Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-07-08
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

MT. w Ill. Y. IslilCltttA VI NitSie'" ''aN'
had good fortune with Cushnoc colts. He
has Just sold a four-year-oh colt by tins
favoriie kennebec stallion for $500, to.
Boston parties. \ year ago he sold one OF
the same sire's colts for the same sum and
has ii good one by Cushnoc left. He is
satisfied with the lnoNs.
In horse breeding, as in anything else, ii
is the best that pays. Any one conrersant
with the horse market knows this. Good
horses leave lot of good money behind
them for the breeder, Blood, bone, action
and manners will secure good prices.
One of the best thrce-yearold colts i'll
liseataquis county, is the youn. Norman
Clydsdale stallion, Prince Napoleon, owned
by +. II. Roberts of Abbot. He was sired
by Napoleon, whose sire anil dam were both
imported from France. His dam was Topsy,
by Prince Albert, he by Kitchen Champion,
by Stockton's imported Clyde, Gold Hunt
err. lie is large, powerfully built
colt, weighing 1900 pounds, and lie
will undoubtedly. when fully matured.
weigh hoo pounds or more. His color
is handsome mahogany bay with black
points. He has the best of feet and limbs,
a short, strong back, AMI considering his
weight he is good roader.
The bay colt Iquique owned by Ellis <
Gilbert of Canton at two years old, stands
about - . hands high, AMI although a
growthy fellow, is not coarse in any par
ucular He was got by Red Hawk dam,
odd Mag dam Of Fred Boone. etc. by
'ncc Sbube, son of General Knox. lui-
que is trotter. As a yearline he went n
half in 20, aud has trotted an easy quarter
this season in - - seconds.
| An experienced horseman, who lately in
spected lot of colts by Axtell says: y
close examination of at least twenty foalS
failed to discover one with faulty hooks.
of Axel and the other Axtell colts at the
track we failed to see one that for physical
excellence could be adversely criticised
From the present indications it looks as
though the attention of the breeding interests
was to be pretty sharply drawn to the Lady
Bunker-WiIkcs families in 1882.
Harvard chestnut stallion. was foaIed
MAY 10, 1888. He was bred by Dir. G. +.
Merrill, Cambridge. Harvard stands II
81 hands high, weighs 1910 pounds. lie
was sired by llarbingcr, sire of Van Hell
mot, 2.29. IIarvard's dam is by Judge
Advocate, by Messenger Duroc. Messcn
ner Duroc is the sire of eighteen from 22u
to go. larvard's first and only trial was
on the track nj the piscataquis Central fair
in 1881, when he won prize in three straight
halflnile heats I.l9, l.26 -, III, in Il
field of five horses.
The fact that Elcctionecr could get tx
IRENE speed and cvcl-headed trotters from
thoroughbred mares, says The Breeders
doubt, and Whips and Ansel, both of whom
have records better than go and are out
of thoroughbred mares, have shown con
cIusyely that horses bred in their lines will
in turn beget trottcrs, but it is yet too early
to be able TO form satisfactory judgment
Us to whcihcr or not their descendants in
the first generation will, as rule, bc level
headed, and that in some instances they
will in certain characteristics throw back
two generations to the thoroughbred anccs-
try on their sircs side of the house has been
shown.
4 horse to stand easily and naturally on
his feet. should have the centre of his shin
perpendicular with the centre of his foot
on taking a front view of his leg. When
we look at him from the side of his leg. the
front of his shin should be in line with the
middle of his foot and the side then he
will break over even AMI true when trotiing
and will not be apt to strike his knees OF
paddle.
The New Orleans Picayune says: "a
man " no wantonly cuts horse. tail should
be compelled to stand on sugar dock in
hot - Gather with his hands tied behind his
back He would then know the agony and
torture poor horse suffers with nothing
but a stump Of a tail.
The latest scheme in the ringing business
is TO hunt up a gelding that has been OFF the
turf long enough for the public to forget
him, ship him off to a new section of coun-
try and start him in the slow classes but
unIer his correct same.
4 prominent horseman in speaking OF the
faults Of jockeys and drivers said: 'i
never want person vino will turn AROUND
to see where the rest of the contestant are
in race just as he il nearing the wire.
Such person can neither ride nor drive
for me s. second fine"
As showing that the business of breeding
trofters with certainty is still in its infancy
it may be- sail that sixty eight mares of TN
known breeding are in the lie, Of great
brood mares and a still greater number
whose dams arc uRtrace,l
AdGlts take eteasroonfHis of ,iohason's
Anoiync LinimcBt, in water far ,raints ard