Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-14
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

One of the horses in the Bangor city sta
BILE is in very bad shape rs the result OF
poisoning from some fly bites, rather an un
usual case of the kind.
Frank Noble shipped his horses Friday,
from Bangor to Bucksport and they are
good ones. He intends to start them at
Old Town and Dover.
In regard to teeth young horses naturally,
have what is known as ''cups, excavations,
marked black, which disappears when they
become older, being worn off. The jockey,
TO mislead those who are interested in the
horse, will arificialIy excavate or cut out
the surface of the teeth and blacken them
with nitrate of silver. This can always be
detected in "bishoped mouth" as it is
called, by the absence of the ring of enamel
around this black cup, it being always pres
Mt in young horses. The shape of
lorse's teeth from youth to age are oval,
then triangular, then iiattened on the sides;
the latter being the shape of the tooth itself,
The root is very narrow and as the tooth
wears off, it a~sumes that shape.-A Veter-
mary Surgeon.
Electricity applied by means of a battery
/. now being experimental with as means
"a horses.
one of the features of this season on the
rotting turf is the large fields. No matter
how small the purses have been or how
arge the fields have been unprecedented.
vt Syracuse, N. Y, recently fifteen started
n one race, and in two other races there
H., recently, in the 2,27 pacing class
Eighteen came up for the word, and fields
of ten and over have been quite common.
But the climax was attained II the Siur
gis. Mich, meeting in the 2 80 elias. when
wenty started and strange to say none were
.iistsnced in the first heat. At the same
,,lsce fourteen started in the 2.2i class.
A few miles above the trottiDg park in the
own of Milan is the Milbrook Stock Farm
,wned by G. ID. IIamlin Sons. They
have n large string OF horses. At the head
-tands Emir, a dark bay stallion seven years
ID. stands Is 1-2 and weigh 1850 pounds
He was sired by Lamont 1860, by Redwood
1856, by Belmont Ga, by Ahdallah Is. by
Hambletonian 10, by Abdallah /, dam Fan
ME Knox by Gen. Scott, by Gen Knox 40.
He il a nice dispositioned horse and has
some very fine get among Mr.. Haml,n's
otis. Pilot Chief, brown with one white
foot behind; is seven years old, staining
IA l-2 and weighs about 1000 pounds. lie
was sired by Black Pilot 1897, dam Juno by
Gen. Scott. Lalarook, a three-year-old
chestnut FLY by Edwin Booth, by Prescott.
is in training by Mr.. Twombly. Medusa,
by Maine Prince, by Prescott, dam by Win
throp Morrill,, is five years old, bay with
black points, stands Is hands and weighs
100 pounds. She i. a great roader but
never handled for speed.
The New Hampshire Trotting Horse
Breeders Association has opened a $500
free-for all, pace and tros, Bunco Jr. and
Subscriber barred, to be contested a. it's
September meeting. Entries close Aug %.
At the beginning Of the season all eyes
were turned on Nancy Hanks, 2 % Martha
Wilkes. POS and Belle Vara, POS 81
One of these three mares was expected to
cut the record. Up to the present time
Nancy Hanks and Belle Vera have done
nothing and Martha Wilkes recent per-
formances show that she is off her speed.
Ssladin, POS "a. will try to lover his
own and the worlds pacing record (2.04)
Aug &c, the second day Of the Belmont
midsummer meeting.
Harry c.. the fast little gelding, which
won the 2.19 class a; Mystic, Thursday.
was bred by Harry c. McCusker of Lewis
ton, for whom be was named. The horse
vas raised in Providence, Rhode Island,
Mr.. McCusker's former home, and
sold by him TO r. ID. Palmer Of
Stoninzton, Conn, the present owner, |
for $500. Harry C.'s fastest time in the |
race vas 2.i5 which is his recorl He |
was by Green Boy, dam Mr.. NcCaskeY's |
mare Noah G., by Sprazus's Hsmbletonisn, |
second dam BY Long I.Isni Black Hawk,
and is seven years DID, Mr.. McCasker |
ssys that the horse has q world Of speed, |
and he Is confident that he will lover his |
record to z.l9 before the season Is over.
He has sister to him which has bred to |
Alcyone. which be viii bring TO Lewiston |
- soon - she drops her foaI.
Stations have done very light business
in Maine this year. Many finely bred and
promising horses have not earned enough |
70 pay their keep daring the viatsS.