The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-11-03
HORSE ANT, TRACK.

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Egbert has now total of forty.
three 2 80 performers.
Eleven stations and four mares
entered the 2 :15 list this year.
Allerton is now the largest winner
on the trotting turf this season, hav'
ing $40, $50 to his credit.
Strathso, 2:13, by Strathmore, dam
by Blue Bull, is the fastest four-year-
old out this season.
Santa Claus, by Magic, is now the
dam of Emulation, 2:21, Vatican,
2:2sa, Position, 2:224, and Magic
Wilkes, 2:34.
The Onward stallion FL Mahdi, out
of the dam of Guy Wilkes and Will
liam L. will be started for record
before the close of the season.
There is a question whether it will
be Electioneer or Red Wilkes that
will head the list of new 2:30 sires
when the records of the present sea-
son are made up.
An honest man is the noblest work
of God, and balky horse is about the
meanest. When these two have a
tussel the devil is pretty sure to have
a big laugh.
The universal opinion seems to be
that Nancy Hanks was not dear at
$4,000, and that, barring accidents,
j. Malcolm Forbes, of Boston will
find that his money is we'll invested.
There is one thing young trainer
should do above all others, and that is
to reserve his horses speed for race
days. Fast trials do not get any
money or records, but it is sure
source of cripples and disappointment.
Palo Alto wants the earth and il
looks like she'll have it all. They have
all the worlds records from yearling
up, except the stallion record, and
Palo Alto, has now mark of 2 10,
and is likely to go in 100 before the
season closes.
At Palo Alto there is a handsome
brother to Arion, and at the side of
Manette, his dam, is sucking colt
by Palo Alto. Since the performances
of Arion have brought him into prom
inence the value of the members Of
the family have greatly increased.
Delmarch has to his credit the fast
est three winning heats ever trotted
by stallion, but it should be remem-
bercd that they were not all trotted
the same day. The race was contin-
ued and the third and fastest heat was
trotted the second day.
1t is beginning to look as if the kite
shaped track will frown down all of
the croakers. With the worlds rec
ords for stations and mares, as we'll
as the one, two and -five-year-old rec
ords of the world, it is in the swim
to an alarming extent.
A stallion and six brood mares
which the Duke of Marlborough re-
Gently purchased of A. j. Alexander
for breeding purposes on his English
estates, have reached New York and
will be shipped this week. The stall
ion is Lord Russell out of Alice West.
The mares are by Belmont and Lord
Russell.
An exchange remarks that Axtell's
,olts are not showing much speed.
Perhaps they have not yet been asked
he question to any remarkable ex-
ent. Axtell comes high, but those
who must have him do not expect |
avery one of his colts to be a world |
,eater. If they do there is lots of dis
bottled up in bsthese
United States.--[Western Resources.
Many of the very fastest trotters and
,acers are much smaller than many
'eople suppose. Nancy Hanks is fif-
cen hands, one and one-half inches
Ugh and weighed, last week, eight
hundred and forty pounds. Jay-Eye-
See weighed nine hundred and twenty
'ounds when in training, and is scant
fifteen hands. Ed. Amman is fourteen
lands and used torweigh seven hun
red and sixty.