Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-12-18
Track AND sras,e GOSSIP.

are DESTROYS OF addlhy ne" "S"oS'S " ~
order before the annual winter meeting,
who will help to boom the ORGANIZATION ana
m>ke il a success. That's right.
II, i. claimed that a horse should measure
net more than Is to 20 inches from the
noint of the wi,hers to his coupling, to Se
powerfully pat up horse. II is also cisimed
that the majority of horses average nearer
80 inches than 20. 1t is true that ksrus'
Sunol, Martha Wilkes and others have been
of the long backed species. and all have
been fast. But Kremhn, Direct and d.
rectum are of the short back variety Inc
latter have long, sloping shoulders anu
quarters which afford ample room for e1-
tension when at speed, and is undoubtedly
the strongest and most durable conforr's-
ton.
There are 4a2 horses in the United States
who have made pablie record OF 2.i' or
better, many of them reaching that marx
during the past season.
Lightning. 2.l1, by Aleantara, 2.2S' VIII
be bred 10 haipu NiAhes' $50 'N >e
season.
The fact that two buyers recently paid
this State visit in search Of stylish gentle
mems drivers and after stay of four days
returned empty handed does not demon
strate that there are not many fine speci-
mems of that class of horses in the State.
AZ, IN (voVk's HDrap
Review indicates that all is not rs it should
be in the breeding of horses In TINS
State. After showing the practical impos-
sibility of attempting to train horse both
to a. road and track gait the Lewiston Sun
SAYS: LET the good breeding farms pro-
duce the speed and the farmer will ind
both pleasure and profit in raising the road
sters."
The average driver should be compelled
to give his horse better education on scor-
ing or else be compelled to start from
stand still in front of the stand.
Fads in breeding, such as the idea that
the quality of the trotter may be improved
by fresh infusions of thorough blood, are
doomed to disappear, is the opinion of the
Kentucky Stock Farm. They will not
long survive the light which track perfor-
nance throws upon breeding problems.
Each successive year it is becoming more
evident that the straight road is the best.
Breed trotters as you would other ANIMALS.
| k,,I 20. tpr
or a Shanghai to get game cock.
Breed for what you want. Follow
natures laws. They are the best yet
discovered. She's been in the business a
long time. Don't attempt to manufacture
new laws of heredity. The chances are
that natures laws will beat yours hollow
She commenced very early to produce like
from like. She has kept it up with great
deal of persistence. There are no indica-
tons that her laws of heredi'y have proved
failures Elephants still produce elephants,
and pigeons, pigeons. Thoroughbreds be-
get runners, and trotting horses bred to
thoroughbred mares, as a rule, about as
near nothing as one cares to own.
9. W. Williams, the famous horseman of
Independence, Iowa, the owner of Aller-
ton and other fast ones. whose property,
outside of hi, horses, has been mortgaged
for some time to the extent of $780,
900, has turned over all of his property to
his mortgage, X. Campbell. , he proper
ty includes Williams famous kite track
the Opera house, the electric street rail-
way and Williams residence in In
dependence, which leaves him PRACTICAL
" shorn of his fortune. Williams got his
start by selling Axtell for Sl0j 900, and in
Il few yesrs made quarter of million in
| the horse business. He is man of large
ambition and great enterprise and sunk his
money in hotel, an opera house and an
electric road, besides going heavily in debt.
All of these things he done for the pride he
felt in Independence, but they proved very
costly and now he must start ut the begin
ming again. He is the soul Of honor and is
highly esteemed by his townsmen. The
sympathy of the horse world will be extend
ed to him.
If you are buying horse remember that
the weak points of horse can be better
| discovered while standing than while NOV
ing. If he is sound he will stand firmly
and squarely on his limbs without moving
them, with legs plump and naturally poised /;
or if the foot is taken from ground and the
weight taken from it, disease may be sus-
pected, or at least tenderness W hich is the
precursor of disease. If the horse stands
with his feet spread apart, or stradles
with his hind legs, there is weak
| ness in his loins and the - kidneys
are disordered. Heavy pulling bends
the knees. Blush, milky-caa eyes
in horses indicate blindness or
something else. bad tempered one keeps
his ears thrown back; a kicking horse is
| apt TO have scared legs; stumbling horse
has blemished knees. When the skin is
rough and harsh and does not move easily
to the touch, the horse is heavy eater and
iige stion is bad. Never buy horse whose
breathing organs are at all impaired. Place
your ear at the heart and il wheeling
sound is heard it is an indication Of trouble.
George II. Talbot Of Camden purchased
recently in Albion a promising yearling
colt. Its sire Burdette has a 2.2i Ia
record. The colt is q bay. will be named
vigilant and is square trotter although
Burdette is PAGER.
| At Rowe's station, on the Maine Central
Railroad In New Gloucester, is the home of
that handsome and highly bred couch st4l-
lion Rsyon d. Or. (Rsy Of Gold) owned by
Bayley and Stackp ,le, no have lately en-
parked in the breeding Of the French coach
horse. They have certainly nude good
beginning for in Rsyon d. Or they have one
| Of the best coach stations tba. was ever
imported to Americs, and the brood mares
Of which they have four Of this breed, are
the best that could be bought in France. and
we're imported by b. B. Lord & Son Of Sin
clairviile, ". Y. Rayon d'Or il one Of the
srsndest horses that ever left France; sired
| by the government stall on Alario 1877, a
horse fsmou, in the stud and also perform
n, and his dam was the famous Camelia,
the most successful prize winning mare
| shat was ever owned in France. She died
in 1887 at the age of fourteen years and
~as never beaten in the show ring, carrying
| of every year Of her life fret prize aud
gold medal wherever shown. She was bred
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