Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-02-11
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

| When Col T. s. Lang lived IN SsssA-
horc and owned the famous stallion, Gen.
Knox, be hsd = sls:sh baiis for the special
purpose Of diving the General il il. Tits
sleigh il nov in III. possession Of S. I.
Aboait, Egg of WsterviIle. Mr.. Abbott
has had pole placed in the sleigh and
drives out . span With il. IL is . little re-
mIkahis that the colts in the span are both
sra1dsoos Of Gen. Kaox. Lis unnsces-
ss'y 10 ssy thst both ale also speedy. -
vas thar famous grandsife.
/ Lo,s-ssilsd horses for dfiviog are bscou-
ing fashionable N England, the American
roadsIe,s taken over there hsvicg shown
the Britisheis that horse looks better with
Al UNDECIDED tail.
Asassls of Ret.iog horses held ST Lei
| iagton, ky., Monday. high prices wee
rsslizai. Ho-sein;n were pTelsa. frOm NJ
most every ssta il the { ion Some Of
the prices Esd ~srs as follows: Bsrnhst
| e ?. ss at thee yeMs) fu brother to
Ai4fton, SIS 000; Mar Marshall 2 l2 4,
| On fosi to AI.rson,) sig 5o,: Drex ellie,
$500; Judge Rider, q 26) $500; P.lo
Alto Belle , 90 10 AZ tnsse yeAf-) $500.
The fifty h-ee head sold pr3ugh, Si56, 725
al average Of S2957.
The wt-yesr-old Ralph Wilkes, IS
was sold st Lexington, Ky, Mondsy to
George ". Lesvi.t Of Boston. TIE price
is said to be $4,000
| The famous race horse Dorcaster. by
SsoekTeil, winner of thu Darby in 1873
the sire Of Bend Or, and the grsnd.irs Of
Ormonds, has died q, Kis Der, Hungary.
He was bought by the Duke OF Wes,mins
ter for $50, 900 He sftetward resold him
20 the Hungarian governmen: for s25 o0G.
The New York Evening Post relates
that not long age a horse belonging
to G. l.. Emery of Hone! brcof
Pa, while his owner was absent. got loose
in the stable. and, gaining access to the
feed-chast, overloaded his stomach with
good things, and pretty soon was crazy with
the pains which collie brings on. He broke
out Of the stable and ran as fast as his feet
would carry him through the streets TO the
Patterson House in that village, where he
bad been doctored some time before. The
horse by his actions soon showed him to be
pretty sick horse, an ! was taken in charge
by DR.. Bechsr', who brought him sround
all right. That horse knew he was sick aud
remembered where he could get healed.
The Chicago Horsemsn Gays: 1.-The Czar
of Russia and Senator Stanford are, i
seems. INDUCING in little horst rsde. The
senator hiss received through the Russian
Consul General at New York an iotims.ior
that the Czsr would like to exchange few
Of his Oilotf stations for an equal number
Of American tr biting mares. The senator
very properly accepted, though he is get.
ting the worst o. the bargain, for while ,hf
Orloff is the bes. foreign breed of trotiers
they aye far inferior to the American breed
Specimens of The breed were 10 past yesr
imported and crossed with our horses. bu
nothing of merit resulted. NJ foreign
blood can help the American trotter."
The French government spends Sl8, 900.
900 per year on It's public highways, but
their horses draw ton aud third without
trouble. Three horses take four tons of
hay ten miles without turning 9 hair. II
Belgium, Germany and Italy, where the
roads are kept gooj, one horse can do a:
much service as three ia the bad road dis
tricts of America