Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-02
Down the Road VIII - aogssa

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talled s'horseleapc1lnfch,''v Afcif akes ~
name from great leap that was made by
a horse while out hunting with the hounds,
over narrow road on either side Of which
is stone WALL The road b vide eaoueA
for cart to pass over. Col. Battersby
informs rs he has seen the place OF the
leap, and says the road b At least twelve
feet wide and each fence three feet high.
In ordinary wall or fence jumping the
horse should break OF from the ground
the some distance from the base of the
wall or fence that the wall is high; but in
the leap above described he should break
OFF at least five feet from the first wall, and
land five feet from the base of the second
wall. Allowing two feet for the thickness
of each wall this would make the total
distance leaped twenty-six feet, and i've
feet in height at the centre Of the road, in
order to describe that segment of . circle
necessary to take the horse over the second
wall. The above is believed to be tie
greatest leap ever made by the hunting
morse. and the herse as well as the rider
knew, on approaching the wall, that he
was riding for both instead of only one
wall. BY what instinct die the horse
know in his rapid motion, that his rider
wanted him to scale the twoinstead of one
wall
The fastest trotter ever raised in New
England was bred in this State and was
kept here till four years old. This was
the gelding Hopeful, by Godfrey's
Patchen; dam by the Bridgham horse, his
sire unknown, second dam by whalebone,
third dam by Winthrop Messenger. His
record to harness is a.l4 81, and his record
to wagon 2.le 1.-the best performance
to wagon ever made by'a trotter.
The quotations of the horse market At
Boston last week show that the best prices
are obtained for heavy horses. These are
the quotations: "Good express, draft and
driving horses, sl75to $3.50; heavy draft,
good to fancy, weighing from AGO TO 1860
lbs, $3.50 to $500.
There will be strotting meet at State
Fair park, Lewiston, June 1871.
Bankrupt,the crack horse Of the running
turf at the west, has just run mile and
seventy yards in l.47 IL, carrying 1le lbs.
The first three quarters Of mile was made
in LA la
Lambert Belle, by Daniel Lambert, dam
by Maine Lambert, won the fourth heat In
the 2.35 race at Fleetwood Park, May n,
1883, in 2.34 IL.
The Magazine Of American History for
June, in giving some interesting historical
"reminiscences about early times in the
great northwest, says the judges Of the
circuit court spent about as much time
in the saddle as on the bench. s'Court
and bar Travelled through the wilderness,
five or six together, sometimes seven or
eight days on single journey, with a
pack horse to transport the supplies that
they could not carry on their own horses
or purchase by the way. When pur-
chasing horse, one Of the first questions
asked was whether he was good SWIM
mer."
John II. May, formerly of this city,
whose fine stables at AL fremont St.,
Boston, are well known to most Maine
horsemen, has just sold very pretty bay
mare by Victor, by Gen. Knox; dam, BY
Winthrop Morrill,. She was fast and il
was claimed she could trot in 2.36.
Twenty-Five carloads, or total Of 76O
horses were received at Boston for the
week ending May "a.
George L. Sears of Boston has lust Dur.
chased the beautiful two-year-old fillv,
Maud Patchen, by Tom Patchen, OF Webb
Ethridge of Bethel.
| "Maine bred horses from Illinois, il
what the Boston Spirit calls some fine
horses recently brought to that city BY Mr..
p. NJ. Jefferds, of Atkinson, Henry County,
Ill. Mr.. Jefferds formerly resided in
Foxcroft in this State, is brother-in-lsw
of the venerable Calvin Chamberlain of
that town, and was formerly member
of our State Board of Agriculture. Some
eight years ago he took to Illinois the stall
lion Plumed Knight, (2.26 l-2), by Old
Mike Logan, by Jules Jurgenson dam BY
Drew, and among car load of horses Just
brought to Boston by Mr.. Jefferis on the
mare Diana, who has shown a mile EASY in
2.32; and Billy F. 2.2s Ia, both by Mike
Logan. "They are really Maine horses"
says the Spirit, and We are glad to know
our old friend is meeting with success In
his new home.
sit is an interesting coincidence that
during the last forty years the reduction
of trotting time has kept pace with that
of the ships voyage to and from Europe.
The trotting time has been reduced IN the
ratio of a second day; that Is from 2. 40 In
1910, to EOS "a In 1885, [It has not been
lowered since.-ED. while the voyages
of forty days in 1910 are reduced to seven
II 1886, thus gaining an advantage
of thirty-two days, and on the
trotting OF eight and three-quarters
seconds. In this respect the telegraph
and the telephone have had pretty close
race, but whether the trotter will ever ex-
lat that will reduce the time by two seconds
and thiee-quarters, and thus get even with
the voyages, is question Of great inter-
est to breeders. y" Practical Horsemaa.
ship" by Col. I. c. BArTERsBY.
The American Cultivator has some good
advice to horsemen in the following: "a
large number of colts and FLIES through
out New England are now being handled
by non-professionals. Parties who are
shaping the destinies Of these young can
didates for turf honors, should remember
that many more youngsters have been
spoiled from overwork through desire to
hurry their development than have suf-
fered from lack Of drilling on track and
road. Those who 60 slow early in the
season stand the best chance, other thing,
being equal, of leading the field down the
home stretch when the bell summons
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