Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-30
HORSE GOSSIP.

Mir. Forbes paid $4,5oo for Nancy Hanks, 209.
 It is stated that $6O, 900 has been refused for Alcantara.
 Trainer James Golden is now on vaca- tion in Florida.
 There are forty-seven yearlings at Briar Hill Stock Farm.
 Axtell sold at $1o5, 900 and stands at $1 900 service fee.
 Connecticut is becoming great trotting- horse breeding state.
 An old war horse lately died in Michigan at tho age of 58 years.
 Colonel Walter Cutting of Pittsfeld was liberal purchaser at the Highlawn sale. ing as public trainer at Waverly Park, A syndicate at Ottumwa, Ia., has bought May King, 2:234, by Electioneer; dam, May Queen, 2:20, by Alexander's Norman, for SIC, 900.
 The pacer Guy (s:11D is owned by a clergyman. It is safe to assert that 8 minister who drives such horse can inter est his congregation.
 Successful trainers are almost universal ly men of temperate habits. Very few of them tarry very long at the wine cup. As class they are reliable and trustworthy. Rev. J. w. Arney says: "tFast men are an abomination; fast horses are a godsend, and, like fast trains, are the right of peo- pie who have the energy and ability to pro- duce them"
 The thoroughbred, St. Blaze, which re- gently sold for $1,000, stands at $2,500, and such trotter as Arion is certainly more valuable than any running stallion l that ever lived.
 R. V. Warren, well known among New England horsemen, died at his home in Franklin last week after an illness of but few hours duration He was upwards of eighty years old.
 Mir. L. s. Rose of California lately lost by death two-year-old stallion by Stam- bout (2:1I; dam, the famous Minnehaha. Mr. Rose had sold this colt for SIC, ,00O, to be paid on delivery.
 Trainer John Trout was pretty busy 1 man last summer. He drove in eighty l nine races and got his share of the win nings. Few of the younger trainers can | point to such a record as that. G. J. Hamlin is reported as saying that | his breeding establishment nets him 20 per cent per annum on the capital invested. l llC WILL Adf0 T LII 1CPACoCAtOu ny three strings of trotters in different circuits this coming season.
 l A hot rivalry exists in California between the owners of Frou Frou (2:25D and Atha- l don (2:2O. The former stands first among the yearling trotters of the world and the latter third. Their meeting as two year olds will be watched with eage1ness. l California horses are suffering from a sort of epizootic resembling Ia grippe. A promising lilly by Staboul (2:1D, dam, the great race mare Trinket (2:14, is one of the | victims. The only animal that has suffer ed from this disease at Palo Alto is Bell Bird (2:26D.
 l c. H. Nelson feels good deal worse over the loss of Medora, than over the de- l feat of his stallion. The mare was valu ed at $15, ,00O, and only the day before the | accident trotted mile in 2:201. One sided shoeing caused her to break her leg
 "The agitation against the dash system on the ground that it will cause the deteri oration of trotters will not do, says Clark'i
 Horse Review. Dexter, Goldsmith Maid
 Rarus, St. Julien, Maud S.. Jay-Eye-See
 and all the record breakers down to Sumo
 last summer went their fastest heats in {
 mile dash against the watch.
 It looks now as though the stallion Mel |
 season by s. A. Browne of Kalamazoo
 Mich, and be handled by either Starr o1
 McHenry, both of whom are frst-class
 drivers, and in whose hands the famous
 stallion will carry only regulation weight
 Report says that the old trotter J. B
 Richardson @. .16a will come dow I the cir
 cult again next season. He will be olc
 enough-15 years-to be reliable. He re
 duced his record a half second last year
 He is by George Wilkes; dam by Almont second dam by the thoroughbred race horse
 imported Glencoe.
 MT. Forbes bought of Ariel Lathrop
 Esq, yearling lilly by Electricity (2.174) dam by Nutwood. Arion and this fill, occupied car by themselves, and lief
 California on the 14th inst. with the sam
 train that brought the Palo Alto consign
 ment of trotting stock to Messrs. Kellogg
 & Co.'s New York sale.
 Twenty eight head of trotting stocl
 were sold at auction at Finderne, N. J. recently for $7,460, an average price o
 about $265. The highest price paid wa
 $3,O00 for the black stallion Boone, by Aris
 tos 2:274. Lewis G. gray colt, by Bay
 onne, brought $925, and Lafayette, ba.
 stallion, by c. w. Mitchell, sold for $500
 After receiving his appointment at Pal
 Alto, Jimmy Dustin was astonished whe1
 he learned of the salary offered G1 200. i
 is claimed) and would not accept the posi- l tion. There was no misunderstanding
 when the declination of MT. Dustin wa
 offered, and this popular trainer an
 driver will continue in his old position
 handling trotters for himself and the gen
 eral public.
 1T The Breeder estimates that the service of Arion will not be less than $2,50O which is the sum c. W. Williams of Inde pendence, Ia., offered Senator Stanfor
 The aggregate of MT. Williams offer wa . $25, ,OO0, which, if accepted by MT. Forbes l will be a handsome return on the invest 1 ment. For the benefit of those who ar , not familiar with the breeding of this ce ebrated colt, the following pedigree
 given: Arion, bay colt foaled in Califo1
 mia March IS, 1889, sired by Electionee1
 he by Hamiltonian 10. Arion's dam wa
 Manette by Nutwood, PISA, he by Be
 mont.
 Messenger stood 16 hands, Abdallah wa
 about 16 hands high, Hambletonian 15
 hands, Electioneer 154, Harold 15, Georg
 Happy Medium, 159, Aberdeen 15, Antee
 and Antevelo 16 Egbert 16, Dauntless IA.
 Alcantara 15a, Masterlode 16, Alexander
 Abdallah IA, Victor Bismarck 154, Robel
 McGregor 154, Belmont 154, Almont 1t Kentucky Prince 154. Daniel Lambert Il Phalas 15a, Nelson 15a Nancy Hanks 1; Sunol 16, Belle Hamlin 154, Maud s. 1t :, St. Julien 16, Stamboul 16, Jay eye-see l. :. | Goldsmith Maud 15, Flora Temple IA
 Prince Wilkes 154, Director 15, Bonni I McGregor 154, Harry Wilkes IA, Guy l. s Dexter 151, Messenger Duroc 16, Wilke e Boy 16.
 Replying to question, MT. William l. the owner of Allerton, recently sait
 "There is no race in prospect for Allerto
 this year; will say, though, that I a1 ! ready for one at any time with any hors' . Allerton has shown in the past what n can do, and do not fear that he will nt }: hold his own during the present year if | i, keeps his form. As to whether any sta s lion in the east would give him a goo o race will say that Axtell would make
 interesting, but believe in my own hors I, h you know. The syndicate that owns A, g tell might get up 8 race, and if they d ,; Allerton is ready. AS to Nancy Hank ,1 a my horse will be ready when her ownt r. wants to arrange race, as he will be fe
 any other horse."
 l. Arion is now in his new quarters at tl }; l Forbes farm at Ponkapaug. Mir. Forb' ,s is undecided yet whether he will ha, IF Arion handled for faster record the con d ing season or not. It will depend entirel