Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-11-29
HORSE GOSSIP.
Notes from Track and Stable About Noted
Flyers and Drivers.


Guy, 9.10s and Clngstone, ala, tc the
Uoe and thinks he has got the goods to cut
down the best double team mark.
Mavor Crombie has sold his black nNre
known as "the Clark maro' TO G. Il.
Withetell of Cornwall, 80 match the one he
bought of Henry HUI Of Hmesburgh.
Bluo Bell the well known Now England
calnpaigner OK former years. won two heats
in Austria recently in 2.s6 and ,. .2f1 and
was boaten in the next three in slower
time.
Allorton, 2. l64, is looked upon by horse
mon as especially liable TO baat th5 4year-
old record next season, being about the
strongest-inada big co.c ever seen, especially
for one having speed enough 10 beat go at
years
Nu,mont by Nutbourne, dam S.rab by
Knickerhocker, she speedy young Vermont
horse that it was predicted early in the
season, would get .. 50 mark before snow
flew, is within the circle with record Of
2.2S3.
Rocket the Brattieboro horse that won
first money III the 2:31 class ~ the Valley
fair, trottod rs heats the pas, season, win
Ming more than onehail OF thc.n, His aver
age time was 22St.
Old Highland Grey came dangerously
near getting another 2.3O performer this
year in the mare Emma g. she closes The
season with a record Of 2804. Her dam
was by Daniel Lambert
Phillip il. by King Phillip, 2.21, dam
Cro,ie, 2. l91, by Clark Chief, is the stan
darI bred trottlng stallion that Abe Straus
has recently taken to East Berkshire, Vt.
He is a rich brown in color stands 154
hands, and is good-gaited and speedy.
Pumico, 2.2S3, the 4-year-old that has
been giving such a good account OF himself
in the fall races, is by Meander, dam by
Daniel Lambert; second dam the Fish mare
dam of Belle Franklin, 2,2s4, by Black
stone.
That breeding trotters is getting to be a
science. and that breeders arc getting that
science down fine IS shown by the iact that
only 26 horses had trotted in 2.l1 up to
1889, and that 10 or 12 have equaled or
bettered that this season.
George F. Hutchinson. proprietor Of the
Champlain valley breeding and sales sCa-
bles located at Plattsburgh has lately made
what is considered by horsemen a valuable
addition to his stable by the purchase of
Kerwin, 7,08, from the Flushing stud farm
at Trenton Y. J.
last week, was taken to Lexington tor The
inspection Of the delegates to tho Pan
American Congress, and there caught the
cold which ended in his death. Although
an old horse he was remarkably weil pre-
served and vigorous, aud his loss is a severe
one to his owners as he would probably have
earned $lU, 600 u yoar for the next few
years
I'm comparison with Sunoi's great feat, "
observes the New York Suu, editoriaIly
chow queer seems the sentence, 'DcXtor
never had an oat till after he was years
! old, which MIR. George 3. Alley, one Of his
carly owners, once said to u friend. And
! Goldsmith Maid was 14or IS when she trot-
ted il ,. II. Rarus was nearly odd enough
to smoke when he got his record st.
Julien was almost in the same class. Yet
now a 3year-old not only leaves their marks
| behind, but comes 10 within second and
throe-qucrters Of the very top notch"
/ Charles Taylor, who has been plotting
| Factory Boy in his successful round Of
races through Vermont, New ! Ork and
Canada this season is 81 years old tho com
ing December, yet his eye Is rs bright, and
he sits a suljiy firm as ever. He IS, with
out doubt, the oldest active trackman to be
4 found anywhere He has been in the ser
vice Of Charley Ballard for 80 years, and
for 20 years he has driven in the same sullly
he now uses This is the sulky Snow Flake
used III campaigning through nearly every
State in the Union, participating in over
800 races, and winning nearly all OF them.
The suiky is painted white. Nearly every
body knows "Oid Charley TeyloIi and
"Driyer, horse that has won more heat.
in 80 OF better than any horse III Yer
mont.
Robert Bonner has gone to California to
get a peep at Sunol, ms new purchase Be
fore going, however, he wrote u letter &c
the New York Tribune regarding an inter
view published in that paper, in which
Sunols Disposition pedigree, etc. We're
discussed, AS to the pedigree Of Sunol'!
grand dam, says Mr.. Bonner, Governor
Stanford says she is by Lexington and his
word is good enough for me. Regarding
the statement that the filly is a very ner
vous'' and "high strung, animal. and thai
Mr.. Bonner will not be able to drive her II
Central Park, he say lit seems to IN,
that have hoard something like that hp
fore about other high-brod horses that
have owned. 1t is not generally known
but such is the fact, that nearly all horse
that are capable of accompl hing great feat
are nervous and 'high-strung Dexter
was extremely nervous, and 50 is Ma.d )
but | have always been able TO drive hotl
OF them with as much ease and comfort a
| ever drove any other horses, Whom
bought Dexter, his sltliful trainer, BUD.
Doble, remarked that he would have hin
back again in less lhan three weeks, sayiu,
that could not drive him on the road, bu
in less than six weeks from that tine Mir
DDble came to me 10 borrow a bride tina
was invented by DR.. Hartman OF Lancaster
Penn, and with which | could easily con
troll Dexter. He wanted to try it on
nervous horse of his own. When bough
Maud s. from Mr.. Naa.erbilt, people sale
that could not drive her IN single harnes
although Mr.. Vanderbilt had driven he
and her mate in double harness in the tastes
time that has ever been made by any team
But ! have had no difficulty whatever il
driving her all along in single harness, ant
) in fact have made the fastest mile witt
hen that has ever been made by any hors
TO "A top wagon, Now in regard to Sunol
= if cannot drive her in the Central Park
when she comes ON here next year, I hereb
pledge myself to make a present of her L
the accomplished turf editor Of the Fri