Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-08-06
What the Horsemen Look for.

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and weigh $50 pounds each. Mr.. Ripple
has purchased of Mr.. John Bryant yer
nice three-year old colt, paying SIPS.
The handsome Nelson colt owned b
Mr.. 5. |. Abbott, agent of the Lockwood
Company, Waterville, tipped the scale
at 800 pounds, when eleven months oil,
to day. One of the good ones.
Mr.. Elijah Fowler of Foxcroft, recent,
lost horse valued at $3.50. from stoppage
When the horse was first attacked maj
was sent for the veterinarian, but he wa
past aid, and died in fifteen minutes afte
the surgeon arrived. When horse il
known to have collie stoppage, and tn,
indication cannot be mistaken. not a mo
ment should be lost in sending for aid
Let the men who are right there 90 to work
using the heroic measures we'll known by
all horsemen, and in fifteen minutes, il
most cases, the patient will be all right.
Arrangements are being perfected fol
two interesting races at Maple Grove
Park, Aroostook county, Wednesday
August 10.
Lord $, the five-year-old chestnut
gelding owned by Mr.. Charles Lord OF
Saeo, is now in training at the Maine
State Fair Park, Lewiston, in the hands OF
Johnny Haines of Biddeford. Lord ). i.
by Maine Dunroc by Messenger Dunroc
dam, Mollie Smoker by Hodges Black
Hawk. Among the other fast ones to be
handled by Johnny are Pearl and Hem
lock, both having record of 223f.
There are some fine horses in Rangely
and among them is six-year-old stallion
owned by Mr.. l.. A. Smith. by Lord
Nelson; dam by Dolbers Ethan Allen, a
a very strong and still "A very neat, clean
made horse, with good trotting action,
standing something better than II hands,
weight 1000 pounds. Mr.. Smith also has
a brood mare, an extra roader, by the lIar-
low horse, he by Pages IIambletonian,
dam a Kentucky bred mare, with colt by
her side, by S. W. Parlin's Allectus, a
fine looking colt
As the date of the State Fair begins to
draw nearer, the number of choice horses
in training at Lewiston Park grows lar
ger. Among the recent arrivals there is
the stallion Blue John, owned by Trap
True of Saco. Blue John is by Young
Rolfe (2.2lH, he by Tom Rolf (222H,
dam by Mayhem by General Knox. He
is half brother to Nelson. aud he main
tanned the reputation of the family by
trotting full mile in PAP the fourth time
he was ever hitched to a sulkv.
DIR. W. b. Morrill, of Portland owns a
a fine four-year-old mare, Mollie Morrill,,
jet black, 10 IL hands, weighing 1000 lbs.
She is by Cushnoc, (2.344) by Victor,
(2.23) by Gen. Knox: dam, by Howe's
Bismarck (2.4o) by Gen. Knox. She is
now in foal to Mr.. Nelson's Redhawk,
safe to trot in AS.
The handsome colt belonging to Mr..
W. f. Percival of this city, has gained 81
pounds in weight in the past three weeks,
and he challenges the owner of any colt
in kennebec county to show greater
gain in the same length of time. We
think Mr.. Percival's challenge is safe.
The fine seven months colt owned by Mr..
John Putnam of Winthrop made gain
of Sc pounds in one month this spring.
Gas reported by us at the time) which
was thought by all horsemen to be a
large growth; but Mr.. Percival's colt
beats this ''out and out" Mr.. u. has
lately refused an offer of 500 for this
colt.
DIR. NJ. Powers of Ashland has an ex-
ceedingly promising two-year-old colt
which trotted half mile one dav last
week in LAG. He is entered to trot at
Presque Isle, Saturday, August II.
Mr.. Edward G. Chapman, Head-of-the-
Bay. Belfast, has fine old mare. Kitty
Clyde, now in her fOrtieth year, whose
photograph has lately been taken as that
of "a member of the family" And a
faithful, patient, accomplishing member
she has been, too.
Joshua Marshall of Simonton's Corner
has fine two-year-old gelding colt after
the Wiley horse of Lincolnville. The colt
is Handsome roam, weighs about $50
pounds, stands Is hands and is in the
hands of Il. H. Collamore of Belfast for
training.
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the directors of Capitol Driving Park, this
city, are now being arranged and will be
published in few days. From the great
success of the opening of this splendid
new park last month, and the excellent
satisfaction which the races gave the large
crowd in attendance, it may be safely as
sumed at the start that the approaching
meet will be equally as well managed and
prove fully As satisfactory. The date
fixed upon, August l6-l7-being the week
of the annual State muster-has been well
chosen by the managers a. one of the at
fractions for the bold soger boys" and
equally as well for securing large at
iVi Niitti Wv u p'h'lts WI We
hope may be the case.
Our great Maine trotter, Glenarm, q %
3-4,) by Constellation trotted at Mystic
Park on Thursday last in the 2.24 class for a
purse of $500. 1t was won by Delmonte
Glenarm second, Starletta third The race
was a very holly contested one it requiring
three heats to decide it. test which shows a
remarkable endurance of the horses engaged
Time 227 l-2 2,22 l-2; 2.24 3-4,
Mr. II. B. Grant of Bangor has sold one
half of the one year old stallion, David Bah.
cock, standard 5642), to Josiah Colson OF
Prospect for $500. This colt is by Constel
lation. the dam is Sadie Babcock is by Flee
tioneer. The colt is considered one of the
finest in the state, weighing $50 pounds; is a
handsome bay with black point.
and in harness appears more like a
three year old, then yearling. This colt
will be exhibited at the Eastern Maine State
Fair, together with the dam, owned by Mr.
D. H. Smith of Winterport, with a full
brother at her side.