Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-16
Track and Stable Gossip.


months harness which 10 light and yet
strong enough. is the one to use. We see
no excuse for the extremely heavy. broad
and necessarily hot harnesses used by many
horsemen.
A. J. Carll of Ssco, sold handsome
dapple gray team horse to the Berlin Mills
Lumber Co, N. Al. The animal weighed
1850 pounds. The price paid was $500.
The Franklin County Horse Breeders
Association has changed the date of its first
meeting at Pennington, from August 81
and 2s to September = and 8, so Is not to
conflict with the races at Livermore Falle.
S. II. Haskell of Auburn. has disposed
of his noted trotting horse Star Gaser. to
l.. B. Lewis of Lynn. Mass. He got $3.50
and horse that can trot in 2.40 or better.
Star Gazer was shipped to his new owner.
Saturday. 1t is the opinion of the local
horsemen that Mr.. Haskell made a good
trade. Star Gszer has improved noticeably
during his stay with Mr. Haskell.
Longevity appears to be an hereditary
trait. The descendants of Messenger, as
rule, were long lived horses. Messenger
himself lived to be twenty eigh, years old
TopgSllant, in some respects one of the
most remarkable trotters that ever appeared
upon tie turf, was inbred to Messenger.
lie WAS trotting four. nile hestraces in his
twenty second year, and though he had two
spsvins was no. lame. Topgsllant lived to
be twenty eight years old. Administrator,
by Ryslyk's Ilambletonisn, also a Messen-
ger, is still vigorous at twenty seven years
of age. lie is owned in Prince Edward
Island. Many of the descendants of Do
med lived to An advanced age. Domed
himself lived to be thirty-one years old,
and got his best son, Sir Archy. the season
he was twenty-sevsn years old.
| The well known Maine stallion, Baby
Dean. owned by Robinson Dean of Buck
| field, is now in New York tro,ting in one of
the New York circuits. He has already
trotted two races at Syracuse and won both
| in straight heats, best time 2.26i. tie is
handled by Uncle Mosher of Lawrence, the
trim old gentleman who drove Onawa last
fall at the Maine State Fair in the free for
all against Glenarm. 1t is not a little
singular that he is trotting in New York
under the name of Robinson d., and is the
second Maine bred horse to get record
e 81 % Al.
continue to trot under his last name or his
owner must pay the $50 necessary to have
it changed back. 1t is expected that he
will compete for the $4,000 purse at
Rochester, next mouth
| Injudicious feeding of horse often pro.
duces far more baneful results than does
| kept upon food as concentrated as he can
| bear there is necessarily a tendency to in
| fammation and consequent lsmeness, but
lameness is more certainly produced with
sudden changes from bulky to concentrated
food, and that on the day when his feet are
to be mos, severely tried by conclusion on
4 HArn fDhls ~ Nouii shiti W houbt
his digestive organs one day and his feet
another than to abuse them both at the
same time. Grassfed horses can be famed
at any time without any extra work by
simply giving them more corn and less
chat.
At the Waldo Horse Breeders As,ocia-
I 81 a NIn 60
won by Elmbrook in 2.3.;; the 2 81 class
by Emma b., A. G. Haler of Monroe, in
24l l2 the running race by Duke, George
o. Bailey of Belfast, in 2 05 "a.
Mr.. Frank II. Upper of Lincoln, for
ferly of Bangor has just purchased
splendid horse in the young stallion Helix.
by Ivywood, by wedgewood. 2,Io. sou of
Belmont; dam, Jennie, by Judge Advocate,
sire of Thornberg, 21t, ard Romulus,
2 27t, by Messenger Duroc, son of Rysdyk's
! IIamhJetonian. Helix is one year old, a
chestnut stands IA / and weighs 700
pounds. He adds style to his good size and
is an admirably put up colt.
! Mr.. C. II. Nelson, takes a string of
twelve of his trotters to the western States
this week, where several of them have been
entered for races upon the American Az
ISOLATION tracks. Among them is the stall.
lion Nelson, and the tFo-year-old stallion,
by Dictator Chief, that Mr.. Nelson recently
bought of J. A. & +. A. Cilley, of Fair
field. He has already paced quarters in 81
seconds. 2 20 clip. This colt will enter
the 2.30 list later in the season. John r.
Haines, of Biddefor1, is TO drive for Mr..
Nelson and will accompany that gentleman
on his western trip.