The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-10-27
HORSE AND TRACK.
Arion ~, 2:l44.
Bell Bird (1), 2 :264.

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Bell Bird (D, 2 :264.
Sunol now holds the record of the
world, 2 :0S4.
The record of Grants Abdallah has
gone down to 2:134.
Six of Strathmore's get have taken
records better than 2 80 this year.
Eight trotters and one PAGER by AL
cyone have made records better than
2:3O this year.
Cyclone has already been credited
with two three-year-olds and one two
year-old that have beaten 80 in 1891.
The American trotter has become
an article of luxury in every civilized
county; this accounts for the stimula-
ted trade in the export line.
Direct defeated Hal Pointer in three
straight heats at Nashville; time,
2:94, 2 10 and 2:11. 2:094 is the
fastest time ever made in race.
When Arion trotted mile in 2 log,
on the kite track at Stockton,
CAL, last week, he broke two great
records, that for two-year-old colts
held by Monbars, and that for all two
year-olds, held by Sunol.
The transfers of horsefesh are esti-
mated to amount to over $4,000, 900 in
Vermont the past year, and horse
raising now takes precedence of all
other animal industries in the Green
Mountain State.
G. w. Williams on his return to
Independence, took with him Ralph
Wilkes (2) 2:21t, and Allie Wilkes,
9 :194. Both of these colts are by the
great Red Wilkes, and Mr.. Williams
will try and lower their records before
the season closes.
When John Goldsmith heard that
Bell Bird had beaten the yearling
record of the World and deprived
Freedom of the honors which he gave
him last year, he said that it was
possible for yearling to trot mile
2 :25, and he thinks that had Freedom
been pushed he could have gone a
mile that fast.
Lloyd, Wood & Co., who bought
Folly, 2:214, by Happy Medium, at
Bean Bros. sale for $4,000, are think
ing of sending her to Mr.. Williams,
at Independence, next season to be
trained on the kite-shaped track. She
will be bred to Allerton, 2 :094, in the
spring, and then sent for fast mark.
She will in all probability trot in 2 10,
if she keeps right.
On the day that Allerton met and
defeated Nelson Mr.. Nelson weighed
ITO pounds and Mr.. Williams 165
pounds, just five pounds difference.
And'thu another vainglorious boast
of the Maine man vanishes into thin
air. Even Nelson himself will hardly
care to claim that the handicap of
five pounds materially affected the re-
suit of the race.
Age considered no horse in the
world ever displayed the prepotency
of Red Wilkes so far as speed in his
progeny is concerned.
Though but seventeen years old, he
has 63 2 80 performers on his roll of
honor, and not a week passes that does
not witness material additions to it.
AS .progenitor Of speed he is the best
son of George Wilkes and the best S
son of Hambletonian 10.
The race between the leading sires
his year as to the number going in :
? 30 list is sharp. Electioneer at :
he present time is one in the lead.
He has put in twenty-seven and now !,
has 2S2 30 performers. Red Wilkes is
lose second, with twenty-six this
season, and has 63 2:30 performers. c
Nutwood, who has more in 2 80 list !
han any living stallion, has put in 16 j
his year, and has siXty-seven in all. G
w. S. Hobart, of San Francisco, and /,
'wner of S!amboul, 2:11, bought some
,ilt-edged ones during the trotting
Meeting at Lexington, Ky. Since !
Arion's :149, Nutwood mares are in
,reat demand and bring fancy prices.
Mr.. Hobart bought Matte Nutwood, Il
ilenview Belle, 2 :204, Trousseau and c
FLY out of her by Bell Boy. The b
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