Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-23
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

A. f. Robinson of Hebron Station, has
castrated the black horse Surprise Chief
2 33, aud has now one of the handsomest
geldngs in Oxford county. He stands
Is = hands high, jet black, weighs 1850
pounds, and Is model roadster, safe for
a lady to drive and afraid of nothing. He
is fast sleigh horse and is as sound and
smooth as when foaled.
Mr.. Geo. H. Groder has sold Miss
Pickering 2.55 to J. c. Horne to go to
New York where she will doubtless be-
come pampered pet in some rich stable.
Mr.. J. p. Gardiner of Vassalboro has
one of the finest threeyear old colts that
l have seen for some time. He is by
Young Nelson; dam by Count Jasper,
stands ISL hands, weighs 900, color dark
chestnut. This is fine appearing colt
and he has taken first prize for three
years. He has everything in makeup and
action to make fast horse. He can show
a three-miuute clip already. Mr.. Gar
diner intends to show this colt at the
large fairs next fall.-Turf. Farm and
Home.
E. L. Savorey of Searsport, one of
Waldo county's most successful drivers
and trainers, has some very nice horses in
his stable. First, Nelsonee 2.2913, bay
stallion by Nelson 2.09; dam May Withers
dam of Wilkesmont coz. This horse is
one of the best of the get of Nelson. Mr..
Savory has eight or ten others, all of
| which are good ones, being by Haroldson,
Wlkesmont and Nelsonee
Frank ID. Hartman, Swanville, has
three fine colts, first five-year old gelding
color bay. stands 15-2 by Haroldson; dam
a very fast kentucky mare This horse
can show $40 Second three ycar-o
fllly, color bay stands Is, by Elmbrook
dam unknown, third year-old color
roam by son of Constellation.
Mr.. W. Knowles of Augusta, has a fine
three-year,old by Puritan Knox; dam Il
Knox mare, stands 1873 hands, weighs
1850, color chestnut This is green
colt, but a beauty and ought to make IA
fast one.
Itappears by the report from the depart
ment of agriculture that during the first
eight months of the year 22,755 Ameri-
can horses were sold in Great Britain,
against Is, GA for the same period of
1894. The average price for American
geldings for this year was s155. 80, for
Canadian, S14l, and for German, $50.
The low valuation of the German animals
was because Of their inferior quality.
Germany is large importer of fine horses
from Russia, showing that opportunity
exists also there for intelligent horse
breeders of the United States Twenty
seven hundred mares sold in the English
market this year average $751; Good
carriage horses sold at $3.50 single, and
$500 for a matched team Referring to
the increasing interest of American
horses in the Glasgow market, this recon-
mendation is made: Horses of useful
size trained for roadsters and likewise
ou'Poou w oioih''iy wagon WOrh-SOlnc-
thing after the style of Cleveland bays
shipped from the United States to Glas
gov, will, as a rule, find a ready and
profitable market. Heavy horses, like
wise, weighing from 1900 to 1900 pounds,
in matched pairs, may be shipped at cur
rent prices to that port with profitable
profit, though it might prove Improbable
to send large number of such animals at
the same time