Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-10-26
Don't Forget the Horses

| Guy is soon to start to beat 2l0. He can
| do it if in sorts and at his best
The best mark for a three year-old PAGER
is IA, by Volo Maid. The best 5-year old
mark is 2.l3 Ia.
OF two colts similar in disposition and
sense, one may develop into steady and
valuable family horse, while the other may
be everything that is vicious, treacherous
and unsafe-all because of a difference in
the man handling them
The New England record for yearlng
| trotters was reduced from 3.lS to 3. II l-2 at
the recent breeders meeting at Boston by
the bay colt Palm, a son of Messenger
Wilkes He is described as a good gated
one. but 3 ~ l-2 clip is good ways from
the . 81 IL of the California tilly Norain.-
Breeders Gazette. Yes, but it is doing
pretty well for Maine.
Mr.. J. b. Smelledge of Bullens Mills, has
sold his valuable two-years-old Mann
brine colt to W O. Hargraves for
La good round figure, we are
told. She stands fifteen hands and one inch
Mr. Smelledge has a three years-old colt that
is sister to the one sold. The blood is
Mambrino and Knox.
| C. II. Spotford of Boothbay, has just re-
turned home from Bingham which is his for
mer home He brought back with him a
purchase he made while there. 1t is fine,
large. seven year old brood mare. She is
black, stands Is hands hugh and weighs 1900
lbs, and for substantial build cannot be
surpassed.
Mr.. c. W Wentworth of Stetson has Just
sold two of his best horses for $500. One of
them, a very fast four-years- old colt, Octire,
" s I
want and j. s. Goodwin of Stetson bought a
very handsome two-years old-a PAGER. Mr.,
Wentworth has refused an offer of $3.50 for
A very speedy mare which he owns All OF
| these were raised BY himself, and he natur-
ally commences to believe that it pays to
raise good colts. Other farmers commence
tie believe that there is money in it.
"Dont forget the horses said one of our
good subscribers to us the other day. AS he
was talking about the Journal and its i'm
movement of late, ave want to hear some
thing about them in the paper every week. -
| And that is about the way very large ma
| ieritv of our readers think, both in city and
country, for good horse IS just as service.
able in the one place as the other The
| farmer who raises good one wants to sell
him. the city men are always ready to buy
them, and that at long price; and between
both classes the interest in the noble animal
is sure to be kept up.
Jos. +. Wiley, of Lincolnville, owns the
stallion Abbott, Jr.. years old by Abbott
he by Pilot Jr. dam Knox and Drew. good
color. shape and action. He has a brood
mare by Black Cloud, record of 2,2S, dau
Morgan, from which he has raised thret
colts one by Harbinger. the other two b,
Abbott Jr.. The Harbinger FLY 3years old
has a colt by her side by Messenger Wilkes
a fine looking colt smooth as a thoroughbred
He also has Harbinger filley, 3-years-old
dam bv King, he by old Boston. J. w
WILEY owns the stallion Hiram B., CRANE
sire Gideon, dam by Matchmaker, a yer,
fine looking stallion.
Bro J. W. Thompson of the Horse Breed
as Monthly comes down on some of thu
slang phrases of the turf, (and there ar,
enough of them). in the following commend
able manner which every body will approve
There is good deal of 'poppycock' il
, the reports of races as found in some of on
exchanges. One never speaks of WHINE
hit as securing a winning bracket or If
winner of two races as securing set o
: thinning brackets Another always speak
of a race won in three heats, straight, as be
mo won right off the reel. Now all thi
toik about brackets and reels only serves
l mvs,ify the uninitiated, or the initiated TO
E that matter. for we don't believe the writer
4 themselves can tell just what they do NEAR
WHY not call things by their right namess