The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-04-07
HORSE AND TRACK.

Daisy Rolfe, sister to Nelson, 2:lO3,
will be bred to Prince Regent, 2:16R.
G. j. Hamlin has announced that
Ed. Geers viii drive his horses this
year. Is
The horse for any purpose must
have good frame of bone and
muscle.
Nearly 100000 has already been
paid for trotters this year in Ken
lucky.
There will be more horses in train
ing at the Lexington fair grounds this
season than ever before. ftEH
Graylight, 2 :16t, to be handled by
Budd Doble this year, is booked by a
horseman for a mile in Ill.
The number of private sales of trot-
ting stock at Lexington and vicinity,
is said to be unprecedented.
Jack and Palo Alto, free-for-all
rivals last year, retired at the close of
the season with like records, 2 :124.
Doble, Splan, McHenry, Geers and
Blair, are the only men that have
ridden a mile below 2 10 in a sulky.
The first four made their trips behind
PAGERS.
There is a FLY at Palo Alto by
Electioneer, out of the pacing mare
Lucy, that promises to step low in the
teens. She is one of the kind that is
not for sale at any price.
The first foal at the Hobart ranch
this year is by STEAMBOAT, Oil, out of
Prospect Maid, 2:23t, The $4,000
daughter of George Wilkes that was
taken to California few years ago.
James Miller Sunnyside Stock
Farm, Paris, KY, has sold to d. III.
Moore, Athens, o., the bay stallion
Tilford, by Bourbon Wilkes, dam by
John billiard, Jr. He is seven years
old. Price $4,000.
Hark Comstock says that Axtell's
three-year-old record of 10, is really
better and expresses more positive
trotting inclination and capacity than
the eight-year-old records of SIAM
boul, 2:11, and Nelson, 2:108.
Andrew j. Coleman, of Lexington,
KY, has sold to John E. Madden, of
the same city, the three-year-old FLY
Cleo, by Gambetta, dam by Macey's
Ham 5rgtt06S24San, for $4,000. She holds
the worlds two-year-old reoStrd over
a half-mile track.
G. Conkling, Glens Falls, N. Y, has
sold TO a New York horseman the
bay stallion Gov. Stanford, five years
old, by Electioneer, dam Barnes by
Hambletonian. He has a three-year-
old record of 2:23a. Reported price
$4,000.
This season will probably witness
the building of more tracks than were
ever before constructed in a single
year. From all over the country we
receive communications from associa-
tons intending to begin work as soon
as the weather permits in the spring.
An effort will be made to bring
Margaret S., Nancy Hanks, Alabaster,
and other crack five-year
olds together in a fve-year-old stake
at the Northwestern Association of
Trotting Horse Breeders annual
meeting in Chicago next August.
Allerton, 2:13t, and Axtell, 9:l2,
are the two fastest stations ever bred
by the same breeder. Jay-Eye-See,
2 10, and Maud S., :0Sf, the fastest
pair ever raised, were bred at the
same farm. Sunol, 2:104, and Palo
Alto, 2 :l24, are the fastest mare and
stallion ever raised by one breeder. o,
w. T. Withers, Fairlawn Farm,
has sold to f. E. Freeman,
Padmor o., foal in utero, for $4,000.
The foal is by Red Wilkes, dam Bonny
Belle by Almont; second dam Alice
Drake dam of Norman Medium, 2 20,
ind Alice Addison, 2 :2St) by Alexan-
1er's Norman; third dam by Pilot,
Jr.
This is the time Of year to breed
mares, beyond a doubt; for the colt
dropped in January or February
stands a good chance to win over the
,olt that is foaled in May, by just as
many months as intervenes between
he dates named, says an exchange.
If two-year-old has right to defeat
/ yearling, so has a nineteen-months-
I'D colt just as much advantage over
/ fourteen-months old colt. Hence, we
'epeat, this is the time of year to cast
about as to how and where you will
breed your mares.