Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-11-25
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

CT. Drake has begun to jog Bayald
Wilkes. He was in the harness few
i AVS ago for the first time since the Prori-
dcnce races. He will be regularly txer-
sed all winter.
W. u. Blethen of Dover, has recent!
irchased a young stallion colt by Amber
b. Prescott; dam French mare with a
m,rk 2.27. The reported price is 500.
Burnham & Morrill, of Portland, have at
III ,ir farm at Falmouth Foreside some forty
head of horse stock at the head of which is
the stallion Norway Knox, 2.29 IL. by
Pail Sheridan, Jr., by Phil Sheridan, son
of Gen. Knox dsW by Godfrey's Patchcn.
Directum is ~ wonder to lc sure.
The old time Morgan should be sought
out by New England farmer breeders and a
specially made of breeding that kind OF
horse. There are lots Of farmers and breed
ers who believe in Mi kind Of "A horse, and
should thew strive 10 breed them the hill
lie farms of Maine, New Hampshire and
Vermont would yet teen with them Spirit
f the Hub.
Kelly, the driver of Directum, is not the
huge, bull Of Il man which he has been de-
scribed to be. He stands perhaps five feet,
seven inches, and weighs one hundred ard
ifty- pounds. Not over that we should
think. He is not heavier or taller than
Charley Du.tin of Bangor. Is not as ia ]
| as Ed Biiher. He has large shoulders,
breast and arms, with a compact, rourd
body. He is, in fact, a big little man.
There i, nothing of the terror or tough
about him. He is very pleasing, gentle
manly appearing fellow.
j. A. Tiafton Of Cumberland Mills, Me-,
has sold Fred Lothian (2.233.4) to William
,l!sn Of Gorham, reported price $1,000,
Fred Lothian is by Lvtlair q 20 l-2), out
Of mare by kcenc's Brand, wine, the sire
Of the dam of Captain Y q l-2). Fred
Lothar has demonstrated his ability as a
sire his year in the roam p.ccr Charley
Danforth, who took record of 2 % 81 al
ibhUpbr. Nlts, 'ftu. - 'NhtlA ~ - VIM
others v it'll records below 40. lie is also
the Tire of Annie Rooney, the dam OF Lady
Alcyo ESQ, the ytarling racer of The
Fat. In the place of Fred Lothsir at Mir.
Trafton's stable stand. q ,liboater (2.20
~, sire of two in the list.
The fast trotling two-year-rli colt Axe
nte (2.2o l-2), by Axtell z i2), is owned
By Mr.. William II. Boyce, native of
Bangor, Me-, who nov resides in Lexing-
ton, Ky. Two other Of the &c. of Axteil
err are owned by natives Of tie Pine
Tree State, one of which is Mrs. c. X.
Noycs' beautiful Ally, which ought TO be
one of the best of Axtell's get.
S Jme means should be adopted By viii b
inge's can he identified, remarks an *
Change ami then suggests: How would il
DO to require that when a green horse starts
in a race his name must be branded unde
his maue with a branding iron, Just hot
enough TO prevent the hair from growing
again?
The new style of riding en- cavalier,
which is already well established in the
West, turns out to be, after all, says a
California exchange, like most new fash,
ions, only an old mode revived. In the
early days all VIC men used the cross saddle
Great queens rode at the head Of their ar
mics, and wonderful talks are told of tn, il
| endurance in the saddle. Women might BE-
riding in the same way still but for an acct
| dent Of fortune. 1t appears that one Anna
OF Bohemis. wife of an English King, ia
vented the side saddle, not from any deli.
cate repulsion TO the mode in vcgne
but because she was afflicted viii
some deformity which made i. i'm
possible for her 10 rid. upon the
"a lilies in common use, AMI riding fl
women was impe ra'i7e in those days. Roy.
slry had then as now, snotbish follower.
followers ever on the alert to adop' fashions
honored by its patronage, and in a few
months every woman of rank in England
possessed lille "a Idle, AMI the old way Of
| Riding was ,abooed. Ever since tbs Z
women have been trying to believe then.
| selves safe and comfortable on the side sadd ID
| ia the heavy skirts which Invariably ca, h
| in the pommel with mos, disastrous results
ia case Of accident. The fashion Of ladie,
| TO ride astri5e il. however, now rap dly
spreading, anil will, no doubt, in time
again become The universal style Of sittiap
| horse.
| Some have en- idea thst When horse 50 u
to be 10 or ~ years 81. lis value bf gins q
iepreciste ON account Of age. This may b.
true with that class who'e growth sni speed
development were forced, but The msjo,i J
! of sound horses which have not hes u in.
! jared BY oyeIwork are right ia their prime