The Portland daily press., 1893-05-27
AMONG THE HosEMEN.

working vigorously on thO 1ANo ~
Track-A Contract Made With the Port
land Water Co. for Sebago Through
out Stables and Grounds Maine
YearIings for the New England
Breeders' Meeting-The Great Stallion
Nelson at His Work at WatervilIe.
Work ON the oval mile track
of the Maine Mile Track Associa-
ton at Rugby Park near this.
CITY has been resumed with vigor on
track, stable. railroad siding, etc., and
in short time it will be in condition to
accommodate the horsemen who have
applied for quarters and the privileges
of the track to train their horses. The
work of rolling the track, the grading
being finished last season, is going on
with two rollers. The club stable is
ready for horses and one Of the large
public stables is up and boarded and the
foundation ready for the second. The
Boston & Maine siding is being put in
and the iron is now laid for quite dis
lance so that the lumber from the cars
in handled with much convenience. The
Portland Water Co. have CONTRACT
ed to supply the grounds and stables
with water and that will soon be at hand
as the water has only to be brought from
Cash's iCorner and the bitches of the
track will take it about the park with
very little extra digging. The associa-
ton already own one of the Niagara
Falls on Wheels track sprinklers and
one of Grifin's Common Sense Equaliz-
ing Track Planning machines" the inven-
ton of Seth Griffin, the builder OF the
track. That gentleman is expected
shortly for the finishing up of this work.
Everything now indicates that all will be
in readiness for a grand opening in Aug
ust or September, as planned by the
directors early this season. The idea is
thai the track and it's equipment will
then be in good order and the horses
ready to make fast time, which few of
them are early in the season able to do.
Maine Youngsters.
The Youngsters of Maine will be well
represented at the New England Breed
ers' meeting at Mystic Park, Mass, in
September. The list of entries shows to
a great extent how few of the promising
young horses can be kept at home. It
has been the same old story for 25 years.
Our climate, good water, and nutricious
grasses, produce line of horses OF ex-
ceptional excellence and hardihood. They
readily command market and have es-
tablished high reputation for our breed
ers who keep right up to the most pro-
gressive idea in this direction. There is
not a line of the most distinguished trot-
ter and pacing equine bloodsof the day
that is not well represented in Maine.i
The yearling entries from this state for
the New England Breeders meeting are F.
A. Dingley, Casco, b. c., Bonnie by
Westland, dam Bertha Wilkes; F. R.
Hayden, Cash's Corner, b. f., Elmie by
Bayard Wilkes, dam Kate Boone; A. Fl.
Shaw, Bath, b. c., Albert H., by
Warener, dam Tobey B.; j. S. Chaplin,
Harrison, CHI. s., Linwood by Maine
Pilot, dam Lady Fearnaught; W. M.
Shaw, Bath, b. c., Metalico by Dictator
Chief, dam Elmira; C. B. Drake, Lewis
ton, b. FL Steadfast by Bayard Wilkes,
dam by Glenarm; Galen c. Moses, Bath.
b. f., Nellie Shaw, by Goldleaf, dam
Gilsey Shaw; Fl. Wesley; Hutchins, Aub-
urn, b. c., Alonzo by the Seer, dam by
Whalebone Knox, also oh. s., Monet
by The Seer, dam Lady Leighton and b.
f.. Miss Tuttle by The Seer, dam by
Highland Patchen; J. F. and F. Fl.
Briggs, Auburn, Riven Oak by Messen-l
ger Wilkes, dam Modjeska by Redwood,
also Martena by Messenger Wilkes, dam
Rosewood; The Colt Farm, Auburn, be-,
Sunset by Warrener, dam Ivy; Pine Tree
Farm, Gardiner, King Fisher by Arrival,
dam by Gen. Lyons, also Daniel Wilkes
by Arrival, dam by Daniel Lambert;
Bay View Farm, Belfast, b. f., Mollie R.
by Silver King.
Maine is also fairly represent
ed in the New England Breed
ers' stakes for two, three and
four-year-olds, nearly all the stock
farm and prominent breeders having en-
tries to those classes, among them G. II.
Nelson of Waterville, being prominent.
The Stallion Nelson.
The most distinguished of Maine bred
stations, Nelson, 2.10, is being gradually
conditioned by his owner and breeder,
Mr.. C. FL. Nelson, into form for the cam
paign of '93. The horse is getting his
work in daily at the track on Sunny Side
Farm, near Waterville, and is in better
condition at the present time than at
any period of his life he being now IL
years old. Nelson may be considered to
have commenced his trotting career as
a three year-old at the New England Fair
in Bangor in 1885, when he made a mile
in 2.27, beating the state three-year-old
record by several seconds. A week later
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