The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-12-08
HORSE AND TRACK.

Sidney seems to be at the head as g
producer of early speed.
1t is reported that Jack, 2:124, will
be trained again by Budd Doble mex
season.
Alfred G., :194, has given way tc
James Madison, 2 :174, as The fastest
son of Antceo.
There arc but two Nutwood mares
at palo Alto and both have produced
. 80 trotters.
Ralph Wilkes (2) 2:1S, by Red
Wilkes, will be trained next season by
G. w. Williams, of Independence.
John Wilkerson, who is one of the
few trotting-horse drivers that never
buys pool, recently purchased 24O-
acre farm near Terre Haute.
Fausta Q) has reduced the pacing
record to :228. Frou Frou holds the
yearling trotting record; her mark is
now 2 :254. These tillies arc both by
Sidney.
The gray ghost Guy, 2:114, is
owned by a minister in Mississippi,
and the strangest part of the yarn is
that he never saw the horse step a
heat in any of his races.
It's immaterial now when the rainy
season commences in California. They
can't get any more records if they
trot all winter. Because why ?
They've got 'eln all now.
Senator Stanford has accepted the
offer of G: w. Williams to breed ten
mares at 50, 500 each to Arion during
the season of 1898. He asks that he
allowed to select one of the colts dur
ing the season of foaling at $4,000.
San Mateo's Freedom (D 2:298,
Regal Wilkes, 2:17t, and Hazel
Wilkes, 300, have been running out
all summer, but will be taken up
about January lst and put in train
ing, preparatory to the eastern trip
next summer.
1t has been going the rounds of the
press in the East that Beautiful Bells
is the youngest dam of six 2 80 trot-
tiers in the world. She is nineteen
years of age. Sontag Mohawk is the
dam of seven 3 80 trotters to date and
three years younger than Beautiful
Bells. Give credit where credit is
due.
Electioneer has ninety eight to his
credit in the 2 80 list and they run
from yearlings to eleven-year-olds.
AT the latter age there is one and one
at ten years, five nine-year-olds,
twelve seven-year-olds, eleven six
year-olds, twelve tive-year-olds,
eighteen four-year-olds, and the same
of three-year-olds, ten two
year-olds, and one yearling. Eleven
of these performers are from Gen.
Benton mares, aud twenty-four from
thoroughbred mares.
When will people learn that colt
will generally correct the defects in
his gait as he learns to trot. Many
trainers begin tampering with the
gait of colt before he has learned to
use his legs at all. Every horse that
was ever foaled has a gait of his own
and it is folly to attempt to make a
horse 60 according to some model.
Every great trotter has a way of
going of his own, and oftimes his
actions might be called very faulty.
Protect his legs with boots and give
MS head little freedom, and if he has
speed he will learn to show it.
Monroe Salisbury attributes his
phenomenal success out East with his
string this season to the care he and
George Starr bestowed upon the
lorses. They were never alone for
wen half an hour. Mr.. Salisbury
ays they've got about $500 trotting
md pacing horses in training east of
Kansas, and if you don't keep your
yes open they'll spring something
lew and phenomenally fast on you
my day, and take all the money in
he pool-box.-[ Breeder and Sports
nan.
The king Of all the level-headed
orses, however, is little Direct, the
'acer. In all his long and arduous
from a "no record" race