Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-01-17
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP

5000 eight to four Tor plaintin.
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.
The BiddefoYd Journal thinks the state
ment that horse belonging to SAco msn
which died lately At the age of ffy-four
years. needs to be taken with come grains
Of salt.
The late sale Of Sle celebrated Belmont
stud at August Belmonts farm would indi-
cate that either the sale was badly managed
or that the strirgsncy in the money market
just before the sale has had = depressing
effect upon the price Of horsefesh. The
sale of such an animal as Potomac for s25,-
600 when much worse horses have recently
brought $4,000 and S35, 900 was surprise
to everyone who knows anything about
thorouahbreds.
Mr.. Robert Bradstreet, of Belfast, owns
fine mare, FIVE years old. named Maud
S., after the great flyer. The Belfast
Maud S. is after Hambletonian Chief and
is half sister to Elmbrook. The mare
has never been trained for trotting. but has
easily gone quarter in thirty-seven, and
good Judges think she can trot as fast Is
Elmbrook.
The American Sportsman 10 evidently
tired of stove.warming talk, for it exclaims
"This breaking the record business is
getting to be chestnut. Why, man alive,
there is gulf between 2l0 1-2 and 20S-
3-4 big enough to bury the whole newsps.
per fraternity, with Sunol and her cham
pions thrown in as floral offerings."
The New York Press says that with the
death Of such patrons of the American turf
as the late Capt S. S. Brown, William l..
Scott, J. B. Hagin and Augustus Belmont,
the field is liable to fall into possession Of
the money grubbers not genuine lovers of
sport. There are few men like them left
and no new crop of patrons Of their stamp
is to be discovered growisg up in any direc-
ton.
One of the longest headed men on the
trottiDg turf is John E. Turner, and this i.
what he says about the early development
of the trotter in the New York Sportsman
Judging from the amount Of work it take.
to fit aged horses, l should say that three
year-ol cannot be developed to do their
best without danger of breaking them
down."
"Do you ever expect to see the los per-
formsnce at the trotting gait, and if 30,
how do you think the performer will be
bred?' was asked Of Mr.. Frank Briggs,
the successful Maine breeder. yes"
replied Mr.. Briggs, land while I should
not wish to hazard an opinion as to wha:
particular family such trotter will belong
feel confident that it will be intensely
tiottipg bred, and that while it may have
thoroughbred blood in the second or third
generation, still there will be . preponder.
ance of trot.ipg blood, and that trotting
blood will come through channels, each
individual of which has the ability to per-
form and produce
In a long editorial the New York Sun
criticises the rage for fantastic names of
colts and horses now prevalent among
hoIsemen, and says: There are a good
many such sources in history ard romance,
but We will mention one available for
almost every hand and for every under
standing, irrespective Of previous neglect
of scholarship or schooling. No breeder
seeking names for trotters will 60 astray IL
he will open the multitudinous and sensible
pages Of Webster's Dictionary
Mr.. Il. Z. Haley, Of Monroe, has recent
ly sold to E. d. Nealley of the came place,
the bsy filly Zephyr, foaled May IA. 1889
Zephyr was sired by Abbott, he by Tsttler,
2.26, by Pilot IT., dam an inbred Drew.
The dam of Abbott was by Mambrino Chief.
This Ally is considered by horsemen to be
one of the gemest and most stylish filIys
ever bred in Eastern Maine. Mr.. Haley
has several other good ones, and those
wanting bargains should give him call.
The town Of Albion in Kennebec county,
hiss been admitted to membership in the
Waldo County Trotting Horse Breeders
Association.
Mr.. A. R. Yates, Of WaterviIle, will soon
issue catalogue Of the fine trotting stock
that be now owns; the matter being already
in the hands Of the printers.
At the annual business meeting Of the
Waldo Trotliug Horse Breeders Associa-
ton last Saturday the report Of the secre-
,ary and treasurer was submitted, and pre-
liminary business for the coming season
attended to. The Association numbers
ffty-seven members, among whom are the
leading horse breeders and farmers of
Waldo county and few adjoining towns.
The business of the society 10 controlled by
an executive committee Of fifteen, Eve of
~hom are elected annually for . term Of
three years. The following were elected
At this meeting: Capt. r. II. Coomts, j.
C. Townsend ard B. H. Conant, Of Bel.
fast; H. z. Haley, Monroe H. B. Heagsn.
The others are W. C. Marshall, A. L. Mud.
get, G. r. Ellis, Belfast; H. NJ. Bean,
Camden; Fl. E. Staples, Brooks; Capt.
lsaac Park, Sesrsport; Jonathan Berry,
Morrill,; G. d. Pendleton, Islesboro;
Lcretto Hsyfofd and Howard Mason, Bel.
fast. IL was voted to hold the annual trot-
ting meeting the last week in August
beginning MondsJ, Gath. and to have 4 tYot