Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-09-13
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.


standing bcing between the drivers that
tne horse which won the first heat (Which
Was to be based on its merits) was to
| take the race. The result was protracted
race in which two dead heats were de-
ciared and the driver Of Joe Patchen re
moved from his sulky and fined $500
| The last mile was in 2.32, Patchen win
nlng, and the surprising thing of it ali
| was that the judges overlooked McHenry.
the driver Of Gentry, who permitted
GENTRY to be beaten in such ridiculous
time.
AT last Black Ma han S record Is 2. 221a.
George Leavitt refused s2i. 900 for the
three-year-old Larabic, 2.1234. He has a
good prospect of'winning the kentucky
futurity at Lexington, in October, worth
| $50, 600 to the winner
Veni Wei by Prophet Wilkes owned by
ii. NJ. Bean Of Camden, is one of the
gamest race horses on the Maine tnrf this
season. He trotted more heats than any
horse at the State Fair
NJ. a. Wilson of DixGcld. has lust sold
his beautiful black mare by Westland :;
dam by Black Ben, to Portland parties.
The price was $780, Mr. Wilson has a full
sister one year younger that is four years
DID, the one sold being FIVE
The black mare Sadie L., 2.4O, By Bay
Fearnaught, owned by John c. Horne Of
Watervllle, it will be remembered, was in
jured in race at Fairfield, by a severe
sprain Of one OF her ankles she is doing
nicely, the swelling has gone down, and
although still lame, it is believed that she
is on the road to complete recovery.
Mabel L., the Maine bred brood mare
by Victor, 223, son of Gen. Knox; dam
Hippenheimer, by Volunteer, is now the
dam of two with records better than 2. Is,
in Reina, 1214 and Judge Keeler, ala
E. H.Greeley Of Ellsworth has refused
an offer of $500 for Bingen, an advance
of $4,000 over the price paid for him last
January.
Beuzetta, 2.062, it appeareth was pur-
chased for James Gordon Bennett, who
will race the great American trotting
money-wnner in Europe.
"Ozonized oxygen" is the latest device
to help the pneumatic tire defeat Father
Time.
William Welton, Chicago newspaper
man, missed fortune in a peculiar man
ner, as told by an exchange. He was
on the staff but week, and was anxious
to turn in d good story 1t had occurred
to him that sulky rugged with bicycle
wheels rubber tires and ball bearings.
would run many pounds easier to the
mile than the old-style sulky, and 1t
would make several seconds difference In
the struggle Of horse to trot In fast
time So be peipetratcd fake" II tool;
the form of an interview with DIR. Gibson,
sire Of Juncmont. 2.14, and others DR.
Gibson was credited with having sug-
gested the idea. The next fall the first
bicycle sulky appeared in Buffalo and was
made light of, but the horse that drew the
new sulhy beat one he could not have
beaten otherwise. Today not a driver
goes into race without one. The news
paper man, who never applied for patent
in fact, never thought Of it--who threw
in later years by giving all the credit to a
third person, is still in the grind" NIL
lions have been made out of the rubber
tired, ball bearing wheel.
The mile made by the bay colt Bingen
by May King at the Maine State Fair on
Friday, so far eclipscs anything done IN
this line as to stand out unrlvalled.
When Nelson, as a three year old paced
by horse driven to sullly, aud, over a
specially prepared track. trottcd to
record of 2 26A, "all the world won
dered" Well that was ten years ago,
and now as showing the progress of a de-
cadc, in the year of grace 1898, out comes
the two year-old colt Bingen, about whom
but little has been said, and over a slow
half-miie track, torn up by pacing race.
and over which not even a float was run.
starts quietly without a pace maker.
reaches the quarter in 80 seconds, the ha #
in 09h, the three quarters in - 4 and
the mile in 2.20A. 1t was all done so
quietly, with so little effort, and so clearly
within the capacity Of the colt, that it
marks him as one of the greatest colt !
living. The records are so constantly
changing at this season Ct the wear. that
it is unsafe to say that the two wear old |
record is this or that, for before the ink |
dries on the paper on which 1t is written |
the record may be changed, but when we
write this, Tommy Britton, 2lSs4, Is tho |
only colt of the year to go faster II II |
than Bingan's 20A and no donpt |
Tommy Britton's mark was made O, er
mile track. 1t is just as sure as ANYTHING
can be that Bingen can trot Rigby, right |
abo 1t 2 15. Some Of our exchanges refer
to him as California bred colt He is
not He was bred by DR.. David Bennett
Of Lexington, Ky, and was bought fer
Mr.. f. H Or, eley Of Ellsworth, by George |
W. Leavitt and the colt came to Maine in |
the early part of January last He was
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