Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-07-29
raacx 40 sTAslE GOSSIP.

U.m.rsmck course ST Detroit and the hiss
tory Of one Of the oldest trottng tracks In
this country is ended.
Tn. stallion Erwin NJ. .satl-s.hy l.oshair,
Jr.. owned by FL. Melvin Of Soa,h Exeter,
has lad heavy season ia the stud and is
no~ being work,d for speed. This fast snd
handsome ANNA. woa every race that he
started in last season, snd great things are
l,eked for from him this fail. lie will be
started ia the next race st Exit AMI viii
also start at Bangor and Lewiston, II
driven for it he should make srecord below
$50 He hiss also shown quarters In race
in SO l.a seconds.
Nine sl5 performers can now be credit
ell to Guy WILKES, 2.l5 Ia, silva. four
,esr-old sister to Rupee, ?. IL, having TAX
en- a rate record of Is 81 at Detroit.
The five-year-old hay stallion Ashton
weighs 1859 aad shows fast; - DC han He'd
this fail in circuit races; sired by Garnett
Wilkes; he by Onward by Geo. Wilkes;
dam by Reconstruction. a.Sl IL He is
nov at Charles Eltons stable, Cstsis,
Mr.. Eaton has fine Messenger Wilkes
lilly years old; dam Lsdy alright, by
Alright, he by Taggat,'s Abdel!a; first dam
of Lady Alright Was Sambo, sired by Sam-
DO, thoroughbred.
Nancy Hanks is possessed of an unusually
fine organization as well as wonderful in
telligenee. She has SO peculiar an organ
izstion that in giving her medicine maxi
mum dose for man is almost too much
for her. An ordinary horse will stand six
or eight times as much. Recently when
Doble started her out she turned her head
around and looked at him aud squealed out,
as much as to say, I'm sick" Doble got
down, examined her, and found her suf'ei-
ing from indigestion.
The fastest animal bearing the bl, od of
Gen. Knox comes in the female line, the
same being the great colt, Monbars, two
year-oli record, ZIG l-2 and FL 3-+ as II
three-year old; he being out of Lady Maud,
2.ls Ia, by Gen. Knox and his fastest
daughter,
MIR. George W. Lea,itt has again be-
come the owner of the fine pacing stallion
Cohannet, 2.l7 Ia. Cohannet is now al
his owners Crow Brook stable in Pembroke
where at present he has for company the
stations Jim Wilkes (pacer,l Geo. L., aud
another late acquisition Willis Price, full
brother of Jumps.
GRASS is natures great remedy for many
of the ills that our horses are subject To.
All horses kept for the cities, road or track,
are greatly benefited by liberal supply OF
grass in the early spring, beginning with
mall quantities at frs. and if there is any
arrangement of the system it will have a
great effect in removing the same, or al
east aiding other means in restoration.
The four year olds are in it so far this
season. On,onian l; Albert L, PIP ia
Belleiower, - Henry F., 2.l3 ii Hal
Parker, 2,i3 Ia and Vassar. PA IL were
Ii foaled in 1889.
A new conner to the . 80 list is the roam
mare Catharine IL which took pacing re-
cord of 227 -, at Franklin Park, Saugus,
July S, in the 40 pacing class, which race
w,e won by Yellow Ash, full brother to 5.
y. Boy, 2.23 IA best time. 90. II.
Allerton, 2.oak-i has Il good two-year-
old ont this year in Ferron. 2.3S.
J. Alba, the blacl. geldi4g which lat 'ly
took record of > 90 - is by Maine bred
porse, new 30 sire, he being by Gen.
Knox, son of IIowes Bismarck. 2.40.
The day when 2.40 limit is any good
in race horse are past but tina, kind of a
irving horse is in good demand.
Euls, the handsome bay mare, owned
and driven by Mr.. Samuel Boardmsn Of
Old Orchard, was htched in sulky for the
first time this season, and went an easy
quarter on the track in IS seconds. She
will probably be trained and driven for bus
ness later.
The horse Linus" with the immensely
long name and tail is nos owned by a
Calais horseman, Mr.. Charles Eaton.
Aluminium proved its value at kirkwood,
Del, when Saladin defeated Mascot in
POS 81. The winner pulled an aluminium
,ulky weighing but y pounds and wore
aluminium shoes of IA ounces each for
ward and , ounces each behind.
OF all the sons of Electioneer which
nave been used more or less in the stud at
Palo Alto, about 20 in all, the five which
have sired 22O trotters are Palo Alto
Y 0S 80, sire of Averna two years,
20 l-2), Ansel (2.2o), sire of Answer,
Amor (2.2) l-2), sire of Rosens t2.lJ,
ami Whips (2.27 1-2), sire Of Azote q :
y -. and Eros O. 20 l-2), sire of Wan
Ia (2.l7 3 -, four of which are from
thoroughbred dams. Others, very purely
,rotting bred, Including the oldest entire
4on of ElectiOncer, and the sire of Ii PAGER
with a record of 2.l9, not bred by Palo
Alto, however, have been used TO n consid-
cradle extent there.
Ayres p, the gelding which reduced the
record with running m ,te to 2 O3 IL at
kirkwood Del, July 4, is by Prosper
Merlin e 2 n IA, 4 son Of Fritz, or "Sas-
,acus" as he vas called ut Woodburn, n
full brother to McCurdy's IIambletonian.
Prosper Mermee'- dam is by Clay Pilot,
sire of The Moor, aud the dam of Ayrcs
p, by Rustic, horse of unknown breed
ing which was owned il Wisconsin. There
is no Morgan anywhere in nigh, in the pcdi.
gree of Ayres p, and it is doubtful If the
trotting re cord with running mate is to be
any longer held by one of the strain which
has so long rn0nopolzed the records that
way of going. In 1858, Ethan Allen, With
running mate. took the first record with
running mate which was ever made below