The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-11-01

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STEAMBOAT, 2:oSa, now holds the
stallion record.
Mckinney by Alcyone has reduced
his record to 2:10.
Electioneer and Alcyone each have
two in the 2:10 list.
Greenleaf, 2:loh by Simmons is
in his sixth year.
Simmons is proving TO be a sire of
genuine race-horses.
Nelson, 2 10, is in winter quarters
at Waterville, Me.
The blood of Happy Medium will
be valued more highly as the years
roll by.
Ell Mahdi by Onward, out Of Lady
Bunker by Mambrino Patchen, has
reduced his record to 2 :25t.
Electioneer is now credited with
lit performers, and there is still but
one PAGER in the list.
| The Kentucky breeders Associa-
ton will lose about $4,000 from the
late trotting meeting at Lexington.
The stallion Lakewood Prince,
2 49,, died the night after his race at
Chilicothe.
Daughters of Almont are already
represented this season by eleven new
2 80 performers.
There are now one hundred trotters
with records better than 2:l5, and
forty-eight of them have been added
to the list this year.
Cyclone has put six in the 2 80 list,
two in the 2:20 list and two in the
2 10 list this season. He has thirteen
altogether.
One thing can be said in favor OF
Nancy Hanks--if she is fast she
doesn't appear on the street with her
brothers suspenders on.--Yonkers
Statesman. 81 N
Three trottinS stations have made
records of 40 over regulation tracks
viz. Nelson, by Young Rolfe e :2I1(
Moquette, by Wilton, 2:l94, and Nc
Kinney, by Alcyone, 2:27.
Kremlin, the sensation of the trot-
ting turf just now, is driven with
pole to keep him straight and kick
ing strap to keep the Thoroughbred
from cropping out.
After Major Du Boise purchased
Yolo Maid, 3 ~, at Lexington, he bet
representative of The American
Sportsman a hundred even that she
would pace a mile in two minutes
before the close of 1898.
A number of new records were
made at Nashville last week, the most
important being Silicon's two-year-
old race record OF 2:l5a; Directum's
three-year-old race record of 2:1l4 !.
Storms five-year-old pacing stallion
record of 2:0S4, and Nightingale's
two-mile trip III 4 1891.
The stallion record now stands as
follows: Yearling, Athadon. 2:27 /;
two-year-old, Arion, 2:l04; three
year-old, Directum, 2:ll4; four-year-
old Moquette, 2;l0; tiye-year-old
Allerton, 2:O94. All except Arion
belong to the Wilkes branch of the
Hanbletonian family.
Three yearlings entered the 2:30
list last week aud all of them made
their records in races on trot.
Leon, 2 :2S4, and Nellie A., ? :294, led
off on Monday at Mexico and Nash
vile, respectively, while Sweet Rose
closed the week at Oakland Cal,
with record of $3.50.
Do not lose sight of the fact that
the Alcyone stallion, Mckinney, has q
few claimes on the stallion record. He
is five-year-old, and when he
made his first trip against the watch
last week he placed the figure at 2 10.
AS he had tour-year-old record of
3 :124,I land has the California wheather
behind him, there is still month or
six weeks for him to improve.
Tom Hal, sire of Hal Pointer :04a.
Brown Hal, 2:l2t, and Little Brown
jug, 3 :l14, was greatly abused in his
day, being nearly ridden TO death
over rocky roads and his shoulders
badly CALLED by drunken idiot in an