by Messenger Chief, is
full for the season. His colts are in great
demand. 4 few years ago the Messrs
Briggs bought full sister to Nelson.
ops 10. for which they paid sl,500.
Last year she brought colt by Messenger
Wilkes for which they have already re-
| fused au offer of 81 900