Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-04-18

owned at Appetree stock farm Mr.. Rus
sell thinks he has prize in this FLY, ns she
Is not only handsome, but shows great
trotting action. lie also has fine large
brood mare, sired by Monarch, son Of HAM
bletonian TO- in foa by Nero. Such breed
ing promises a great colt.
w. Landon of Milton has sold his nice
pair of bays to New York man For 1929.
These make six he has sold this spring.
Thirteen PAGERS went a mile in . 80 or bet
ter last season Ten of them are bred in
strictly trottinG lines, and hui three are
pacing bred; two of them were Tennessee
PAGERS and one is the son of trotter who is
pacing bred
The Central Vermont Road and Trotting
Horse Breeders association has been organ
lied at Royalton with Dan w. Bliss. Royai-
ton presidents Harvey Smith, South Roy
alton secretary; John +. Shepard South
Royalton, treasurer. A one-day meeting is
to be held June B.
I. j. Hamin expresses an earnest desire
10 match his pet mare Belle liamlin, 2:19q,
against the crack stallion Palo Alto, 2:124.
The daughter of Almont, jr. was lucky
when she beat such an old stager as Harry
Wilkes and before tacAliug Palo Alto she
fivc-year old record Of 2:1ji constitutes her
no mean Antagonist.
Messrs. Williamson and Hope of Middle
bury, VT, nave sold to Miss Della Ham
mond the pair of Morgan road.ters that
took the first premium at the last Vermont
Breeders meeting. Each is by son of
Daniel Lambert, one being by Thought and
the other by Star Ethan.
II
bought the greet double team Aubine and
Lady Wellington at a biz prce-upwards
OF $50, 600 it is said. Tho team trottcd an
exhibition mile last summer in 2.t6 Mr..
Putnam it is said. is negotiating for the
purchase of the fast Alcantara mare. Miss
Alice to take the place of either Aubine or
Lady Wellington. Mr.. Putnam is mil
llonaire with Il country residence at Bur
Iington, Vt
Mr. H. r. Cults Of Orwell has sold his
stallion Peerless Ben to George II. Hicks of
Boston, the consideration. it is understood.
being $1,000. Peerless Ben is chestnut
stallion, four years old sired by Ben Frank
lin, dam by llolabird's Ethan Allen, also
dam of Rare Ben.
Six two-year> old colts. the Oldest of Al
cander : get were exhibited at the stables
VI - y ''IlIlh III thlS fllJ yesterday.
Among those who examined them was Cot.
LeGrand b. Cannon Of Now York. who
said that they were about as fine a looking
lot of colt rs he ever saw, and that they
were rs well matured for their age as
the colts that he saw among tho,, owned by
Gov. stanford OF California; and also that
they compared favorably with them.
From the ,uriu. Of 1879 until Tues lay of
: al 1TafJ
developed trottcd that had ever produced a
foal AMI the Patron-LucilcG oldiu.t FLY the
representative %. the fastest combined Irot-
ting records, the average record united in
this promising miss being 2l5i. On April
l however, TrinEct divided the honors with
the Maid by toallnS hay filly by STAN
bout, the PHI of her dam and e:l2I of her
sire making the average OF the records unit
ed in her 2:l3l.
When Buld Doble was in New York last
week he called AT Van Cots stable. TO look
at Aubine and mat Ine talk is that the
team VIII be Separated for the first part of
the season, 50 a. TO put Aubinc in training
ior the 2:20 class ct the Grand Circuit and
tine Charter TAX stake. with Budd behind
her, and very Slight improvement on her
last year form, she ought TO have a first
mortgage bond on the :sl0,0 stake. unless
too hard pressed by Geneva >. They are
two great mares, and in tine history OF trot-
ting it would lie hard to fin two eau .iidates
for the EGO class that had shown 2.lj IN
races the previous season. Houri. Gyc-year-
old record 2:t,, 10y Onward is still in Ken
lucky iiel owner j. Malcolm Forbes Of
Ecston, wants tsuld Dpble to campaign her
this year,