Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-08-17

THE TROTvTING.
This association having been estab-
lished for the purpose of improving
the carriage and trotting stock of this
section OF the state, the chief attention
of the fair was turned to the exhibit
ton of speed. Races were arranged
for each of the three days, and the
crowd gathered about the judges
headquarters and the grand stand.
The track on Tuesday and Thursday
was in good condition.; on Wednesday
the rain rendered it sticky and muddy.
On Tuesday stake No. 2 two year
olds-and stake NO.6-mares and geld
ings-clasS 240-Were trOtted, also a
sEgreen" race. In the twO-year- old
race a colt entered by Geo. E. Melvin
of Morrisville had it his own way, dis
tancing all of his competito
The colt is very fine trotter. In the
240 race there was a sharp contest be-
tween Katisha, entered by Burbank &
Williams, Opal, owned by Gen. Grout,
Baby M, by A. Paine, Twilight of Crys-
tai Lake Stock Farm, Stanstead, and
Mandame, owned by Geo. F. Terrill of
Sherbrooke. Katisha, the WellknoWn
mare owned by Burbank & Williams,
won first heat and was second in the
next three heats; Opal, owned by Gen.
Grout, was third in first heat and was
first in the second heat in crossing
the wire, but was set back for running
at the start. She is a noted Henry S.
colt and fast trotter. She was with
drawn in the third heat. Baby M was
getting ready to make it hot for the
field, but it was discovered that the
driver was light weighted and he and
his horse were ruled off the field.
Mandame is a beautiful horse of excel
lent breeding. She took the last three
heats. She and a mate were driven
as pair on Thursday and were as
fine a span as need be seen. This race
was of special interest. The green
race was easily won by Clansman, a
Knowlton horse.
On Wednesday, the 245 class was
trotted by Monarch, one of Burbank
q w 1lldlIlS 11IS SUdl11O1S, 4lIl11l1S9 U1IC
noted S. Nye mare of Coventry; Belle
of Albany, one of the Gen. Grout colts;
Trusty Wilkes of Highland stock farm,
Remittance, owned by John Knowlton
and a colt from Sunnyside stock farm.
Remittance won three straight heats,
with Trusty Wilkes a good second. An
exciting race in the rain and mud on
Wednesday afternoon, was by the
Three minute class, contested for by
six horses, named respectively, Deni-
yer, Jessie, Cyrus, Mandame, Katie
Drew and Iron Duke. The contest
lay between the Duke and Mandame,
with Katie and Jessie following close
up each heat. Four heats were trOt
ted, Mandame winning. The celebrat-
ed Helen M, with the worlds best
record for a two-year- owned by
the Baileys, was the only colt contest
ing for the stake for fOals of 1887. She
trotted along on very slippery
track at an easy jog i'll 2:47. Stake
No. /, for foals of 1890 was trotted by
E. F. Bodwell's Clara G, and Burbank
& Williams Charlena. The Bodwell
is speedy, making a half mile in
1853. On Thursday the races opened
with stake No. 3-the three-year-old
class-fne colts being trotted. The
colts were an Abdallah Wilkes ''Wal-
lace,'' a Mambrino Startle "Hum-
phrey," a Viking "Bonnie Bell" a
Gen. Warren "Lady Warren" and a
Golden 'May S, ,''sister of ''Helen M,''
and probably as good a colt. Lady
Warren won the first heat, but Mary
S went in on her mettle during the
next two heats and carried off the
prize. The pa class was trotted for
by Jessie, entered by w. A. Richard
son; Harry Phelps, entered by S.
French; Highland Medium of the Bates
stock farm; Lucy, FL. F. Jacobs;
Belva May of the Crystal Lake Farm,
and Dan Mace. Lucy purported to
have come from Colebrook, N H.,
and to have been eligible to the class
es in which she was entered; but it
was evident to the spectators and to
the judges that she was being ''pulled''
and not, for some reason trotted up to
speed in the first two heats, in both
of which she took second place. The
judges ordered off the driver and
had new man in his place, when the
mare came to the front easily and
might have made apparently much
faster record. She was "protested,"
and her record will be looked up. The
horse knew more about trotting than
her owner professed to know of the
history of his animal. Dan Mace and
Jessie showed some sharp evidences
of speed in the course of the game.
The Thursday afternoon races were
of much interest, being the 2:28 class
and the 2:28 stations. In the first,
Nutmount, the noted stallion from the
Bates farm, Kittie J. from Sunny
side stock farm, and Katie Drew,
owned by Mcdonald Bros, fought for
the stakes. Nutmont had it all his
own way so far as first place was con-
cerned. 1t was nearly an even thing
between Katie and Kittie ]. In the stall
lion race there was one Of the sharp
est contests ever seen in the county.
This was between the noted Lambert B,
by Daniel Lambert of Maplewood
stock farm and Rexton by Rex Patch
en-, owned by Emmett Hill, and Fred
Wilkes by Abdallah Wilkes ofHighland
stock farm. Lambert won first heat,
getting first place on a bad break
made by Rexton; in the second heat
Rexton got ahead, but had no easy
job to make the heat; in the third
heat it was a hard fight all the way
around, but Lambert made big open
ing on break by Rexton, which was
almost closed at the finish. In the
fourth and decisive heat it was an
even head and head match three
fourths of the way around, but Lam
bert held the pole and on the last
quarter of mile opened a gap of two
or three lengths and carried off the
honors. This heat was the climax in