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

want to tell you a little about few OF
Mr.. w J Neelys many good horses that
he has. At his barn In Ottawa he has
that magnificent old horse, Byron; record
;25l5, made many years ago when sulkies
were not rs light, or training the fine art
| Il Is now. Byron Is a trotter by a trotter,
and Is producer of trOtters, being the sire
of Ottawa Chief, 2;2J. John X 2;43, and
of the dam of that phenomenal year old,
Susie $, record 2;2O
Ottawa Chief, 2:25, is pure gated,
handsome bay horse; he has some colts
that are very promising.
Enquirer, 1890, is large, fine gaited 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 viii pay
any one 10 call and see them.
At his farm he has Byron Pilot, an ex-
traordlnarily we'll bred horse, being by
Byron, 81, dam, Golden Gate, by lDeloit,
1918; % dam, Lady WOODBURY. by Bayard :;
Sd dam, Blandina, by Mambrino Chief !;
18th dam, Rosalindss dam, 2:2l, by Brown
Pilot Then there Is the bay horse, Neal
son of Enchanter, sire of Ensign, :2Sl5 !;
Valiant, 2:2Sl1, and others. There are
many others ON the farm but space Is lin
tied, hence can not describe them all.
Mr.. j. Ii. Pickens, of the south side,
frequently picks up good horse. lie seems
partial to PAGERS. His latest acquisition Is
the black pacing stallion, Dr. Spears,
good looking lG hand horse, sired by Box
err dam, Kate Lucket, by Blanco, sire of
Smuggler. 2l5l Dr. Spears Is quite fast
and is the sire of quite number OF prem
Using PAGERS
DR.. w f. Were, who has taken the
place Of DIR. Sheppard, is, am pleased to
say, meeting with much success. lie has
had II 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 Iaute, Ind, about the
middle of April. He is now jogging A.
V. Farmland, 22O4; Belle Echo, go;
William c.. 2:22l Jessie Ballard, 2:2I 4
Daisy Gardner 2;29L Geneva S, 2 ;32,
Daisy Wilkes, 2:3715; William s., 2:3S12
and the Pttsburg PAGER Johnny Woods,
2:234.
The Terra Haute, Indiana, Trotting As
ISOLATION will hold the spring meeting from
June : .OS
Mr.. Emmett Hill, of West Concord, VI,
has bought of Hanscom " Mills, Boston,
Mass, the chestnut colt Jesuit, fOaled June
Is, 1888, bred by X. p. Hopper, Frankfort,
Ky, sired by Onward; dam, Cut by Brig
noll; "a dam, Crop dam of Code, 2:22 4
Counselor, 2:24 and Blanche Amosy, 2;26)
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:lSI; Atlantic,
2:2l the PAGER, Silver Thread, 2:l6la, and
an unknown quantity he purchased In
Rochester in his string.
Budd Dobe 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 If he trains on will be almost lnvinci-
BILE ia the free-for.all class this year. With
Ed Annon, 2:l7A and Arrow in his stable
Budd will play prominent part IN the
big pacing events in 1888.
The brown horse Artist, 2:26l:: trotted
the first contest heat in 230 or better In
1888, at Sacramento, Cal, on Feb. II, when
he defeated Col Hawkins in match race
over Agricultural Park for $500, straight
heats.
Beauregard 2 2lia, by Mohican, will be
seen in the pacing events in 1888, with
Harvey Ernst behind If this well-known
Buffalo driver pilots this big chestnut
geldng as successfully among the slue-
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,OOO,OOO. The average valuation
in Kentucky is over S72 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
improvement 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,
EarIvIlls Entries.
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