The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1891-05-19
HORSE AND TRACK.

: to Roy Wilkes, :0s4.
Ida Bassett, 2:2Oa, has foal a
foot by Antevolo, 2 :l94.
: Eastern parties have offered Bo
: Stewart Sc, 500 for Walter e.
Senator Stanford says Sunol cal
trot quarters in twenty-nine seconds
Crit Davis has about foyy head o
horses in training at Harrodsburg, Ky
Doble expects to have about forty
five head of horses in training thi
season.
Always breed to something that i
all improvement on what you nov
have.
Gold Leaf, 2:114, is very sicl
mare at Parkville Farm. She is moi
expected to live.
1t will save you money in the horse
business to learn by the experience OF
others.
Annabel, by George Wilkes, will be
bred TO Alcantara in the hope of get
ting a sister to the dam of Prince Re-
gent.
Stamboul, 2:1l, the great son of
Sultan, 2:24, is 10 hands, q inches
high, and is as handsome as thor
oughbred.
! Alta Bell, sister TO Bell Boy, 81.
Bel, Chimes, etc, has been bred to
Stsmboul, 2:ll, and will be trained
for a fast mark this year.
The demand for Nutwood's get out
of the choice mares at Highland Farm
is Oh the increase, one of the latest sale
being the five-weeks-old chestnut colt,
Eolian, by Nutwood, out of Alcan-
tara's daughter Alpha, to John E.
Owens, Parkersburg, Pa, for 1880.
John Goldsmith expects to put five
of the get of Sable Wilkes, 2 is, in the
2:30 list this season. AS his oldest
colts are but three years old this
spling, if he succeeds in doing this il
will place Sable Wilkes far ahead OF
any other horse as a sire of early
speed.
The report comes from California
that the flly, Rowena, by Azmoor
2 :2488, dam thoroughbred, will be sent
against Freedoms yearling record OF
:294. 1t will be remembered that
Azmoor's dam is thoroughbred and il
a filly bred in such lines as Rowena
should secure the yearling record
there would be many converts to the
thoroughbred blood in the trotter''
theory.
The gray mare Sonoma by Elec-
tionecr, dam Sontag Mohawk, took a
record of 2 2:2S at San Francisco last
Taturday. This gives Sontag Mo-
hawk six trotters better than 2 80 and
ranks her second only to the great
mare Green Mountain Maid. 1t is
probable that before the close of this
season Sontag Mohawk will have one,
and possibly two others in the list.
AS she is now but sixteen years of age
she gives promise of proving one of
the greatest of all brood mares.
Last season on the turf was in some
respects disappointing to those who
looked for record smashing. The stall
lions did their part in reducing the
record for aged and four-y ear-olds,
and beating the previous best year
ling record, but the mares and geldings
which were expected to beat the time
of Maud S. and Jay-Eye-See failed to
go that fast. More trotters entered
the 2 30 and 2 20 lists and more young
trotters earned records than in any
previous year. But even conservative
men look for something better this
year in the way Of equaling or ap-
preaching the record Of the queen, as
never before were there SO many trot-
ters with such apparent good pros
poets of going fast as at present.
The correspondent of the Breeder
and sportsman writing from Santa
Rosa, tells clever story on an enthu-
siastic hoseman up that way. He has
mare that dropped colt the twenty
ninth of December. He had been
lying awake nights and praying that
the colt would not make its appear
ance until after the first of the year,
but his prayers were of no avail.
When the heir came, he shut it and
its mother up in his barn, thinking to
keep its advent from the knowledge
of the outside world in order to have
it come in as '9l colt. But the mare
grew frisky, kicked the door open on
the thirtieth, and the heir got out in
the yard. A neighbor's lad got a
glimpse of it, and while our enthusias-
tic horseman was relating to coterie