The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-05-26
HORSE AND TRACK.


2:154, has a foal by Florida.
Whatever there may be in breed, il
amounts to nothing without feed.
The yearling trotting record is 2 :294
The ycarling pacing record is 2: 3S.
Budd Doble has four trotters in his
stable with records below 2:17.
Ed. Geers will take charge of C.
j. Hamlin's horses about June LIST.
G. w. Williams says he never drove
a horse that has as much speed as AL
lerton has this spring.
John Splan is said to have the finest
training stable in America at the
Doan Brook Farm.
III. Holcomb, of Chicago, has pur-
chased from Indiana parties, for 81
500, the chestnut pacing gelding Harry
Jones, 2:19, by Elgin Boy.
Charley Niles, who brought out
Roy Wilkes and gave Lillian mark
of 2:144, is at Menominee, MINI.
with a grand lot of Nutwood young
sters, all going well.
The Edgewater stud of Cynthiana,
the property of the McGi5ben estate,
has been purchased by stock company
for 100000.
1t is an easy matter to save five dol
lars now in the difference in the SER
vice fees of two stations and lose fifty
or a hundred dollars when the produce
is at marketable age.
Eminence, 2:1S8, belonging to the
Kalamazoo Farm, Kalamazoo, Mich,
was shipped on the 25th ult., by
American express, to Waterville, Me-,
to be bred to Nelson, :108.
Robert McGregor, 2:174, has the
fastest record of any stallion in the
stud in the state of New York. Viii
lage Farm held this mark of honor
until the death of Prince Regent,
2:161
Electioneer put in 3 2 80 performers
last week. He now has more trotters
than any other stallion that ever lived.
He has now GA trotters. Geo. Wilkes
stands second, having II in the list,
but only 63 trotters.
G. A. Finncll, Harrodsburg, KY,
has sold to L. Hudson 81 Son his four
ycar-old gray mare by Orion, dam by
Mambrino Columbus, tor$l, 800. The
mare is quite trotter, and is expected
to beat 2 80 this year.
Vic H., 2:1S, will make it warm for
few Eastern horses in the 2 is class,
should George Starr bring her East
and it is almost certain that she will
accompany Margaret S., and Direct
across the continent next month.
b. York has Thornless, 2 :16a, and
the balance of his stable at Minneapo-
lis. The Dauntlcss gelding is re-
ported good which means winning
when he hits a track that does not
hurt his feet.
At Village Farm Friday the bay
mare Rosemeade foaled bay FLY by
Prince Regent, 2:1Gs. Rosemeade is
by Alcazar, son of Sultan and Mime
haha, out of Astrionne, full sister to
Iona, 2:l74, by Alcyonc, second dam
Jessie Pepper. The FLY is one of the
best bred on Village Farm, as she
traces twice to Alma Mater, twice to
Jessie Pepper, and once to Mime
haha.
Stamboul will be out for the stall
lion record this season, his stud duties
ceasing in May, when he will be
placed in the trainers hands. SIAM
boul has been on the turf every year
since he was two years old and he has
never as yet failed to lower his record
each succeeding season. 1t would
seem that his chances are as good as
any of them.
Alicia, 2 30, (full sister to Alcyone
and Alcantara) belonging to II. L. &
F. ID. Stout, of Dubuque, Ia, died re-
Gently while foaling colt by Nut
wood. The Messrs. Stout lose at least
$4,000 by this marc and colts death
as they would have brought that east
ly. They refused $4,000 for the
mare two years ago.
A reputation for breeding good
horses is valuable to any man, apd the
way to acquire it is TO begin now if
you have not already done so. Ifyou
can get your neighbors to join in the
enterprise it is bound to benefit the
whole community and every member
thereof in the course of q few years.
Buyers will go where they know they