The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-08-06
ITEMS FOR HORSEMEN.
Programme of the York Count,
Races to be Trotted at Saco.
Interesting Mention of Some Of the
Brilliant stars,
That Shine Bright In the Galaxy OF
the Worlds Greatest.


$1,000. take place at the Saco Driving Park,
beginning Tuesday, September 18th, and
continuing through the 18th, 10th and Goth,
| The following is the programme:
SEPTEMBER IT.
Purse No. $50; society.s trot for horses rails
ed and always owned in YO.k comfy.
SEPTEMBER IS.
Purse No. 2 $l75; for 2.42 class.
Purse No. $1,000; for "a class
Purse No. 4-S10o; for four year olds and I'M
der.
SEPTEMBER 10.
Purse No. $3.50; for $50 class.
Purse No. 6-S200; for 2.3S class.
Purse No. rs 70; for three year Odds and un-
SEPTEMBER 90.
Purse No. $500; stations who have never
Purse No. 9-s4oo; free for all.
Purse Nor 1o-$5o; for two year olds and I'M
The above purses are to be divided as fol-
| lows:
Fifty per cent TO first horse 25 per cent to Sec
| ond, 10 per cent to third and 10 per cent to
fourth the races to be mile heats, best three In
five to harness. except and 10, which will be
| best two In three.
This society is membnr of the National
| Trotting Association, and the races will be
conducted under the national rules. Heats
| in each days race will be trotted al
ternately
Horses distancing the field, or any part
thereof, will be entitled to first money only
All horses eligible wherever owned In all
purses there must be five or more to enter
and three to start
If owing to bad weather or other unavoid-
| able cause the society shall be unable to
| start one or more races, such race or races
may be declared off and entrance money
therein be refunded.
Entries will close on Friday, September 6,
at II p. m. All entries must be made to Asa
L. Kicker, secretary, Biddeford. Me,
| Mr.. L. A. Bachelor. of the Portland
| Water Company has bought of Harry Jane
| son, Cornish, fine four year old gelding, by
| Walter S., by Pequaket, dam thoroughbred.
He is 16 hands, weighs HOO, and is great
walker.an roader, and it is said to be quite
| trotter.
A little interest in the old Presumpscot
Park at Deering has been revived Satur-
day there was an entertaining, If not excit-
Ing. race, for gentlemen's driving horses, the
prizes being certain number of bushels of
oats. Some attraction will be offered at this
park every Saturday for the present season,
unless something unforeseen happens. The
old trotting course may be the place of large
gatherings Of interested horsemen. Its
proximity to Portland and the Deering horse
cars makes 1t easy Of access to very large
i population. <' ''.'.'.''.
/ The horse races In New England this year
are to be of unusual interest, and so many as
have already been trotted have BEEN wit
i messed by unusually large numbers of people.
More liberal purses are offered and better
i field of hor,es entered than ever before The
4 races In the Pine Tree State, that In the last
decade has become famous the world over as
i the breeding place of fine trotters and gen.
| tlemen's driving horses, will likewise be of
more than usual interest and Importance
| The Eastern Maine fair. to he held Sept. 3.
| A, and 6. offers liberal purses for trotting
and running. A purse of $1,000 is offered
for the free-for-all trotting class, open to all
horses owned in Neg England and the Brit
ish Provinces, The races at the, State fair,
at Gorham during the Cumberland county
fair, together with the numerous other inter-
esting races at the county and town fairs, will
furnish abundant entertainment this fall, To
make the different events far more brilliant
than ever before, all that Is, now needed: is
pleasant weather. Another such rainy fall
as.we had last ear will work great injury
The horse Axtell is attracting the atten--
tion of horsemen all over the land, and there
Is much speculation about him. When Sa-
Bile Wilkes reduced the three-year-old rec
l Or6 m ia Aytall ha fhraa
champion, was a weanling. Says that ex-
| perienced horseman and careful writer"Mam
brine" the Spirit: ''20S2 and 2.1O are
shining marks. admit and hard to equal,
but with fair chance only, / believe that
Axtell will within three years get there His
blood lines are of the best known to the
trottlng turf on sire's side; his dam by son
OF Mambrno Patchen-plenty thoroughbred
there; his grandam by Mambrino Royal, and
he by Mambrino Pilot out of thoroughbred
dam. The blood elements are here; the
brain is right, and physically he is as sound.
II not the soundest. fast horse upon the turf
today. In jogging Axtell reminds one of
Jay-eye-see at speed, even more so, as he
goes with his head but slightly elevated,
and with the same slight weaving motion of
1
ords-Jay. eye-see and Axtell." ~e
This team, however, will probably never
startle the world. Jay-eye-see is reported
permanently lame and some think that Ak
| tell will not last long with his present treat
ment UNFORTUNATELY" writes Paul Dana
| in the New York Sun, .Axtell seems to be
subjected to treatment which, unless
changed, can hardly fail to be eventually as
crushing as that which Frustrated Proctor
4 KNOTT HIS owner and frainQr
method oftrainiDg extreme enough to dazs the
craZlest handler on the turf. The indispen-
SABLE combination needed for record break
ing and making, equire power and human
| Intelligence, is not now found in Axtelrs
| stable" ...a..-
| However, should Axtell never trot anotb-
er heat he would still remain brilliant star
in the galaxy Of the fastest horses in the
has the fastest three year-old record over a
half mile track viz, 2.20A He made it in an
effort to beat the record After he had
| equaied his performance at Minneapolis by
:rottlng st. Paul track in 2.l5t, his owner
| was presented with an elegant lambs wool
| blanket, upon which was woven in letters
OF gold cord the name "Axtell," and dia-
mond locket. .f.s
John Murphy, the famous trotting horse
driver, died of consumption July %, aged as
| wears. he was born in Ireland and removed
| to this country when he was six wears Toid
He had handled some of the greatest horses
| in the world. He rode Dexter in his saddle
record of 2,18i, and drove Maxey Cobb to the
fastest stallion record, 2.131. Dick Swiyeller
and Edward got double team record in his
hands of 2.164, and Frank and running mate
one of 2.0S3. The best double team record.
| 2.15f, was made by Maxey Cobb and Meta
| Medium, with Murphy behind them. For
the past few years he had handled Robert
Bonners horses and had Maud S started to
lower her record this year or next, and
| Murphy had been alive or well, he would
have driven her. He was known in the pro-
| fession as Honest John Murphy. No stain
OF dishonor attaches to his name and his
death will be sincerely mourned.-rMirror
| The bay gelding, Edison, foaled In 1878.
has entered the 230 list. He is a son of Gen,
eral Knox, and is the third of the progeny Of
Names favorite sire to attain 23O henors af-
| ter the old horse left the Pine Tree State
General Knox has now Is 23O performers
and there is not PAGER among them.
Mr.: Corbett, owner of Guy Wilkes. 2.154,