Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-21

ing If the judges had announced faster mile.
 There was great enthusiasm over the event. The spectators rushed from the grand stand and enclosure to the track and surrounded the judges stand. Start ing Judge Leathers then presented Mir. Nelson with fine silver water set on behalf of the society.
 On Saturday afternoon at Independence, Ia.. Allerton beat the worlds record and secured the honorary title when he trotted mile in 2:094. This performance was undoubtedly on the kite shaped track, which is conceded to be several seconds faster than the oval track on which sev- eral of Nelson's records have been made.
 HORSE GOSSIP.
 Allerton's fee another year will probably be advanced to 1000.
 An offer of $7, 900 has been refused for Lightning (2:19D, the four -year-old daugh ter of Alcantara.
 The public admires bold decisions from the judges stand if they are on the side of honest racing.
 Fifty-one trotters and thirty-eight pacers have entered the 2:20 list up to the present time this year.
 Roy Wilkes (2:08H now holds the half mile CracK racing record, S:l4t, WllOQ Q0 secured at Decatur, III.
 The agricultural fairs enjoyed perfect weather last week, and, as usual, the races were the most popular features.
 It is reported that an agent of Marcus Daly asked O. w. Williams if he would take $200, 900 for Allerton and the reply was, "No."
 Some of the get of Jerome Eddy trot young Otto, three-year-old, has got mark of 2:3O, and Rollo yearling record of 2:374.
 The trotter Nightingale, owned by c. J. Hamlin of Buffalo, N. Y., should not be confounded with the pacer of the same name. The pacer Nightingale is now the fastest of the get of Alcantara. She re- day from 2:18t to 2:134.
 The average time of Hal Pointers six teen winning heats in five races which he
 won on the grand circuit was 2:11 53-10O.
 His fastest mile was in 2:1O4 and his slow
 est 2:134.
 The New Hampshire Breeders meeting
 at Hilton, October G., and 8, will furnish the finest exhibition of blooded horses and the best colt races ever seen in the Granite state
 Monbars will try to beat Sunol's two year-old record of 2:18 at the Terre Haute
 meeting, which begins October 6. Hal
 Pointer and Direct may meet in @ match
 race at the same meeting.
 The fastest new 2:3O trotter last year,
 as well as this, was converted pacer,
 Homestake, 2:144, headed the list last sea
 son and Pat Downing, 2:134, is now ahead.
 Both paced naturally.
 Fred s. Wilkes, by Hector Wilkes, son of George Wilkes, won the four-year- old race at St. Louis during the week of Sep tember '. It was fve-heat race, and the youngster trotted the third, fourth and fifth in 2:224, 2:265, 2:27. How man would have smiled the day Rarus trotted in 2:13t had he been told that the day would come when pair of fve-year- would trot three heats in a race lower than the worlds record made that day.
 The bay mare Brara that won two heats in 2:33f and 2:334 at the recent Derby
 meeting, got mark well inside the 80 list at Mystic park week before last. This high bred daughter of Baron Wilkes was
 brought out by Ed Bithers and is owned at
 Allen farm, Pitts6eld, Mass. The third and final payments in the stakes and purses to be trotted under the auspices Ol Lu0 INcW 1ldWoSulE6 I1OTs0 Breeders association at Hilton October 6, 7 | and 8, are very numerous, and the entries in the stock premium classes gratifyingly large. It will be 8 notable gathering of New Hampshire horses-the finest ever witnessed in the state.
 The Wilkes family now holds the year ling trotting record, Freedom, 2:294; the two-year-old trotting record, onbars, < 2:20;
 the three-year-old trotting stallion, Axtell, 2:12; and the champion trotting stallion
 record, Allerton, 2:O94. A daughter of George Wilkes brought Manager, which 1 holds the two and three -year-old stallion pacing records, the former 2:164, the latter 2:119. Monbars and Allerton are both in- 1 bred to the Wilkes strain, and are both
 from developed ancestors. For two days. before the death of James H. Goldsmith he was unconscious, but l rousing up once few hours before his death he exclaimed, "Where are the horsesa'
 and at once fell back into the lethargy from which he passed through deaths dark portals.
 Boston is to have grand horse show next month. New York city will have one in November.
 As there has been considerable discus sion regarding the price paid for Axtell, | eAC loiAOWlh63 WA1SA lo OoAAoFSA tO OO du 1 thentic, is interesting:
 John w. Conley one of the owners of l Axtell, writes as follows to the Turf, Field
 and Farm: 'In reply to your favor of 9th inst, referring to the telegraphic re- port that only $50,000 were paid for Ak l tell, I beg to assure you that Axtell cost
 his present owners $108, 1000, made up in
 the following manner, viz: The cash pay
 ment was $55, ,O0O and the deferred pay | >{o o% for xu;k !, the interest at per cent, which note and interest, amounting to $53, 900, were paid at maturity. I will further add, there l will probably now be much said about Axtelps retirement, etc. In answer to this I want to further assure you and the l public that whatever may be the result of 1 his future efforts, Axtell is yet candidate 1 for the highest honors that belong to the 1 greatest turf performer. His retirement is not now enforced, it is simply matte, l of business policy" The recent meeting of the Newport, N H., Horse Breeders association was a most ] creditable testimonial to the public spirit | of the wideawake horsemen composing the | organization. The meeting was curtailed one day on account of rain and the attend ance was not as large as it should have l been, but the exhibition of blooded horses was a credit to the association, and the
 races interesting. The sum of $2,500 has
 been expended on the track, and it will rank another year the best in the state.
 The grounds are pleasantly located, the stables and stands convenient and commo- l dious and there is no reason why the trot- | ting horse interest should not receive a I healthy impetus from the efforts of the | association. Newport has long been 8
 lively horse town and it will be livelier in the future than ever before. The New York Sportsman deals plainly | with matter that has not yet dropped from discussion in trotting-h horse circles, and it's views will meet with general in
 dorsement: There is only one topic of con
 versatipn tonight among the horsemen in l.~a oA Db;ioda1pbio and Tho4 ;S &ba =