The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-09-08
HORSE AND TRACK.

The man who uses common sense"
in the horse business will generally
succeed.
Nancy Lee, the dam Of Nancy
Hanks, has been bred this year to
Stamboul, 2 Ill.
Directs 2:11a at Chicago last week,
was the fastest heat ever made by a
stallion in race.
Doble offered to match Nelson with
Nancy Hanks the other day, but the
offer was not accepted.
Happy Russell, :21t, sire of Happy
Bee (4), 2:174 and Happy Lady (2),
2 :28, is but seven years old.
There is no danger of the Wilkes
boom subsiding as long as the repre-
sentatives of that family continue to
win laurels upon the turf.
The prediction is made that fifteen
new California horses will enter the
30 list this year. This year means
up to the first of Jany next, in Cali
fornia.
The Clark County Fair begins to-
day. The trots will be fine, as the
entries are large and the horses are
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frst-class. You will have pleasant
time if you attend.
The cleverest trainer and most
skillful driver is very small man
when he has not the material to send
to the front. a cheap horse makes
the best look very insignificant.
Allerton now holds The stallion rec
ord. He has trotted in 2 10 flat.
Williams seems to be after Maud S.,
and the indications are that he will
beat :0S3 with his great horse.
We are pleased to learn from New
York source that Mr. Bonner has re-
ceived word from Marvin that Sunol
is all right again and going sound,
and that she will be prepared to 60
against the record of Maud S.
The little pacing wonder Direct has
placed the fast mark of 2 :06 after his
name. He is now the fastest horse in
the world, as Johnston, :064, held the
place until now. Direct also has a
trotting record of 2 :lS.
While the drivers are claiming dis
tinction as having driven to extremely
fast records certain numbers of trot-
tiers or PAGERS, let us give the faithful
rubbers some credit. John Clark,
with the Salisbury stable, is the only
man that has made the toilet Of two
such phenomenal PAGERS as Cricket,
2:10, and Direct, 2 ;094.
Palo Alto is training a number of
aristocrats this season, one Of the latest
candidates for honors being the two
year-old colt Arion. He took rec
ord of :254 at San Jose, Cal, recently.
He is by Electioneer, out of Manett, a
sister to Woodruff, 2:16l, whose dam
was Addie, mare that also threw
Manon, 2 81.
If any man has four-year-old that
he thinks can pace fast, it will be well
for him to keep out Of the way of
Thomas and the Idol Wilkes colt j.
H.. i. On his showing at Chicago,
when he chased Direct in 2:l11 and
carried him back to the wire in 2 :l3,
he will come very near doing for a
free or-all in the big ring next
season.
With the exception of the three
heats by Nancy Hanks, the three
heats made by Charleston Friday in
;154, ;l54 and 2;l5, are the three
fastest heats of the season. Nancy
Hanks is by Happy Medium, and
Charleston by Bourbon Wilkes. Bean
Bros. sell a colt in their October sale
by Bourbon Wilkes, out of Misteria,
by Happy Medium.
The following is said to be infalli-
b1a. flor a hOrsa ic nina vaarc old
wrinkle comes on the eyelid, at the
upper corner of the lower lid, and
every year thereafter he has one we'll
defined wrinkle for each year of his
age over nine. If, for instance, a
horse has three wrinkles, he is twelve,
if four, thirteen. Add the number OF
; wrinkles to nine and you will always
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