The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-03-15
THE ADVOCATE.
HORSE AND THAck.

ground is occupied Dy aAbrOttcr.
Allerton will spend the balance of
his life at Independence.
Marvin has purchased a $4,000
residence at Meadville, Pa.
Fourteen of Nutwood's get have
sold this year for $4,000, an average
of $3,070.
Every man who is breeding trotters
expects some time to raise aphe-
nomenon.
Decrying the merits Of, your neigh
bors' animals will not build up the
reputation of your own.
A sister to Direct will be bred to
Stamboul this year. She is owned by
Joseph Outhwaite, of Cleveland.
A bay colt has been foaled at Palo
Alto, by the great colt Advertiser,
2:16, out of Waxana, dam of Sunol.
A great horse is like great man.
He viii make opportunities in spite of
circumstances, and make himself
famous.
There are only two sons of HANDLE
tonian 10 that rank above Aberdeen
Ms sire of speed. They are Election
Ger and Geo. Wilkes.
Baby Mckee, Worth, Election Bell
and Palo Alto Bell, all by Electioneer,
recently sold at auction for $4,000,
an average of $17, 400.
1t never pays to bid horse in at
sale, as a decline in his value sets in
from that hour and keeps getting
lower and lower as the week roll by.
The highest priced colt does not
always make the fast trotter or the
greatest sire. Blood lines minus indi-
vidual excellence is not very far from
a blank. aHE
Senator Stanford says he looks for
Palo Alto to lower the stallion record
to 2:06 this year, and he has fillies
that ought to trot close to SunoPs
2 :0S4.
Because breeder thinks his stock
= worth big prices it does not follow
...at the public thinks 80. And the
public's estimate is generally the cor
rect one.
l.. L. Dorsey, of Louisville, has
boughs of Ben johnson the stallion
Earl, 2 :23a, for $1,000. Mr.. johnson
paid s., 100 for the horse last week at
Cleveland sale.
Uncle Jack Hood has challenged
Ralph Wilkes for race next October
at Lexington, KY, with his fast FLY
Annorean. He wants it for 81, 900 or
81 800 side. He has no objection to
p. A. Hamlin entering Chimes Girl.
Teach your colts to travel with their
heads up--a low-headed horse is not
attractive. But don't let them stand
long checked up; always throw of
the check or slacken it when you
leave your horse standing. 1t is not
the use, but the abuse, of the check
rein that does the damage.
st. Joseph, No., is coming into
prominence on account of the impor-
portance of her horse interests. The
Herald says that ten stations are
owned there which $4,000 could not
buy, while $4,000 would be a low
estimate of the value of all the trot-
ting stock owned in the vicinity.
In an interview in New York re-
Gently Senator Stanford is reported
to have expressed dissatisfaction at
the prices he received for the con-
signment of colts which he sold in the
east. He attributes what he calls low
prices to the fact that the youngsters
were undeveloped, and he stated that
in the future he will send nothing
east but colts that have shown ability
to GO out and trot fast.
When an owner of a stallion three
years old and over tells you that his
horse has not been worked, that he
prefers to wait until he is fully ma
tured before developing him., when
without doubt he will be able to
secure very fast record, don't be-
lieve him, for he is not telling the
truth. The horse can't trot and never
will. "The fully matured system be-
fore being developed" is thing of the
past.
There is much rejoicing among the