The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-06-30
HORSE AND TRACK.

AlltTtOu.
DR.. Fair has sent three mares I
" Alcolyte, 2 ri.
t. Almont worked mile at Teri
IS Uautc Thursda, in 2:18.
i Addic Belle, 2:224, has a brow
II fllly at foot by Brown Hal.
. Grants Abdallah paced mile u
n 2 :15, last half in Loo, at Terra iiau''
IS last Friday.
Zillet. by Epaulet won race a.
e Louisville two weeks ago ana LOOK
g record of 1921.
= Nancy Hanks and McDoel are doing
! ,beir quarters from 323 to 33 seconds
&c at Terra Haute. a.
! Brown Hal is to do quarter in
6 % seconds on one of the tracks of the
Grand Circuit, to win wager.
Counting trottcrs alone, Elcctioneer
is one ahead of Geo. Wilkes; counting
trottcrs and PAGERS Geo. Wilkes is
seven ahead.
Splan says that Wedgewood, 2:19,
was the best and fastest stallion he
ever drove.
There promises to be some sensa-
tional twe-year-olds out this year.
Over twenty new 2:30 performers
have entered the list this season.
The gray horse Ed Rosewater that
every one had trotting a month ago
is back among the PAGERS and won
the free-for-all for that style of nag at
Council Bluffs, Ia, last week.
Goldsmith Maid was driven a mile
in 2 :16 on the day she was 81 years
old. Are there any trotters of that
age to-day that can go q mile in 2 20 !?
1t seems probable that several
tracks in the country will refuse to
unite with either the American or
Acknowledging Associations, inorder
thereby to permit Nelson to start
against his record.
Nineteen subscribers to the Flower
City $4,000 stake for 2 80 trotters, to
be given at Rochester, n. Y, during
the Grand Circuit meeting, have made
the second payment.
-. Dosweii, OF Lexington, Ky,
owner of the great mare, Nancy
Hanks, has four mares and fillies out
of the dam of the former, Nancy Lee,
all bred this season TO high class
stations.
Luby,,2 30, is in the stable of w. G..
Swearinger this season. This horse
started once last season, when he
made his record. He will be the rep
resentative of his owner, w. Il.
Sydner, in the $4,000 2: 90 stake to be
trotted at Lexington in October
Luby is great horse, and should get
some of the money.
Stamboul's colts arc doing we'll and
are in greater demand and command
ing higher prices than the get of any
other living stallion. lie is horse of
remarkable prepotency and he stamps
all his produce after his own likeness.
They are like him generally in color,
conformation, temper and action, and
all show a natural ability to trot fast
l.. j. Rose has sold to j. b. and
John G.. butcher, Pauling, N. y, the
bay yearling colt, Morocco, by SIAM
boul, 2 IL, dam Minnehaha dam Of
Alcazar, 2:204; Sweetheart, 2 :224 (;
Eva, :234; Beautiful Bells, 2:294.
and San Gabriel, 3 :294) by The Moor
Minnehaha now has colt by her
side by the younger son of Stamboul
and Dido, 2 :234, and she has been
bred back to him.
An exchange puts it in this way
The day is rapidly approaching, yes,
we might say it is here now, when we
must breed for speed market, and
not merely a fancy pedigree-market.
Buyers will soon be paying freely only
for the get of stations and brood
mares whose progeny are stake-win-
ners. Breeders have to make their
foals grow every minute, from the
hour they are dropped until they go
into the training liable; then the
trainer will have to carry on the
work. The pedigree era is passed,
the racing age is at hand. Rich
stakes have caused the change.
The track was in fine condition
Tuesday and it was known that Aller-
ton wonld be driven there were quite
a number of visitors at the track.
About four o'clock he appeared, aud
after the preliminary jogging he was
scored several times and then given