The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-17
rR CITING HORSES.
The Growth and Development
sof This Animal.
(continued.)

b on feet. Allerton was foaled in 1856 by
Jay Bird, his dam being Gussie Wilkes,
q who WINS by Mambriuo Boy "a son of
Manbrino Pathen). His second dam
was Nora Wilkes, who was daughter of
George Wilkes, son of Ham bletonian.
Jay Bird, the sire of Allerton, is q roam
stallion, and was sired by George
Wilkes. His first dam was Lady Frank,
g who was sired by Mambrino Star, and
Lady Franks dam was Lady Franklin,
whose pedigree 1 could not trace. The
writer found Lady Franklin in Column
bia, S. c., ins1 1868, and purchased her
and took her to Montgomery, Ala.
81 where he entered and drove her in some
y races. ] have been in the swim with
65trotting horses for the past thirty years,
and have reefed a number in races.
a look back to old Franklin as
one OF the best and truest horse
friends l ever had. She would
stick to friend that she liked
e like death TO dead niger" She was
& roam marc, only 1414 hands high and
q weighed $50 pounds in trotting condi-
ton. Still she could pull weight like q
) largo horse, being strongly muscled.
Il She trotted against Flora Temple over
1.-THE Union Course, Long Island, in 1858,
,fand also against other horses. About
\ that time sho was taken to Columbia,
Il SIC, in 1860, whore I found her. She
was a hard marc to get acquainted with
B and drive, but when once you got her
4 good will she was as kind as O kitten.
She trotted one of the hardest two mile
4 races in Montgomery, Ala, that was
in hot
{ herself stout hearted and true. She
won the first heat by q throat-latch in
( SOC, the second was dead heat in
\ 5:051s and the third heat she won by a
nose only in sos. The race was against
a bay mare called Mollie Buckner, and
at no time during tho whole race of
three heats were the two mare apart.
The elmo was very fast for those times
and tho little mare was handicapped in
the race by CARRYING forty pounds moro
live weight than her opponant Still
she landed the race for mo and a great
deal of money Changed hands.
took Franklin to Cincinnati, Ohio,
In 1864 and gave her tho record of 2:294
and disposed of her to parties who bred
her to Mambrino Star, and she produced
( Lady Frank (the dam of Jay Bird, tho
sire of Allcrton). Also three other foals
that trotted better than eco. As say,
y coulu not ascertain her breeding, al
though spont time and money in try
ing to do So Her likes and dislikes were
peculiar and If she did not take a liking
to the person having her in charge, she
would gu for them teeth and toe nails,
and nothing but the utmost kindness
would win her.
think Allerton gets great amount
of his good qualities from old Franklin
and breeds back to her Allerton was
bred and has been owned and driven by
Chas, w. Williams of independence,
Iowa, who also bred the stallion Axtell,
2:12, and sold him for Sl05, 900 at three
years old. Allerton made record as a
three-year old at Chicago, ILL.,, in 2:14%
and has trotted in many races, being
successful in them all but one, and has
: now the mark of 2:09A on his black
board. prophesy that he will be able
to ascend tho golden stairs during tho
coming season and set pin on the dial
of the watch that will be very hard to
knock off 1t will be observed that AL
lerton is strongly Inbred to Geo.
Wilkes family and it was thought by
many that tit inbrt eding would make
him a little weak, but think that the
outcross to Mambrimo Star and with
Z the help of the ironclad blood of old
Lady Franklin, which predominates in
i jaw Bird, that the defects overbalanced.
Nelson, the third in tho list of STALL.
ions who has got hold on the upper
shelf of the record, is bay horse,
foaled in SS2 and is now ten years old.
He was sired by Young Rolfe. who is a
son OF Tom Rolf, he by Pough's Aratus
; out of old Pocahontas, 2:l711. His dam
is Gretchen and she by Gidion, a son of
Hambletonian. Nelson's second dam
was Kate, by Vermont Black Hawk, who
MN c. Nf
was bred and owned by G. III. Nelson, of
Waterville, Me. Nelson has trotted
quite number of match races and for
purses, and has boon kept busy since he
was three years old. He has continued
to improve his record from time to time
until last year when he trotted at Cam
bridge City, Ind, in 2:l0. He is an iron
1 clad or he would have broken down
with the work and business that has
been imposed upon him within the past
three years. / is the opinion of many
that the horse has not been handled and
driven with discretion in number of
his races Time will tell about that.
His owner is accus sd of being troubled
with the big head.
1t will be seen that in all the three
horses mentioned above the Handle
tonian blood is very strong. In fact
there is hardly horse. mare or gelding,
that has last record in which the
blood of the old horse is not mixed to
great extent.
April showers bring forth May flowers
5 and as they come it throws us back to
old times:
Backward turn backward, On time, in your
flight" '
These words seem to haunt me while thinking to.
night
OF the drivers and horses who'vc passed from the
track,