Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-02-28
HORSE GOSSIP.
Notes from Track and Stable About Noted
Drivers and FLYERS,

the Burke mare to Michael Kelley She i.
stinted to Alexander
Hour" by Onward, dam Jessie Turner,
has been sold by j. S. Coxey of Massillon,
Ohio, to j. Molcolm Forbes of Boston for
$13, 600.
One OF II. A. Brighams fine broad mares,
lately brought from Montreal, is recoverinS
from severe case of pneumonia which was
contracted on the cars.
w. 7. ljams, Terro Haute, Ind, is in re-
ceipt of letters from several prominent breed
ers who offer as high as $500 bonus for a
booking to Axtell. But his book is full.
d. H. Moshier of Denver, Col, is driv-
ing on the road George Moshier, 2:25I, by
Strathmore, and TrampS., 2;215, by Tramp.
This is level-headed team that is hard to
| beat.
Green Mountain Maid, that has seven
representatives in tho 2:30 list, produced
seven foals that sold for S6S, $50 and five
other foals are still owned by Charles Back
man.
The latest report as to Edward Bither
VINO develoved and drove Jay Eye-See and
Ihallas, is that instead of going to the Count
Nalensin' S farm in California he has decid-
ed TO take charge of the training Of the
| youngsters of the recently established Allen
The ice meet of the Ticonderoga horse
breeders association, which was to have
been held February 25-27, has been indef-
nitely postponed. the ice harvesters having
monopolized everything in the line of hotel
accommodations
Few fillies can boast of faster blood lines
in sire and dam than the one foaled at Ell
lerslie Stud few days ago She was sired
by Jerome Eddy, 2:l6i, out of Buffalo Ghl,
S;l2t, pacing. She belongs to Gerhard
Lang, the wealthy brewer of Buffalo, and
is splendid looking youngster
| Or. W. 5. Webb advertses the auction
sale of % of his Sheburne Farm horses at
the American Horse exchange in New York
city next Friday. The list includes Sid
dartha, imported by Lorrillard, Brandon,
Ellie B., Starna, Oak Ledge, Midlothian,
Saraceneca, Corona and Others
This is unkind. '"rhe best way TO get
rid of the surplus" says the kentucky
Stock Farm: Get Uncle Sam to buy a
big lot of thoroughbred mares to breed to
| trotting horses If this doesn't succeed,
let him train the progeny. The balance
/ lefG won't be enough to quarrel over.n
The following are some of the highest
| fees asked for the services of trotting stall
lions of note in Kentucky this year VIII
liam L., Wilton and Robert McGregor,
$500 each; Onward 500 Lord Russell
Harold, Red Wilkes, Norval, Anteo. Ban
ner Mark and Simmons, $500 each Jaw
Bird and Phalas, $3.50 each Macy. King
Wilkes, Pistachio, Allandorf, Acolyte and
Ellerslie Wilkes, $500 each.
| Shelby C. Puett of Rockville. Ind has
purchased from c. F. Emery, Forest city
farm, Cleveland, o. for $4,000, the three wear
old black stallion Rostoio. by Brown Wilkes
2O4O, record 2:2l4, dam Dominica Sister to
Daireen, 2:21N, by Harold Alb: second
dam Dahlia, by Pilot, jr., IL; third dam
Madam Dudley. He is a youngsters of
| high quality, with excellent bone and mus
Gle and typical Brown Wilkes in gait
Clay 6 Woodford, Runnymede Stud,
Paris, Ky. have engaged five services to
MamUrino Russell, half brother to Maud S.
2:OS4 This is new move on the part of
tins establishment, which has heretofore
confined its operations entirely to thorough
breds. 1t is said the mares they will breed
to this young trotting stallion will be those
of the Planet strain of blood and that have
been unsuccessful thus far in producing
winners when bred to thoroughbred sires.
William Witzel of Oshkosh, Wis. has
been i'll for some time with what was SUD
posed to be laryngitis. HIS physician, DR..
Gudden, after due examination, declares
the case to be CHAMBERS, and his diagnosis is
conceded in by other physicians. For three
weeks prior to the illness Witzel was en-
ployed on farm where last summer several
glandered horses were shot by order of the
State Veterinarian, and is supposed to have
been inoculated with the disease by contact
with some infected substance.
f. w, Daily, Crawford, Neb. has mr.
oh,
Iowa, the bay tilly Lady Gene We've, fualed
in 1897, by l.. p. Thompson, dam Roulette,
by Romulus, son of Hambletonan 10; sec
ond dam by Captain, son of Mambrino
Patchen. l.. p Thompson is by Sterling.
son of Patchen Boy, by George NJ Patchen,
and out of Kitty Cook, by Daniel Lambert
The FLY has been bred to Tony Lambert
by Aristos son of Daniel Lambert, and will
be used as brood mare at Mr.. Daily's new
breeding farm.
At W. 7. Woodlands horse sale at Lex
ington, Ky, Thursday 4G horses sold for
$3.50, 629. The King, by George Wilkes.
dam Jewell, was sold to Z. +. Simmons. Lex
ington, for S3l ,0O0 Warlock, by Belmont,
dam Water Witch, to X. Stoner, Paris, Ky,
for 3d. 900. Belmont Wilkes, by Belmont
dam Mona Wilkes, to j. D. Creighton,
S1lOO. Susie S., by Hylas, dam Lady By
ron, to Wallace Pierce, Sharpsvile, Penn,
SlO,05O Elkhorn, by Onward, dam Long
Lane, to William Donlon, Delphi Ind,
$925O. Electrotype, by Electoneer, dam
Addie to r. c. Church, Frankfort, KY,
$7100,
The Boston Courier mans pony must been
have badly worsted on the ice. for the
Courier says: "Vermonters have great sport
on the ice, and more trotting is done in the
winter than summer up there. The stories
they tell of the time made ON the ice makes
one dizzy. There is no Vermont horse, 'Iet
them tell IL, " that cannot trot in forty
on the ice; 2:30 trotters are nowhere, and !
the number that can beat 2;20 is legion, all
on the ice and up in Vermont.
Ben Franklin has safely arrived at his
new home in Tennessee. He is II years and !
while in Vermont proved himself one of the !
very best sons of Daniel Lambert, and COM !
manded the highest service fee of any horse |
in the State 1t is reasonable to suppose
that he will get better lot of performers
from tho high bred mares of Tennessee than
he did from the colder blooded Vermont