Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-03-07
HORSE GOSSIP.
Notos from Track and Stable About Noted
Drivers and Flyers.

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! F. II. Foster writes that Viking never
pleased him half so we'll as be does now.
The Tilton man is level-headed horseman.
Report says that Isaiah Thomas, COTS
town, N. H.. has sold his stallion Chenango,
by Viking (2:19D, to Massachusetts parties
for $500.
Louis La Point Of Pittsburgh broke his
record last week at Saranac by winning the
4-year-old race with his bay colt Prince.
w. Ii. Harpers Ben B. won the 80 class at
the same place.
John Stevens OF the Stevens house at
Lake Placid has purchased the noted trot-
ter, johnnie Murphy, paying $1,000 for him,
and he is taking part in the races at Saranac
Lake, which are now in progress.
One of the best looking span of horses
that have appeared on West Randolph
streets for some time is pair owned by Ed
Shattuck. They are years old, weighing
21OO and are of the old Lambert stock
1t is reported that match is likely to be
trottcd in 1891 between two-year- old
daughter Of Chimes, owned by G. j. Ham.
lin of Village Farm, Buffalo, n. Y. and n
two-year-old daughter of Patron, owned by
G. f. Emery of Forest City Farm, Cleve-
land, Ohio
a Bridport correspondent says Negotia-
tions are practically perfec ted for the pur-
chase by Wallace Benjamin of j. j. Cranes
chestnut and q. S. Wissel's chestnut. to
he driven together as matched pair, and
one from r. l.. Hemenway for a single
driver.
1t is reported that the trouble in regard
to the purchasing OF Mambrino Archy.
2:24f, for SIS, 900, by Mr.. Eells, for South
American parties, has been settled by
throwing in Clara NJ, 229 as ballast
Don't think that has helped the matter
much, as the mare isn't worth over million.
W. S. Bailey has offered his stallion
Hardwick for sale The horse is by AL
mont Eagle, 2:27 and is going to make a
record pretty soon. From the achievements
of Helen NJ, her dam being an inbred Nor
gan, he has decided to sell all his brood
mares not strongly Morgan bred and in
their place will put the best inbred Morgan
dams which ne can find
Messrs Miller & Sibley of Franklin, Pa.
have purchased from L. f. Coe of New
Aork, for 5000 the three-y ear-old stallion
Conductor, by Electioneer, dam Sontag
Mohawk. Sontag Mohawk is tine dam of Sal
" Benton, 2:l1f; Eros, 2;294; Sport, 2:224,
and also the dam of two if not three others
thai will enter the 2:30 list this season.
Conductor after short season In the stud,
will be trained for record
Golden claim to distinction as n breed
er thus far, as only three of his get are older
IMAM two years of aye, rests upon the phe-
uomenal work of Helen NJ, who though but
two years old in 1889 succeeded in b. eak-
ing all the New England records for her
age, in covering the mile in 2:2S. When it |
Is understood that Helen NJ. is out of a
mare whose blood lines are obscure and but
remotely connected with turf performers of
only moderate ability, the prepotcncy of
the sire. ana his power to produce trotters
appears all the more remarkable.
frof. Phelps from Grand Isle was at Nal !
lett'S Bay one day working his famous
'rotter Grand Isle on the Malett's Bav
House track. The little horse is right on
edge Mr.. Phelps says that he is ready for
any kind OF race with his Burlington
friends, provided the race is trotted on this
track f. +. Gokey has also z Ven his two
year-old colt, Rock Island some work upon
he ice. He is a gamey colt and barring
accidents will certainly be heard of some
lay as trotter.
Interesting Notes About Apple Tree
Farm Horses.
y Middleoury correspondent of the
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