Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-21
TRACK IND STABLE GOSSIP.

Stallion Elsmerc in 2.25 this eeason. Els
mere is PAGER by Albrino, the sire of Iona
S,2l714.
Geo. r. Palmer of East Dover has fiae
string of horses that he says wintercG we'll,
lie feels sure that that g ,mey ,rot:er, Lady
Franklin, Can beat % the conf g season.
He will csmosisn Culver, Murry, Franklin
D., Pat, besides the one above mentioned
Good judges say Lady Frank il could trot
mile 10 . 20 on mile track. Palmer
thinks hurry IS the speediest horse he has
in lis stable but has been will and hasnt
a very ODD record ia consequence. He
has ,ro;ted full mile in 2 A II, and
many think he will lover that record by at
least ten seconds this season.
L. c. Morse's horses of Libt rty, are in
fine condition this spring. Adelaide M,
2.30, is in fine CONDITION. Adelaide NJ. is a
Chestnut mare, 10 years old, height l5.2,
weight $50, by Jack Morrill,, dam Lady by
Foster kntx. Glen Seer, bay stallion four
years old, lG HANDS ligh, weight go, by
the Seer record . 10 2, he by GIN.
Benton, dam by Election, er; l.t dam
by Ecil by Glensrm, record ? 90 =, by
Constellation, II So Wilkes, bay stallion, 3
years, old, by Mcsseng, Wilkes, 2.23, by
Red Wilkes; dam Adelaide NJ, 2 so. This
colt is entered in the New England stallion
produce stakes races, to be tro.ted this fall
The present value of the stake is upwards
of $3400. Ross Wilkes is peri ct in gait
Nth rapid NOV, ment. These horses are
handled by Allen L,mson, who handled
Adelaide M. so successfully last year. Both
the colts are entered in the Maine State
FAIR st Ike races.
The well known stallion, Rucl r., ar
rived at Chas. l.. jenkins stables in Au
burn, Friday fro m 'down east" Mr.. Jen-
kins will drive the stallion this season and
be says the horse is candidate for tie
, 80 list. Mr.. Jenkins has eight horses that
can trot in 80 or better.
The hoof-bcat of the trotters ard the XII
vi of the jockey are sgan heard at the
Maine State Fair track in Lewiston and the
big stables are filling, says the Lewiston
Journal. Some of the best known breeders
and horsemen are at the track. III. w.
IIutchins' string in charge of Ed
Hutchins is at the IIutchins stables. C..
p. brakes horses are ensconced in their
quarters. Ashe Savage has family of five
fast ones. Major Ryerson is there and is
located in the Elmwood Farm stables. E.
|. Norcross, the Manchester breeder, is
there with string of Fearnaughts, and &C.
cupies the stables of DIR. T. N. Drake of
Pittsfeld. Charles jenkins has seven or
eight good ones in his fold there and Ostrom
is driving a number of promising ones.
The fastest quarter, to date, is 80 seconds.
An exchange suggests that there are
many chunky built horses in New Eng
land that if broken to saddle would he
worth more than for carriage purposes,
and it i, worth cor sdera.ion.
1'TCCtAW 10 causing seusd'lSh III YAH
fornia, but of a different sort than he caused
last season. The Ho;seman tells about it as
fellows: News comes from the Pacific
coast that an ATTEMPT to "nob" Dircotum
only failed of its object by reason of an ap-
p,rently special interposition of Providence.
The injury to the Oh ,mpioh's fore legs is not
a. serious MS at first supposed, AMI llickok
states that if nothing more happens to ipjuTe
the col; Ii, will come cast as at first planned
Monday NOR Dircctum was found, Gov
cred with sweat and foam close 10 barbed-
wire f, nee ,ar d at some ii stance from the sta
BILE. Some ruff an had turned the horse loose
and, from his footprints, he hal wandered
all night along the roads, which are Fen ed
with blrbed wire. llckok take upon HIM
self to sav that the champion WAS turned
loo'e by discharged groom, but AS the
man was rs f,nl of the hprse as he could
be, that put of the story is not g morally
believed. 1t is still feared that Dircctum
my have received some permanent irj Try
from bti,g xposed. while ba ly heated up,
to the chilly night sir. Much mys cry sur
rounds the occurrence
Mr.. w. Nj Roberts of Bar IIarbor, went
to Iighlawn Farm, Lee, Mas, few days
ago and selected the then two-ycaro(d colt
Dawn r, by Aicantara, dam Dainty, record
&c, by Dictator; second dam vi, in the
great brood mare list, hy Mambrino Chi f..
Last year Dawn Il. took race record Of
3 % 3 1, and was in the stud until late in
The season. Dawn was shipped to ,h'
Davies stable in Baltimore Md, Nay I,
and good borscmen y i'll be disappointed if
he does not take a record of = l2 or better
this year.
leland Mail, by Dawn R., no. three
wears old, was soil for $1,000, and shipped
to Philadelphia the other day. lila NJ.
another three year old by the same horse,
IVES sold to the S. m parties and shipped at
the same time.
| Mr.. George Grodcr, of Groder Syrup
Cure. has handsome bay mare by Pick.
eliug, that is showinga CREST turn of speed.
Sk, Cur ha 70, nc nc-