Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-25
Horse Gossip.


 The 220 list is likely to have over 100 additions this year.
 Fifty trott IS have made records better than 2:15 this season.
 A large farm has been born in Kent, England, for the breeding of American trotters.
 Direct will have tilt at his record of POS over the Stockton track before the winter setf in. Between T5O and 800 colts and Allies entered in the Kentucky $25OOo futurity have paid second money.
 his brood mares to his farm at Hooksett, N. H., to winter.
 Nutwood gets nine new producing daughters in 1891, the most famous being Manette, dam of Arion, 2:10A.
 The dam of Hal Pointer, and two sisters to Brown Hal, have been booked to the pacing king, Direct.
 It Arion trains on what will become of the all aged stallion records? But these phenomenal colts rarely train on.
 One year ago the best trotting stallion record was 2:l0A. A two-year-old stallion has reached that marx this year.
 Don't hold a fairly good horse for a fancy price. Get your money out as soon as you can and then turn it in again quickly.
 ". c. Daly of Hartford, Conn.,, has bought of G. s. Curtis, same place, bay gelding by Alcan- tara C2:23). Price $2,O0O.
 A horse may show great form and fights of speed one year and lose h's power to race through some disability the following season.
 The two-year-old lilly Chimes Girl (s:26) by
 
 1:044 not long since, the last quarter in B sec onds
 Beautiful Bells is the only mare that has pro- duced two foals that have held the worlds yearl- ing trottng record, they being Hinda Rose, g: 369 and Bell Bird, 2:264.
 Monbars holds the worlds race record for two year-olds, 2:19A, and has won this season in stakes and exhibition money $12,S75. He has never lost heat and by the records is the great est racing twoyear-old of the decade.
 An enterprising horseman lately telegraphed Inf fnrdo on off rNfC for ha xHyOp. derful two-year- old stallion Arion Ca:1O3D, and received a prompt reply stating that the sum named would not buy one half of the colt.
 At the 14wa 9Ss driving park Knoxville, Ia No Thomas Jefferson, broke the three mile pacing record, reducing it from 7:44 to 7:334. The for mer record was made in 1S47 by James K. Polk At public sale of Kentucky bred trotting stock in Chicago. Ill, last week, the highest price re- ceved by Colonel R. P. Pepper for his nineteen head of standard bred Allies was $1 1895 for So bert.
 Mannette, the dam of the sensational two year-old trotter Arion, 2:10A, has made herself a member of the great brood mare list by the per. formances of her get this season, another young stallion out of her, a horse called Ora Fino hay. ing made a record of 2:29. Electioneer is already credited with not: less than ninety six trotters and one pacer in the 23( list, twenty-two of which have records from 2:OS14 to 2:2o and fourteen of these have trotteo in 2:18 or better. Not less than thirty three o1 his get have entered the list this season. C.w. Williams, upon hearing of Arion's won derful performance, telegraphed that he would like to breed tsn hghly,bred mares to the ,;;t sol l sum of $25, 900. How is that for a colt that wa: offered for $2, 800 less than one year ago? Trainer John Trout now at Moodus, Conn. bay Baron, four-year-old stallion by Baron Wi,ke | C2:lS), dam Carrie Wilkes by George Wilkes, ane | four-year-old stallion by Hilton Almont, dam by Electioneer, paying $5 0O0 for the former and $2, 600 for the latter.