Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-09
Talk About Horses.

| Mr.. A. G. Fuller of West Gardiner, is the
owner of a very handsome colt by that great
stallion CushnOc. His dam was by Black
Pilot. The colt was foaled the 18th day of
July, is chestnut color, and is large for its
age. 1t will be trotter.
The best time ever made on the Lawrence,
Mass, track, was made by Rex, the black
gelding owned by n. J. Stone. This was
made Nov LIST, 1888, and was the fourth and
only heat won by him in the 222 race, in
2.23 Il
The 3-year-old pacing record has been re-
duced four times this year. Dodd Pete held
it at the opening of the season, but Gold
Leaf soon reduced it to 2.ls. Yolo Maid
appeared and reduced Gold Leafs mark to
ZIG IL On the following week Gold Leaf
re-appeared and reduced it to 2I5 Yolo
Maid then paced in 2. IA, at which mark the
3-year old record remains. Yolo Maid is by
Alexander Breton. 229. This performance
makes the and year old pacing records
PA, while the 5-year-old record for side
wheelers is 2.l3 IA.
Belle Iiamlin has been turned in for the
season. She retres for the winter queen of
the turf performers of 1888, with record
of 2.l3 "a, which has been beaten only by
Guy.
Great complaint is made by the sporting
papers this fall, about the hard tracks at
Coney Island and Brooklyn. The former
track is said to be as hard as flint Black
and Blue the accomplished turf critic of
the New FORK Mail and Express. says when
a field of five starters in running race over
the Cony Island track broke away, .'the clat-
ter of their hoofs on the hard ground sounded
like lot of trotters on a macadamzed road
in Central Park" The same is true at
Brooklyn track. IF any one would take the
many places where it was so hard that only
the steel blue impression of the horses plates
could be seen, the ground being unbroken.'
The reason for this is found in the desire of
the clubs to get the fastest time records for
their tracks. "Of course there is some pres
tge for this, but the injury done horses
is incalculable. The number of horses
which have been ruined by these hard tracks
cannot be estimated. The result of the con-
tinual pounding over these hard, flinty tracks
is terrible on a horses feet, not to speak of
his legs, and ringbones and injuries to the
coffin joint are growing plenty"
In answer to an inquiry, Wallace's Monthly
for November says the stallion Pickpocket,
(2.32), by Pequawket, cap, is not regis
tered. Mr.. Wallace also says that evidence
is wanting to prove that Pickpocket is the
sire of Mamie W, (2.27.) Pckpocket was
bred by Elias Newbegin, Cornish. but is now
owned somew here in the West.
The national horse show opened in Madi-
son Square Garden, New York. November
9Th; four hundred ''blue blooded horses" az
one New York daily says, and 1.-The elite Of
the equine world as another has it, being
present. The grandest and most valuable
horses in America are on exhibition, and
among the exhibitors are A. b. Darling,
Leland Stanford, j. c. Hamlin and Augustus
Belmont; while among the ladies who show
choice horses are Mrs. Langtry, Miss Con
suelo Vanderbilt Miss Florence Hurst and
Miss Ell Disc Stevenson, the latter said to be
the best eQuestrienne in New York city. We
shall give notes of this exhibition from time
to time.
Mr. NJ. o. Savage of this city is a good
Judge of horse, and when he rides he draws
the ribbons over a fine one, always. At
present Mr.. Savage owns three. which are
kept at his home stable on the East Side.
One of these is a bay mare, years old next
spring which stands 1873. and weighs 1925
lbs She is by Rocket, said TO be by Daniel
Boone dam. a Witherell. The next is Billy
Roy, chestnut gelding, years old, stand
ing 10 hands and weighing 900 lbs. He is a
fine led horse, the true type of a Morgan
and can show so clip and not half try. The
third is Messenger and Morgan gelding, 6
wears old next spring stands little over Is
hands. and weighs 900 lbs. lie is black,
with white strip in face and is a handsome,
compact, well finished horse.
The gelding Gonzardo, owned by Mr.. John
Dockeudorf Of Peru, S. A., is now beir &
kept at the stable of Will Sylvester on the
| East Side, this city. He was got by Cush-
noe; dam kentucky bred Hambletonian
mare, and is just two years old this month.
His weight is now 1852. Mr.. Sylvester has
a two months old colt from the same sire and
dam that is very promising little fellow.
When the stallion Daniel Lambert, SO well
and favorably known to Lewiston horsemen,
got a record of 2.4+ as a three-years old, Dan
Mace, the celebrated driver who drove him.
offered to match 5000 a side against any
three-y esrs-old in the world. At the present
time Mr.. Mace could find several three-yesrs-
olas in Maine which can beat Lambert's rec
ord, to say nothing of what three years old
throughout the country can do.