Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-01-18
HORSE DEPARTMENT.


who has a stock farm in the vicinity of
Falrhavcn, Vt, and is the owner OF Victor
Wilkes, is in Kentucky negotiating for the
three year old Edgemark, 22l, 10y Victor
| Won Bismarck.
Leonard q Rice of Wilmington. Vt, have
| recently purchased from Bnrnitm Bros
! Lynnfcld Centre, Mass, the standard bred
stallion Braintree Wilkes 1892 sired by Red
Wilkes dam Mollic dam of Rachel H.. PSI.
and three others with trials better than
2.3O) Ivy Williams Mambrino tSire of dam of
Santa Claus, 2.10 10y Ericssons, by Mann
brine Chief grandam Ivy Col. Lewis, by
CopperhQtton sire of graniam of Harry
Wilkes, .. i3N. Braintrce Wilkes is a very
handsome Smoothlv-tmned seal brown stall
lion with black points stands l58 hands
high. weighs 200 pounds. He waa foalcd
in 1888, Thus does the Green Mountain
State keep gathering in the high and fash
| ionahe hreds
The famous $50. OO0 three wear old stallion
Bell Boy eco by Electionner. is 10 be sold
again, so soon. He ranks third in the fast
three year old stallion list with Sable
Wilkes l!;lSD and Patron C2;l94l ahead Of
him.
a writer after drawing a pen picture Of
| tn" two minutes trottcr of tn" future says:
y
wa, raised; he ran in the pasture With his
mother until five months cid. and ate all
the onts he liked from her feed box; during
his first winter he occupied a roomy and
comfortable box stall. and took his exercise
! daily at the halter on the snow. and never
! went hungry. After he passed his first year
! lc tool, all of his exercise in harness, on the
| roads, but seldom on the track until hc had
| entered his third year, and until his fourth
! year he was seldom asked to exert all of his
powers of locomotion, and now as u six year
Old he has cut down the man with the scythe
and hung two minutes on the black board.
W. +. Campbell has SHIPPED his brood
mare, Molly, to Dandy Vermont. where She
will be Wntered Molly is by Aristos dam
| by Ashland, he by Mambrino Chief, he 10y
! hy>dyks Hauhletouian. Molly is now in
| foal 10y a well known horse Mr.. Campbell
| has also two valuable weaulings. one out Of
| Agnes by AriNtos sire by Sharon the other
was sired 10y AshIoy's Ethan, dam by Earth
| quake.
| {. II. Manchester of Barnet has Il likely
| ycarlmg stallion, Godie lambert sired bv
Godfinder ont Of an inbred Morgan mare
| Godlinder was sired by John Lambert, and
he by Old Daniel Lambert. This colt stands
! IA hand, high, is Il beautiful chestnut.
with star and one white hind ankle. and
promises to make good stopper. He is in
| good hands for developments
! A Falhaven correspondent writes: "A
| despatch from Boston says that the nine
month old FLY Carotta Wilkes. owned 10y
| Boston gentleman, yesterday trotted an
| eighth of a mile in 2O{ seconds ar Newton
| Highlands. This speed, which her owner
| thinks she can maintain for a much longer
! distance, is at the rate of ,. ~ for the mile
while the be>, record for a yearlng is 3 r. "
| Fairhaven can beat this. Jumbo Wilkes.
| by Victor Wilkes and eight months Old,
| trotted one eight OF 2 mite in 49, and one
fourth Of a mile in 404 The animal is own
ed by W. !. Howes OF Troy. n. Y, and ".
II. Streeter of Farhaven, Vt. And still
another. A Victor Wilkes colt, Little Ruth
Wilkes, owned by W. J. Howes of Troy and
six months old. trotted one-eighth OF mile
in q seconds and ne-iourth of "A mile in 40
seconds 10 harness.
Dr. W. S. Webb has sent to Prospect Hill
tarm. Franklin county. Pa, a daughter of
Red Wilkes 10 he bred to st. Bell 2:244.
Mr.. Fred Vanderbilt has sent to same place
also to he bred to 81. Bell, the noted mares.
Adm, 210i and Early Rose. 2201. In
lSS2 these mares trottcd in 2:1G4 TO pole.
F. d. Stout states that he sold all of his
Nutwoods. one year and under, the past
season for an average price of $1,000
The fast trottcr, Spefrord. 2:lSq. by Ken
lucky Prince, and Gov. Hill. pisa. by Star
Edmund have been purchased for over SEQ
COO and shipped to Buenos Ayres. S. A.
H. A. Drew's two years old. son of Gilrov
flrHt dam Rhea, second dam. Laura vii
hams, 2;2lt registered name is Billings.
Mr.. George G. Hail Of Boston la, pul-