Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-11-21
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

| The new Palo Alto catalogue, which con-
tains the pedigrees of nearly seven hundred
horses, was compiled by Miss s. l.. Kim
ball of San Francisco.
| Mr.. A. X. Yates, the new proprietor of
the Fairfield Driving park proposes to make
it interesting for the horsemen of the state
| in 1898, if they will cooperate with him.
| We wish him success in his new venture,
| and that he may meet with the encourage
ment ana support which he richly deserves
in his undertaking.
| Farmer, promises to be the c. W. Williams
of Maine. The new mile track at Portland
which everybody claims is star, was built
largely through his push and pluck.
The PASSPORT Sentinel says that the
steamer Cumberland on its last trip from
Boston brought down five fine horses for
Nr. George W. Leavitt's farm at Pembroke.
They were: The elegant little giant Penn
broke. q half brother to Allerton, whose
breeding it is not necessary to mention,
the pacing mare Ember, record
2.20 IL by SANDER, he by Tattler
and dam by zen. Knox. by ilambletonian
No. 10. Mutineer, almost the counterpart,
in appearance, of Pembroke, is a stranger
in these parts this being his first visit to the
East. He is by William L., son of Axtel,
out of Stoke, a Daughter of George
Wilkes. The other horses of the lot were
Hasselmere by Elation, and bay filly not
vet named. After the horses had been
rested and fed at Buttons they were sent
to Pembroke in charge of foreman Kendall
# Mr.. Leavitt's stables, and Messrs. John
McMorgan and S. B. Hill of Pembroke
| and Calais. respectively.
Instead of word of praise for faithful
| work. some men are so constituted that they
howl with delight if their eye happens to
| fall on typographical error however slight
and parade it before the world as a crime.
Brother Thompson in Turf, Farm and
| Home.
When a healthy horse is enjoying perfect
| res, his pulse beats at the rate of forty
times per minute, that of an OK fiftytwo
times, while in sheep and hogs the average
| cardiac pulsations are seventy-six per
minute As rule arterial pulsations may
he felt wherever an artery crosses a bone
or is otherwise forced outward too near the
surface. In horses the pnlse-beats are
usually examined on the chord which
crosses over the bone of the lower jaw
Just in front of the large, rounded hinge
curve
In making purchases of youngsters nc
one can tell to certainty what the colt may
develop to be. The better the judgment OF
course the greater the possibility of making
hit of it, yet no intallible rule can be laid
down, as maturity makes many changes.
You can rarely tell by the fine display il
the show window what the meal will be that
you order at many a urant.-Americar
| Trotter.
| The American Trotting Register Associa.
ton, Chicago, has purchased the Mills In.
! dex- Digest of the Register and will put this
| Invaluable work of reference on the market
| The book is a very comprehensive and
| valuable one. and deserves to have large
sale. For the ordinary uses of breeders i,
| will prove most acceptable substitute for
! a full set of the Trotting Register.
| Butid Doble. in addition to all his other
superlativeIy good qualities as a trainer
and driver of trotters, is also handy man
| with double team. as at the recent Soda
liz, Mo-, meeting he brought out Allorita
and Reina, belonging to Gov. Merriam OF
Minnesota, and stepped them off mile al
the first time of asking in 2.l5.
The Chicago Horseman appeared on
November 10. in new, clean and handsome
dress which must be as great a source OF
qualification to its publishers as it is that
pleasure to its readers. The Horseman will
issue superb Christmas number this year
| which every body should obtain.
A. T. Maxim, the well-known trotting-
horse wraer OF Maine aied NJ ms nome AZ
South faris' III 'ha' stare on iaesdas OF
| last week, an our readers who appreciated
| the thouph,ful articles from his p.n that
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