Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-01-30
GOSSIP OF THE TRACK AND STABLE.


The Androscnggin Horse Breeders ear
nival and combination sale has been fixed
for February %, and details for the same
are In the hsnd- Of committee consisting
of II. Wesley IIutchins. }. :. Sanborn. F
II. Briggs, G.. +. Drake and Charles l..
cnsiman Turf Farm ard Home says
The high character of the gentlemen who
lend their nines to the enterprise is a sure
guarantee that everything will be done 'on
the square and that the best interests OF
the seller will be snbserved. The sale
will take place at the stables of the Auburn
Colt Farm.
When sixty-nine head of trotting stock
bring si0j,5l an average of 81 ,.523. l3, as
the Guy Wilkes band did in New York last
week. there isn't much that is the matter
with one end of the trotting horse market,
and that is the best end.
Fred Mitchell of Turner went up to Can
ton the other day and bought bay pacing
mare of George W. Moore, the harness
maker. She is by Macbeth, son of Dan,
il Boone, and can show quite turn OF
speed.
Mr. +. j. Murch of Bangor has pur-
chased of II. b. Grant, ESD, the promising
gclding, Bay Dick. Bay Dick is five year,
old. and is quite trotter, having II record
If 2.37. He is said to have trotted a halt
in LIZ in race last fall.
The American Horse Breeder saws that
Mr.. A. ii. Moore of Philadelphia go, bar
gain when he secured the noted Maine bred
brood mare, Mabel L., by Victor (2.23) fol
81 900. About the time the standard craze
was started. the dam of Mabel L., Hippen
hcimer. was owned by Maine breeder
lie knew he had great individual, but she
was not standard, so he soEl her. Now he
wishes he hadn't.
VIM. Gregg of Andover reports the STOCK
at The Pines as doing well. He is winter
ing 90 horses, among them Griffin $50
Conrad by Nelson; Gipsey VI and his broot
Jung
NJ. c. Delano, a former Maine trainer
now in California, gives the following est
mate of STEAMBOAT as a race horse: II Sc,
Budd Doble is to have STEAMBOAT next veal
to campaign, If he ever starts agains
kremlin, Lobasco, ALVIN, Moquette or an,
horse of that class don't buy ticket on him
lie is very fast and game, but ratty an,
goes at turn three cornerel. If he beat
his record he and Doble will be in luck fo
in my opinion Walter Maben is just as goo'
man as any of them. I think Doble vii
find Stamboul very hard horse to drive
and keep straight on any but kite o
straight-away track. 1t would not surprise
me if he could go in 2.0i or 05 on
straight-away running track or get beat i,
2.t3 or PA on a regulation in II field o
good horses"
Hon. George u. Bisbee of Buckle ha.
Just sold to H. c. Phillips of Boston. the
brown mare. Deborah. by Dictator Chief
dam (the dam of Cephas, 2.2j IA b,
Matchless. Deborah is a good shapet
mare, and has good turn of speed
Mr.. b. Fairbanks of Winthrop, say
that Whalebone Knox is wintering we'll
Notwithstanding the fact that he is IS year
old
The standard matter can be easily AL
lusted. Let the standarl remain as it l.
anl let horses come in bv blood or perfor
nance rs they 10 now. But make elias
for thoroughbred trotters. which shall be-
registered by blood alone. requiring five IN
contaminated standard crosses and the thin
is done. The prospect that standard ami
mails will sometime, by ju,licious crossnl
up the value of that class, and the thin.
will work itself ont in time. But frat cu
off tin cup records j. W. THoMr>oN, il
Turf, Farm and Home.
Mr. y. o. Norton of Belfast has two val
liable PAGERS at his stable. The first is
fivc-ycar-oll, stands l6 hands high. weighs
1850 pounds and can show a forty clip
The other is fve-year-old, stands Il
hands, inch high, weighs 1000 pounds
was sired by smuggler's Gift, dam, Drew
mare. and is full brother to Dan Snug
gler. who has focr-ycar-old record o.
2.34. They are a neat pair of horses.
Vet Witham of Waterville is winterins
about dozen head of horses and colt
mostly his own. He has very fast youns
mare by Ned Boone. from mare by Gid
con, and several by Broadway, which art
threatened with speed.
c. II. Nelson has purchased of Gu,
letchell fine FLY foal of 1891 by Wilkes
from mare by Junior. second dam b,
Gen. Knox. If anyone would like to zee I
real trotter they should go to Sunnyside AM
look at this one.