Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-03-10
NORTHERN VERMONT HORSE GOSSIP
Interesting News about good Horses from
Distant Part of the State.

Interesting News about good Horses from
Distant Part of the state.
From American Horse Breeder.l
have not written you since just a fter
l got back from the Kellogg sales last
March. The colts bought there have
done very we'll, particularly Snow Bird,
with which l am particularly we'll
pleased. He did very heavy season
for four-year-old, more than intend
ed. Every one here is complaining that
horses are not selling freely and prices
are very low. think that most sellers
are comparing their prices with those re-
ceived for California stock. OF course
that puts the prices out of sight.
notice wherever particularly good
individual shows up, there are buyers
enough at remunerative prices. To show
you how colts sell here, will mention
few sales. In September H. G. Jenkins
sold Daisy Mack, two years old, by Red
Mack; dam, Daisy Dean (229L), for
$3.50. Fred Perrin sold year-old colt
by Red Mack, dam, Maggie Miller
(2.26A), for 5000. sold HIKE Wilkes,
two years, by Abdallah Wilkes, dam by
Damascus, for $500. The above won
first premiums in their respective classes
at the live stock show at Stanstead in
August, at the meeting Of the Eastern
Vermont Association of Road and Trot-
ting Horse Breeders. HIKE and Daisy
first and second, respectively, in the
show ring at Newport, VT, in August,
and hitched as pair they won second
premium at both Newport and Stan
stead, against large fields of aged horses.
They were beaten at both places by
Mandamus, by Mambrino King, and
Martha, by Henry B.. Patchen. These
three colts went to E. w. Wood Of East
Hampton, Mass, and are very choice
lot.
have just heard of the sale of year
ling filly by Abdallah Wilkes, dam by
Henry B. Patchen, sold by Mr.. Nye Of
Coventry for $500. l have just sold for
Mr.. Bodwell the filly Clara c., the phe-
nomenal yearling of this vicinity, by j.
j. Hall, 1852, by fernando, by Almont,
dam by Whalebone, by Whalebone
Knox, by Gen. Knox, second dam by q
son of Green Mountain Morgan, to DR.. j.
H. Carmichael of Springfield, Mass.
| This flly was shown at the breeders
meeting at Newport, Vt, against all
corners, including the standard breds.
and she was head and shoulders above
all competitors.
At the same meeting she started in
the races. She showed SO fast in her
work that only one colt would start
against her, although several had paid
their stakes in full. In a half-m
heat the colt that did start with her was
behind the $50 yard distance pole when
Clara finished in jog. The morning
previous to her race Clara showed a
quarter of mile in AZ seconds, drawing
a road cart weighing l20 pounds, and
her owner, weighing $50 pounds. This
flly had never been in a trainers hands
day. Mr.. Bodwell, her owner, man
81 years old, had given her all her work
on our street, and he was her only care
taker. At Stanstead the following weak,
competition open to the world, Clara c.,
was again placed first in the show ring,
roadster class, and the boys would not
start insthe race unless the old gentl sma n
would promise to hold for them, and
here three good colts finished behind her.
Since then the filly has had complete
let-up. La October, her owner, Mr.. Bod
we'll, was stricken with paralysis and
completely disabled. Had NJ. Bodwell's
health been spared the fly would not
have been sold. This is the first fast one
that j. j. H Ill ever sired; she is the
first foal of her dam. This fly was
foal ID the last of April, 1890, and weighs
to-day 90 pounds, and stands 144
hands high. She is as handsome as
anybody's colt, thoroughly broken so
that small boy IL years old drives her
and speeds her. She wears neither
check rein nor martingale. She is nice
bay with black p>ints, not a white hair
on her, is trappy gated, ana the doctor
thinks she is sure to make a beautiful
road mare. The doctor and expect her
to be wonderful two-year-old.
We have nice lot of youngsters in
this vicinity that are being broken just
now. We are not looking for Arions,
but do hope some of us may find some
thing good for Vermont.