The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-04-29

ABERDEEN TROTTERS.
Myrtleton, Zigzag and Other Horses Oh
Mr.. C w. Bakers Breeding Farm.

MyrtIeton, Zigzag and Other Horses on
Mr. C w. Bakers Breeding Farm.
Baltimore Sun.
c. W. Baker has established training stable
and track at Aberdeen, Hartford county. He
owns several farms in the county and has dis
tributed his brood mares and yearlings among
these places. Good, comfortable stables and
paddOcks have been constructed on each farm.
Mr.. Baker did not begin to breed trot-
ting horses until three years ago, but by
judicious purchases he has got together an ex-
cellent lot.
Mr. Bakers aim is to have none but the best.
and he has begun the "culling" at the proper
place-among the matrons. He is satisfied
with his sires, as he has just cause to be- for in
the great Red Wilkes, and in Zigzag he has a
well-bred son of Rumor, 2.2O. As Mr.. Baker
expresses it, breeding trotters is, with him, a
side issue from business stand point and the
fancy is a source of great pleasure to him. His
ambition is to make a credtable showing of
his youngsters at the breeders meeting next
fall, but 1t is doubtful if he ever campaigns
any of his horses himself. He is just finishing
half-mile track on which his stock will be
worked.
W. III. Davy, formerly trainer for Niagara
View and other Northern and Western stock
farms, has been engaged to condition such
horses as are to be put in training Mr. Dayy
ed ones he has ever seen. As the track is not
yet finished visitors have to content themselves
with watching the yoang ONES go around the
their natural gait, and it would be hard to find
better action than they exhibit. There is great
similarity in the movement of the aolts. They
have plenty OF knee action, without suspicion
of dwelling, and strong wide prOpelling action
with their hind legs. Trainer Davy says he
will be greatly disappointed If, with such ma
terial, he does not land some of them in the list
this fall.
Besides the Myrtleton colts the following
will be trained: Marvellous a brown colt.
three years old, by WoOdbrino, dam by Bel
mont; three-year old filly, by Lumps dam
by Billiards. Clay a bay colt, by Coronet, dam
-, N.lr .r,fa hn.r b.rK
lucky Prince, dam by Mambrino King, and
Wilkes
Myrtleton himself will be trained for a mark
He went wrong last season just about the time
he was to have been trained Here is synop-
sis Of his breeding a w He is by Red Wilkes, the
80 a and 80 lists Red Wilkes was by George
Ms out h S aG asHg9ts1
dams side is from producers. His dam, Myr-
tie, was a trotter with record of 2.2515 and
she produced Myrtlewood, 2.25A. Myrtle was
by Champion, S07, who sired, besides her,
Charlie b., 2.253. Her dam was Old Jane,
dam of Charlie B. and other fast ones. Old
James sire was Nimrod, a son of Zeiley' g
Eclipse Myrtleton is handsome fellow. He
is dark bay, fifteen hands three inches. He
was foaled at Briar Hill farm, Lexington, KY,
April, 1886.
Ligzag, who ranks next to Myrtleton in the
Aberdeen stud, is chestnut and was foaled in
1886. He is by Rumor, 10, who is the sire of
who is by Pilot, Jr. Rumors dam was Zoe, a
sister to Beulah, 2.1934, she by General Knox
and he by Vermont Hero. Z0e's dam, Lucia
is the dam of four in the list She is by Jay
Gould. Lucia's dam, Lucy, ASA, is by
George NJ. Patchen, 2.2311.
Among the brood mares which Mr.. Baker
has collected are some by NutwOOd, Alcantara
Mambrino King Dictator, Happy RUSSELL
Baron Wilkes, Cyclops, Viking, Jumps, Ken
lucky Prince, Avonmore, WOodbrino, Bel
Green Mountain Boy. Whatever the province
of the animal, be it training or breeding, the
Aberdeen stock all shows the effects of good
feeding, exercise and general attention. AT
present twenty trotters, eleven of which are
by Myrtleton, are in the hands of Trainer
Davy. None of them will be started until the
breeders meeting next fall.