St. Landry democrat., 1893-06-17
TROTTERS AND PAGERS.

usnCing LOT the money In his Class again
this year
Monbars, AHA, will go back into
George Stars stable after season in
the stud.
Matt Maloney thinks he will have one
OF the sensational campaigners this year
IN Manager, 2.O94, by Nutwood.
The Wallace Year Book rejects 265
records which the National and Ameri-
can Trotting Associations accept.
Egyptian Prince, by I'll Mahdi, o25t,
out of Egyptienne, 2.1s, by Mambrino
King, is in training at Milpitas, Cal.
Horace Landon of Eden Center, N.
Y, has promising colt by Piedmont,
out of the dam of Fanny Wilkes, 2 244.
Nutwood now is % years of age, and
takes his daily joys and Is as full of life
as any of his youngsters that are taking
their lessons.
Hokeby, the two-year old PAGER by
Director, 2.17, out of Lily Stanley, 2. III,
said to have paced a quarter in 81 Sec
onds recently.
Bonnie Doom, the dam of Car, 2.123,
| has passed the most of her life engaged
in doing farm work. She has been bred
to Russia again.
L. A. Davis will campaign Row
Wilkes, 2.O79, this season and will enter
him in the $4,000 free-for-all PAGERS at
Washington Park.
Pulverized ir-slacked lime, we'll rub.
bed into the coat couple of times, is
recommended as a certain DESTROYER of
lice upon colts or horses.
Speaking of prices, l. r Baker, of
Comstocks, N. Y, says: MAUD S. only
brought little over 5000, but the sale
was worth quarter of a million to
WOODBURY.
J. E. Turner has taken charge of
Nyanza, $50, by Quartermaster: and
Nutshell, by Bayoune Prince, two four
yeer-o!d fllies handled last year by
W. E. Weeks.
The dam of the Jewett Farm sire, Bon
ME Boy, was killed by a rattle snake
when that horse was but few weeks
old, and like his illustrious grandsire,
George Wilkes, he was brought up on a
bottle.
The black gelding Midnight, 2.1s4,
by Peacemaker, died at Lakeland Farm,
Wickliffe, o., early this winter. He was
owned by John D. Rockefeller and was
turned out in 1892. At the time of his
death he was 20 years old.
The two living foals produced by the
old PAGER, Buffalo Girl, 2.124, to the
cover of Jerome Eddy, are both trottcrs,
as Ia also the one she produced to Red
Wilkes. This spring she will produce
one by Direct, 2.O54. Will it pace or
tr0t?
The stallion Highland Gray, 2.2s,
one of the representative sires of the
Black Hawk family, died at the home of
his owner, G. H. Dav is, Hubbardston,
Vt, last week Highland Gray was the
sire of five $50 performers, and of the
dam of one. He was by Darkey, dam by
Vermont Hambletonian and made his
record in 1877.
E. D. Wiggin last year measured
Martha Wilkes stride, with these re-
suits; Travelling at a 2 20 gait her stride
was seventeen feet; at a 2.17 gait, seven
teen feet six inches; at 2O9 gait, eigh-
teen feet six inches; at 2.07 gait, nine
teen feet; at 2.O2 gait, nineteen feet
six inches, and at a l.48 gait, twenty
two feet.
1t is very common for men to yell
"Whoa'' when they approach horse,
especially in the stable after dark. The
custom arises from a desire to let the
horse know what is approaching, so he
won't kick. The object of speaking is
a laudable one, but the method en-
ployed is deplorable and is unwittingly
the cause of much annoyance and some
accidents. The only way to use the
word is to say whoa" when you mean
whoa. and to use some other word when
something else is meant. Any word can
have but one meaning. to horse, and if
more than one idea is associated with it
the horse is confused, and not knowing
what is meant, he does not obey.
Drivers should remember that horse
cannot derive nourishment from food or
drink while in motion, aud these things
only cause misery after the momentary
qualification of appetite. The strength
must be accumulated or fat laid on
while at rest, and it is more economical
of both to give the horse but little food
md only swallow or two of water fire.
quently while performing its duty.
This must be slate year" for trotters,
for not one has entered the list yet.
There were twenty-three newcomers
this time last year. In the East digging
through ice and snow to find the tracks
and thawing out the trotters from their
icicle-covered stables is one cause, while
in California the row about the registra-
ton and the general apathy of owners
to crush in where angels fear to tread'
have caused them to keep we'll outside
the 'magic circle. - Horseman.
A simple remedy for scratches, which
is said to be very effective, is the follow
ing: Boil enough white oak bark to
make two gallons of strong juice. In
this put one large teaspoonful of sugar of
lead and two teaspoonfuls of alum; wash
the legs with cloth or soft sponge,
having the juice warm. In some in
stances, however, scratches come from a
diseased condition of the blood and in
ternal remedies will have to be given in
conjunction with the local application.