The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-06-21
EHE ADVOCATE.
HORSE AND TRACK.


This is something Of an item.
The dam of Mambrino Maid, 2:l5t
has foal at foot by Gambetta Wilkes.
Alfonso by Baron Wilkes, 2:18, out
!. of Alma Mater by Mambrino Patchen,
hs been placed in training.
Monroe Salisbury has determined
k{5. to start Direct at any town that
ill not put upa purse of $4,000 OF
lore.
Athadon, holder of the yearling colt
record at 2 :27, has developed into a
sixteen hand horse, weighing 1850
pounds
George Wilkes will have two sons
on the turf this year should they not
meet with any mishap in their prepa-
ration. They are Brignoli Wilkes
and Prophet Wilkes.
~ The first race track in Kentucky
>@as laid out in 1895 at Shallow Ford
Station. A man engaged in testing
the speed of his horse on this track
was shot by an Indian in q cane
thicket near by.
j In speaking of Rarus short time
ago Splan said: ~ can say this much
tor him-he would do all he could
dyery time you called on him, and
that is more than the fancy ones of
To-day will do"
Ia The mares Hazel Wilkes and Una
Wilkes, by Guy Wilkes, 2:151, are
moving quarters in such fast time at
Terre Haute that they are both re-
garded as up to free-for-all speed by
those who have seen them 60.
After sixteen years of litigation the
sum of $20,S25 has been paid A. B.,
Meleudy and I. j. Russell, of Norris
town, Tenn, by the *. c. G. & l..
railroad as damages for the trotting
horse, Briston, killed in wreck in
1876. This is the largest sum ever
paid by railroad company for the
killing of horse.
Mr.. Peter Duryea, of New York,
has sold to Mr.. w. ii. Cochrane. of
del Norte, COL, his grand team of
trotting mares, Badger Girl and Jessie
Blake, for. $14,5O0. This team can
trot together low down in the TWEEN
!. Us and Jessie Blake was the winner
NJ Afhe two-year-old stakes at Sturgis,
Mich, last October. They are hand
some, well matched pair of bays.
Don't be afraid to give your horses
that are training grass once or twice
day. 1t opens the bowels, cools the
system and nourishes the body. 1t
is the most perfect food that can be
given to horse, and although not
\ strong enough diet to supply suffi-
bcient strength for hard work, yet it is
very valuable and essential diet for
horses in training to keep them
healthy, their pores open and their
>,bowels in good order. All expe-
fienced and successful trainers see
that their horses have more or less
grass every day, and the man who
fails to supply it makes a mistake that
his horses will feel and show before
the season closes. 1t is better, where
it can be done, to let the horses pick
the grass in the natural way. By
Solding them out every evening they
get needed change and exercise, fresh
air and good food, and enjoy the
change from the stable to the COM
parative freedom which the grass plot
affords.
There is a lot of truth in the follow
ing item from the Western Horsemen !:
The talk now being made that the
esprices for trotting horses had passed
below the point that will assure rea-
isenable profit, is about as absurd as
anything that we have read lately.
The fact is, horse that can Ego
some" is in greater demand than ever
before, and his earning capacity is
also much greater than at any past
time. The plug horse has had his
day, but the trotter is now on the
highest wave of popularity. There is
market for every sound and speedy
trotting horse in the country, and a
seller don't have to wait long for acus-
toner, either. The fellows who think
the bottom has dropped out of the
trotting horse business are the ones
x.,ho hoya t,oftsuu hnrsaa for 40 10 that