Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-03

The bay mare Dirigo Maid has reduced
her record to 2.2434.
Another son of Gen Knox entered the 30
list when the bay seLiing Edison. dam by
Aberdeen, got record Of 2 70 - ii Phila-
deIphia. This brings the total to fifteen, by
this noted horse.
John HAines drove the Seer Wednesday .
quarter in n IL and the fall mile in 2 30;
Mambrino Medium, owned by Nj. Dyer, Port
land. go. it being the second time he vss
in suikv this year.
A special race between jay eye-See. 2. 10
and Guy. 2-fi 2, il being arranged. and il
IL takes place over the Cleveland course dur
ing the grand circuit, fast time will be made
BY one, a; least, of these geidinss.
J. T. Fogs Of Garland, has sold TO Nes
Ham oshire parties the pair Of bisck mares
owned by Col. Parnhsm Of Bangor. price
400; also mare four years old. owned
by Lebbeus Oak Of Garland, for $3.50.
These were all sired by Lothair. Jr., and
were all bred by farmers, but had speed
enough. combined with other qualities, to
command the above prices, making 81 $50
received within tao months for five horses,
all by one sire. One sold to 20 to Boston
for s475 and one To Bangor man for S425.
Merrs. Webb & Webb Of WAterville, have
lately purchased Of Rodney Jone, Of Fair
field. the bay gelding Present, BY Young
D,fN .nI ~. II H..
great change 10 noticed. Las, week, on
Fairfield track, he was given a mile in 240,
and repeated in 2.34, with apparent ease.
Look out for another son Of Young Rolfe at
the front before the season closes.
Messrs. B. +. and f. II. Briggs. Auburn,
have lately sold 8 promising colt to c. C.
May berry. Lynn, Mass 1t is the t~o-year
old ally Nordica. by Messenger Wilkes
out Of Modjeska, by Redwood second dam
by Brown Harry.
1t is reported that Baby Dean, by Daniel
Boone. Who made his trial 10 2.25f so easily
at Lewiston, is to be sent to Boston and
put into the hands Of James Golden for
Low record II he comes to Maine ia Sep
tember, TO show his speed the winners will
have busy work to keep his nose from the
wire at the finish.
Nelson's next race at Buffalo, N. Y, on
Among the horses which will start against
him are Axtell, the great three-year-old
who Tuesday trotted in II 3-4 at Cleve-
land, Ohio; Amy Lee, Iona. Wiikesbno,
Globe. Lady Bullion, Lynn w., Cleon. Emil
nence. Golden Rod, Chit Davis and the Cali
fornia horse, Sensation. The fastest record
2 10 g. trotted in 1873. Eleven years have
rolled by since Rarus changed the record Of
Galdsmith Maid, and but four horses have |
since beaten the mark of Rarus. either in a
race or against the watch. AubiHe and Die
tator Chief will trot at Buffalo also.
DR. George II. Bailey. who has always
been an enthusiastic admirer Of Nelson's
horses tells an exchange that he ex-
poets the horse Nelson to beat all New Eng |
land records before snow flies, land, says
Dr. Bailey. II do not believe that there is
stallion east of the Rockies that can beat |
him now, with a very strong probability that
there is none In California. although they |
have two out there at present with better |
records, in Stamboul and Gray Wilkes. In
Guiding these two, there are but six other |
stations that have ever beaten his record of
2 IL 10, and is has only been beaten once |
this season in a race quarter of a second, |
by Gene Smith, and it is the opinion of the |
best trainers AMI judges who witnessed Nell |
sons great performance at Boston, that he
would beat the stallion Maxey Cobb il he |
were to make the attempt over the Cleveland
track, which is supposed to be the fastest in |
the country"
Mr.. o. J. Kendall and nineteen other men |
forming the Trot,ing Park Association. hav- |
ing leased part of the Brooks homestead.
opposite town hill. in Orrington, have broken
ground and expect to put the race course in
prime order by the last Of September. when
the Agricultural Society proposes to have a
fair Then the fast 0rrington colts will
have q chance to show their speed.