The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-03-10
Waited from Track and Road.
l.. w. HESS, Editor.


Mr., w. j. Neelys many good horses tina
he has At his barn In Ottawa he ha'
that magnificent old horse, Byron recorc
2:2515, made many years ago when sulkiei
were not as light, or training the fine ar
It Is now. Byron is a trotter by Il trotter
and is producer of trotters, being the sire
of Ottawa Chief, 20, John II 2;43, and
of the dam of that phenomenal 3year old
Susie s., record 2:20
Ottawa Chief, 2;2j, il a pure gated
handsome bay horse; he has some colts
that are very promising
Enquirer, 1880, is a large, fine gated bay
horse he is son of Ensign 22Sla, and
Lady Winfred the dam of Ottawa Maid,
2:34ll, He will be sent for record this
season.
There are number of Others at his barn
here, and all are good ones. II will pay
any one 10 call and see them.
At his farm he has Byron Pilot an ex-
traordinarily we'll bred horse, being by
1915 ID dam, Lady WOODBURY. by Bayard
Sd dam, Blandina, by Mambrino Chief
4th dam, Rosalinds's dam, 2:2l, by Brown
Pilot Theh there is the bay horse, Neal,
a son of Enchanter, sire of Ensign, 2;2Sis ;
Valiant, 2:2Sl and others. There are
many others on the farm, but space Is lin
ited hence can not describe them all.
Mr.. j. II. Pickens, of the south side,
frequently picks up good horse. He seems
partial to PAGERS His latest acquisition Is
the black pacing stallion, DR.. Spears, a
good looking lG hand horse, sired by Box
er; dam, Kate Lucket, by Blanco, sire of
Smuggler. 2;l54. Dr. Spears Is quite fast
and is the sire of quite a number of prem
Using PAGERS.
DR.. w. f. Weere, who has taken the
place of DR.. Sheppard, is, am pleased to
say, meeting with much success. He has
had "a number of difficult cases since his
arrival, and has been very successful in
every instance.
Nan Mccarthy will ship his horses from
Los Angeles, Cal, where he has been
winterlng, to Terra Haute, Ind, about the
middle of April, He is now jogging A
V. Farmland, 2:2Ol1; Belle Echo, 220;
William c.. 2:22l Jessie Ballard, 2:21l "A !;
Daisy Gardner, 2;29H Geneva s., 2 ~
Daisy Wilkes, 2:3715; William s., 2:3S12
and the Pittsburg PAGER Johnny Woods,
2:234,
The Terra Haute, Indiana, Trotting As
sociation will hold the spring meeting from
June 5 toS,
Mr. Emmett Hill, of West Concord, W.,
has bought of Hanscom " Mills, Boston,
Mass, the chestnut colt Jesuit fOaled June
10, 1888, bred by r. p. Hopper, Frankfort,
KY, sired by Onward; dam, Cut by Brig
noll; I'd dam, Crop dam of Code, 2:22l4;
Counselor, "a; and Blanche Amosy, $3.50
by Pilot Jr price $4,000.
James II. Goldsmith, the Walnut Grove
Knight of the sulky, will have very
strong campaigning stable next season. He
already has Libby s., 2:18I; Atlantic,
gel the PAGER, Silver Thread, 2:1616, and
an unknown quantity he purchased in
Rochester in his string,
Budd Dobie will have the celebrated
PAGER Arrow, PA, by A. W. Richmond In
his stables next season This horse made
his record last season as four-year old.
and ii he trains on will be almost lnyinci-
BILE in the free-fOr.all class this year. With
Ed Annon, 2:17l4, and Arrow In his stable
Budd will play prominent part In the
big pacing events in 1883.
The brown horse Artist, 2:2G4: trotted
the first contest heat in 2:30 or better in
1888, at Sacramento, Cal, on Feb. 1, when
he defeated Col Hawkins in match race
over Agricultural Park for $500, straight
heats.
Beauregard, 22lls, by Mohican. will be
seen in the pacing events in 1883, with
Harvey Ernst behind. If this we'll known
Buffalo driver pilots this big chestnut
gelding as successfully among the SIDE
wheelers as he did In 1886, when he threw
down the trotters at Cleveland, Rochester
and Albany, the change will be very
profitable one.
The Department of Agriculture at
Washington, in its report on the stock OF
the country, estimates the number OF
horses in Kentucky at 100000, valued at
over $2S,O00000 The average valuation
in Kentucky is over $72 per head, against
an average OF $107 per head in Mass. The
report also says that in nearly all parts OF
Kentucky farmers are devoting more
attention than ever before to the
of the quality OF their live
stoak of all kinds, but particularly the
horse. The great boom in blOoded stock
which has been rising and eliminating in
central Kentucky during the past decade
is nav rapidly extending to all other parts
of the state even to the mountains,