Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-04
RACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

III sm next season thsy VIII woSder X tney
were ever ia il a; xh.
Messss. Clarence Mantsr. James Stevens.
Ges. Pa-soas sni Daniel McLsuzhlin. of
North Auson, owa horse colt, oae year
old ias. May. BY Nelson's Red IIsrk dam,
a mare that is wonderful roadster, bu.
whose pedigree is uukao~n. This colt is
b. sill who see him to be per-
fec. Image OF mis- siie, IL color. form sad
gait. he now Weighs about $50 lbs, snd
it would take long price to buy him.
ASIDE from Nelson" says Mr.. Thomp-
son in his Msine Horse Breeder NJ ,n.hly
for November, 1.-The State has great reason
:, be proud OF the performances of horses
carrying Maine blood. Margaret s.. the
wonderful eampaigaer, who C. four years
oil hold. record of 3 i2 l-2, is BY Direc-
tor, dam by Ballaris Cassius NJ. Clay; sec
ond dam by Hiram Dew; third dam said TO
be BY Witherell, while the dam of BILLIARDS.
Csssius NJ Clay was by son of the Eaton
Horse Margaret NJ, three-yesr-old
whose record il 9 ;2l l.2, was bred in Hi
nois and got by the Maine bred, and now
owned, horse Pickpocket, by Pequswket.
son of Gideon. And more than all, the
yesrlirg colt Freedom, which recently trot-
ted mile in the unprecedented time of
2 % 8 4, was out of Laura Drew by Arthur
ton; second dam Molly Drew, by Winthrop,
taken to California from Maine several
years ago by Judge W. E. Greene. of Oak
land, Cal, and got by the old Drew Horse.
This shows TO breeders of Maine what can
be built upon a foundation furnished by
our old Maine families.
Geo. Ross, of Woodland, lost a twenty
seyen-year old mare last week. He was
returning home from Caribou and when
opposite Fremont Small's residence, the
animal having started as friskily as young
horse, suddenly dropped TO the ground dead.
Mr.. C. H. Nelson has pledged one half of
the $50 900 needed TO build mile track at
Waterville.
In lis prime the Narragansett track at
Providence, Il. l., was about the fastest in
the country. Jay-Eye-See turned i. in 1884
in 2.l0, breaking the worlds record, though
POS 3-4 was later inscribed over the Cleve-
land gates. Since the Providence track
passed into the hands of the Rhode Island
Fair people little has been done to keep it
in order, and trotling has not iourished at
Providence as in the olden time. Breeders
will therefore hear with pleasure that the
course has been repaired, and that next year
it will be in as good order as ever, when
We hope to chronicle meetings at Prov
idence as brilliant as any in Narragansett's
history.
1.-THE trotsing interests in Somerset
county, remarks the Waterville Sentinel,
'!hsve received a severe blow in the death
of Louise Knox, the celebrated brood mare
owned by Rodney Jones Of Fairfield. This
mare. nj xt to Gretchen, probably the mos,
famous brood mare in Maine, was sired by
Whalebone Knox. Her dam YVES by Win
tHIDp bUEIill ohc h5 a uhy 5tOUN SiAtNSb
hanls high aud we'll Troportionei. She is
best known as the dam Of Appleton Webb's
Present who has record of 223 and has
been separately timed in 2l9. The mare
was thirteen years old
More than one thousand new horses will
enter the 30 list this wear.
In reference to the statement made in
some of the Maine papers that the Legis-
lature will be asked, at the coming session,
to grant lay to compel judges at all
race tracks to positively enforce the rules
of the National Association, the Chicago
Horsemau says: 1--WE do not expect to
see the State legislatures supercede the
trotting associations as governors Of the
turf"
The Rice mare, so called, the best breed
ing mare owned by Mr.. Gilbert r. Ellis,
of Belfast, died Sunday. She was the dam
of East5rook. the fast yearling PAGER Of
Mr.. Ellis. The loss is severe one.
Christian Schaurte, prominent German,
residing in Dusseldorf, Germsny, who has
for the past two years been buying so many
ine Kentucky trotters for wealthy gentle
men in that country, has just shipped half
a dozen choice trotters to Germany from
Lexington, Ky. When the fame of Nelson
and our other great trotting sires gets
abroad, and Maine begins to command a
part of the good foreign demand for Amer
lean trot.ers, then We shall realize more
than ever the Importance of breeding from
the best.
The Horsemau says that the kite shaped
track at Independence, Mo-, has been the
means Of getting into the 2 80 list many a
trotter that but for its kindly aid would have
forever STAYED outside. at is safe to as.
sumo that ali the horses tina. made records
against time Of 26 or slower at Indepen-
dence could not have beaten 2 80 over any
other track on earth, and there are quite a
lot that come under this heading. The
Independence track is phenomenally fast
suspiciously SO, good many people think
F. e. West. Of Milo, the ho,seman who
owns Gen. Komsroff. has just purchased
in Boston the very stylish trotting mare
Lady Wilkes by Wilkes, son of Rysdyks
Hambletoniau, dam May Lady by Blue
Bell. She is seven years DID, Is IA hands
high, full name and tail and brigh. color.
Pilot Medium, eleven years old, has
twelve representatives. in the 2.3O list, and
two of them have beaten 2 20. This 10 .
great showing for sire of that age, about
as good as msde by any horse at Pilot
Mediums time of life, and there is in bis
case the added distinction of getting quite a
high rate of speed, as evidenced by the 2l5
of Jack over regulation track, his O. 2
record at independence not being taken
into account Another good one by Pilot
Medium, and that, like Jack, is grsy in
color, is Minerva, that made race record
of 222 ii She will beat 2 20 next sea-
son.
Mr.. C. NJ. Phillips, of Fairfield. has
purchased of Mr.. Nelson the royalty
bred colt Nelson's Memorial" so named
in honor of the bsnquet. This colt was
fosled ia August 1890. a5d is by Nelson
wilkes, dam Dora May. sistsr to Aubine.
The price was SO oC0. No better bred
colt than this one stands 10 New Eoglsnd
The colt ia question was greatly admired