Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-07-29
Track AND STABLE GOSSIP.

Martha Wilkes, daughter of Alcyone,
sphom the Maine driver, Frank Il. Hayden
of Lewiston, put in shape for the race,
showed up in good shape a, Detroit, She
was shipped from Philadelphia Il week ago
/ Thursday She made three heats in Ii IA,
/ IL IL, s,lj. She won it in Il jos.
! Rubber-tired sulkics are >Grel, coming
/ into general use.
/ \ Bath gentleman Offers to wager $500
/ that there is y horse in town which can go
+ TO Small Point in one hour, the distance is
| sixteen miles. The best time yet made
over this road is one hour and six minutes
made by the span owned by Hon. Arthur
Sewall OF Bath.
The thirteen trotters with records OF =. IL
and better average l., IL hands in height,
| The largest are Sunol. Palo Alto and ST.
| julien, Ii hands, and the smallest Nancy
| Hanks, Jay -Eye-Sec and Guy, 10 hands.
/ Notwithstanding the unta, orable weather
! for ,rotting this season the number of new
/ ones to enter the . 80 list is AS large as ever
up to July Is, the number being upwards
of 800.
The trustees of the Prnohseot AMI ARGOS
took agricultural society at Patten have ar
ranged for trot on their track SOME time
in August.
The llorseman says that .Allerton will
make an effort 10 beat 49, the two-mile
record of Fanny Witherspoon, during the
/ September meeting at Mason, Iowa.
At present Canadian horses may be tax
en- into the United States free of duty for
racing or show purposes. on bond tha;
the horses will be returned to Canada with
in six months. 1t appears that the law
has not been complied with and that many
| Canadian horses which get into the
states by this means are sold with
out paying any duty. This having come
to the knowledge of the United States sec
rotary of the treasury, he has ordered that
the penalty of the bond for the return of the
| horses be exactcd in future II our Maine
| farmers would take measure. to advertise
their stock and establish weekly horse mar
kcts at central points there would be II large
decrease in importations from Canada
Maine buyers are going 10 Canada every
week for horses because they know
where to find them over there while
many Maine farmers have desirable horses
to sell but don't make the horse buyers aware
of it. Fifty cents or dollar spent in adj
vertisng Il salable horse would often be II
good investment.
The once noted trotting stallion, Aroostook
Boy, died July 18th, at the stable of his
owner, +. T.. Brannen, Easton Aroostook
county
Fred Tobey of Fairfield, sold his Boone
mare last week to Massachusetts parties for
500. She was seven years old and will
be sent to the track for Il record Mr..
| Tobcy has another fine eight -vcar-old mare
/ for sale that is sure to make a record way
| dawn.
benjamin F., the stallion owned by b.
T. Adams of Bangor, paced a mile at
Maplcwood Monday in 2.2I 81. 1t is re-
ported that Mr.. Adams has refused an offer
of $1,000 for Benjamin F. This fast horse
is by Gen. Withers, by Almont; dam He
loisc, record, 2.;S. by Gen Sherman, by
ltysdyk ks Ilambletonan.
Bro. Thompson of Turf, Farm and
Home, gives the following history of one
of the great brood mares of Maine whose
pedigree has heretofore been much in doubt
\ mare entitled to II place in the great
brood mare list. is. or was known as the
! l.unt mare of kcnnebunkport. She died
| several years ago. She was light chest
nut mare, with name and tail the same
color, stood about H. II hands high over
the withers, and higher behind, and weighed
about 1850 pounds She had remarkably
nice. clean head and ear, and a long, slim
neck. She would have been about %
years OF age had she lived She
WAS bred by Joshua I.unt of hcnncbunk-
1 port, Me, and was got BY Victor, son OF
| Clifford Morgan. Victor was owned at the
time he sired the Lunt mare by b. +. Ham
lton Esq Of Bildcforl, who gives us this
! information. In lS7S she dropped the bay
| geing +. d., :.2i - AMI Il year or two
I later, we haven't the exact date. the chest
( nut mare Minnie H., 90; 81. Both were
by Emery fcarnaught, $69l, AM there is
no doubt but they were both out of the same
/ dam This would place the Lunt mare in
the great brood marc list"
/ Williams, SAYS the Chicago llorscman of
I last week, has been giving ilerton great
! lcal more slow work this season than ever
before, and expects him to be in great SHAPE
/ for his first race i'll August. Axtell has had
/ nothing but slow work thus far. but Doblc,
who knows what he is talking about. say
| the great stallion viii not be affected by hs
/ lack of speeding. Axtell was logged daily
on the road last winter by Charley Doblc.
/ and the record kept by that driver shows
/ that the stallion got total of 1900 milct
/ hard as nails.
1 \ prominent candidate for the . 80 list j.
! lIaroldson record 23l - this presen;
( year. lie is, as well -known. BY Prescott.
anil owned by W. e. Marshall, Esq, Bel
tist.
/ Trotting horse men should use their inilu-
ence and means to have good roa'l. through
out the country. For track weary horses
good country roads are Il blessing. They
will train on better if given work outside
the tracks over highways that are kept in
proper order.
! FL Folsom of Corinna has Boone colt
that ia promising we'll +. y. Melvin OF
Exeter gave him a mile on the Exeter track
last week; first quarter at 30, last quarter
the same, full mile in 2.i0. Mr.. Folsom is
much eIatet at this showing, it being hi
! first track experience
| The breeder of road horses sbonh not
| forget that size il very important factor.
: Horses from Is ~ hanis to IL hands are
the most salabe and anything smaller than
/ that is considered understood. Next to this.
high finish is to he considered, and good
| colors or an absence of white marking. arc
very essential. Quick anil alert motion
must be bred in. anil here again the Morgan
strain is very potent. If a horse !. naturally
duh no teaching can make him a prompt
,t-iVpr any rnor,s than rant ,,os.1 ,,,ti,.r