Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-07-31
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

| NJ. Pompilly has bought j. f. Voter S
four-years old Boone colt, Daisy d. Of
Kingfleld. He also purchased of o. C.
Lander his stallion, Bronze Boone
W. NJ McCusick of Calais, owns one of
the best three year-Olds in eastern Maine.
He is by Warrener dam a full sister to
Schoolmarm by Olympus. To all appear
| ances he is one of those colts that what
over they can do, lis able to do much more
There's Il Maine bred gelding" says
Mr., Hatch in II letter to the Lewiston
Journal, that has acquired honors this
season which place him in the faster clas-
SEES and that's Fred Wilkes Unless we
are greatly mistaken we heard Mr.. Ne
son, who owned him at one time say" that
fellow will get mark of 2 10 some day
and it looks like it. The great sire of
speed In Maine today is Wilkes S57l, the
sire of Fred Wilkes, 213Il, St Croix 2. :
49,, aud these two with Matte Merrill
ought to get mark of 212 before they
the cons eryative estimate There's no lot,
terry ticket business in this kind Of breed
ing"
Peter NJ. Phelps of Robbinston has a
fine five yelr-ol colt not yet broken, that
has tipped the scales Mt 1915 pounds She
is by Olympus, is dark bay in color, and
hard to beat in general makeup.
Edwin Woodside Of Sabattus has hand
some colt. Its sire is Gemare, Mr.. San
Woodside's fast mare Molly Boone. Lu-
In d. is another of Sablttus' good colts
She is by Robinson D., dam Whalebone
Knox, well broken and very stylish and
is owned by Mrs Francis Niles of Sabattus
George W Leavitt's new purchase Eta
Red two year-old record 23l13 drove y
winner out at Lexington recently in . .
co. She is by Red Wilkes dam Laura
dam of four in the list) by Joe Hooker
son of Mambrino Chief
The selectmen Of Houlton had the town
team weighed a few days ago. One of
the horses weighed 1877 pounds and the
other 1871 pounds They are sound and
kind, well matched, and more than earn
their keeping on a street sprinkler In ad-
dition to their work in the fire depart
ment for which they were purchased.
Horsemen are surprised to learn that
W. c. France OF Lexington Ky, will sell
all his trotting stock at auction. There IS
among them the stallion Red Wilkes.
second among the greatest of living sircs,
and eighty Others, stations, mares and
colts
One of tie most speedy nags in Itch
field IS the black l2-year-old gelding of
DR.. kindrick at Llchffeld Corner. He
weighs about $50 pounds stands at Is
and is as well put together as any horse
we often see. The doctor first saw the
horse at a town fair in Andover, where he
subsequently purchased him of Frank
Smith, the well known Oxford county
breeder. The animal was raised from a
thoroughbred Kentucky race horse by J.
c. Gregg Esq, and is one of the best road
sters in Kennebec
Franklin county welcomes to her list
of stock horses the brown stallion Like
wise 2.1715 (or "a. There's a little
dispute about the record lately secured by
E. X. Woodman, the well known Farm
ington trainer of Mr.. f. l. Franklin of
Atteboro Mass. Likewise is Franklin
county product. that Is, he was foaled and
kept within those limits until four years
of age. He was bred in the county too
although his breeder technically was a
Somerset county man, DR.. j. b. Twaddle,
formerly of North Arson, who sold the
mare within few days to ]. W. Oliver.
Esq, of North Freeman whose property
the brown colt was when folled.
The sixth annual meeting of Franklin
county horse breeders occurs on Franklin
Park, Pennington, August 13 and. Il
$3.50 are offered in purses. 1t looks favor
able for the mcst interesting meeting since
lis existence