The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-07-28
HORSE AND TRACK.

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Graylight mile in 2 IL.
STEAMBOAT has finished his stud sea-
son and is taking work OH the Bay
District track.
Nineteen non-standard mares have
produced sons that have sired ten or
more 2 80 performers.
The three-year-old FLY Moonstonc,
by Sultan, has trotted mile in 2 :23I,
and half in l :084.
Nelson trotted mile at Detroit
Saturday, in IA the first half of it
being finished in ! :06.
Angelina will be out again this
year. She stepped mile in 2 219 at
Lexington the other day.
1t is said that of forty heats trotted
by Direct, 2 ISL, he never made a
break, and Of tlfty-five trotted by
Margaret S., 2;124, she broke but
once.
Direct, 2 Is, by Director IT, wore
thirty once weights in his trotting
performances, and goes without any
thing but light shoes in his pacing
form.
There is a great demand from train
ers and owners everywhere for a
lower entrance fee, and the ten per
cent. system will have to CO. Field
and Farm.
Mr.. James e. Clay says the sensa-
tional Cyclone is yet to come in the
shape Of handsome yearling colt, a
full brother to the great Annorean,
$50.
Temple Bar, by Egbert, won again
in Minneapolis, cutting his record to
2:1SI; and won the $4,000 stake
last week at Detroit, reducing his
record TO 2:l74.
C. Nelson has bought back from
the estate of j. 0. Whittcn, Boston,
the quarter interest in the stallion
Nelson for $4,000, which Written
bought six years ago for $4,000.
Yolo Maids half in 1881 and a
mile in :124 at Kalamazoo Thursday,
shows how dangerous she will be in
the Grand Circuit free-for-aIl pacing
racers this year.
There will be no question about
Elcctiouccr being in first place when
the snow comes next December. That
he will eventually have one hundred
, 80 performers to his credit is a fore
gone conclusion.
Freedom, yearliug record 2;20%
will not be trotted this year. lie is
now trimming out at the San 1Iatco
Stock Farm, California, and will be
taken up uoXt winter and prepared
for try q the three-ycar-oIa record.
J. D. Croightou's FLY Eyangejinc,
that GOT a record Of , :2Sl as two
ycar-old last year, was injured in ship
ping to Cambridge City. 1t will be
several weeks before she is able to
take strong work again.
Crit Davis will will go through
most Of the Blue Grass Circuit to
Maysville, thence to Independence and
the September meeting at Cleveland.
One of the best horses in his string is
DR.. McAIillan's Andy Gutter by
Cyclone.
II. L. & f. ID. Stout have sold to L.
p. Suffer, of Chicago, the chestnut
yearling FLY Cynic by Nutwood, dam
Candace by Harold; also the brown
colt King B., two years old, by Nut
wood, dam Aline by Belmont, to John
A. Weindal, of Jerseyville, ILL.,, for
$4,000.
Cope Stinson has resigned his posi-
ton as trainer at Prospect Hill Stock
Farm, the resignation to take place
November /. Engaged at a salary of
$4,000 year about two years ago by
Messrs. Miller & Sibley, Stitson has
been exceedingly successful and his
resignation is a matter of surprise.
The Kentucky Trotting Horse
Breeders Association decided to split
all purses with sixteen or more entries,
and give the total amount of purse to
each division. They also decided
to hold horses declaring out before
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