The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-03-24
Waited from Track and Road.
l.. w. HESS, Editor.

More horses than ever before will DO
worked over our track this season. From
present indications there will be about forty
and perhaps more. Newt. Baxter will
train the Gillen trotters ana his fast PAGER
Tom Miles will have ten or 6teen. w.
Baxter, j. s. Dorr, J. L. Groves, q. Fergu.
son, NJ. White and others are apt to have
horses Ut work.
Empire. driven by Mr.. d. Lawrence,
attracts much attention On the street. lie
is an extra large, fine locking, we'll bred
horse. Don't fail to call at Mr.. Lawrence's
stables on Columbus street and see him.
Tom Miles frequently comes down the
street behind fine looking bay brown horse
who, if he is not trotter, mocks one. IT'S
the 4-year old Ignaro, whose tabulated pedi.
gree shows him to be most fashionably bred.
Send to Thomas Miles for pedigree or call
at track and see the horse.
Don't forget for a minute that Mr.. W. j.
Nicely has two horses making the season at
his place that have each record better than
2:30. His is the only place in the county
where two horses with records are making
che season.
notice that the courts awarded Mr.. s.
W. Chapman, Of Elgin, ILL.,, $3,50O for his
PAGER Riley, 2:2O, who paced here in 1887,
,I So, rral In, ratlrnal ha
spring of 1888.
Soon the bell will ring to call up the hOr'
ses to start in the races Among the meet
ings in this for which dates have been
claimed are Elgin June 9Th to eth; Freeport
June 18th to 10Th; Virginia, June 26 to %;
the Illinois Union Breeders Ass-meeting
ing, at Joliet, July Sd and 4th; Mendoza,
July II. to 20; Peoria. July "a to q; Ottawa
July 81 to Aug. 3; Streator Aug. to 10;
Joliet Aug. IA to II; Chicago Aug. 81 to rs;
Rockford Aug. % to 81; Freeport Sept. 3 to
7. followed by several other meetings. This
list shows that any man who owns trotter
need not leave the State from early spring
to late in the fall to find place to trot his
horse at, and win or loose money-more APT
to be the latter. But there is one oonsola-
ton, if he remains in the State to trot and
looses, he is not so far from home, but what
he can road back, with. the would.be trotter
The fastest performers produced by Ham
bletonian mares are Clingstone and Trinket,
records of 2;l4 the tastes. by Mambrino
Chief mare. Phallas, 2:l32, by Dictator the
fastest by Vermont Black Hawk mare
Gloster, PAT, by Volunteer. and the fastest
by Clay mare. st. Julien, 2:llf, by Volun.
teer. The grand totals by the female lines
of the four families are: Hambletonians,
236 dams, with 254 performers with records
of 800 or better; Mambrino Chiefs, l42
dams with l63 performers; Vermont Black
Hawks, 40 dams, with l4s performers; and
Clays, 209 dams, with 1923 performers.
The bay horse General Hatch, DAT, foaled
1861, by Strader's Cassius NJ Clay, Jr.,
dam by imp. Envoy, died near Muscatine
Ia, on Feb. "a. He was the sire of fleta
and Envoy, both with records of 2:2s
HORSE SENSE.
Race horse-What hum.drum life you
carriage horses lead. Why am greeted BY
cheers wherever appear, and my pedigree
has been printed in all the papers.
Carriage Horse-Pooh! Any fool of 6
horse with long enough legs can run fast
My glory is not in my speed but in my
brains.
" Brains, eh!'
eyes. I've been driven by woman fol
FIVE years, and haven't lot her run me int
anything yet. "-Omaha World.
Mr.. A. J. Alexander, WOODBURY. Farm
Spring Station. Ky, has jus. bought Of Mr.
Edward Pyle, Humboldt. Nebraska. tho bay
mare Julia, sister to Maxey Cobb, record
2.l3t, fastest stallion reoord) for $5,00l
Just what the odd 81 10 for does not appear
but WAS probably added for the same reason
that the late X. A. Alexander had for selling
Norfolk for $l5,O0l. When he bought Lex
ington several friends expressed astonish
ment that he would pay $4,000 for blint
! horse, and he commended that the price WA
reaso enable. as he would sell one Of his colt
for more money than ne paid for him-th'
extra dollar paid for Norfolk made his wore
good and demonstrated his sound judgment
Ed dc Cernes has sold the bay mare Bell
Of Pottstown, by Harold, dam by Wad
Hampton, to D. Demarest for $1,000. sh
10 6 years old. and trotted the Pottstowi
halfmile track in 2:343.
1t is said that John Splan will drive Harr
wilkes and the rest Of the Sire Brothers
horses this year, in place Of Frank Va
Ness.
| Robert Steel has sold to 8. A. Browne
Co., Kalamazoo, Mich, $1,000, Red Letter
bay FLY, foaled 1886, by Nutwood, 2:lsa
dam Bonny Doom by Aberdeen, second dam
Ariel. by Ethan Allen; third dam BY Han
bletouian (Harris). Red Letter is fu