Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-19
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

year -olds coming along about town,
writes the Vassalboro correspondent OF
Turf, Farm and Home Probably the
cream of the lot is brown filly two years
old, by Cedric 23O4, dam Miss McCurdy,
spoken of above She is a little mixed
gated but her owner, Mr.. JOS. Wall says
with few miles jog she will square away
and go sharp. She is Is hands weighs
900 lbs. and a beauty in every respect
| Another one is the three year-old bay COLT
Don Cedric by Cedric 2304, dam Miss
Crowell by Victor Jr. He is promis-
| ing colt standing 15sl hands and weighs
| $50 pounds. He is also mixed a little
as are most all of Cedric's get. He be-
| longs to Ambrose Withee.
| Everard Priest of Vassalboro has good
one in his four-year-old mare Nelly BLY,
by China Boy 29h. She can go a $40
clip without much handling.
| Mr.. L. Morrison, whose stock farm is
at Livermore Falls, With Regal Nelson at
its head, has bought of c. III. Nelson,
Watcrville. the filly Suzette, foaled in
1898, by Nelson 2.O9; dam Louette by
Kentucky Prince, also Suzene, a five-year-
old daughter of Susie Owen 2.26.
The pre-eminence of the Almont fam
lily in the female line is shown in table
published by the American Horse Breed
er, of the new sires of 1894. Almont
leads with 10 to his credit. Mambrino
Patchen is second with II; George Wilkes
third with 12 Rysdyk's Hambetonian
fourth with 10, and Belmont and Harold
tied, each with seven.
Dan Berry 2.261 by Guarantee son of
Tom Patchen, is wintcring in fine shape
in the stable of his owner, H. Il. Abbott,
Shapleigh.
Bither & Walker will have three noted
Vermont stallion Leicester All a, in their
string, the coming season.
Mr.. VIM. Seavey of Vassalboro has
fine bay mare by Nelson's Wilkes that
went mile in her work last season in
? 36. She is 10 hands high weighs in good
condition 1875 lib. and can go 2. 40 clip
to snow.
One of the most promising colts in the
town of Buckfeld and quite likely, in
even the whole of Oxford county, is the
bay stallion yearling, owned by Will
Coyle, the popular clerk at Hotel Long in
Buckfield village. Sired by Bayard
Wilkes, by Alcantara and out of dam
by Messenger Wilkes of Red Wilkes, by
Robert Bonner by Rysdyk's Handle
tonian. The colt gives excellent promise.
A pacing mare owned by Sheriff Reed
of Bangor died ON Wednesday of cerebro
spinal meningitis. She was by Lothian,
Jr, dam by DR.. Franklin, five years old
and valued at $500.
Wallace S. Pillsbury of Fort Fairfield,
lost a good yearling colt, Friday night,
from some throat trouble by which he
choked to death.
Fort Fairfield horsemen take pride in
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dam by Mambrino King
c. S. Robbins of Pennington has sold
his fast pacing mare, Bessie Knox, 80,
for long price She has gone to Laconia,
n. Y. and has already been heard from
on the ice. Bessie Knox is by whalebone
Knox, dam by Winthrop Morrell
W. ID. Blcthen of Dover has sold the
trotting mare May Not, a.27I to Mr..
Watson of Brockton, Mass The reported
price was $500.
We met Mr.. F. Fl. Briggs the other day
driving neat trappy going pair of six.
year old bay mares-an ideal team of long
distance roadsters, writes Lewiston
journal man. We inquired of him how
he regarded the horse market to which he
replied, Brighter than for three years.
There is already quite demand for good
individuals for road use-horscs with
plenty of action and coed conformation.
while these same qualities combined with |
considerable speed is being sought for
every day. A private letter from B. J. |
Macy of Lexington, KY, speaks in glow
ing terms of the market i'm that country. |
He says that at the recent sales the talent |
was all there, trading was brisk and that |
it seemed like old times. do not ex |
pect to see prices as high as few years
ago, but they will very soon be on pay
ing basis. As the business of this country
improves the demand for trotters and
roadsters will be greater than it has
been in the last two years and on account
Of the astonishing falling off in the num-
Der of colts bred we shall soon see that
the supply is not equal to the demand
The men who have had courage enough