Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-08-01

W haleDOnt hnoNf tall ffaiiDlttoiia'
mare She stands 3D. hands, weighs Tel
hundred and fifty pounds and can pull
wagon down the road better than Il tire
minute clip. She now has very mic
looking filly at her side by Ethan D., sol
of Dictator Chief.
Martha Wilkes three heats at Detroit il
,. Ii 1t, 2.l7 IA, 2.l5, shows what grea
race mare she is. That Alcyonc blood can
be beat
Though Nancy Hanks and Sunol hav
both gone fast miles. records will hardly b
broken before August or September, whci
it will not be surprising should both thcS
great mares pass the los line. What Al
lerton, Arion, Nelson, Axtcll, Dclmarch an,
the other candidates for stallion honors cal
do with the record of Palo Alto will prob
ably not be known until the frost> of fal
have fallen over the land.
4 fashonably bred horse is one who's,
pedigree contains such winning and pro
ducing strains of trotting blood as to max,
the horse and his produce salablc and de
sirablc, hence in quick demand, from tn,
standpoint Of pedigree alone
To make whole family standard becaus,
one of its members plumbers into the . 80
list OH a track several seconds faster than
the regulation variety, while u good race
horse that gets his mark in hard fought
race OH regulation track confer, no NOR,
rights or honors upon his kindred, Is to ouI
minds an astounding piece of injustice, i
the opinion of the Kentucky Stock Farm
| ii is bad enough to make a family stanlur
on single heat made in > 80 even in race.
but it is infinitely worse when the standard
making mark does it to afford the slightest
! Indication of race horse quality.
! Turf, Farm and Home of July .. says :
/ Il nce Jimmy Thompson up in Sumner has
sold his trotting mare. Nellie D., lbs It,
! by Robinson H.. 2.o3 81. Nellie D., can
! trot in $50, and is handsome little brown
mare with aw htc stripe in the face. She was
sold to Henry Pope of Providence, and the
| price paid was sljon.'
| T.. |. Beck of Iirrrmorc Falls has sold
his fine driving horse TO Mr.. Geo. o. Eustis
! for 5000. Mr.. Beck purchased this horse
for a family driving horse but he has icvcl
opcd into II trotter. He has only been
worked upon the track a few times hui
shows considerable speed, going an cas-,
mile in ., - the day of sale, and this is not
the limit Of his speed Mr.. Eusis buys him
for Il driving horse and will not put him on
to the track at present,
J. H. Steiner of Chicago, the registrar
of the American Trottlng Register, and the
compiler of the Year Book, is developing
special qualifications for the position which
he occupies. The inaccuracies of the Year
Book, which are many. have been laid to
hi, door but in fact, in nncty-ninc eases,
out of every hundred, they were in tho
Year Book when il was transferred from
the Wallace Publishing Company to the
American Trotting Register Association
II is greatly to Mr. Stcincr's credit that SO
far as he has information of any error in
the Year Book, the corrections are prompt
ly made.
Prescott, the stallion owned by w. u.
Bleihcn. Esq, of Dover made full mile
in 2,.!i "a recently.
The races at Norrilgewock to occur Aug
10th and ilth, promise to be exciting a.
usual, fine field OF horses are being
entered.
The Maine horse Lewis T. was started in
the 2.2t class at lIayerhll, Mass, TUESDAY
but did not get a position in the race.
The stallion Red Hawk owned by Curricr
& Nelson, IIallowell is now in Mr.. Nelson's
hands at Maplewood Park, Bangor, where
he will be worked. Dazzle, owned by the
same firm also in Mr.. Nelson's string is
showing great speed for young horse
The brown geldiug Charles f., owned by
{. &. farris of Foxcroft was sold last
week to Mr.. II. NJ. Dn2lcy of Lewiston
for $500. This horse is an inbred Drew
by +. q. lanpher's Victor while its dam
was by the DAVIS horse. he by OH Drew.
He distinguished himself at Mlo-his first
rarc--on the Fourth of July, when lac won
in hi, class after trottiug five heats, making
the best time the last heat, 2,i2 ~.
Howard Estes of Pittsfcld sold his four
ycar-old Withcrs= colt the other day to s
Boston gentleman for $500
Cha-. e. Farris has purchased the speedy
Maude Bradmau of W. = Brad,nan of
Dover. Ihi. marc is by Judge Advocate
anil has been use1 in livery stable for
( nearly three years. Recently she has
developed considerable speed, and for a
short time has been in training by John
| Bnrfill.
The purses for tie races at the West
fcuobscot Fair Grounds August . are as
follows First purse 500. open 10 ,rot-
ting and pacing horses that never beat 2 80
in public Second purse 500. open
TO trotiing and pacing horses that never
beat 2,$5, in public. Third purse $50. open
to al trotting ami pacing horse. that nes
beat 2.277 in public.
The american Horse Breeder Of Jul, 20.
says The old rule. of the National As.o-
citation of Trotting Horse Breeders were
much better than the revised ones. 90 far
! az encouraging Improvement in stock j.
concerned. Any fairminded man who will
take the trouble to look over the Year Book
and Register carefully will be convinced of
this fact"
{ Mr.. George W. Leav.tt has returned
from trip to Maine, AMI reports the 'le
I Of the horse Trombone f2.5l IA which
he has been standing at Lubec this season,
/ to Lawrence Brothers, North Lgbec. Ne.
Mr. Ieavitt thinks Trombone one OF the
best horses which BE- has ever ow ned. and
predicts very successful career in the stud
for him. Trombone il by Hull. son OF Bel
mont; dam, Kitty. by Washington iiambif-
tonisn; second dam by Robert Bonner
American Horse Breeder.