Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-12
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

Joe Miles has seven line coltS In MS
training stables at North Arson. The
colt Miles which he has recently purchased
has attracted considerable attention.
This colt is four years old, stands 16 hands,
by Tom King, dam by Larkins Knox and
is a good one and must certainly improve
under Miles handling.
1t is announced, says the Portland Ar
gus. that Mrs L. E. Crosby of East Brew
ster, Mass, will have quite Il large stable
of horses at Rigby Park this season which
she will train. Mrs. Crosby is a lady of
wealth and good social position. She is
a great lover of horses and finds much
pleasure as well as excellent result in
health in training and driving them. She
will be remembered as the lady driver who
drove her own horse in one of the races at
Rigby Park last season. She was much
pleased with the track and the high class
of the stable accommodations. For the
present season Mrs. Crosby has engaged
fifteen stalls and will havea distinguished
string The first will be her fast trotting
road and family mare, Emma H., with a
race record of 2.26 BY Highland Grey.
Then her old favorite driving horse Billy
than Q. 80 but has no public record. In
addition she will take in hand for their
preliminary education q two year-old colt
by Jaybel, son of Jay Bird; a two-year-old
colt by Charley Wilkes; Pomp 2.30A, a
large brown gelding by Lee, son of Gen.
Lee, dam by Royal Tanner, a son of Gen.
Knox; her thoroughbred running and
jumping horse and several others. Mrs.
Crosby is thought to be the only woman
trainer and driver in the United States
and is certainly the only one in New Eng
land. 1t is said that she has peculiar
gift of imparting intelligence and docility
to the equine family.
MIR. p H. Lennon of Portland has sold
his speedy young roam gelding to Mr. Ros-
coe Hall and now has promising young
chestnut FLY. The roam was bred in
Foxcroft,a town that has become noted in
Eastern Maine for producing good sized
and well behaved horses.
Late sales of trotting stock on the ST.
Croix are us follows: Fred Waterson has
sold his mare Dominion Queen by Charley
Wilkes, dam Lady Messenger. George
Murchic of Calais has disposed of his fine
stallion Gen. Leavitt, by Olympus, by
Almont. j. g. Hamilton of the Ameri-
can House has sold his trotting stallion
Lycurgus by Jumps. Wilfred Eaton has
sold his bay gelding Walter d., by Daniel
Burr whose breeding is a combination of
Knox and Draw blood. The horse was
purchased for S. N. Croker of Wareham,
Mass.
The bay mare owned by Charles Davis
of Oldtown is one of the fastest animals
in that section. She is PAGER and stands
16 hands high and weighs over 1909; was
sired by Lothian Jr., with dam by son of
Old Drew.
The colt owned by Cornelius Murphy
of Oldtown which was awarded the first
premium at the Penobscot county fair
last fall will probably make q record in
the future. This colt is by Octavius, dam
by Won Moltke. 1t is not yet two years
old; is good gray in color and finely
gated.
City Marshal N G. Gould of Oldtown
owns one of the most promising colts in that
section. This colt is by Benjamin +. Dam
by a son of Old Gen. Knox. 1t is large,
good gated and unless all signs fail will
be heard from in the future.
The best driving and carriage horses
come. think, writes II. G. Mervin in the
March Century, from Maine and Vermont
being tougher as a rule than the Kentucky
horses and no less intelligent. High
steppers for the most part and natives of
Maine or Canada. Western horses espec-
tally those from Indiana, Iowa and Ohio |
are fled and soft; and they often lack |
that quality" which the Kentucky |
horses derive from the thoroughbred strain !
in the blood The best hunters-perhaps |
the. best combination" saddle and har-
ness horses-cone from the Genesea valley |
where there is great deal of good blood |
and where real fox-huntiDg is persued
C.. G. Farris of Dover is handling ]. #. |
Roberts string of horses this season. |
Among the number is a fonr-year old |
Diomed Wilkes which he considers q very |
promising colt.
Mr.. John ]. Lappin of Portland has a |
four-year-old bay colt by Pickpocket that
gives promise of speed with proper hand |
ling The Cornish horse Pickpocket was
the sire of Mamie w., 2.26H, and many
other fast ones. He is now upwards Of
twenty years old, but is bright, handsome
and active as colt. He is owned by the
well known trainer and driver, Mr.. Frank
p Fox.