Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-09-20
Track AND sIAslE GOSSIP.

placed red Wilkes ~ IT. bF W likes
in the list this season and tile latter. with
stallion by the SAINT nsfie, has mark u
. s.; IL tina, Is eligible. The grey geldins
Fred Wilkes, 2.3a II, in Gillies string i,
another one ia the same category.
The Maine s.3o list continues to swell
and consists of twenty trottcrs and three
PAGERS To date. There is already more
than last year and more, at least, than any
other New England state eau boast of. To
give Maine proper credit for this it i,
necessary 10 take into consideration the
fact that with one exception in each case
the records have been made in races and
ON half mile tracks.
The races at the Caribou Trotting Park
Saturday afternoon. were very interesting
and were witnessed bysiiye hundred people
In the green race, Gay took first money
Beggar second, Black Harry third, and vii
liam Il, fourth. 1t took six heats TO iini,l
the race which was interesting throughout
In the 80 class. Irish Boy won first money
Butterfly second, and Harry ID. third. Oh
account of Lack OF time, the = % class wa,
not trotted. During the races, Fearlcs.
was started, 10 teAt the tracks record. He
trotted handsomely, making the mile. with
out lifting his nose, in 2.:i2. thus beating til,
track record by three seconds.
Maplewood Park. Bangor, now holds twt
worlds records, the 2.l3 81 Of Nelson
trottins aud the :. Is IA of Buuco Jr., pac
ing. The opinion. however that Maple
woo1 is the fastest lislf-milc track i'll Ia,
world, i'll consequence, is more imaginar,
than real, as is also the opinion held by
some that 10 other of the performers now
before the public can lower these records
The fact that Nancy Hanks, of Marths
Wilkes, at the trotting gait can beat the
time made by Nelson. or that Mascot. LA
Pointer or Flying Jib can bca
the best time male by Bunco Jr
admits of no argument. First-class per
test their powers on halfmile track
hence the record has never been placed a:
low in comparison with the mile TRACK
record, as it should have been. 1t ha:
never been claimed that the halt-miIe track
was more than from three to five seconds
slower than the mile ring, and il is cigh
seconds from the ao1 II Of Hal Pointer
to the 3.l5 IA of Buuco 1r. and eight anu
one-haIf seconds from the 205 II ui
Nancy llauks to the 2.l3 "a of Nelson
Rockefeller got hi first 80 trotter al
Lewiston last week. Granicta T. won IT,,
scconl heat of the l-ycar-old race il
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The tillies Malta aud Norka owned by
Mr.. Chas. l.. Cushnan of the Colt Farm,
Auburn, won the yrarling race in p -
and the fourycar-od race in 2.;'e IL
straight heats at the Clinton East Worcester
fair, Clinton, Mass Friday. These filie,
will be taken to Providence next week, vii
come to the Breeders meeting at My site
the week following, AMI will be at tn,
BrUcktun fair the week after that. II i,
expected they viii continue their victoriou,
career until they come home.
1t viii be noticed how close the progrcs,
of speed IS between the watch aud the race
In lS>0 the time REGARD was 2.lu II AM
the race record 2.l& - Today the time
record is 2.UJ IT,, and the race record
> 90 81 .-
George W. Leaytt of Pembroke j. put
ting a mortgage OH the ttlrec-ycar-oll stake
at the coming breeders meeting. The ar
ticle which will enable him TO forcclose j,
the colt Val by Vatican, dam by Magic.
This is the same breeding which produced
Naleria, which trottrd to II record of 81
at the same age. Val trotttd "A mile in 2.21
last season and i, moving well now. lie
promises to he one of The best of the many
good one. Mr. Lcavitt has brought from
Kentucky. The three ycar-old race of last
year at the breeders meeting was the best
by odds ever trottcd north of Kentucky
There were ten colts in j, which could all
beat $50. This season promises to be
even better than last.
Black Nathan, the famous stallion owned
by \. T.. Russell, Bucktied, won a great
race at Gorham ON Thursday last, winning
the > IS class in which six heats were trot-
ted in 2.27 a. 20 II, 20 -. , . IL .
~, 2.2s 1t.
The bay stallion, Cedric trottcd a mile at
Lewiston Wednesday in 80 after having
been driven - miles the MONDAY previous
Cedric had been htched to a suIky but
twice this year AMI after heavy season tins
va, an excellent performance, Cedric is a
Black Pilot stallion, lam Lady Lang, 2.:;5
by Gen. Knox. He is tho property of the
[ Mon Stock Farm. NassalhorO. Name, and
a fine piece of horsetlesh
In these days of phenoulenaily fast time
records it is well to bear in mini that the
best test of all speed. whether running, pac-
ing or trotting, is an actual race.
The history of Narragansctt Park,
where Jay Eyc-Sec made his record, dates
back some q years, and has Away, had a
national reputation of high character. 1t
la, cost Its different owners upward. of
$50 900.
j. F. plummer Esd. of Weeks Mills,
has sold his splemlik Young stallion, Roy
Wilkes fifteen month, oil, to Geo. H.
Poole and VI. :. Gardner of Mt. Vernon.
This colt is by Nelson's Wilkes, ont Of the
we'll known brooj mare. Mollie Piummcr,
stands ! (. y hands and weighs 80 lbs. lie
IS a very handsome animal. AMI the price
obtained was long one.
i horse to command ready ale at 4
good figure, even thou Il, he he good in
liyiiusl, must be able to .how some tram
ing, COOL Style auI action; fearless,
.traight-ahcatl gait. with no -hying or .lop-
ping, no hobhing ny aDi down behind.