Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-11-30
HORSE GOSSIP.
Points from Track and stable About Noted
Horses.

A wager has been made that the trotter
Gov, Hill cannot beat tWo-mile record OF
/ IS 10 He will Try and do the trick be
fore snow flies.
c. j. Hamln of Buffalo paid $4,000 for
pair OF driving horses at the National
Horse show and presented them to his
son, who in turn gave them to his wife
The practice of docking the tails OF
horses deserves universal condemnation
a. no useful Object is served 1t is a sense
less and cruel fashion. destroying the
beauty OF the animal and deprviug him
Of natural weapon against annoying iu-
sects---Spiru Of the Times.
w. r. Allen hes lately purchased the
bay lilly Rubca, one year old, by Lord
Russell, (brother of Maud 5, ? $50, out
Of Primrose, dam of Priuceps, sire of
TrinKet, PA, and Granny, 2l9'O, by
AleXander's Abdallah, sire of Goldsmith
Maid, 2;l4; second dam the famous Black
Rose.
Kitty Glover hes been sold by Aemuel
North of Champlain, New York to a man
IN Maine, who will use her for brood pur-
po'es. Nlttie was fooled June Il, 1876,
and is by Daniel Lambert, dam by Ed
ward Everett, 1861, by sherman Black
Hawk: second Dam by Sherman Back
Hawk third dam the Baxter Mare dam
Of Harry Herley, 2:255D, by Barney
Henry.
The celebrated pacing mare All Maid,
owned by Nat jenkins of Concord and ".
Nj. Leet Of CaremOnt, the fastest horse
except Hopeful that ever left the New
England turf to contest upon other tracks,
/ mas gone into wluter quarters at Trout )
stable at AllstOn, Massachusetts. She
| closed the season at Fleetwood with a rec.
ord of 2:l619.
c. r Page of Morrisville has sold the
horse Charlie h., to John Trout of Boston,
and the brown msre, Lucy F., bred and
| raised by DR.. RuOlee of the same town
has been sold to Boston parties. Good
prices were obtained for each. Lucy p.
had record of ABBA, which is said to be
the fastest of any horse bred in Lamoille
| county.
/ 1t is said that the three-year-otd PAGER,
/ lrma, 2,24l2, by Nutwood, is being shaped
to beat the :, II record made recently by
| Vols Maid. Ten seconds is a big drop for
three year-old.
Over $4,000 people attended the National
/ Horse Show. The feature of the closing
was the high jumping by horses Fred
| Gebhar It's Leo and William Durland's
/ Fllemaker both beat the record of feet
inches, and tied at 8 feet, 97s inches.
Henry Thorp of Charlotte has bred two
fine two year old black tillies from Gllroy
one of the dams half sister on the dams
side of Robert Lee, 2:2312, and the other
dam is from half sister of Robert Lee
and is out of Holabird's Ethan Allen
Mr. Thorp has also a black yearling from
! Gilroy, which he il handling little The
colts all show fine action, their breeding
entities them to be fast and they promise
to maintain their right. Mr., Thorp has q
promising sucker from f. 5 Brownell't
Alexander which is a good one for young
! ster.
An eminent veterinarian ~ presses the
belief that Hanover will be on the
| turf next season.
DR.. Arthur Kemble of ; Mass
has bought the wel-known Z, FREQ
! >, by Whalebone Knox, "a. drive
him on the road this winter.
1t is stated on good authority hat Hiram
Woodruff is TO give up training horses
after January |, and is to 90 into the
breeding business in New Hampshire.
During the present year ~ heads Of
! trotting stock have been sold from the
Kalamazoo farm for $40, SSl, while 25 head
have been purchased at cost OF S4S, 900.
Hugh j. Grant, who will, after January
/, be mayor of New York, has decided
TO sell his stable of trotters, which contain
kenilworth, 2 lSh Sweepstakes, 2244
Duff Gordon and several Others,