Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-09
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 Fleet an the W1md-mr. Wm. Neely'g
 Fine Pair, Faith and HoPe-AmOng
 the Fastest Pairs fer Private Use in
 New Rngland-Mrs Nee1y's Young
 BIoOdea Co1s Leta, and Fine Rase
 Roadster Rocket
 New Haven can boast of not few fine horses and the interest in this class of prop >erty appears to be decidedly OF. the increase,
 and why not in a city of s0,000 inhabitants, such as this city has become, as evidenced by
 the large net addition of names in New Ha-
 ven's new directory just issued by Price G
 Lee. But the fastest pair of rosdsters in the
 city or State, owned solely for private use
 and recreation, is that of MT. Vim. Nicely,
 the dry goods merchant of this city. A
 word as to this fine and fleet pair which so
 many of our people have seen on the road
 and admired, as new evidences of the poetry
 of motion. Their names are respectively
 tsFaith" and 'sHope''-very pretty names you
 will all say. Faith and Hope were raised by
 Wm. Edwards of Cleveland, Ohio, noted
 horseman, president of the Cleveland
 Driving Park association, and raiser of fine
 matched bays, and both were sired by the
 same horse, and they trot beautifully togeth- er.. Faith. 8 years old, showed 8 mile in 2:23, and Hope, 2 years, did mile in 2:2913, both on the Cleveland course. MT. Nicely is well pleased with them, they proving all that he had anticipated. They trotted together for MT. Nicely in 2;30 on the Cleveland track. Mr.. NeeIy used last week one of the famous Crockett & Futile Co., E speeding wagons which he had just bought. The horses themselves seemed .esptivated with 1t, and MT. Neely speaking of the wag- on Saturday said: It's just daisy, only weighs 135 pounds, and Is like steel for strength and whalebone for elasticity. It if beauty. There isn't finer rosd wagon in the country, r don't care where 1t comes from, Over the stony roads at the shors 1t went; elastic and beautiful. It is my one man wagon, and with my Crockett 8c Tuttte two man top road wagon, three-quarter Il
 is called, weighing only 1S0 pounds, light ai reed and strong as iron, which bought earlier in the season, drive over the shore roads with a friend and everywhere else hereabouts for that matter, with equal satis- faction. These wagons are indeed a credit to our New Haven enterprise all over the country. Mir. Malley and l drive over ths stoniest shore roads in this wagon, going al fleet as the winds without the slightest ap prehension.
 Mir. Nicely beside this fine pair has very fine colt which he bought in Maine last win ter of F. O.. Stanley of Lewiston, noted horse raiser Of that section. It IS very nnt young Kentu lucky Prince colt and is now being bred in Maine to son of Belmont. Hel name is Leta. She is beautiful bay mare with not black point. She was raised by Charles Backman, of Stony Ford, and wal foaled six years ago.
 Wilkes Spirit of last week says of Katrine an own sister of this fine mare Leta, as fol lows:
 "Mr. Charles Backman advises us as follows Among his sales was one to Colonel l.. Kip the bay mare KatIine, foaled 1883, sired by Kentucky Prince, dam Lady Burt, by Ham bletonian 10; second dam by Hero, son oi Abdallah. Katrine is thought by many to bs the handsomest mare ever bred at Stony Ford and is very promising for speed" MT. Nicely is also the owner of Rocket, another fine horse which MT. Edward MalleJ can be seen almost any day driving together with his fine chestnut horse. This fine blacH gelding is doing magni6cently and is great roadster. Rocket was also bought of tho F. O. Stanley mentioned, last winter. He trotted last season a mile in 2.29A. The record retains him in the 2:30 class, in ac cordance with the new rules on the subject made a couple of years ago. Rocket is ont of the fastest roadsters in the State. He if an inbred Knox; his sire was Knox and the sire of his dam was one.
 Faith and Hope were recently driven hall mile by the celebrated Hiram Woodruff o1 Boston on our Hamilton Park track in 1:19.