Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-16
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.


sold last week at auction in New York
for $4,000.
At the speed sale recently held at
| Cavanaugh Brothers stables in Boston,
Matthew 4. Naron of West Roxbury,
Mass, was the purchaser CT Blanche
Louise, 2.10, by Red Wilkes for $4,000
j. F. Scott, part owner of John r.
Gentry, recently offered Colonel Taylor
sl5, 600 for Joe Patchen. AS this same
offer was made early in the fall and re-
fused 1t is considered as SO much adver-
Using.
The attention Of racing officials OF turf
associations is turned to the lawsuit of J.
W. Lash of Auburn, Neb.,. who has
brought action against the Dallas trotting
association of Dallas, Tex, for SEQ, 500
damages to his colt, Pat l., 21134 The
judges at a recent meeting replaced Lash
from Pat LIS sulky with another driver.
The new driver went on and won the race
and also injured the colt as to render hi m
unfit for further racing. By decision
in this case, if in favor of the owner,
racing associations will use more caution
hereafter in using the derrick.
The decision of the New York court
regarding the Flushing Jockey club cases
was wired to August Belmont, who is at
Lexington, KY After reading the tele-
gram he said: "Thc decision means that
hereafter whatever suits are conducted to
test the constitutonality of the racing
law will be argued and decided on their
| merits, and as the law was drawn with
yers in the Legislature and signed by the
governor after careful. consideration there
can be no doubt that the Percy Gray bill
will stand the tests Of the courts, high
and low. This means that horsemen can
look forward to uninterrupted racing in
the east next year .
| l. l.. Genthner of the Phenix house.
Belfast, has lately bought of Jesse Staples
the four earold mare Agnes L., which
is among the most promising in the
county
W, f. GIinnell of Searsport and l.. H.
| Genthner, landlord of the Phenix house
| Belfast, were in the city, Thursday,
dickering for horses. Mr.. Genthner
wants the rapid Otto.
| A writer in the Christmas Horse Re
view takes a decidedly optimistic view f
the future prospects of the small breeder.
He says; Owing to the cessation If
breeding for the past three or four years
and the using up of surplus stock, there
exists and will exist for some years, a
strong demand for wcll-b good sized
and stylish horses suitable tor track and
road use also for breeding If there ever
was period when breeders had good for
tune in sight it is now. Never was the
prospect bri lighter, as the field is clear and
the future OF the light harness horse is
more promising than it ever was before
We have opened up foreign trade that is
increasing its demands and in that mar
ket there Is a source of profit. After
showing the great success of the small
breeder in the past, as compared with the
| large breeder, in which be names horses
which have sold for an aggregate of
So 099, 1870, he figures that, while large
breeders, headed by Palo Alto farm which
sold Arion 2.o734, for 1926. coo have bred
and sold 1920, $50 of this amount, the
small breeder, headed by c. W. Williams
who sold Axtell for sos, 600, have to their
credit the sum of 81, 17S, 200. In conclud
| Ing the says: "The crucial period
| through which the breeding interest has
| just passed, must not be regarded as a
had arrived at inat point where 1t was a
question of the survival OF the fittest
| The fittest, we believe. survives, and the
new era holds out glowing promise. To
the small breeder, the props of the great
| structure, we hold out words of praise
and encouragement Now Is the time to
rebuild, TO set the interest on firmer
foundation
Fpp'ng, \. h., is getting to be OF lite a
horse town. Big f., 2.16l3, Fargo
2.a9A, trial 2.1914J Joe F., 2.3l II, trial
a221a, are among the recent speed addi-
lions at this place Besides these there
are number of other speedy trottsrs and
fast roadsters in town.
Driver John F. Payne who was Fast
last summer and drove Early Bird 2l0
after Frank Hayden gave him up re-
turned to Kentucky at the close of the
season, and Went to training horsss at
Cynthiana. On the night of Nov. IS, he
was murderousiy assaulted by two men,