Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-10-29

b. quite pertinent TO adj four sst'onlIs 10
each performance. This repres.n,s jasi
about the natural increase IN speed which a
bicycle snlky makes.
Hal Pointer fsiled 70 lower bis record al
Nashville. Friday He made 4 mile in
. 05 81. The free for all paeisg, Bite
Sign won. Best time 2 10.
Oscar WILLIAMS. street commissioner, Of
Bath, has good all roani bor.s IN his grey
geIdinx. 6 wears oil, "a bieh stands 10 hands
and weighs ZOO pounds, BY " aslebon
Knox. He eau tro, in go. He !. one OF
the best, put him wherever any horse i.
likely to be put.
AZ the races at Franklin Parks Sauggs,
Mass. Friday afternoon. The 80 class
was won by Dolly H., best time, 2.25 l-2.
The 2 10 race for ;rotters and pa,;ers was
~on by Ches,erfel. Time, 2.tg, ,.2o IL
% IL, 2.l7.
There are over li00 new stsnd~l per
formers % far this season-
Manley T. PoeIer Of Skowhegan. has
soil TO Mr.. Dutton of Boston, tile black
mare, Til ;,effsrson.2 81 II, by Alexander
Jefferson, and saxora, receiving for both
$500. Tid jefferson made her re cord OF
~ "a at Lewiston this year.
One improvement in driving ON the race
course Is observable. bld style Of driving
has quite gone out-the shouting and yell
ing. the sIa,hing AMI cracking Of whips,
even the hard pull which the horse was
encouraged to take on the bit,-tliese are
ali things Of the past. The modern methods
are as we have intimated, vastly more sub
tie, more skilful, more scientific, inasmuch
a. they are founded on the true natnre of
the horse.
q. 4. Smith proprietor of the Holly Tree
Inn, Bath. has very speedy mare by Nut
sharp, which met such tragic fate ut Tops
ham last week. 1t is the FLY Primrose,
ont of an trabian-bred mare, one of the
most beautiful that ever descended from u
dcaert steed. As Nutsharp was horse of
more than extra good looks, it is not hard
to imagine where the Smith family have set
their hearts.
Bro Trott of Spirit of the Hub makes a
good suggestion when he says: IF New
England breeders who have a lot of horses
of their own breeding on hand would put
them into gigantic sale this full, they
would find thar their yearlings of next year
would bring better prices. The idea is, do
not keep your stock when there is demand,
but sell and keep the supply low enough to
meet the demand at good prices
Two years ago, there were plenty of
people who said POS would never he beaten
but you cant find one of them now a-days
1t is Western fad for the starting Judge
to talk to the drivers, telling them to 90
steady when they start from the post, square
and in line. and to take back if they are in
advance of the pole horse, to go slower If
they are out of trotting line or any other
the old-fashioned New England drivers, but
there are kickers TO every impr ovement
1t is better than the everlasting ding dong
of the bell.
\ WaterviIIe dispatch of October 22d
says Mr.. C.. H. Nelson has had an Offer
10 take the great horse Nelson to Columbus
Ohio. and TO also senl him to Tennessee tc
attempt to break the worlds stallion record
There is some hitch in the negotiations and
Mr.. Nelson has left the managers who wish
to engage the horse, to trot in the West and
South the ultimatum to decide before Mon
son is reasonable in this. As he says it i.
not Il wise thing to try to keep O. horse ii
condition in Maine SO late in the season, and
unless he can have decision so ne can q
ut once he shall let his horse go into winter
quarters at Swampsvlle The friends oil
Mr. Nelson will regret that the great horse
will not have a chance to lower his rccord
on a mile track this season; but they know
his owner would give him 4 chance if il
were possible to do so.
Some of the horsemen are watching will
considerable interest the work of trottel
called Elgin which John Wheelden is driy
ing in Manchester and other places in the
New England circuit. At Manchester Thurs
day, he won the fifth heat of O. race il
23l il. after having been in the rear il
the earlier heats which were in much slower
time. The horse is not known here, but the
fact that Mr.. Whcelden has taken him away
indicates that he must be a good one.
The kite track at Old Orchard has been
a great disappointment, evidently not being
as fas, as half the halfmile courses in the
State. II is claimed it will be improved By
another year. and it is certainly to be hoped
that such will be the case. although by nc
means certain.
The pneumatic tired sulky which Nancy
Hanks pulled when she trotted in 2.0l
W eighed but Sc pounds.