Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-11
NELLIE w., 2:l4a.
A GREAT KENTUCKY OAMPAlcNER,
From the Horseman.1

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The Horseman presents this week
life-like portrait of Nellie w., 2:14f. She
is gray mare, l5-24 hands high, foaled
in 1881, sired by Rola Golddust son of
Arabian Golddust, by Golddust 80 DOR
sey's). Rolla Goddust's dam was sired
by Cottonpicker, pacing horse owned
in La Rue county, Kentucky. Nellie
WIS dam was bred by p. 5. Barber of
Bardstown, Ky. She was a gray mare.
sired by Norman Temple, Jr., 235, son of
Alexander's Norman.
G. w. Robertson, the owner. driver
and developer, is a farmer, native-born
kentuckian, and Nellie furnished him
his first experience with a trotter. She
was not broken and never had birdie
on until she was four years old and
worked in the fields that season. In July
of that year OSSS) Mr.. Robertson, who
tips the scale at $50 pounds. commenced
to drive her, and the fifteenth time she
was worked to a cart she pulled it mile
in 40, and was turned out and not har-
messed until May, 1889. The first mile
she was driven she went in :33, but was
not started in race that year. In 1890
she first started in Shelbyville Ky, and
won in straight heats. She next won at
Harrodsburg two races, three straight
each, then at Danville and Nicholasvile.
At the latter place she lost the first heat
and won the next three. At Bardstown
she was defeated after winning the third
and fourth heats. At Elizabeth she won
in straight heats, and also at Horse Cave,
Ky, At Lebanon, Ky, she trotted
match with Lizzie Nc. winning in straight
order. At Lexington she was beaten by
Senator Conkling in 2:l9i. At New Al
bany, Ind, she lost the first heat, and
won the next three. making in all, of
ond and one fourth. This season she
started first at Louisville, Ky. and won
in straight heats, after which she went to
Columbus and beat the noted campaigner
At Rushvile, Ind, she again beat Black
Diamond, Aline, Greenleaf. and in the
fifth heat went the first half in :OS. and
logged home in , %. At Eminence. Kv..
she won in straight heats. At Danville,
Ky, she was beaten by Bonnie Wilmore
over the half-mile track. and her last
performance was at \icholasvile. where
she made her record of :l4t. Mr.. Rob-
ertson owns her dam, now thirteen years
old, and regular breeder, and she now
has by her side a full brother to Nellie.
He also has two full sisters to Mel lie,
one three and the other four, both per-
feet bays. The four-year-old, Alma A.,
is one of the handsomest mares in Ken
lucky, and the three-year-old, Mollie
Golddust, is much in appearance like
Nancy Hanks. They are all pure-gaited
trotters. Belle, the dam of Nellie, has
yearling by Young Crook, son of Bud
Crook, 2lSi, that is dark bay
Mr.. Robertson has given his attention
this season to horses, and had quite a
stable of trOtters when he left home, and
all could go some. He is a genial, affa-
BILE gentleman, thirty-siX years old, and
expects to devote his future largely to
breeding and developing trotters. His
farm, Maple Grove, is four miles from
Bardstown, and the latchstring hangs on
the outside. The sire of Nellie was burn
ed last fall when Mr.. Robertsons barn
was destroyed by fire.
To illustrate the value of this great
performer as brood mare only tabula-
ton of her nearby blood lines will be
necessary