Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1892-01-28
TROTTISG HORSE TALK.
There is now talk of kite tracl
at Paris, KY.

Al aIls, NY
Fifty-three trotters and PAGERS
with records better than 2:30 died
in 1891.
Electioneer added..35 to the 2:30
list last year, red Wilkes % and
Nutwood rs.
| C. J. Hamlin says that his
breeding venture has netted him
20 per cent. annually.
Direct, Director and Mon bars
will be shipped from California to
Lexington, KY, next week.
Jay-Eye-see, 2::10, has been put
| to pacing and will be entered in
slow pacing classes this season.
Guy Wilkes has won 81 heats in
2.3O or better. His sire, George
| Wilkes, trotted Sc better than the
standard mark.
Successful trainers of horses,
professional baseball players and
United States Senators now get
about the same salary.
Dexter trottsd 81 heats better
than 2:30, which is more than any
other son or daughter of Hamble-
tonian 10 has ever done.
Mr.. J. Malcolm Forbes, of Bos-
ton, will sell the gray gelding,
Jack, PIP IA, at public sale IN
New York on the 26th inst.
The service fee of Guy Wilkes,
Nutwood, Allerton, Mambrino King
and Red Wilkes is each 81 900.
The fee of the thoroughbred, st.
Blaise, is 81. 500.
Frank Walker, of Indianapolis,
has been engaged as starter by the
st. Louis Fair Association and
Jockey Club for their spring and
summer meetings.
! About the only fast trotter whose
breeding is entirely unknown is
White Stockings. 2:16, and it il
only a question of time when he
will be fixed out with one.
Robert Aull. of st. Louis, Mo-,
has purchased from Bowerman
Bros, Lexington, KY, the FIVE
vear-old brown pacing stallion
Fronts 1886. record 2:14, by Pan
coast, dam Mercedita.
i Electioneer is said to have sired
367 foals, of which twenty-six died
before reaching the age of three
} years. Of the balance, 341, thai
lived beyond that age, one hun
} dred have trotted in $50 or better
The principal trainer, driver
and colt breaker at the Woronoct
Stock Farm, Fairfield, Mass, il
Rev. I. w. Smith, who in hit
career has broken about 325 colts
and has marked a good number il
2:30 or better.
! The great three .year-old colt
Arion, record 2:1O3 4 at two years
1 has been purchased by J. Malcolm
Forbes, of Boston. The price ha
not been made public, although
$3.50 900 is the figure which it j
claimed was paid.
Only one thoroughbred mare ha
F., produced two fast trottere, but tn
thoroughbred crank has laid CLAIM
@ to most of these mares of unknown
breeding, though the evidence i
decidedly against him. The pro
duce of these mares were nearl,
d all by great sires.
n Trotting over a straight track
: to be the next experiment, as MI
q Withars has a desire to test tn
y question of time over the straight
way Monmouth race course. H
thinks Sunoi's time could be beate
by several seconds.
Il 1t is reported that Allerton will
n in his races next season, pull a 81
8 pound sulky. If this sort of bus
=. ness is kept up a little while longe
!" the suiky of the future will be az
u to consist of simply two tires wit
q stripe of sunshine.
,, Infancy Hanks and Sunol trot
il match race at Columbia, Tenn
s. the gate receipts would excee
= $4,000. The offer of $40, 600 fl
such race, therefore, is a chea
advertisement. There is not Il
!. remotest possibility of the propos
.r ton being entertained for FIVE col
secutive minutes.
;s Alph Aymond, of St. Charlie
NO., has contracted with the LIE
lie GER for large advertisement Fl
,e his fine horses. Among other tro
,e ters he owns WiIkesmont 233
a 2:2S IA, by fremont. Wilke
mont is a rich red chestnut,
hands nigh, and is a level heade
III game race horse. His record
t, no measure of his speed-it VI
f. made in a race he won on hs
AZ mile track over a field of 13 got
: ones. He is entered in the N
braska Breeders 500, 600 futuri
8 stake and the Nashville s5,O