Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-03-31
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

l e.. ". B!ow1 or Alssn, 10 IN Ft1ui
Of his tro colts. 0ns by Hafhir1er is as
pretty as picture AID has very &c ii.
All good judges call her tfoster. Her
mate is by Rex Msgnu', owned by T. +.
I.Meader of Bradford, and she is not far be
hind the Harbinger. AMI some predict that
she viii be the fastest. They Will be heard
from at the county fsir and at the Maine
State Fair at Bangor barring accidents.
Ssa- Lily. owned b. c. I. Hood of Low
ell, record 2.9o, gave birth recently to
fine colt by Passenger, who took record
of $50 when three years old.
As the percentage of msres bred last
year was away below the number served in
1892 and there prs misses to be ASH greater
falling OF in 1894, The chances are that
those remsining in the business will get
good rliees for their stock in four or five
years.
George w. Leavitt is ,isg to Kentucky
soon to look up another fast pacer.iti is said.
| Ell Cogsweli, should have a formidable
striig at Concord this year with Lord B:iao,
2 % l-2. Big F., is S-4, Bonner Steele,
$50. Falkland, ayear old record 2S4
10, Newfiower, 3-year-old record . % 34,
besides several promising green ones. and
the possibility of again havisg the great
race mare Thetis. PIG IA.
Says Spirit of the Times: "If the intelli-
gent farmer, who is supposed to count his
dimes go carefully, would keep correct
account of the cost of repairs to his wagons,
buggies, harness, caused directly by bad
roads, the wear and tear of horse fl ssh and
the enormous loss OF time caused by ticher
taking light loads to market or none at all,
he would find that he annually pays more
/ for the annoyance of bad roads than it
would cost him in taxation for the enj y
ment of good ones. Good roads for the
farmer, country merchant and the owner of
real estate mean enhanced value of property,
lower cost of transportation, an immense
cash saving of time, vast reduction in la
Dor ard an amount of pleasure in all that
class of work which can only be accom-
plished by using the roads, which in itself
would be worth the COST
Says the we'll known turf editor, Don
Donuan, There were, in round numbers
90, 900 standard bred stailions registered up
TO the close Of 1892. At corresponding
time there were 1856 stations thst ha sired
standard performers. Leaving out of con-
sheraton such as we're short-bred or TN
traced and unrsg stored, we fad al out 25o0
sires at the close of 1892 out of 20 900 well
bred. registered stations. This represents
IL l-2 per cent. 1t has been shown above
that 9. per cent of all horses that have
tro.ted in 2 Is are sires of speed
J. A. Brooks OF South Paris has three
year-oli mare by Col. West, dam by Tom
Patchen. that can pace fast. He also has
Arthurette 2.46 l2, as four-year old. She
is by ARENAS, Jr., dam by Tom Patchen.
| W. Fl. Miles, superintendent of the cot
ton mills at Lewiston, has good stable
and is sure to own some good colts. The
foundation of all bis stock is his brood
mara Molly NJ. She is very fine
mare and has produced SAN, excellent
colts She was sired by Winthrop Nor
rill, dam by Whalebone Knox. Among
her produce is the three-yesr-old bay sta'-
lion Goodspeed, by Warner or, brother to
Sunol LOS IA. This colt stands 10 3 hands,
and is almost an exact counterpart Of his
sire. He is good gated, has a disposition
! that is perfect, and after limited season
in the stud will be trained. When he was
81 seconds.
"Oue of the simplest, yet, l have found,
sare.t ways of finding what is wrong vi h Il
horses gait is to watch the prints of b S
footsteps, comparing III, position of the
hind it'll that Of the front" says an expe-
riencel horsestoer in The Horse Review.
"To do this we'll, driye out to the track or
a convenient piece of good road, and. hlv-
ipg had strip say 20 or 80 feet long swept
clear OF all marks, drive over ii, first at Il
walk. Get out and walk back over it, not
ing the position of The foot marks. If the
Lied feet step clear orer the trent, your
horse Is too long gated behind IN compar-
ison With his action in front. He may want
slightly slower sciion-behird and quite an
increased .tiile ia front. If the hind feet
do not come up 70 the front feet he is too
short behind. Having swt pit out the marks
of the walk, drive over III smart ttot or
pace, as the case may be, and note the diff
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