Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-06
Horrss and Their Drivers.

very near meeting with a serious accident
o from the Insecure fastening Of the gang
plank, which slipped from its place, let
q ting the horse fail between the cars and
the platform. Most fortunately he es-
s capped with only few scratches.
Rev. FIR. Piante Of this city Is great
q lover Of good horse and has lately pur-
chased very handsome Knox gelding
e which is low being handled for him by
the trainer James stevens. This gelding
e IS called Tom, is 3 wears old and weighs
about 900 lbs. He Is most intelligent
gents road horse.
The famous Maine stallion Glenarm,
which won the Free-for-au race at the
: Eastern Maine State Fair Is now at the
Charter Oak Park, Hartford, Conn, where
! he will take a hand in the races on Thurs
day and Friday of this week.
/ Amid the many instances of successful
trotting by a horse the descendants Of trot-
, tiers, it will do no harm to mention a ease
Of the failure TO trot on the part of well
) bred horse with trotting ancestors. The
stallion Holstein, by Indianapolis, (22l),
dam Belle Brosfeld, (2.20), made very
bad failure at Utica, n. Y, last week. Ii
has always been hoped that this stallion
would trot up to his pedigree, but he
acted as badly at the end of the mile. as
any gutter ever on the turf.
In speaking of the Seer wonderful per-
Torrance at Bangor the Commercial says:
Seer eclipsed the record of the phenomenal
Nelson made upon this track when he was
three year old, trotting an exhibition
mile in PA II and did it too In a strong
| wind and under disadyantageous circum-
stances. Many of the most prominent
horsemen think that he will beat Nelson's
best record of 2.26 IA this fall. The ami
NAL was sired by Gen. Benton, dam BY
ElectiOneer and bred by Senator Leland
Stanford at his celebrated Palo Alto ranch
in California. Seer is now owned by DR..
A. NJ. Garcelon of Lewiston and is one
of the most valuable animals in Maine.
| Mr.. Randolph Huntington of Roches-
porting into this country a pure Arab
mare, Naomi, which is believed to be the |
| only pure Arab mare on this continent.
She is to be bred to Abdul Hamd 81,
son Of Gen. Grants famous Arab stallion
Leopard, one Of the pair presented to him
| by the Sultan Of Turkey.
| 1t will be remembered that at the late |
races in this city the horse Jack Spratt was |
at first awarded second money in the free
for-all, but afterward it was given to Mr.. |
IL. G. Nelson, because of technical error
made by Mr.. Woodbury., the driver of |
Jack. Since then Mr.. Nelson has written
a letter to Mr.. w, II. Smell of Portland,
the owner of Spratt, returning him the
second money given Nj. Nelson under the
ruling of the judges. This is an act of
courteous friendliness on the part of Mr. |
Nelson which We could wish was not quite
so rare among horsemen as it is.
Glenarm's time cap made on Capital
Park track, this city, is the fastest time by |
Il seconds ever made on II Maine track.
"Dr. Geo. II. Bailey of Portland. Me-,
favored us with "A brief call the first of the
week, while on his way to Rochester to
examine Forrest Patchen, whose owner
has brought suit against the Boston & |
Maine Railroad for large sum, on at
count of damages sustained while in tran
lit over that road last season The doe
tor was present at Augusta, Me-, when
Glenarm scored his latest victory, and we
suspect he is caring for portion of the
surplus which Jack Spratt' friends parted
with on that occasion. He pronounces
.\ubine one of the greatest trotters in the
Pine Tree State. She is handicapped by
thrty-five pounds overweight of driver
in all her races. Some six years since DR..
Bailey bought Coronet, by Almont, at one
of J. II. Walkers sales. The mare was
then in foal by Redwood. The produce,
now five years old, lately trotted trial in
229 Old Bodine (2.19D owned by DR..
Bailey, is king of the road il Portland,
and IA active as a colt. He is used as a
him loose among lot of trotters down
the road. He is in his twenty fourth year"
american Cultirator, Sept. !.
During the week of the races in this
city, Mr.. c. Ii. Kennison, Master Car
Builder of the Maine Central. Waterville,
had on exhibition one of the finest Nelson
colts we have ever seen. Its dam is High
land Lassie, by Sir Edwin, by Hamlet, by
Volunteer, by Rysdyk's Hambletonian;
Lassie's dam, Vistula by Chenery's Scyth-
ian. Mr.. Williams, who is handling the
colt Just showed him to halter in the stable
yard, and although the colt is but three
months old he exhibited fine trotting action,
and if no accident befall him will do honor
to his great sire.
The stallion Black Crook, entered in the
Augusta free-for-all, August II, but drawn
before the race, is not recorded in Thomp
son. He is owned by J. l.. Ellngwood.
Bangor, and is II years old. lie is l5.24
high, and weighs 1000 lbs. Black Crook
is by Tom Knox; dam, Flora Bell, a Black
Hawk and Messenger mare. He was
bred by Mr.. McIntire of Deer Isle. He
trotted at Bangor in 2.35.
There is one thing we wish horsemen
would learn, and that is the art of being
courteous and agreeable to newspaper
men. They, more than most business men
are indebted to the press for writing up
and giving prominence to their horses
III other words their business-and vet a
reporter may tramp for hours along the
horse stalls at fairs, and among those who
have the care of horses, asking questions
pleasantly, endeavoriug to get informa-
ton for their columns, and yet, with a very
few exceptions, they are met by sullen
answers, or oftener, no answers at alias
though it were none of their business what
horse was in a certain stall, or as though |
they were afraid the party would get |
possession of some horse secret not to be |
divulged. 4 reform in this matter would !
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