The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-05-05
HORSE NOTES.

Dudley Reed Is liable to handle string
OF trotters in Canton this season.
S. d. Hinkle q Son have cold to Mr..
Chase of Canton, o., an extra fine harness
mare.
James Frye bought two trotters In Har-
rison county this week for the home mar
ket.
Hurxthal & Housed have booked the bay
flly Altigh, sister to Alicente, 2;23A to
Atwood.
Take care OF your horses feet, and don't
speed him much on the brick pavements
of Canton.
Lindsay is making pair of fancy open
brides for John G.. Welty, with gold plated
bits, TO cost S25 for the pair.
MIR, Hurxthal has invested iu n new
pole cart to drive his high bred Niles. He
sits this rig very gracefully.
On Tuesday, May 3rd, toe big establish j.
ment of Haymaker & Hous"I, with the
real estate, will be s.uu az auction.
The bay gelding, ky ntucky Star, 2:29N,
]. S. Coxey, Of f. D, Johnson, Frankfort,
Ky.
Ed Geers left Buffalo today with pow
erful string of trotteTs and PAGERS for the
Baltimore meeting, which commences
May 10.
Chestnut Hill Farm, Minerva, o., re-
ports the arrival of a bay colt by Cold
Leaf, out of Lula Brown by Stockbridge
Chief Jr.
JONES T. Riddle, Ravenna, o., has a
very fast yearling fllly by Pilot Wilkes
out of Florence Patchen. She is q sister
to Edisto and Ravenna Belle.
New Haven, Conn, is well supplied with
fast PAGERS, b. B., 2:13%, Dud Doble,
2:131, and Monkey RolIa, 2:15%, being
owned there. This beats Canton by sew
eral seconds.
L. j. Meyer reports five new Bud CroolSe
colts at the Lakeside stock farm. Two
out OF Hylas mares, one out OF Brown
Wilkes mare, one out of Pocahontas Boy
mare, and one out of Wanda mare, all
fine ones. Two PAGERS and three trotters,
all solid colors.
CYNTHIANA, KY April 2S.-Mr. w. H.
Wilson has sold on private terms to Mr.
D. L. Burlington of Florence, KY, the
year old, by Simmons, dam Lottie Thorne,
record 2:239 second dam the dam of
Bycrly Ahdallah, sire of Jerome Turner,
record 2:15%.
DR.. S. G. Scbwarz of this city received O
dispatch this afternoon from j. G.. Davis
Of Lee, Mass, announcing the welcome
intelligence that his high bred mare Irma,
2:lSH, by Nutwood, 2:1S4, dam by Happy
Medium, has foaled a splendid filly by
Aicantara. This is certainly as high bred
a flIly as any man owns.
Workmen are now engaged, putting
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is now faster than ever before. It would
probably pay IL some OF our horse fanciers
would organize a meeting for trotters
PAGERS and runners for June. A two days
meeting or even three days meeting,
with purses ranging from $3.50 10 $500
would pay.
A dispatch from Grand Rapids SAYS:
The Hon. j. Leathers, speaking of the
coming August trotting meeting, says the
Association has hung up Sl7 900 as prizes,
and has just completed making a 5000
match between Direct and Hal Pointer,
besides a $1,000 free-for-all stallion race.
He says this will be the greatest meeting
in the history of the turf.
Capt. X. ). Shields is to be congratu- |
lated. He will ride in the dust of other |
peoples trotters no more. He has just |
purchased pair of Kentucky bred trot. |
ters, guaranteed to do mile in 2:4O, for |
500. He has ordered 500 harness of |
Lindsay to bedeck their fleetDess. When |
this pair gets on our streets, we hope to |
see more of our road drivers stimulated |
to drive good horses. There Is more good |
health in it than the apothecary's shop.
At the request of number of the |
patrons of the Lakeside Farm stations
who don't feel that their mares are of |
quality to pay high services fees, and who |
are desirous of using Black Cloud il the
Zee is less. To accommodate them
Ed j. Meyer has decided to reduce Black
Cloud's Zee to 500 to insure living foal
Black Cloud, 2:l7A, is the sire of Black
Cloud, Jr., 2:25; Zenobia, 2.s1 Billy b.,
2 :32; Venette, 1888; lingo Jim, 2:32E;
Harry D., 2:33; John Seeley, 1851;
Handy Andy, 1884; Plnkamink. 2:4D,
md eight others win records faster than
AS, all in races. There are twenty of his
get at the farm. Call and see them and
Judge for yourself.
Horses are not valued at higher rates
DOW than in the earlier ages of the world,
I we estimate prices p aid for them accor-
ling to the price of food, which seems to |
le a fair standard of comparison. In |
King Solomon's time an Egyptian horse
he best horses were then procured from |
one hundred and fifty shek-
is, about eighty Ave dollars. Six hundred
ears after Solomon, in the time of Keno
,hon, Seuthis and Thracian paid fifty !
lrachmae, or about one hundred and |
hirty-flve dollars, for the steeci on which
le rode during the retreat Of the Ten
thousand. The horse that Gen. Grant
ode the day he took Lees sword near
Ippomatto1 only cost S135, while we have
man in Canton worth $40, 900, who drives
S75 horse. with two curbs and bog