Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-04-29
SOME GOOD THREE-YEAR-OL

The three year-old-race at the New
England Breeders meeting last October
was good one. 1t was a horse race.
There was a large field of fast trotters
very evenly matched, and the close fin
ishes of several heats round % made the
event one of the most interesting and
exciting of the meeting
This year some of that field will meet
each other again, to try conclusions in
their four-year-old form, while the two
year-ods of 1891 will move up to take
their place as the three year-olds of
1892, and the three-year-old race of this
year bids fair to eclipse anything of the
kind ever witnessed in this section.
With Arion, Rosemont and Ralph
Wilkes not in it, probably those that
were the prominent two-year-old trot-
tiers of New England last year, with A
few others added, will be the contest
ants at the breeders meeting this Fall
for what bids fair to be rich stake.
King Benton @ :3St), and was at the
wheel of winner in 1884 comes from
a speedy family, is a fast colt, and this
year, as he will have the advantage
of being fitted and trained by that ex-
pert reinsman, James Carpenter of Prov
idence, we shall look for him to go a
mile faster than Mr.. Carpenter ever rode
behind three-year-old.
The brown filly Matte Wilkes, by
Messenger Wilkes, will doubtless i'm
prove from last year, and he quite fac
tor in any race in which she starts,
while the brown colt Calcaci, by Rock
efeler, that was fourth in 1884 is liable
to move well along towards the front.
Nor must Juno Wilkes, by Victor Wilkes,
be left out in putting down the possible
winner of the big plum of 90.
Rupert Gillig is a fast son of Gillig.
and he would last year have been the
unfortunately been obliged to start
against Fora Zar. The finely formed
and speedy Prue (2;35), daughter of
Pure Wilkes. and winner of the two
year-od-race at the New England fair,
also winner of third money at the New
England breeders meeting, and made
Fora Gar go the last half of third mile
at Providence in :lG4, and finished
right at her saddle, is liable to lower her
record more than ten seconds this year.
Lord Brine @ :32D, by Woodbrino, if
properly handled, ought to put the three
year-old that beats him out of the 2 ~
class.
Stanley @ .29f) will have his own rep
utation and that of his splendid sire,
Quartermaster, at stake, and will make
any event in which he starts interesting
and the result uncertain till the last
heat is trotted.
Allen Farm may give us three-year
old of Kremlin pattern, or Sunnyside
may spring up as fast one by The great
Nelson.
Fora Ear would make every one of the
above realize the sensations of a horse
race were she to start with them, but as
Mr.. Austin has exchanged the whip for
the pen, we understand she will he train
ed this season but not started in any
race. But we predict that the three
| year-old race of the n. f. b. meeting
for 1892 will be something worth seeing
and talking about, and may be won by
some youngster that has never vet faced
a starter, and cannot when the entries
close trot IA mile in 3 90. 1t is seldom
that either colt or aged trotter is sue
cessful two successive seasons.
Possibly not two of the above-named
animals will start, and the race of 80
may be fought out by those yet unknown
to fame. No one farm, no one man, has
the monopoly of colt trotters and stake
winners. Last August we read of year
lings trotting quarters in 80 seconds,
and, as they were entered in stakes.
were looked upon as shaving a snap
They were too fast to start.
At the Rhode Island Bree lers' meet
ing last October, several four-year-olds
were entered for "A good stake; among
the entries was the fast mare Lightning
ers of entered horses did not have them
there, and for some reason Lightning
was not there to start, and there being
no entry to go out and get the money,
in a "walk over" it all went into the
society's treasury. If one owns a fairly
good prospect of speed it pays to enter
in the stakes. Keep the youngster COM
ing along, and start him.
If you don't start you cannot win, and
If you do start you may win. 1t is a
credit to colt nowadays to start in a
race, whether he wins or not, and one
genuine race for the youngster is worth
more than two weeks of ordinary train
ing. Race horses are made by racing.
1t is good omen for the get of any
stallion when the owner SAYS: II shall