Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-11-27

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we're sold for q. 500 in Maine the other
day. The champion stallion 10 beginning to
be appreciated At home as well as abroad
Breeders Ga-ette.
Mr.. John Leasist of Guilford hiss recent.
~ purchased Of d. II. Buxton. Abbot
Village, anely bred 6ve-months -old colt
by Ivywood; dam By Judge Advoc tie, Sec
and dam b. OH Drew. third dam said to be
BY Vermont Hero. Ivywood. the sire CT
this colt, was by Weogewood. e.ls. BY Bel
mont dam, BY woodfcrd, son Of Kesciuskc
by Sir Archy, the greatest sou Of imported
Diomsd.
Among the msiy fee horses owned in
Pennington is the promising young stallion.
Star Ps,chen. owned BY Mr.. A. P. Carvill,
of Pennington Falls. This colt is By Tom
Paichen ard is ons Of the finest of the
fatchen family. Although but three years
old be already weighs 1850 pounds. stands
sixteen hands high, and is magrificently
proportioned. He is coal black and =
beauty in every way. Already he can show
a gait much better than three minutes, and
with age and proper training he will doubt
less give good account of himself. Mr..
Carvill msy well be proud of this splendid
colt.
The Chicsgo Horseman reports that
very pYomineat horsemsu of that city ssid
a few days ago "0ne huudred thousand
dollars looks like very high price for a
horse, but you and I, if we live 10 be old
men. will probably see the time when come
stallion will sell for $500. 900. The best
will continue to increase in value, while
good many strains of iaferior merit viii!
disappear. 1t will be continual strife for
survival of the iit.est, and the very
greatest horses will year by year increase
In value"
The colt will learn more easily when six
months old than when year old. 1t can
also be controlled more easily. Hence it
i. wise to handle the colt early. Its early
training should not stop with breaking to
halter. 1t should be handled until any
part of its body or limbs can be rubbed !;
until it is accustomed to the bride. and
until it will drive as well as lead. To teach
it all this, and to keep it from forgetting
what it has learned, is little trouble. but
if the colt is of good stock the trouble is
we'll paid for.
The seven-yea-- stallion, Hemlock,
by Gen. Withers; dam by Cleveland
Knox Boy, bred by G. J. Shaw. Hartland,
is at the head of the Island Stock Farm
stud, Gerrish, Andrews & Clement, propri-
etors, Levant. Gentlemen's drivers are the
specially in breeding at this farm, and this
stallion, coupled with good mares ought to
get some nice road stock. Hemlock stands
l6 IL hands high and weighs 1850 pounds,
and possesses the elements and character
istics of q good stock horse, combining
speed, style and finish. This farm is
admirably fitted for the purposes in view,
comprising some 200 acres of land aid
excellent grass lard. 1t cuts an annual
crop Of 100 tons of hay. A half mile track
has been constructed on the farm.
DR.. George H, Bailey, of Portland, pur-
chased Monday Of +. o. Beal, Esq, of
Bangor, his handsome and very promising
seven months old colt, "Mamie Rolfe," the
price being large one. The colt was by
Harbinger; dam by Young Rolfe, and is a
half sister to Nelson. DR.. Bailey is much
elated over his purchase and said he had to
have the little beauty even though he hadn't
q full barrel of -four in the house. He
could buy bag of flour when he got home,
but such colts were not to be had every
day.
The longest liver RS star performer on
the trotting turf was Goldsmith Maid. Other
champions were retired in the heydey Of
their strength, but she was kept at it after
Rarus proved she had passed the meridian
Lucy and Lady Thorn were in retirement,
but their contemporary, the Old Maid, was
used for exhibition purposes until her
owner, H. N. Smith, found she was no
longer drawing card and Doble wired him
81 think we had better send her home" Sc
home che came from Chicago in charge Of
her long time attendant, Charley Cochran,
and her owner talked of driving her on the
road for awhile; but Charley dissbu.ed his
mind of that notion. She could not be
. - frcn oh IN horrooa h,tt
was always led by bride or behind an
express wagon. She objected to being
logged on the road aud always got her work
on the track. She had not been let up
entirely for seven years, and if caught exer-
cising in company you'd strive to dash
away at 2.20 shot.
The ex-chsmpion PAGER, Little Brown
jug, was sold by auction at Brookline,
Macs, for $3.50 short time ago, and sub
sequently purchased by John Mccoy of St
Johu, N. B. Tuesday, November H., the
horse was seized by the customs authorities
Of that town for some infraction of the
regulations governing stock importation.
presumably for under valuauon-Ihe
Uorseman.
THE fact should no. be lost sight Of, .
remarks the Breeders Gazette "in es-
.ima,ing the value of Morgan blood tbst
Nelson, 2 10 3 4, carries more of it than of
any other known trot.ing element. His
grandson, Kate, was sired by Vermont
Black Hawk and his sire has only Morgan
and pacing blood as a speed inheritance.
The pacing mare Pocahontss, 2:l7 l-2,
and the inbred Morgan Draco, 9 rs l-2,
are his paternal speed progenitors. The
same blood elements gave US Strideaway
who could at his death beat any contem-
poraneous stallion"
The Horse's Sense OF Smell.
hid Won ever watch a bnree fopIinU at