Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-12-13
HORSE GOSSIP.


Notes from Track ana stable ABOUT Noteu
Drivers and Flyers.
b. f. Haskell is Jogging Ben Almont, by
Montello. dam 10y Delong's Ethan Allen.
c. r. Witherel has some single drivers
and two pairs that would take long money
to buy.
X. W. King has large stable full of
colts ana young horses. He is breaking and
fitting Tor market.
The New England association of Trotting
Horse Breeders holds it, annual meeting in
Boston December II.
Annie Dickinson by Lumps, 3-year-old
pacing record. 2.194, is said to have shown
trial in ZIG this season.
The trotting mare kcnsett F., 2:29t,
has been shipped from New York to her
latest purchaser in Germany.
There is talk in California of "A match
race between the great sidowhcelers Roy
| Wilkes, >. 1879, and Adonis. 2.1l
The first trotter TO show a mile in >. l3l
was Joe Elliott The feat was accomplish
ed over Mystic track and Jock Bowen
drove the horse.
c. II. Lane has some promising Young
Addison Lambert stock. Mr.. Lane has
probably bred more fine road horses than
any other man in Cornwall.
/ One of c. w. Roberts's trotting horses at
/ Bennington stepped through bridge in the
west part of the town the other day and
7 received injuries which may prove perma-
nent.
II. T. Cults of Orwell has a standing
offer of $40, 0G0 for ms trotting bred stall
lion Ben Franklin. Ben is by Daniel Lam
bert, dam, Black Kate, by Addison, by
! Black Hawk.
L. G. Fish Of Rutland has pair offillies
own sisters. two and three years old, that
weigh 22l0 pounds. MIR. Fish says that he
does not claim they are trotters but that he
is willing to wall; or work them against any
pair of their age.
Budd Doble will winter in California with
the following string: Jack, 215, Lady
Bullion 2iS1. Rena, 2.22I, Maudlen,
225!, Oracle Lee 2.29t, Marie Jansen,
2.3Ol, Johnston, 2.064, Ed Amman, 2.1G4,
and five Others without records.
j. Z. Leuzader of Winthrop, Maine, has
sold to John y Gale of st. Johnsbury the
four-ycar old colt Daniel b, by Daniel
Boone, dam, a Hamhletonian mare. Dan
iel Boone is the property of DR.. W. 5.
Webb Shelburne Farms, Vt.
Wilhelm Pickhardt the Schroon Lake,
New York magnate has 1870 blooded horses
ON his stock farm in that town and q in his
stables al New York. Daniel Nichols, his
trainer recently brought the well-known
stallion Warren from New York to the
Schroon Lake farm.
Blackstone Bog, trotter of about 2:3J
capacity that was sent from Vermont to
, Buenos AYros year or so ago, is SAID to
have improved greatly III speed since reach
ing his new home something uncommon,
, by the way, in exported trottersl, and he
was recently sold for $1,000
The fastest trotting stallion records are:
, Axtell, , -; PaIo Alto, 2.12f; Stamboul
2.l24: Maxey Cobb, ?, l3t: Bonnie Metre
gor, 2.l3l; Phallis 2.l38. The fastest
, trotting records: Maud s., 20Sf Sunol,
?. 10y, The best pacing mark is held held
by Johnston, 20G1.
\ number Of noted horses have been de-
stroyed by fire recently. November "a at
Valley Farms, Kansas, four noted stations
were burned to death, Evermond, Prairie
Wilkes, Joe Larkin, and W. F. Almont
, valued at S,j, 900. At GAINESVILLE, Tom.
) fire destroyed J. 2. Glll's fast 3-year Old
l pacing stallion, Minglewood, by Nutwood,
and Cant Tom Herndon's 3 years old
q stallion Withers, IL grandson of Mambrno
Patchen.
+ Charles Rich of Camp Rich, Milton
Borough recently traded his large black
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