Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-08
Talk About Horses.


Victorby Gen. Knox dam by Thayers Knox
by old Gen. Knox. This colt is dark ma
hogany bay and much resembles his sire
At l-2 months old he stood l2-l hands.
A well formed, stocky colt, eighteen
months old, is owned by H. S. Leighton o.
New Sharon. He is by Messenger Doomed
owned in Mt. Vernon, stands Is hands l.:
inch, and weighs $50 lbs.
The Bangor Wing says gentleman in tha
city has horse for his family use which il
now twenty three years old; and says thi,
fact mot only speaks praise for the mettle
of the animal, but cornmendation for the ex
cellent care which it has received at the
hands of its kind master" The two Away,
go Observation-Disclosures and good care on the
part of the owner, and long life and faithful
service on that of the horse. The one shows
are abused, and tortured, and over driven
and underfed and, neglected, that they
| become lame and broken down, and used up
at ten or a dozen years old, scores even at a
|
or thousands more than there are in that con-
dition, would be used up while in the prime
Of life Kindness, good care and gentle
usage have their reward in long period of
useful service. The family horse which has
been made a pet, is as vigorous, active and
cotish at %, as the abused horse is at eight
years old.
An exceedingly well-bred horse is the
stallion Maine Prince, bred by T. ID. Emery
of Harrison and owned by him and II. P. S.
Could of Portland. His pedigree is, how
ever, incorrectly given by the Portland
Press of recent date, which said his dam
was Queen by Gideon; whereas his dam was
| by Gen. Withers, and his second dam Dottie
Dimple, by Gideon, third dam by Gen.
Knox. His sire is Prescott, by Harold, by
| Alexander's Abdallah. He made half mile
this fall in 25, the mile in 2.53.
| Samuel Currier, Esq. of Hallowell is much
| interested in good horses and has several fine
| brood mares which he is to breed to Law
| renee and Nelson the coming season. He
| has lately purchased Cushnoc sucker which
is said by those who have seen it to be
| splendid colt, ald for which he paid long
| price Cushnoc COTS whenever found are
good ones, do credit to their fine sire and are
bought up by those who know a good one
| when they see it.
One of the stations which has until lately
| helped to give character to the Sunnyside
establishment of Mr. Nelson, has been
purchased by Barrett Brothers. Fair
View Farm, Sumner, and goes to
help build up the already fine reputation
of oxford county leading horse breed
ing part of Maine His is the Kentucky
| bred horse Col. West. (2408; 244 IL by
Egbert, by Rysdyk's Hambetonian dam
Ida Patchen by Mambrino Patchen. Col.
| West is finely finished horse. and his
| iIambletonian Mambrino Patchen, and
thoroughbred crosses have produced the
| best results in Kentucky. He is jet black,
stands 10 81 hands, and his four -year-old
record given above is no measure of his
ability as he has repeatedly shown 2.30 on a
| half mile track.
| Walaces' Monthly for November gives
list of twenty tracks in different parts of
| the country that are short. These tracks
vary from II to 43s feet short of mile.
| In the past, few performances made on
| these tracks in go or better have unfor-
| 'unately got into the records, where they
| must stand "but in the future" says Mr..
Wallace, ''we shall reject every honor that
not fairly won on tracks that flu
length" Not single track in the list is
located in the Eastern or Middle States.
In describinga fine turnout seen on the
streets in Portland, the Argus of Nov. 9th
SAYS One of the handsomest and most
sly fish horses that ever stood in front of the
Argus office was driven there yesterday
morning by DR.. Geo H. Bailey, V. s., for
oar inspection jet black stallion of sup
| erb action and trotting gait. hitched to a CAT
frey top wagon, weighing but 10 pounds,
made up the finest looking gentleman's road
{ am we ever saw this side of New York.
rhe horse was no less notable a one than
Col. West. the sire of Westland, three year
old record of 23S, recently purchased by
| Barrett Bros, of Mr.. c. II. Nelson of Wat
erville. The horse will winter in Mr.. Bar
rett's stable in this city.
W A. Bibber of Richmond now owns the
two year old stallion Ben Franklin; by DIR.
Franklin, by Gen. Knox; dam Vic, said to
he by Green's Bashaw, by imported Bashaw.
Ben is one of the best made up colts ever
| owned in that town, stands l5-l, weighs 600
pounds, and although he has not been trained
for stepping can go easily in three minutes.
There will be public auction of four
brood mares and four yearling and sucker
colts at the well known horse farm of Lloyd
Carver, Livermore, November 18th. Mr..
| Carver's reason for making this sale is to re-
duce his stock which is large. The mares
are good blooded and of large size.