The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-21
MIR. FIamlin's Offer to Two, Three.
-Four and Five-Ycar-OIds.

fOuE anu R1Vos eaTsOl0S.
Mr.. c. J. Hamlin, the well-known
horseman of Buffalo, N. Y, has issued the
following challenge:
!" will match two two-year- olds, three
three-ye -olds, one four year. old, and
one FIVE year-old, the latter eligible to
the 2:21 class, against any horses in the
world of the same age, for $500 side, the
contest to take place over the Buffalo
track during the Grand Circuit meeting
the first week in August. The FIVE year.
old competitor must be eligible to the
2:21 class. First come, first served.
"The association will also add $500 to
the purse in each case, $500 to the winner
and 800 to the loser, sufficient amount
to cover expenses. Each race, excepting
the two-year-old, which shall be best two
in three, must be mile heats, best three
in five, and consist OF two contestants in
each event. I will also match a horse
eligible to the 2.1s class against any horse
eligible to the 2.18 class for $500 side.
for two-mile race at the same meeting.
best two in three. The association viii
also add $500 to this match"
Mr.. Hamlin deposited a forfeit of $3.50.
as guarantee of good faith in every race.
with Secretary Hawley of the Buffalo
Park, and stipulates that the challenge is
open until May Is. The acceptors will be
required to make similar deposit of for
felt, the remaining $3.50 to be deposited
on July 16, when the horses must be
named.
Charter Oak Stake Entries.
The managers of Charter Oak Park at
Hartford, Conn, on May 6, announced
ho 1;c&o - Leor 60 l.
600 Charter Oak guaranteed stake race for
2.20 horses, to be trotted the 24th of next
August, during the grand circuit meet
ing there. The eighteen subscribers are
among the best known owners OF the
country.
G. H. Donald, of Bangor, has sold to
Dr.. G. P. Small. Lincoln, the standard
bred colt Young Advocate, by Judge
Advocate; dam by Brown Harry, by
Thurston's Black Hawk; second dam,
Prince Harry. The latter was remark
ably fine horse, and fast, got by Brown
Harry from his half sister. Prince Harry
was bred by P. M. Jeffords, formerly of
Foxcroft, who at one time had Brown
Harry. and owned his dam at the time
Brown Harry was dropped. Mr.. Jefferds
won first premium with Prince Harry as
four-year-old at the Maine State Fair,
and afterwards sold him to Orrin Shaw,
then of Bangor. Mr.. Shaw sold him at a
high figure to gentlemen in New York,
who used him for road driving. He was
a handsome, stylish and a capital road
ster, and was highly priced by his New
York owner, who pronoudced him
worth his weight in gold.'
W. FL. Swallow, of Maple Farm, Hol-
liston, Mass, has the champion brood
mare Of the world. She dropped four
foals in eleven months and nine days, a
pair OF twin FLIES by Sir Walter Jr.
z. 1872, foalded May 29th. 1891, one bay,
the other gray; May 18th, 1891, twin
colts by Del Sure. 24). both black with
star in forehead. The dam of this won
derful quartette of youngsters is a gray
mare owned by DR.. Loring. The yearlings
are rugged, and the youngest pair APP
pear as strong at their age at the others
did.
AT the convention of the Jouneyman
Horseshoer's National Union, held in
Boston, the Washington delegation re-