The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-05-17
THE ADVOCATE.
HORSE AND TRACK.

mile at Philadelphia in July.
The best stations in the Austrian
government stables get two hours o
exercise daily.
Rose Chief. the dam of Prince
WILKES, 2il4f missed to Red Wilkes
this ypar,
Fred Arthur 2:14i, and Strong
Boy will come together in race al
Gallipolis, o., in August.
The dam of Nellie W., 2:144, will
be trained this year. She is sixteen
wears old and has been used as farm
horse all her life.
Jos. Cultivate has bred sister to
Direct, 2 ;06, to Stamboul 2:ll.
Eectioneer had not 2 80 perform
er to his credit at thirteen years Of
age. AT twenty-five he had sixty-six
A set of racing harness, trimmed
with aluminium is being made for
Axtell at Terre Haute. The whole
set will weigh but five pounds.
There is nothing on this green earth
that makes trotting horse breeder
feel better than to win colt stake
with a youngster that he raised and
developed.
Speed, size, soundness and individ-
ual excellence are the four aces in the
pack of the trotting world, while
cheap looking customers that can go
along fairly well can be punched as
the deuces.
Somehow the prejudice against
smallish mares for brood mare usage
is wearing away. Jack, Dexter and
many another have had for their dams
these same understood mares.
1t is quite col venient nowadays to
have standard of morality that will
allow horse to start in race against
a watch, but not against another
horse. ''This is severing and dividing
a hair twixt north and northwest
side"
The day has almost dawned when
it is possible for trotter 20 earn as
much money as a runner. From
every nook and corner of the CONT
nent come announcements of big meet
ings and big stakes. Colt stakes,
yearlings and two-year-olds have gone
about as high as they can well 60.
The practice of buying cheap stall
lions, reporting them as having cost
fabulous sums, and then filing their
books at fees four times larger than
either their breeding or performances
warrant. has become entirely too COM
mon,- Kentucky Stock Farm.
1t is singular fact that in all his
campaigns Director met defeat but
once by mare, and this mare, Echo
IA, which was afterwards mated with
the black demon, produced little
Direct COG. Echora has a record OF
2,231, and was very fast mare.
Five fouls sired by Direct. FOG, |
have been dropped In California this
spring, and four of the number are
natural PAGERS.
NJ. Russell Railey had very good
sale of saddlers at Philadelphia re-
Gently, at the following sample lot will
show. Besaut, black gelding, by
Great Markham; Mr.. Salmon, $685..
Laddie, bay gelding, seven years Mr..
McNeal, $3.50. Mary Hadley, bay
mare, six years Mr.. Fitzgerald, 500.
Barbour, bay gelding, seven years, by
Happy Cross; j. G. Turner, 1915.
Matchless, bay gelding, seven years,
by Monte Cristo; a. ii. Moore, 81 300.
The total realized for nineteen head
was ST., S65.
Robert Steel, Philadelphia, Pa, has
purchased the Doylestown, Pa, fair
grounds for $4,000 and sold his
Cedar Park Stud for 100000. lie
will vacate the latter property late
this season. Mr.. Steel will purchase
more property in the vicinity Of
Doylestown and locate his stock farm
there.
The trotting world was recently
startled by the report that the breed
ing of Arion has not been correctly
given, the weak point being in the
breeding of the second dam. There
were two mares, both owned by the
same man, and both in foal to Nut
wood. These mares were in charge
of farmer in Wisconsin, the owner