The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-12-15
HORSE AND TRACK.

uVttinS records is wise these day
Arion will be bred to a very
mares, mostly half thoroughbred
the Palo Alto farm next year.
The first man to book a MAJ
Delmarch, 2;119, for the season
is s. A. Browne, of the Kalam~
farm.
Direct has tried to lower his m
at Stockton. He paced to fast nh
- :O7 : and 2 :o6-but failed to 10.
his mark.
Red Wilkes will be allowed
serve about ten mares, besides I
quota of Highland Farm matrons,
81 900 season, in 1892.
Daughters of Mambrino Patel
have produced twenty-one 2 80 d
formers this season, headed by
great two-year-old Ralph Wilkes, 2 :;
There are eighty mares by Ell,
tioneer at Palo Alto that have ney
been worked, but which are to be {
voted to breeding purposes.
Don't try to balance the colts |
fore they learn to go straight. !
two trotters are gated alike and it
useless to try to make them all
alike.
There are plenty OF men in Ii
country who will pay $4,000 for ;
undeveloped trotter and then hu
around two or three months trying
find a man who will develop him f
twenty-five dollars a month.
From 1S49 to 1891 is but little ov
half the span of human life, yet
the former year but one trotter be,
;30, while in the latter about sever
teen hundred acquired records of Thu
iegiee or better. The world do NOV
This is the standing of the leadin
stations as to number in the 2 80 Ii,
1t the close of 1917 Electioneer. 9S
Nutwood, II; George Wilkes, 7G
Happy Medium, 70; Red Wilkes, 63
Blue Bull, So; Onward, At; Egber
%; Hamlin's Almont, AZ; Alcan
ara, Al.
Three yearlings out of the five tina
ave beaten 2 80 trace to Strathmore
he record holders, Frou Frou, 3 20
'otting, and Fausta, 2:228, pacing
lad to Strathmore through theil
re, Sidney, and Athadon. 2:27, trot.
nS, through his dam, which was by
-arkaway, a son of Strathmore.
Miller " Sibley, Franklin, Pa, have
'ld to Charles Thompson, St. Paul,
lnn., the trotting stallion Tempter,
son of st. Bel, out of Nora Temple,
2'4, by Belmont; grand dam Mad
ne Temple (the dam of the famous
ora Temple). The price paid was
Z,OOO. Tempter is entered In many
IN stakes, including the Hartford
oooO and the Spirit of the Times
1000 purses.
.. IL. Shuts, of Brooklyn, has 1876
al OF horses at his Parkville Farm.
ooklyn. Mr.. Shuts has been for
last five years the largest buyer in
country of trotters. 1t seems that
Is never satisfied unless buying a
tier. He has now every stall filled
4 is stopped from making further
iitlons to his stud. In a recent
lversation he stated: al shall have
ale soon. You see every stall is
and l can not buy until 1 make
m, and l like to buy"
he London Live Stock journal
OF the celebrated stallion, Mann
40: "He was grey bred by Mr.
n Atkinson, of Scholes, near
as, In l76S, and sold at his de-
ie i'll III by Lord Grosvenor.
horlno was sent to America and /.
inc the progcnitor of the finest
N and trotting horses ever pro-
'd III any country. Before Quit
England he begat some coach .
es that were never equaled. t
even of the twenty-six trotters s
have beaten 2:14 made their s
st records on kite-shaped tracks Il
INST time. OF the other fifteen, .
made their best marks over reou- :,
n tracks, Phallas, 2:13a, alone got r. r.