Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-02-27
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

vocste, dam an Inbred Drew, stands Is 3 l-s
high and weighs 1000 pounds. He is =
beautiful bay color. and shows good trot
tirS action, and is one Of the promising
colts Of that thriving town.
Some thirty odd years sgo one OF the
most noted horsss in Msine Was the trol-
ting stallion Hiram Drew A grsnd-daugh-
te, Of the horse Margaret S, six years old,
with q race record of 2,I2 l.2, recently
sold At auction in Lexington, Ky. for sic
25o. May Day mother Of Margaret s, and
daughter Of Hiram Drew, although Is
| years old, brought $1,000. There must be
considerable of the fne old Drew
blood iu Maine, especially in the
| easterly part of the State although il
seems we'll nigh lost sight of in the Knox,
Wilkes, Paichen and other breeds The
blood Of one OF Msine's earliest snd best
horses is evidently appreciated abroad for
these mares were both purchased by PhilA-
delphiA men for breeding purposes. The
grand daughter of Hiram Drew, Margaret
s., as four yesr- Id. had the honor of dis.
tsncing AllerIon The great lows stallion that
beat Msine's famous Nelson last season.
The Boston Herald 10 describing the driv-
ing on the Mill dam road last Thursday,
says: Ii might be said tbx, i, was s"MAine
day, for an unususl number of horsemen
from ths, State were out Without excep-
ton the most noted man who tried TO get
over the snow (or rather the slush) in some
kind Of style was MIR. c. IL. Nelson of
WsterviIle, Me, o,hersise known :.
"Hod" As everyone knows who knows
anything about ,he turf Mr.. Mel
son is the owner Of the famous
stallion Nelson @ 10Y, which is Just now
an equine Parish on account Of that funny
race ~ ~i.h Alcryon few years ago
Among other visitors from the Pine Tree
State were M,ssrs. A. l.. Libby OF the
Pine Tree Stock Farm, Gardiner; c. W.
Morse Of Bangor, a weil-Snown owner Of
good stock philo A Strickland Of Bangor
Bert Yeaton Of Augusta; George A. Alden
Of Wsterville, who aired his $4,000 trotter,
Miss Ledo, who has q mark Of rs, aud
d NJ. Murphy and q. W. Berry Of Rock
land. The two last named were seated in
Mr.. George Clark's tandem,
Miss Ledo, 22S, owned by Geo. A
Alder, Esq Ws,eIville, says the Mirror
and Farmer, lis holding her end up Il, one
of the bes, sleigh animals around Boaon.''
A standard, bssed on performance rather
than breeding. will be the standard, or
ought to be. of the future, says the Amer
icsn Horse Breeder.
The fashionable trotting stallion Of the
future will be a t,otting race horse, OF pure
roIting gait, and sustained by the pure
blood of trottiog ancestors.
The Thoroughbred rotter" will never be
reached through the operation Of standard
that welcomes blood that neither rots it,
herits the trot nor produces the tro,. Breed
xnd to kind, and classify kind with kiad.
The plsce for the PAGER is pacing stud
book, and the trotter y trotting s:ud-book .--
Horseman. Right you are.
We have never objected to registering
horses as standard that were standard by
breeding, no matter what their gait" says
The Horsemsn. What we nave objected
to is the registration in the trotiing register
pf scrub-bred animals that have neither
,rottiDp speed nor trptting blood and hence