The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-02-24
AoRsE AND TRACK.

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stable and is expected to win O few
dollars in 1891.
1t cost $4,000 to run tie Forest
City IIsss;ssii; ss: Il: 1890 and the expenses
in 1889 footed up to $4,000.
Illinois has sixty-six toms that hold
trotting mcetings-more than any
other State. Iowa has fGy-four, In
diane, flfty-threo and kentucky, TWEEN
ty.one. g.
j. G. Davis, manager at uighlawn
Farm, Lee, Mass, recently made a
friendly wager that ten of tho get Of
Alcantara would enter the 2:20 list
the coming season.
Report says that G, j. Hamlin re-
Gently priced Heir-at-Law, three
year-old full brother to Prince Regent,
2:16i, at $4,000. Only few years
ago Mr., Hamiin offered TO sell Prince
Regent for $4,000, and somebody
missed it when they did not buy him.
w. G. Franco &c Son, Lexington,
KY, have sold to Bowen & Hack,
Adrian, Mich, the bay colt, nine
months old, by Red Wilkes, dam Con-
stance, by El!erslie Wilkes; second
dam Kincora, by Mambrino Patchen.
Price $4,000.
AT independence, Ia, ON February
3, the brood mare, Lou, dam of Axtell,
dropped fine celt TO the cover of
William L., thus making him a full
brother to the famous Axtell, 2:12,
that sold for 100000. G.. w. Will
liams owns a half interest in the
youngster.
Where there was one trottiIg cir
cult in operation ten years ago there
arc three to-day. and where there was
one track of some merit it would be
safe to say there are ten. Every coun-
ty fair has its half-mile track course,
and the talent of the neighborhood
engages in contests as fiercely partisan
as elections in close precincts.
AT meeting of the representatives
of the Live Stock Breeders of the
Union, held at Lexington, KY, last
week, there were representatives from
nearly every State. They unanimous
ly endorsed Col. r.. 4. Edmonson, Of
that city, for the position of chief of the
live stock department of the Worlds
Fair at Chicago.
The two great trolling families, the
| liambletonians and the Mambrino
Chiefs, had common origin in Nam
brine, son Of Imp. Messenger. His
son Abdallah got Hambletonian, and
his other son, Mambrino Paymaster,
got Mambrino Chief, and these grand
sons of Nambrino live in history as
the progenitors of the two greatest
trotting families.
Bean Bros, have purchased the 1 in
tcrest in Knighthood, owned by L. f.
Owen & Co., of New Harmony, Ind.
They now own the stallion and he will
make the season of 1861 at Maple Hill
Farm. knighthood is the sire of
some very fast youngsters. Z. j. Big
staff has a colt that, barring accidents,
will go in 2 80 this season. He is a
2-year-old. and out of Sterling Boy
mare. Bean Bros, also have by ear
old FLY out of Oriole that is very fast.
"A short time ago passengers on the
Newport line of street cars noticed
that the fine-looking white horse that
is used TO pull the cars up the incline
of the bridge on the Cincinnati side
was missing, says the COMMERCIAL
Gazette. Inquiry ELECTED the fact that
he had injured himself endeavoring TO
resent an insult, which showed lis
horse sense was fully developed. The
animal was walking across to take its
place, to be attached to coming car,
when some man elected some tobacco
juice in the horses face. Instantly
it's cars dropped and q vicious snap
; was made at the man, who took to his
heels. The horse ran around the car
and chased the fugitive, but slipped OH
the stone crossing and fell, severely in
juring himself. rE
f. L. Albright writes from Thurs
ton, Oklahoma, giving the following
symptoms of the horse disease that has
been prevalcntin portions of Kentucky.
and also a treatment: "Mr. II. M.
Stone is right on the worm dust in
corn killing horses. The disease is
known as the blind staggers. The
dust closes the duct or small holes in
the nostrils and checks the flow of
fluid from the head, the water cover
ing the brain. Fever is in the stom-
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