Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-05
HORSE GOSSIP.
Interesting Items About Well Knowr


 Interesting Items About Well Known
 Horses.
 Horse trotting has created an un- usual interest at agricultural fairs this fall.
 A large number of very fine horses will be at the breeders meeting at Hilton, N.H., this week.
 Prue, by Pure Wilkes, made two-year before last.
 Robert Bonner's fast five-year old, sunol 2:10, and the California stallion, Palo Alta 2:124, may be heard from very soon.
 Jack Trout won two races at the New Jersey state fair on September %, are with the pacer Key Wilkes and are with Nevaro by Nutmont.
 When the pacer Direct went mile in 2:O6, he covered forty two feet per second. Nelson 2:10 was at the rate of forty feet and six inches per second. .-
 Roseberg, the great Canadian jumping horse, defeated Filemaker at Elmira, NY, recently, when he cleared seven feet, three and one half inches, which is the worlds record.
 B. G. Bunce, founder of the Turf, Field and Farm, died recently at Lexing- VA oAAO Stock Journal and secretary of the Louis- vile Jockey club.
 The performance of the Maine stallion, Nelson 2;1O, which was made on 8 regula- tion track with a driver thirty pounds over weight, is much more creditable than Allerton's 2:004 on kite shaped track.
 The fve-year-o mare Nancy Hanks, by Happy Medinm, by Hamiltonian l0, ;,,0 ,n0 at Richmond Ind last week. This performance stands next to the 2:08a of Maud S., which was made on July 20, 1885.
 The famous Electioneer stallion, St.Bell, died at Prospect Hill farm, Franklin, Pa., l September 26, of inflammation ..of the bowels. St. Bell was eight years old and was sold four years ago by Governor San ford of California for $1 ,OOO. His owners have refused S1OO,0 ,000 for him and had a standing offer of $75, 900 for the horse. He had record of 2:244, and could show 2:12 gait. His services in the stud dur ing the last four years have paid his own CTS about $20O, ,000. Two of his colts en- tered the 2:30 list last week and more are expected to get there soon.
 The following from Boston's able turf journal, The American Horse Breeder, voices sentiments quite similar to what has been expressed in this city:
 While it is true that Allerton's record is faster than Nelsons, every candid, unprejudiced horse man must admit that the 2:10 of Nelson, consider ing the conditions under which it was made is a more creditable mark than the 2:09I of the great son of Jay Bird. Nelson's record was made over the regulation track. His driver was some | thirty pounds overweight Allerton's record was obtained a kite-shaped track, built upon the most favorable soil that can be | found, and is admitted to be from two tc | four seconds faster than a good mile track of the regulation pattern. It is true. that Nelson, over the same course, only succeeded 1T l trottins in 2:10s4. This signifies nothing, how 1 ever as the horse might not have been in con dition to go as fast mile as he was in Michi | gan We do not wish to disparage the perform l ance of Allerton but until he trots mile in 21O l pulling 1S0 pounds weight, over a regulation 1 track, he cannot be rated the equal in speed tc | the Maine-sred son of Young Rolfe C2:12A0 Nc l doubt AlIerton is game a trotting stallion as 1 ever took the word, and it is not improbable thai l he can beat the New England idol in race: but he has never yet given meritorious perform 1 ance as Nelsons mile in 2:1O, over the Michigan regulation track, pulling a 1s0-pound driver"