Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-06-23
THE TURF.

An offer Of $1,000 was recently made for
Mia Alice, by AlcAhtara, dam ThorndAls
Maid, but it was declined, Us. 900 being the
amount asked for.
The fastest time on record for six fur
longs is l:iOla, by c. T. fidez, years old, by
the III Used-Fillette. li6 pounds, at Nor
ris park. Westminster. N. ". on May 81.
leoa
Lord Falmouth's famous paddocks ut
Newmarket, England, have been sold mt
public auction for $1,000. They include
about twenty -four acres Of the best land
around Newmarket
In the first quarter OF the present year
Great Britain exported horses TO the value
Of eb44,s against 49, 40 in the same
part Of 1880. Imports were t30s.3'a this
year. against S2sa. $50 last year.
Touts in nine cases out OF ten, experts
say, do not and cannot know any more
about = race on which they dispense tips
TO strangers in the hope Of n generous re-
ward thereafter than does the veriest
stranger himself.
There il yet u chance that Hanover will
b. seen at the post this year. He is At the
Elizabeth track, where he had the firing
irons applied TO him. He was also blistered.
He is rapidly recovering from their effects,
and II all goes well will race before the
season Ia over
The first plunger developed this season
on the turf, the eastern racing sharps say,
Ia Jack Mcdonald, the took maker, who IL
reported TO have won $4,000 on Daisy
Woodruff. "Pittsburg Phil has gone in
for steady profits. and il backing at least
two books besides making his own outside
ventures.
Tenny, with li5 pounds up, won a mile
race in l:40s4 with ease ut Morris park,
Westchester. II he had been sent along
little faster in the early part Of the race
II is the general opinion Of good judges
who watched the performance that he
would have beaten Ten Broeck's record Of
1891. against time. which has stood since
1877.
Lurline, the dam Of Darebin, was found
dad in her paddock 10 Australia recently.
She had been shot, but Mr.. Gardiner, her
owner. thinks it WAS done accidentally by
boys ont hunting parrots. She was con
sidered one Of the best mares in Australia,
and during her career on the turf won
many valuable races, among them being
the Sydney cup and the Adelaide cup.
The sense Of smell is strongly defined In
horse, and it depends more on this sense
than on that Of sight A horse will leave
musty hay in n bin untouched. no matter
bow hungry. He will not drink Of water
Objectionable to his questioning sniff nor
from a bucket which some other odor makes
offensive. no matter how thirsty. His in
telliRent nostrils will widen, quiver and
query over the dsintiest bit offered him by
the faircst OF hands
One Of natures strange freaks may be
ssen at the farm Of Jones Stanford, four
miles north Of Flora. Mo. 1t is colt. not
unlike other colts, except . mark In its
face. Beginning on "A line with the lower
part OF the nostrils and extending TO
point just below the eyes Is u perfect out
line OF n rattlcsnake. Its mouth and eyes
are perfectly formed On its tail seven
| rattles and a button may be distinctly
seen, and. stranger still, the outline Of the
snake Ii raised, being about as large AZ 4
lead pencil and not a hair on it.