Daily Kennebec journal., 1893-07-31
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

\ rather remarkable fact IN connection
with the many fosls bred at Palo Alto is
that, while 200 or 800 have already entered
the 2 80 list. only one hes taken a pacing
record, which is undoubtedly the smallest
proportion of any large farm in America.
This is all the more remarkable when we
consider the fact that at first very large
nuuber Of daughters Of St. Clair and other
pacing bred mares were used and that very
Ii tht -loeing has always been the custom at
this farm. The soft tracks on which the
first lessons were given, together with the
fact that the pacing gait wa, in no case de-
vtlopcd, are, perhaps, the chief reason for
the remarkably large proportion of trotters.
A B. Whitney has sold his chestnut trot-
ter Jim $ > 49 IL to Harlow, the Boston
horse buyer jim s., was by Black Ben,
son of Harry Knox. Mr. Harlow shipped
seven horses from the Wilton station.
Scientists say that horses will eat eighty
varieties of plants. the tow fifty six and the
sheep $50 ont of 600 plants in the test.
". G. Doycn of kipgfied, one of the
propretors of the Novelty Works at that
plue, has fine pair of colts, one being
BENZ D.. By Gov. Merrill, 2.32 4, and
the other a bay PAGER. BENZ D., has bee
a quarter in ~ l-e seconds. which is pretty
COOL for an unframed three year-old.
AT the recent Meadville, Pa. meeting
Il fly three heats were trotted auI the horses
scor, Il hu, ninety times.
Primrose. partio, lars of hose death and
list Of fosls were gwen short time since.
now has seven sons wbi"h are sires Of $50
trottsrs, surprising in this particular every
other. Her seventh is B Bderton l2.35
SIRE of Maui G.. t227 Ia. which recently
entered the list H'r producing sons in the
order in which they were foa'ed are Prin-
ceps. sire of Trinket z ~. aud 81 others
in 9 30 Ahdslhrln.,, s,re ef Altar q Is y
etc. Maxim 2.ill sire of Ida u. (2.I93-i)
Mkadp te.t3l and two others in 80 Par
menus. sire Of Daisy y. % 3nJ Prescott sire
of Hsruldson q - i-2) P,uto. sire Of Leo
f222 p. ard two Others in > 30, and
Bindertou - 3d. sire of Maui c. (221
Ia. Primrose has seven other entire
sons, the Oldest of which is now l3. aud
they all have records with the single e1-
ception Of the on furl-,l tia year of
her two Oldest la, gh,ers, en- /. the dam of
Chichester - - ; q. AMI the other IN the
great brooI m.rc li', being the dam Of the
ptcer Nutrnae - 29). anI grsnddam of
Glcnview Belle e." 20 u at three years.
While Green Mountain Mad and few
others surp.ss' Il hr, anl others wilt ulu-
mately have morr IN the 80 h.,, no, other
has so l'srgt number Of performers and
producers 1t is probable that the sons
of Primrose will slt he si-rs of ,rotters
with records of 80 or better, and that her
four daughter. will te producers. which
will certainly make yer, remarkable fsm-
lily.
A good colt sold At a reasonable or ven a
low figure usually ienefiis the sire more
than one kept for fancy price.
The new wagon record male by the
black gelaing Guy at the Blue Ribbon
meeting. 2.I3 was a splendid performance
The best previous trotting record to this
style of vehicle was the . - of Alerton
over the Ind, penience kite in 1891 and
UopefuIs mile in lG I-2. made away back
in 1873. GUYS achievement Just equals the
best pacing record, the performance being
credited to Roy Wilkes and made IN 1891 6.
Guy was driven by Trainer Lopgwell, in
whose hands he has been since his purchase
by Mr.. Csmpsu. and showed form and
speed enough to justify all the good reports
thst came from the Hamtramck course re
garling his work and prospects. Guy has
quirsd in 1889 over the Cleveland course.
He has always been fast though erratic
horse. possessed of a wonderful amount of
speed, but with disposition that constantly
asserts itself in unseemly vagsries. Tie i,
= son of Kentucky Prince. ont of Flora
Gardiner, by Seeley's American Star. she
being also the dam of Fred tolger, 9 30 Ia !;
second dam by Bay Richmond, son of Toby.
He was foaled in 1850. and his most extend
ed campaign was made in 1888, when he
started sixteen times, eleven of them in
races, winning seven first moneys and two
seconds, and twice beating the mark he
started against in time contests. His most
sensational victory was At the Blue Ribbon
meeting of tha. year where in the 800 class
he ,iisssaced the entire field in the first heat,
winning in 2.I6 -. the fastest time ever
made 10 that class before or since. He was
bred BY Charles Backman of Stony Ford.
n. Y. and afterw ards became the property
of W. J. Gordon Of Cleveland, o., in whose
interests be was campaigned by Millsrd
Sanders.
Having seen = great deal of discussion in
the papers absut the grand-dam of the trot-
ter Nelson your correspondent would say,
.sOM Kate" said to have been the grand
dam of Nelson Was brought to tais town
from Portland by Geo. W. Lawrence, Who
then lived in the house nov owned by
Thcmas Walker. She was dark brown,