Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-10-15
KING KELsoH.
1hs Maine Bred staiacn IRA. Leass
the World

The Maine stallion Eeisoa, rEsse REP
fosmancss have been q surprise svea 70 the
tart uiseacrss. has apakeaed rsnersd is-
sssest By his recent fexs NJ Terra Hsase snd
directed furssser attention to isis STATE as
the home Of aae horseEiesh. Ia 5zndsy's
Boston Globe. Allan Lowe IA tss feIisr-
ing &, say.
Only fer short weeks Esese zad the
season OF is90 will have rasssd ~lrA its
records Of the tfaGA
Macy notable snirgs have occurred sines
toe trost*fs FIRST s:arted work this year. but
none meFe remarkable than the AsgAss
szsinst irae e. The poT.hsfn kia., Neisots
Last season she Maine sfalIsoa Asa the
Eazrx Of z.ii5 eppossta hii nzEe. ana tass
obtaisea Ia s<es. He had never bees
given ehanee 10 so sgaiast The wsse1
when the coaai'aors were favorable 70 Lin.
snd tss record Vas looked on a. safe from
h.nu, as the 81 vas consi.eFed his liait
1f speed This va DOS the view Of horse
niee who kres shs. = wsh4erfui burst Of
speed se!ten haJ. 4aa va9 saw bin aaish
bis great third iaiis az BEfalo in rs, With
shs last BALI 10 %.
Nelson wac hotae produce and, Ike the
prov srbia. prophet. found iirtas honor ia his
own county AMI lss.le praise Or espslless-
ton, He Was Eaf r9dsr ba- by The Natisa-
al Asso .isii5a and without trial, rule or
preceieAs 70 warrant his ossae:sm from
The National Association aaa he compelled
to seek for additional reputation en- half
mil. rings aad tracks oatslsls Of the rule Of
the xreatstt zossraisg body.
NEea tbs news came lhaf Nelson had
sawarsd the balt-mile track record By trgt-
ting mil on Mains "bsiI para ia 2l5 II
attention was sufnfd TO the aen Of fouag
aoife and Gretchen, as psssibie eandi iste
Tor tbs worlds championship stallisn
recsra Tasn che "ki!e- shaped" track
fever hsd begun 10 show lssels. aad the
iolngs Of the horses taereon wsfs told Vi.
With Axseii retired, p1io Alto gone To Cal.
ifornia, or going, and no other sal i'm
eiassed high enough u face the 2 IL Of the
thFee-yesr-olt son Of William L. aud Lon,
IL was the golden opportunity for the New
England stallion.
H. trolted tie ,Iack az kslkakee. H.,
in ~, thus breaking al existing stalIo
records by half secoad aud earoiag the
title OF champion. There vas lsophoie,
and those South ra and Wesfsra papers
aaa srortiog journals that had - often
called the horse stopper "buli," and
other equally expressive terms, showed he's
Nelson's nile was no such performance as
that OF Azte;i. The same papers previously
had hinietlh tt nago III shaped t'a!k would
nat help Nelson, as he would leie near. %
the lorg home 8 se'ca,
a private GltpRtea 4 few days later gGys
the Information that Nelson had gone a
mile a. Rushsille. Ind., in . III IA tic ra Il
aed mud. This was en- ordinary rack, ard
Nelson, the owner, ssil lha; at Terra Haute
lie would drive his horas fss-eI than any
stallion hid ever rs before.
In Commenting GA the 2 iis mark of
Nelson Al Rsnkaaes, Turf, Eisld aad Farm
s8ii "We do not bslieve taa, Nelson cas-
lrot in 2 IL On any oval track Ia the coua-
try A week Later he ifoaei at Terra
Haute In 2 "a.
Here are two records that VIII be fouaa
on the records tex. sprng under the head,
Fastest Stations
Axtell, 5 years. b. h, BY william L.,
42ii-Lou, by Mambrino Boy, Oct.
II, 1889, Terra Haute 2I2I
Nelson, b. h., By Young Rolfe, 95i7--
dam Gretchen, BY Gideon. Oct o.
Terra Hauis 2li4I
A year lacking tro days saw tee change
of the stallion crown from the blue grass
region of the South 20 the baekwoods of
New England.