Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-12-17
Turf Talk

The Maine bred horse Black Nathan, by
B ,by Dean. /. candidate for 2 80 honors
next season
Geo. A. French Of Phillips has purchased
a half interest in the four year old stallion
Aliectus, by Administrator.
Nelson 222I-4, will be seven year. old
next season, and it Is 'ail his owner will
make bid With him for the stallion record
A promising young Kentucky stallion has
jHst been brought 10 Gardiner by James Car
roll. This is the two year-Old Clip Anderson,
By Mambrino King.
DR. Geo II. Bailey Of Portland, has dis
pose Of his celebrated trotter Bodine, rec
ord 1874, to parties in Hartford, Conn. The
price paid il said to be large.
The black mare Peaceful, 20, st, b.,
by Gen. Knox is in foal to COhannet, 2. II IA.
Peaceful is now nineteen years old. and her
breeding has never been satisfactorily es-
tsbiished
Mr.. Albert Leach of Smithfield is win
tering for W. II. Haynes two year-old
FLY by Fred Boone, son of Daniel Boone
This hlly was bred TO Gideon and is sup
posed to be in foal.
Mr. John H. Fuller of Somerset Mills
owns HDfrr AHAL was % years Ola ldsl
spring lie is as spry as two-y-ar-old
colt and 1t takes a good one to beat him for
a brush down the road.
Expert hor.emen look TO see Guy, PIP
equal the 2.0st of Maud $. next season. II
is long ways from IL TO 2 0si, but the
Kennedy Prince gelding has shown speed
enough TO get there Can he carry the clip,
is the question: some think he can.
Bay Fearuaught the fine stallion owned
by J. q. Haynes of Skow he gan, has s1me
good honest colts in this vicinity Two OF
these 3 ears old, have recently been sold
for $500 each, and two year old for $3.50
IL paws 10 raise such colts as these Somer-
set Reporter.
The stallion Greenfield, owned by Dr.
Drake of Pittsfeld, is a half brother to Bell
Boy, the sire of both being Electioneer. Bell
Boy was recently sold at auction for So, 900
/ The two-year old Sunol sired by Elec,ioneer
made record of 2 Is in October,-the fast
est in the world.
There were side tracked at Morril's Coz
ner Tuesday two Grossman palace horse cars
from Lancaster. Penn. The cars each con
tanned stalls for Is horses. They carried
mules and horses to the knckerbocker Ice
Company at Richmond, making in all -four
car load. that have been sent to this ice com
/ pany ~ Portland Press.
/ \ three year old daughter of Kaiser sou
of George Wilkes. lately passed through this
city on her way from Kentucky 10 Portland
Ne, the home of her owner. DIR. W b
Morrill,. She is expected to produce foa
next season by Bourbon Wilkes. Maine
breeders are evidently disposed to keep steT
/ In the march of progress american Cuiti
GATOR, Dee II.
The California trotter Dubec, that came
out this season and made recorC
close TO 20. has been purchased by W. S
Hobart OF san Francisco, the man whose re
cent purchase of brood mares in the Eas
has attTa ted so much attention, and will
be used by him on the road one of team
the horse to 20 with Duoec not having Al
yet been selected. Dubec is by Sultan, AM
the price paid for him was So 400
1t would be difficult to find FIVE finer colt
in one stable than those owned by Mr. Geo
A. Weymouth of Canaan The nambe
comprises two ive-year Odds, by Moltke ant
DR.. Franklin; four-year old by old Dirigo
yearling and two-year-old by the notet
race-winner. Onewa, Pts l-2 The two
year Old, Oyanhs Girl, is a beauty, and give
promise of doing credit to her trotting an
Cestry.
A. G. Hunt, formerly of Belfast. now o
Boston, has sold bay horse. sired by Youu.
Morrill, out of Gideon mare, to a man IL
Gloucester He i. very handsome, can tro
fast. in fact close to 2.3O, weighs trih,
rising a thousand is prettily marked will
black points and daintly set flowing tail
The price was $500 and very cheap for sucF
an elegant horse, suited as he is to all fami
ly uses.
A dispatch from Los Angeles states tina
the famous three-year old stallion Bell Bo,
lowered his former record of PC two
year old TO 20, in = cor test against time
recently. Bell Boy trOtted the last qnarte
of the mile in 81 seconds. The colt FIRST be
came famous from his sale last spring TO,
$50, 600, and created another sensation By
bringing $50, 900 at auction in July. Bel
Boys new record stands second among stal
/ lions to the performance of Sable Wilkes
another Californian, which trotted in 2 Is las
year as a three-year-old. Bell Boy wal
bred at Pslo Alto IN 1855, and was sired b,
! Electioneer. who stands at the head of Sena
tor Stanford's trotting stud, out of the ia
nous mare Beautiful Belle, 2.29 a. by Tn,
Moor.
his is AHf III HiNn " hOntu
ly criticsss the late National Horse Show
of America lately held in New York II
should have been called John. Bulls 'Ors,
Show in New York. 1t was intended to b,
thoroughly English, you know but thu
pinchbeck qualit, of the English was OBJ
servable everywhere. 1t seems to have beer
managed by lot of brsinless dudes who 81
ways turn up their trousers in New Yorl
when tley hear it Is raining in London; a 10
of fox hunters who never saw q wild fox il
their lives, much less ride after one lot o
idiots dressed in scarlet coats and mounte,
on bobtailed horses securing across the couu
try after the trail of an snise-seed bag, ant
who call that fox hunting This is the kim
of emasculated Americanism that was il
charge and control of The Horse SHOW o
America
SHUT YOUR MOUTH.