The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-05-12
HORSE AND TRACK.

and as rugged as bear.
Shawhan will be ready for few oil
the early meetings.
T j. Dunbar has large stable Of
horses in Milwaukee.
Navidad has had the splint on his
left front leg blistered.
James Golden has purchased the
bay mare Moilie j., ;194.
Bowerman Bros, have twenty-six
head in training at Lexington.
Faustino, two-year-old record 2:241,
is showing well this spring in the
hands of Johnny Dickerson at Terre
Haute.
Get high order of individual ex-
cellence with your fashionable pedi-
grees and you will never encounter a
dull market.
Forty ears ago Robert Bonner be-
gan driving fast horses TO improve his
health. lie is still at it, and he likes
the medicine.
The Village Farm has a standing
offer of $4,000 for the Guy Wilkes
stallion, Golden Gate. This young
ster cost over $4,000 as a yearling, and
could not show much speed then. He
is a brother to the fast PAGER, Rupee,
2:16t.
Budd Doble was down to Terre
Haute last week and let Nancy
Hanks, McDoel, Graylight, Budd Do
BILE and those far enough along in jog
ging have their heads for an eight.
lie found them going smooth, and
right up TO an edge, DIR. Hollenbeck
and Charley Doblc having done their
work well.
Occasionally cold bred horse will
make fair third-class race horse, and
now and then one will train down to
low record, but the man who makes
a practice of developing common bred
ones for race horses, will spend his
days in poverty and finally die of dis
enlargement.
From California comes the news
that William Corbitt will have Free
dom, 2 30, the first yearling to enter
the 2 30 list prepared to show how
fast he is and how much he has train
ed on. Freedoms fast mile was only
made last October at Napa, Cal.
1t is authoritatively stated that Palo
Alto, 3 :124, and Sunol, 3 :l04, will not
cross the range this year, but will be
perfectly conditioned and sent against
their records on the California tracks.
1t is further said that if Sunol does
not reduce her mark she will never
be given another opportunity, as she
will pass into the hands of Mr.. Bonner
this fall.
G. w. Williams has ordered from
the Toomey Co., of Canal Dover, o., a
new sulky for Allerton, designed ex-
pressly for exhibition miles for this
horse on the mile track. Ito weight
will be about forty pounds. Mr.. Will
liams has also ordered another sulky
from this firm, two from the Charles
S. Caflrey Co., of Camden, N. j., and |
two from w. S. Frazier, of Aurora,
Ills.
There are five trotting stations
with no records and no 2 80 perform
ers to their credit, that command SER
vice fees of from $3.50 to $3.50, and get
full books. The stations referred to
are Electric Bell, Golden Gate, Gen.
Wellington, Sunolo and Bannermark.
Chimes, 2 1901, and Bow Bells, 2:32
have no 3 80 horses to their credit but
their fees are $500 and $500 respect
vely. These are all young horses but
are bred in the height Of fashion.
1t is said that Messrs. Sutherland g.
Benjamin, of the Saginaw Stock Farm,
saginaw, Mich, recently refused
BONA fide offer of 100000 for their
great stallion, Sphinx, 223, by Eloc-
ioneer. Sphinx will have one of the
pest harems this season ever sent to
my stallion and his paternal list this
pring will be increased by about sixty
IONS and daughters. The eldest of his
get is but three years of age.
Hazel Wilkes 2:20, Lillian Wilkes,
;174, Vida Wilkes, 2 :224, Una Wilkes,
:254, and Atlanta Wilkes, 2 :294, these
i've daughters of Guy Wilkes 1861,
log, have been taken up and will
Don be put in training. They have
lied out in every way and look bet
er than they ever did. With the ma
erial Goldsmith will have in his |
tring this season he ought to get his |
IA a ra of tho nnnnaU on tho Dao;G,