Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-08-02

The new course of the New York Jock
ey Club is to be opened to the public for
the first time in August. Its proprietor,
IA Mr.. Morris, has expended nearly one
and one-half millions of dollars IN its
construction and fitting, and it is claimed
for it that it will be the most perfect race
track in all the world.
The bay gelding Mike Wilkes, which
has pacing record of 2;l5i, has been
put to trotting this season, and got a
trotting record of 2:2G4 last week. He
is son of George Wilkes, and is full
brother to Ira Wilkes, trotting record,
2 rs, pacing, , :22a.
Maine people will be pleased to learn
that another of the get of Gen. Knox has
entered the 2 80 list. The bay gelding
Edison. foaled in 1873, by Gen. Knox,
dam, May Bug, by Aberdeen, got a
record of 2 :2Si at Philadelphia last week.
This is the third, we think, of the pro-
duce of Gen. Knox, got after he left
Maine, to attain 2 80 honors, and brings
horse is not credited with single PAGER
in the 2:3(kist.
The black pacing geldng Stanley p,
which got a record of , :24i in 1881, and
whose breeding has been given as I'M
known. wa, got, trainer Bass says, by
Tom Hal. dam thoroughbred, and was
bred in Tennessee. Stanley p. won the
2 % pace at Providence last week.
1t is current talk about the race course
that a yearling PAGER by Sidney had beat
en- , 80 in a race, but we. have seen no
account of the affair. Nothing that the
get of Sidney may do will seem surpris-
ing soon. They appear to go beyond all
prescribed limits.
Home Rule q :32), brown colt, by Elial
e., son of Aberdeen, dam, Empress. by
Phil Sheridan, is said to be very prom
ising three-year-old. Last season he
started six times and was never beaten,
and made his present record. He trotted
his first race last season at WatertOwn.
n. y, Aug. %; Aug. 30 found him at
Antwerp, y. Y, and Sept. he trotted at
Gouverneur, n. Y; Sept. I. only three
days later. he was as far west as Detroit,
Mich, and Sept. II he was back in New
York State, at Canton. His next and
last start of the season was at Philadel-
phia in October. In all these six races
he lost but one heat. His owner thinks
him good enough to go with the
mighty Axtell, and he will meet the lat
ter at Detroit if Axtell starts there. His
best performance last season was quar-
ter over half-mile track in 341 seconds,
and he was not driven clear out at that.
The trotting mare Peaceful (2:26),
which got leg broken short time since,
was killed on the 18th inst. She left a
foal by Cohannett (2:l7a), which is do
ing we'll.
The fact that special race between
Jay-Eye-See and Guy is being arranged
to take place over 1.-THE Cleveland course
during the grand circuit meeting at that
city would seem to indicate that the son
of Dictator is all right again. If he is
the Jay-Eye-See of old we don't believe
that Guy is the horse to down him.
Mambrino Boy @: 26t), by Mambrino
Patchen, dam, Rowing Nelly, by Strad-
er's Cassius NJ. Clay, second dam by Ber-
thune (thoroughbred) is taking a very
prominent place among the get of his
sire as a producer of brood mares.
Daughters of his now have to their credit
AXtell (3), 2:l51, Allerton (3, 2:243
Ellensie Wilkes, 2:2S8, and Orphia,
2:274. \ good thoroughbred foundation
helps out amazingly. and is likely to
prove more popular among enterprizing
breeders in the future than in the past
theorists to the contrary Notwithstanding
At a recent meeting in New England
State, the winner of the first heat in a
certain race passed under the wire in
;29a, but the owner, not wishing rec,
ord, and the judges being "accommodat.
ing" the time was hung out as 2 :37
This track belonged to the National asso
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citation, too. The manager of track
which was also member of the associa
ton, was present, however, and insisted
that the time should be hung out correct
ly. This gentleman explained to the oc
cupants of the judges stand, and also t(
the owner of the horse. the uncomfort
able position they would find themselves
in if the matter were reported to the
Hartford office, and after some delbera
ton it was announced that a "slight mis-
take had been made and that the time o
the heat was , 80 instead of 81"
Last Wednesday at Philadelphia wa
commenced the longest race of the sea
SON 1t was for the ~ class and ha,
ten starters. Six heats were trotte,
Wednesday and five horses won heats
Thursday it rained, and Friday five NOR
heats were trotted, and the winner turne,
up in a horse that failed to win heat o.
the first day, although he had starte