The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-03-26
THE ADVOCATE.
HORSE AND TRACK.
G W.. William has nineteen young

BUTTS w AHertoh, thc HlhJWhf VI
which will be trained this year.
Lottie Lorraine 2:101, and Georgia
Lee 2:12a, owned by G. & G. P. Cecil,
Danyille, will not be raced this year.
DE de Cernea offered 5000 for the
chestnut mare Kentucky Union :ll3.
Sam Fuller who has her at Sedalia,
Mo-, refused it.
Crit Davis calls Helen Leyburn 2:l4
the "trotting machine" He drove
her to her record of ia last year and
saws she can step mile in 2 10 and a
quarterin 80 seconds.
Budd Doble has returned from Cal
ifornia. He says Fantasy will be the
next queen 9th turf, that klamath
2:124 wiz be the sensational horse of
the year, and says he can just step
away from Azote.
G.. and G. P. Cecil, of Danville,
have sold to Toussaint & Sweet, of
: Milwaukee, Josie Ray, a two-year-old
fillv. by Nuthurst, 2:149, dam by
Hambrino, for $1,000 cash. Josie Ray
is very fast natural PAGER. Last fal
as a yearling, she worked quarter OF
mile N 324 seconds.
The Hamlins have sixty-fve horses
in training at the Buffalo Driving
Park for the campaign of 1895. 1t
will be the busiest year that the VIII
lage Farm stable has ever known.
\ Two strings will be put in the field.
. Geers, of course, will be at the head
of one, while Charlie Lyon will man
age the other The stable will begin
the season at Red Oak, Ia, and from
there go to Minneapolis, thence to La
Crosse, Wis, and after that to Sagi-
nav. Thereafter the route will be
down the Grand Circuit.
We learn that Don Lowell, :144. |
and the mare Eggnog, 2:25, recently
purchased by Mr.. George Fl
Ketcham, of Toledo, Ohio, were
bought for and will be shipped to Mr..
Walter Winans, of Brighton, England,
The horses win leave for Europe next
week i'm charge of Mr.. V. III. Ketch-
EN- and Superintendent Murren, of
the Ketcham Farm. Don Lowell is a
: handsome gelding, Is hands, foaled in
1889. He has record of OF 2 :144,
but can, it is said, speed at two-min-
ute gait. He is by Don Marvin, sire
of Don Lowell, 2:l44; BonPset, 2:27
as two-year-old, and other good
ones His first dam is Esmeralda by
Brigadier, he by Happy Medium.
Eggnog is most beautiful animal, by
Egbert, dam by Blackwood,. and has
taken many premiums insthe show
rings at some of the principal fairs in
America.
Strathmore, son of Rysdyk's Ham
bletonian, dam Lady Wattermire, by
North Americag, died at Fort Wayne,
Ind, on Monday. About three weeks
ago he slipped and fell while being
led from his stable to paddock, and
received injuries from which he never
recovered. Stratnmore was foaled in
1866, and was bred at Chestnut Hill
Farm, Pa. At seven years of age r.
G. Stoner, Paris, KY, purchased him,
and in 1886 the old horse became the
property of Rockhlll, Bros, Fleming
and Bash, Fort Wayne, Indy who
owned him at the time of his death.
There is yearling FLY at Palo
Alto Stock Farm that is destined, if
reports be true, to eclipse anything
that has yet appeared among the
yearlings in California or anywhere
else This is Noraline, brown filly
by Norris (son of Ansel and Norma,
dam Of Norval, 2:l48,) dam Elaine,
2:20 She is almost a month ahead of
Abdell, 2 :23, in speed development,
and on Tuesday, February 26, she
trotted an eighth in % seconds. 1t
was as late as March Is when the son {
son of Advertiser went that fast. Nor {
aline-is said to be of good disposition,
fine size and level head. Her sire is
owned by Mr.. e. j. Appel, Rochester,
N. Y, who bought him about year
ago at the sale of Palo Alto horses in
New York City.
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