Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-03-27

was entered In tne Fail meeting OF ~ at
Nashville, Tenn. In scoring for the
first heat, Indicator, then known as
Woodpecker Golddust, was run into, the |
driver, Mr.. Samuel Bryant of Louisville,
thrown out, the horse running three
miles before being caught. After being
scraped and partially cooled out, the
race was trotted and won by Indicator
in 2 :34. This ended his trotting for
some years.
Sixteen years later he made record
of 2 :23a, over the same track, defeating
the great Susie S. (2;l54), by Hylas S3l,
by Alcalde 1903. There is no doubt but
that he would have won the race had it
been finished without postponement, ow-
ing to darkness. On the day following
it seemed foregone conclusion that the
race belonged to Indicator, but job of
5000 was made up, and by putting him in
a pocket he was defeated.
Indicator was purchased from Mr..
Tarleton the spring he was four years old
by Messrs. J. w. Hornsby and l.. L.
Dorsey, for S2250, at auction, and again
sold the following December to Messrs.
Wentworth q Davis of GAINESVILLE, Wis,
for $4,000. The following season he was
put in the stud. In the winter Mr.. Davis
bought Mr.. Wentworth's interest, and
the next spring put him in training. Mr..
Davis was a young man without eX
perience, having no previous knowledge
of horses, being brought up as a railroad
conductor, and never having driven or
handled horse for speed.
The old Adam would not down, and
showing great speed he was entered in
circuit in which Grand Rapids was in
cluded, and was the first place he trotted
during the season. 1t was here that Mr..
S. A. Brown, then in the lumber business,
a great lover of horses and an excellent
Judge of horse stock, saw him and admir-
but for his marvellous finish and rare
beauty. Mr.. Davis insisted that the
horse could trot three heats better than
225. Mr.. Brown told him he would buy
Indicator on that condition if they could
agree on a price. The day for the trial
was set, and with bad quarter crack
and not in condition. easily beat the time
over a heavy, bad track caused by a
severe rainstorm. The price. | am told,
was $4,000.
What Mr.. Brown did with him in the
way of trotting have not learned, but
find in June, 1876, he trotted at East
Saginaw. Mich, in :22t, the last quarter
in 1921, a 2:l0 gait. This was also a
heavy track. He also got record over
sandy half-mile track in Kalamazoo of
2:23f. Mr.. Brown has repeatedly assert
ed that he has timed him in 2:l5, and
that there was never a day while he own
: ed him, when in condition, that he could
: not have lowered the twO-mile record
He also trotted him double with mare
of his own, on one occasion in :25. The
mare alone could not trOt better thar
2:27. Mr.. Brown also states that ne hat
him sold for $4,000, with the under
standing that he should trot a full mile
in 2:l5, which he was confident he coult
i have done.
Unfortunately he met with an accident
- while loading him in the cars, which dis
: abled him for two or three years. Mr.
! Brown, fearing it was a permanent injury
traded him for Ambassador, son o.
/ George Wilkes. In the fall of 1890, a
J. twenty-one years of age, Indicator trotteC
u the half-mile, cuppy track at Eminence
! Ky, which is considered from seven t.
u ten seconds slow, compared with thu
II Lexington track. after serving seventy
one mares, without training, in ;lO4.
$ have conversed with his driver, and h,
y tells me that he has driven HIM over tn,
Eminence half-mile track in | :05. TO
e day, at twenty-five years of age, he is in ;
If remarkable state of preservation, ant
y does not look to be over seven or eigh
e years old, clean in every limb, eyes bright
e the beautiful Golddust color unchanged
l. the back not the least atom swayed, ant
n for all could see can go out and trot a
d fast as ever. Is it any wonder they ar
< proud of this royal descendant of tina
n noble family, the Golddusts.
/ There is Il beautiful lot of Indicator
y colts to be found at this farm. The old
9 est are coming two in the spring. SOM
Is of them will be trained, and it is safe t,
IL predict that the sire will have sons ant
> daughters whose names will be found il
the list of - 80 and better" There i
1t One-a beauty-sired by him, out o
e Linda Wilkes, by Lever b., son of Rec
e Wilkes and the great Sally b., dam o
If Toinette 2:30, Fulcrum, public trial il
" 2:25, Barney, public trial in 2:26, Lycur
II gus, , ;32, made in Boston, think, ant
II the grandam of Early Bird, 2;2li, Coun
p Waldemar, , ;2G. Naomi, 2:30) by Lever
l. by Lexington, out of a daughter of Ole
y Pilot, the sire of Pilot Jr, the sire of tn
n dam of Maud 5. (2:0SD, etc; seconC
e, dam by Lexington Golddust, the sire o