Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-10-24
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

one that he has spots on his reputation.
| Hon. j. NJ. Rusk, our respected secretary
of the interior said in recent interview
The 2.04 performance of Nancy Hanks i,
only one more step toward what our Amer
lean horse is certain to accomplish yer,
soon-a mile in 200. | would not be sur
prised to see this mare trot in . 90 this year
1t will be no more wonderful than the sur
prises she has already given us. At an,
rate the 90 record is sure to come, in my
judgement" Uncle Jerry and Secretar,
Tracy are the two best friends of the Amer
lean trotter in the National Cabinet.
Since Flora Temple made her record o.
=. ~ 81 thirty three years ago, until las
Wednesday there has not been time wher
a tro,ter held the worlds record with foul
seconds between them and their neares
rival. 1t is now Nancy Hanks 2.04 Marths
Wilkes .. Us.
The horses that trot fast now are SO pure
gated and well balanced that the lightes
hand on the rein controls them at full
speed The old style of lifting and reefins
and yankng a horse does not get TO tn,
front in these days of pure gated and tru,
going horses. The light hand is a rare gif
in reinsman3hip.
That misfortune never comes singly is il
lustrated in the ease of c. Z. Drake of Lew
iston the well known horseman. A weel
OF two ago we recorded the death of the fill,
Christina by Bayard Wilkes, by being rur
over by Maine Central train, and now hi
has lost by death the brown mare kati,
Boone. by Daniel Boone dam Lady De
Merritt by Gen. Knox, grandam by Ole
Eaton. Katie Boone had record of 2 3:
- and had produced several valuable foals
and was in foal To Bayard Wilkes when sh,
died She was foaled in 1879, bred by ID
NJ. Foster of Canton Point.
The American Iiorsebreeder says one o
Martha Wilkes shoes broke and a half o
il was lost in the last quarter of the mile
Nnlfn sHs futteu III S'pN III thiiiitotHe
ohio. This accident threw her off he
stride AMI probably made one or tw,
seconds difference in the time. She trotte,
the first half of the mile in | .ol.
Judging from what Mr.. J. b. p. Wheel
den who, with Mr.. Ebcu Murcli of Bangor
owned the fast PAGER which met with al
accident recently at Nashua, n. H., ha
written to Mr.. Murch, it has been neces
sary to kill the animal as he could not re
cover from the accident. lie was eigh
wears old and very fast horse.
A reporter of the Portland Press recent.
asked DIR. George II. Bailey, state veterena
ran, what he thought of the breaks in trot
ting records this year, and he replied II
is the bicycle sulky that is doing it, Tha
pneumatic tire and the ball bearings max
all or nearly all the difference. believ'
that the bicycle sulky has added fou
seconds to the speed of every trotter. Mel
son has record of 2,io on first-clas
regulation track with a sulkv of the OLE
style. He is easily good for POS with ON
of the new sulkies on frst-class track
Have YOU seen what wonders he has bee,
doing on the old fashioned halfmiie tracks
| If he could have trial on one of the fin
tracks he would show what a great horse h
Is. But the result of the Alcryon affai
has barred him off all the best tracks. |
is an injustice and think that he will b.
| reinstated to Association tracks next wear.
II is manifesty injurious remarks tn
editor of the Mirror and Farmer, to trot o
pace three-ycar-olls under rules which per
nit so many heats in n race, and either b.
legislation or special conditions every three
year-old contest should be limited to fiv'
heats. If it were left to US we should sa,
limit the three-year-old contests to three
heats.
The performance of Josie Campbell a
Topsham in making a record of 2.29 IA
adds another producing dam to the creli
of the old hero Winthrop Morrill,. Walter
ID. 2.2G 81, Josie Campbell 2.29 IA. ant
Golden Boy 22s 10, are all out of damn
by Winthrop Morrill,.
+. T. Monroe of Foxeroft shipped and
sold two horses on Thursday to Mr.. .Iohr
Colby Horn Of Wateryille, one being Won
a speedy bay which trot,ed at the Foxcroft
Fair and at Milo. and had gained record
of . ~ He was sold for $3.50. \ large
roam ow ned by Mr.. b. b. Vaughan, and
which could show ~ clip. was also sold
to the same individual for $500.
Mr.. T. B. Kendall of Bethel, has three
year-old colt called Ned II, by Pilot
Chief nv Black Pilot; dam, a Knox mare.
ou the sd of September he trottea his
frs, mile in a.tj. first half in liz IL
This was the sixth time he was ever har-
messed to a sulky.
Ii is reported that syndicate connected
with the New England breeders have bonded
A tract of land inside the city limits Of Bos-
ton. Mass, on which 10 build mile track
and the suitable buildings for the breeders
uses.
The Mirror and Farmer thinks that breed
ers' associations should put time limit on
more of their stakes. A phenomenal two
year-oid is pretty sure to make a three-year-
old state stake the following season very
hollow and embarrassing affair, besides
keeping the entry list down.
It ia said that the grading til. Maine mile
track in Cape Elizabeth will be fully CON-
plete,i this week. hnt il will not be rolled or
placed in condition for speeding until it has
passed through the experience Of winter
aud the work of the frost. 10 its present
condition it commands the admiration Of
people much experienced in track matters.
Red Wilkes has had more of his get en-
ter the 9 80 list this season than any other
stallion, his number being nineteen. Guy