Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-09-18
HORSE GOSSIP.
Allerton, King of Stallions-Nancy Hanks
Acquires Great Honors other Tips.

Al1ertou, King of Stallions-Nancy Hanks
Acquires Great Honors Other Tips.
Allerton reduced the stallion record ono
quarter of a second at Independence, Iowa,
last week, and he is now king of trotting
stations. lie trotted the mile in 2:00q, but
G. W. Williams, his owner, preferred to
have 2;10 given out as the time. Nelson
(2:lON will have to either trot faster or
stand as tho second fastest stallion in the
world.
Alerton must be great horse, with won
derful endurance, ms only tho week before
this great performance the indetatiga
bic Williams drove Nancy Hanks, the win
ner, out in PIP, 2:12h 2;l2. Nancy Hanks,
therefore, acquired the further glory Of
trotting all three of her heats faster than
any horse ever before won heat in race.
just think Of lt--three heats IN PIP, 2:l2t,
2;19-and then what horse Nllerton mast
be to force her out in that tne Nancy
Hanks has never been Leaten, and has to
her credit the three fastest consecutive heats
ever trottcd in q race, aud the fustost raco
record
The Breeders Gazette says that "lherc
seems to be a good demand for stool; bred in
Morgan Hambletonian lines Mr.. Samuel
Culver, proprietor Ct Indian Valley stock
farm, has sold two colts, both by Ben
Franklin eco, dam, Minnie by Broken
Leg, TO DR.. Moore Of West Rupert, Vt;
also suckling by II. II. Franklin from the
same dam above named, to Iabo Bayder Of
Poultney, VIZ
Wallace Robinson Of South Hero, has
sold his five year old bay mare to Hosmrr,
Champion y Hammond Of Boston, for $500
She was shipped from this station Weduo,-
day. Although the mare has received but
little training she can show . 10 clip
quite handiy.
Waiter Hobart, the California millionaire,
the owner OF StambJu', PHI, attended the
Winoosli Valley fair at Waterbury on We'd
ncslay Of last week.
Charles Filling Of bennington lost his
ur-year-od stallion, Wall Street, by
Princer- Sprague and out Of dam by
Volunteer, on Monday, the disease not
being clearly dohnc1 lie valued the stall
lion q 500.
Charles Taylor has returned to White
River junction with Factory Boy and is
now at Charles Ballard's farm. Mr.. Ballard
says that Charley and the horse were both
badly hurt in an accident on the Grand
Trunk railway in Upper Canada last week,
and that he fears Taylor has driven his last
race.
Oliver Brothers OF North Hartland has
sold his PAGER to Connecticut man for
500
Mr.. Robert Bonner has received the fol-
lowing letter from Senator Stanford -
Suuol has now apparently entirely re
covered. We shall soon give her good work.
We shall give her n trial in the COURSE Of
two or three weeks. II everything Is favor
dbl 20 the full exhibition OF her powers, |
have 10 doubt She viii lower her record
several SECONDS. From what have seen Of
I her this season .06 does not seem to me to
he beyond her powers Before she went
lame she trotted quarters in 294 seconds,
the last eighth in II J., and seemed very com
Portable while doing 1t. We shall try her
on the stockton kite-shaped track, and give
her one or more trials, if everything goes
well, on an ordinary shaped track
Dr. David Kennedys Favorite Remedy "a m