Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-29
HORSE GOSSIP.

Points of Interest from All Sections | Axtell 2:12 may be trained next season Which will you take, Allerton 2:094 ol Nelson 2:10a
 Stamboul won't like to hear the newl from Nelson.
 The horse races are the best drawing at
 fractions at the agricultural fairs. Antevolo, 2:194, has gone quarters thil | year in 34 seconds.
 Stallions have done most of the fas | trotting and pacing this year. Charles Backman, the head of great Stony Ford, does not believe in early development. smashing of every New England cold record | at the New England Breeders meeting this weel | is predicted.
 Allerton reduced his record at Indepsnd ence | 1:0419 1:3714, 2:o94.
 Every race for the first two days of the Mystic | park meeting last week was won by the get of ( | son of George Wilkes.
 Happy Bee, Little Albert and Nightingale, the | three biggest money trotters of the year. were | out of non standard mares
 Nancy Hanks will trot against her record oi 2:12 at Terre Haute October s, and Monbars vii | try and beat his tWo-year- old record of 2:20. The stallion Wyandot, by Ambassador die6 | last week He was the property of w B. Fasig | Cleveland. He was both fast and game. The sum of $6,0Oo has been refused for Cant III. 600 for Drexteli, a fourmonths old brother. | George Hammond of Middlebury, Vt, was ex pelled at Cleveland last week for ringing the
 mare Tempest, 2:1s under the name of Mol Roy Wilkes, pacing record 2OSA, trotted mile | in 2:lS at Dayton; O:, the other day If he keeps | on he may equal Direct as a double performer At Independahce, September 15 Allerton trot. ted the two fastest consecutive heats ever made | by trotting stallion The time of each was 2:11A. The same day Manager, three years, by | Nutwood, paced mile in 2:12A. | The Kentucky Horse Breeders association is
 Hanks, 9:osA, and Aiierton, s:osa, to be trottek to add s, GOO if the match is made. '',o' | The management of the Independence driving park announce that they will offer no more
 stakes for yearling trotters; This is step in the right direction. Many a valuable horse is ruined through the forcing process in early colthood.
 The stallion Twang, by Alcyone. owned by J.
 H. Richardson of Boston trotted fast race at
 ming R time was a:ass s:as a:asss. % FaeoR s Tin yr owned by Sam Hopson, was a close second in the The list of entries to the New Hampshire Trot- ting Horse Breeders meeting, October 6, and g. indicates the grandest horse show ever known in the Granite state.
 2:1713, Viking 2:19A The Seer 2:16s4, Coralloid a:l9A, Early Bird 2;21A, Charley Wilkes a:21A
 and s9eers be II Tayor yb @ sgl These are horses meeting at Mystic park this week.
 The gray stallion Pilot Medium is but twelve se ina s Hs hes r se first rank eventually. Ten each year would give him about an even hundred when, he is twenty this average. It doesn't make much difference about the color if they only trot.
 Johnston went his best race of the season at
 and bsa 2:12 2:13
 The heaviest grand circuit winners this season psssr 11 Ha fonsr ansss ana nsp Hg5sss sss
 very successful meeting closed Saturday at Cambridge City, Ind. The attendance was larger than ever. Monbars, driven by Budd Doble, low cred his record half second, making the mile in s:soS9 SsnA ana e'0'e' ''''sn D''''' A'' A "ne 'n
 Nancy Hanks reduced her record to 2:ooA at Cambridge City, Ind the 24th inst. The time was going better than a 2os clip when the run his neck. It is evident that the reign of Maud $. Caos3O, as trotting queen is nearing it's close
 Nancy Hanks the celebrated five-year-old ae SI haRes W WeeF The fsst quarter in 3I seconds, at 2:o4 gait.
 Anertohs C2:U9) and Nancy Hanks (2:O914) are to meet in a race at Lexington, Ky, October 12.
 The American Horse Breeder sensibly says The subject of dash races is up for discussion again. Some excellent horsemen are in favor able to the tRres in i've system but % wifi 1t i prove the horse stock of this country to breed for speed alone? Trotting stock is getting very plenty in this country. Breeders are looking to foreign demand to absorb the surplus. For eigners prefer trotters that stay the route to those which show great speed for a short dis tonce.
 A sensational trotting performance was the feat of Nelson at Grand Rapids, Mich., where he trotted in 2:1O, equalling Allerton's record at Independence. The time was made on the sec ond trial. On the first attempt, after Nelson had gone the first quarter in 311ss, the half in 1:04, and the three-quarters in 1:37 his driver got ner- vous and ran into the fence with the hub of his wheel. The horse was slowed up, and passed under the wire in 2:14. On the second trial the and the three-quarters in 1.371x. The same day Alcryon trotted in 2:14N to beat his record of 2:1514.