The Newtown bee., 1895-08-02
show the phenomenaI speed that marked the finish Of Pointer's mile. [ s.1al..ls

show the phenomenal speed that marked the finish Of F Pointer's mile. s'aalaM
 DlAtn Red Oak, Ia-, last Wednesday.
 Percy iStaeilhouse of Lexington; aRy.,
 WOE the ], 20 trot with sophia C., By Don
 gaEl9s, trotting the fourth heat, in 2.2l at4i ioa Nina F., by liDomineer, won 5the
 2.30 pace in 2.19, 2.1S 14 and 15, after Lady Nottingham had won heat in 21a
 E4.d J9B. Chandler won the 3 2s trot
 with The Corporal. Hambletonian
 Prince, stepping the first heat in 2.16,
 while in the tWo-year-old pace Sulphide,
 brother to Carbonate, ? 2:os;; defeated a
 strong field in P 1e IF and 7, ,19,,s bea4s The entry list for the Concord races
 next week is one of the biggest eyer
 received at a ihalf-mile track in New England.l It aggregates 1so and in cludes many of the best horses now per forming in the East la The fast classes occurion Friday, the Hast day. These are, the 19 ytfot, for which Nash vile, Kendall, .Madge Wilkes, Don C.,
 .Twang, Silver. Street and Newfower are l entered, g and thed2 15 pace, for which
 ChafIey P.ss Helen M, Miller's Ward, Mountain Pink, Sea Bird, Tantara 8 nd
 Jimmie B. are named. E 4 dgtIel3 495gI
 ' The death ef the Detroit, Mich., horse,
 Qseag,is,rspaEted to have oecurred1r ippnd under
 peculiar ciueumstaneesan William New.
 ton bought the geldipg at the sale in that
 city, ! last April and began training him He took Osear to the track at Highland I Bark aofem days ago. to, work. him out
 and succeede in driving him a mile gin l'2. 24.51 He returned to his stable in the city with the horse, and shortly after.
 ward the barn was burned and the prom Using horse was destroyed. Fadof5i5hR II At Hudson, Mass, last Saturday,J. E tMarstonI wonia grand race with ex-Gov
 Tuutle's gray pacer. Ned, by Marnbrint
 Wilkes. Ten horses started and afte fNettie D. had won two heats ssJohnny' went to the front with the Pittsffelt lpaceI, taking the third, fourth and fiftl :. hCdoS duGi hhCldSCs@ AhC HUI uCtb wa won in 2.27 -1-2, the fastest mile of tn Trace and a new record for Ned, who's
 best previous mark was 2.31 1 4. Tn . l.time of the race was 2.29 1-2, 2.2S, 2.30 2s29s 2.7 1,2.a Ned was bred by his pres lent owner and is likely to take recon, close to ? 20 before the season ends.s H , lis the first of the get out of his sire t , beat 2.30 in 1895. -a -.sa7s U ; 5-9ul go5 l9a"When horse is at the shoeing forg it is 8 condition not a theory,' tha confronts the smith, says William Ru: ? sell in his new edition of sssScientifi Horse Shoeing,' 'tand there is no longe t room for doubt, and unless he know with positive certainty just how to prt
 tserve or obtain the, proper balances an
 bearings of the foot he is utterly, ines pacitated to take charge of it. Scienc land art are combined in skillful shoeing IA Knowledge, of the structure and nol ' malfunetionsi of everypart of the. foo fas we'll as the legs from the knee, an hook down, though, not necessarily their ultimate scientific, gminutia, is a necessary to make, 8 perfect shoe as i ? the mechanical skill to make "a perfet r shoe" m This is, sound, and it [, cannot | | tdinned too often into the ears }efdblael tsmiths!6w oi 9ids ~od si DIT 2Ti2E .s960ig;9 10 Dtg aGi bfiW Ex-Goy. P. C.~Cheney of Mancheste | who. retired from the breeding bushes a few years ago, retained. a few! of tt best ones which he had bred, anon them the chestnut stallion Grasmere, b Vikings 2,19 If, dam by, King ,PhiliI son Jay Gould. This colt he sent to ] tiW.Utton of zMorrisville, Vt, bwho ihs fhandled him carefully for. a year and {, fthalfrynAt the recent St Johnsbury mee Eings Grasmore was given his first sta in 2, public exhibition, winning the tfsf land fourth heats in hardly fought ras .Eofd five. heats. and finishing, second ] every heat which he did not win. Thel
 were six starters and the time for tt Trace was 2..32- r ?, 2.383 13,, g, 2 33 I.
 2.37 1-2. The winner of the race, w.
 Henry's Boy by Henry s., a horse tn,
 lit.is predicted win tfot a mile he,
 J2.20 before the season is. over. The se
 tcetaryi of the StiJehnsbury track saysit
 Grasmerethat he is g grand individuI Hand. sure lsure of d low mark. His record ]
 lthis race was ? B l-2,1 which is a yer
 lcredKable performance for this youn 1horse, upon his first appearance. nGra
 mere started in a race the day before i
 8 field of eight, but was unplacet
 The workout evidently did him goot al for he was the contendihg horse in tn