The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-08-25
HORSE AND TRACK.


ling record this year.
AT Ottawa, Ill.,, last week, Dr.
Sparks, 2 :184, went the fastest heat
ever trotted by a four-year-old over a
half-mile track, and it was fourth
heat at that.
Alvin and Rosaline Wilkes have
each trottcd in 2 :15 in race this sea-
son. Alvin did his mile at Cleveland,
while the Wilkes mare did the trick
at Buffalo. q N Tx n III
The Cyclone trotters are getting
very plentiful. One, two, three and
four-year-olds by him are on the move
and are winning more than their
share of the races.
c. w. Williams, Independence, Ia,
has sold to w. III. Huegle, of Des
Moines, Ia, the two-ycar-old colt
Drifton, by Nutwood, dam Miss Red
mon, by Bourbon Wilkes, for 500, 600.
When the colt Brown Hal was
bought by his owner Campbell
Brown, he cost $3.50. Dallas was
once sold for $3.50, Hal Pointer for
5000 and Little Brown jug for $50.
Mary Marshall stepped the last half
of mile at Independence, Friday, in
l :03, and the last quarter in 304 sec
onds. Allerton also trotted the last
quarter of mile the same afternoon
in 304 seconds.
Sallic Benton, the gray mare that
reduced the four-year-old record to
2:17f in 1884, has had her first starter
in public. She was the two-year-oid
gray FLY Starlight, by Electioneer,
and she won her engagement, taking
record of 2: 81.
G. II. Nelson, with his famous stall
lion aud fourteen others, is at Rush
Park track, Independence, Iowa. The
400 stalls at the track are all full, and
the hundred being built are all spoken
for. ~ large number of horses will
be stabbed outside the track.
Tom Jones, De5 Moincs, Iowa, has
purchased from Il. G.. Stoner, Paris,
Ky, the yearling bay stallion Lord
Wilkes, by Baron Wilkes, 2;lS, dam
Nathalia, by Nutwood, 2:lSf; second
dam Beatrice dam of Patron, = :l44),
by Cuyler; third dam by Mambrino
Patchen.
Jubilee De Jalmette had thirty-two
ounce Shoes on his fore-feet when de-
livered at Riverside Park, Rushville,
Ind. IT'S said that heavier ones
would have been put on had there
been more iron in Connersyille. He
is now gamboling around the track
in 2 :35 with thirteen ounce shoes.
The black gelding Black Diamond,
who has been reported dead by a mum
Der of turf papers, won a race at the
Louisiana, Nlo.) meeting, trotting
one heat in it in 2 81, which is said to
be the fastest mile ever made over a
| half-milc track in the State. At all
events it was very fast work for a
dead horse.
Lady Bunker dam of Guy Wilkes,
:151 was barren for three years, and
| became very fat. Last fall M. Lang,
her owner, broke her to harness, al
though she was seventeen years old
and worked one hundred and fifty
pounds off her. She was then stinted
her to Prince Regent, aud is due 10
foal this fall.
A man cannot well afford to train
colts that toe in, or toe out, or have
long weak backs or crooked legs, that
will require full set OF boots TO keep
them from humping themselves to
pieces. Either knock such goods in
the head or dispose Of them at road
horse prices, as it does not take very
long for them to eat their heads Off on
the farm.
Nelson failed at Freeport, ILL.,, in ali
attempt to lower his mark of 2:l04.
lie trotted mile in 3 IL |, just equal
ing the time in which he turned the
track at the recent great Detroit
meeting. The mile was very
poorly rated, the quartering being
333, 324, 81, 344. The middle half
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