Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-24
HORSE GOSSIP.

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 An Axtell yearling trotted mile at h. dependence last week in 2:484, and quar- ter in 401 seconds.
 In Gossip, jr., 2:1s4, Alcyo PISA, and Fly Wilkes S:2o, John Trout has trio of pacers hard to beat.
 Nelson's mile in 2:104 and Hal Pointers mile in 2:104, are the best of the season for trotter and pacer.
 A good deal of dissatisfaction was ex-
 pressed with T. Wood Martins work as
 starting judge at Buffalo. Secretary Steiner of the American Trot-
 ting Register association reports that the
 registration business is booming.
 Another Axten has sprung up. A
 Canadian trotter by this name obtained a
 record of 2:294 at New Hamburg, Ont,
 recently.
 Allerton is pretty certain to make 8
 strong bid for the stallion championship at Independence. Nelson will need to be
 at his very best.
 Jack Bowen and Turner hold their own.
 Their rugged constitutions and plain hab- it's are in their favor in the fight with
 gathering years.
 sprague Golddust (e:16a), by Governor Sprague C2:20D, dam Lucille Golddust
 (2:164), is the fastest trotter out of mare
 with trotting record below 2:20. In Diamond and Early Bird George w. Leavitt has a pair that will do for the grand circuit, to say nothing of the phe- nomenal two -year-old Pussy Cat. Williams is the only driver that has given three trotters records better than 2:13. They are Axtel1 (three years) 2:12, Allerton 2:12 and Mary Marshall 2:12a. Hal Pointer outclasses every other pacer that has appeared on the turf. And yet many would like to see that bull dog, Roy Wilkes, 2:084, in shape. give him race. James O. Gray has had heap of hard luck with his mare Virginia Evans. It is said that the first good race he ever saw her win was the 2:23 class at Mystic last week.
 c. J. Hamlin will build 8 covered half mile track at Buffalo this fall. It will be great thing for trainers who want to get their horses ready for the early spring cir cults.
 Eastern Vermont breeders scored a suc- cess last week. Next week the eyes of the whole Green Mountain State will be turn ed toward the kite track at White River Junction.
 Charlie Greens re-entfy to the grand circuit with Sprague Golddust, 2:164, re- calls the days when he was central figure down the line with Lulu May Queen and Lucille Golddust
 Kentucky has been holding some sensa- tional meetings of late. The blue grass country generally reserves it's sky rockets for later in the season, but this year they ore going off early.
 Budd Doble is troubled with malaria, James Goldsmith has been an invalid for g year, but old General Turner with his gray hairs, is still as gay as a lark and as cute as they make them.
 Jennie c. by Kent, dam by Daniel Lam
 bert, is one of the best young mares in Vermont. She can turn a half-mi1e ring ! in 2:30 and ought to go three heats over a good mile track in 2:35. c. H. Nelson has had the misfortune to lose colt recently, folded by the famous brood mare, Gretchen (dam of Nelson 2:10a), sired by lockwood, son of Dictator, l out of 8 Nutwood dam.
 A red-hot three-year-old race was trot- | ted at the recent Freeport meeting. Seven | heats were trotted, four colts winning l heats. The time ranged from 2:3O to 2:35.
 Moloch, by Stranger, was the winner. ! The champion stallion Nelson evidently ! doesn't mean to wait for his rivals to 1 catch up. At Independence last Saturday ! he cut down his own record from 2:108 to | 2:101. He trotted the last quarter in .304 c. K. Drew, the well known starting ] judge, says: 'I know of meeting where there were thirty-two published entries, and yet when it came time to start, it was
 hard work to get three to respond to the bell"
 1 Allerton, 2:12, and Axtell, 2:12, are now tie for the honor of being the fastest trot- ting descendants of George Wilkes.
 Through them George Wilkes is the only
 sire whose sons have produced two stallions
 with records as good as 2:12. l General Turner offers to match Happy
 Bee against Little Albert for from $1 ,00C
 to 5000 side. He also has 8 two-year-
 Lady, that he thinks well enough of to
 match against anything of her age. | c. J. Hamlin, father of the grand circuit, 1 is apparently just as active as many gen. ! tlemen twenty years his junior. He says 1 that but for his horses he would have been moved down by the scythe of time ere l this. There is no gentleman in the world ! of MT. Hamlin's age that can compete with him in holding the ribbons behind pair
 of fleet nags.
 Aloyo, the four year old son of Alcyone, who got mark of 2.19a at Mystic Park
 last week, made the record under amusing | circumstances. John Trout has had the
 horse in training for six weeks with in-
 structions to place him in the 2.30 list.
 MT. Sanderson, his owner, wears fine
 diamond pin. Trout remarked, jokingly,
 as he led the horse away from his home
 stable, "Isaac, want that pin if he beats
 2.25." "Well," said Sanderson, eff you l can get him to go in 2.2O, or better, you | can have the equivalent of it." As Trout
 walked up to Sanderson, at Mystic last | Tuesday, he pointed in mute inquiry to his own neck scarf. Sanderson said: "It | goes John. It goes." Trout then took the great four year old out and drove him the second heat of the race in 2.188.