Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-01-29
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

q track scraped on the CarrapaSse11'
They have made arrangements to keep the
ice cleared all winter. If you think the
interest in fast horses is abating in this
village ride up that way any fine after
noon. and watch the boys "gO down the
ice. +" writes a correspondent of the Somtr-
set Reporter.
Charles F. Edgerly of Dexter, has hand
some colt of which Haley, record 2.20A
as four year old, is the sire. Mr.. Edger-
ly has good reasons to expect some speed
from him, the general opinion being that
he is very promising colt.
Daniel Watson of Brockton, Mass,
and Gilman E. Hook of New Bedford,
were at the Skowhegan House last week.
They were looking for horsefesh. Some
good ones were exhibited and they made
an offer of $1,000 for Chas. Gaylord chest
nut mare Mollie c., also s400 for an ALL
So colt of Chas. Loomis but both offers
were refused. They bought fine Wilkes
colt of N. S. Steward, the only purchase
made.
One of as pretty pieces of undeyeloped
horsefesh as is seen ON our street, says
the Dexter Gazette, is colt claiming AL
brino as sire and owned by H. G. Parsh-
ley 1t will do any horseman good to
look at it. If this colt does not show as
clean pair of heels on the race track one of
these days as is seldom seen, we will be
greatly surprised. The colt looks fine
enough to have it's picture grace some en-
terprising sheet devoted to horseology.
One of the most promising pieces of
horse flesh that can be found in West
Franklin, or vicinity, is the three year
old Mac, which attracts a good deal of at
tention with his fine appearance when
driven through the streets by his owner
and trainer, F. p. Coombs, for his daily
exercise
L. P Hunton of Brunswick recently re-
fused $500 for his pair, chestnut and
black. The horses are five and seven
years DID, are of the Mckinney Knox
family and can do the road in three
minutes. The chestnut was brought
from Lewiston by Mr.. Hunton and has
trotted in 4S. The black which is five
years old never was harnessed until last
fall.
There are at present 26 colts at the Pine
Tree Stock farm The one that Messrs.
Libby consider the most promising is the
black two year-old stallion, Oriole. Oriole
! is by Arrival, out of mare by Bayard.
| Oriole was the winner of the yearling
stakes at Lewiston and Gorham in 1894,
showing q quarter in 41A seconds.
Another good colt at the farm is the
two-year-old brown gelding, Arri-
val, Jr., by Arrival, owned by MIR.
W. D. Harrington. Nancy Wilkes,
a pretty four -year-old roam, was sired by
Arrival. Her dam was the dam of Young
Pilot, 22A a and Pilot Knox, 1917. Next in
the list the bay filly, Airline, also by Ar
rival, was out of mare by Henry Mann
brino, and is full sister to Idol, who was
among the horses burned at Rigby last
year. Idol showed mile in 21A few
days previous to the fire from which he re-
ceived injuries which ruined him. The
roam gelding, Fisher Boy, and bay geld
ing Surprise, four-year olds, are driven
together and make very stylish pair, be-
sides being speedy.
Messrs. Libby of the Pine Tree Stock
farm have recently purchased bay colt
| by Nelson's Wilkes dam Edna, 24Li, by
Dictator Chief. Second dam, old Gretchen,
the dam of Nelson. They also have a
promising three year-old chestnut gelding
sired by James Carrolls Clip Anderson,
out of mare by Winthrop Morrill,.
William Hunt of Randolph has black
stallion nineteen months old called Bar
ney H. The colt is by Haley, 2.1S4 out
of Winthrop Morrill, mare. He is genu-
inc side wheeler and steps quite fast.
He is handled by George Dustin.
| Joe Miles has opened a training stable
in North Anson and already has some
fine colts in his hands by Dictator Chief
and Cylex. Mr. Miles was lately in the
employ of Webster Williams and has
worked for C. H. Nelson and other horse
men. He gave "Elmbrook" mark of
81 as a three year-old, and brought out
Adelaide NJ, for L. C. Morse of Liberty,
to the mark 29A, and many other Maine
horses have lowered their mark under his
training.
Charles Trask string of colts in Gardi-
ner includes the very promising four-year-
old bay stallion Rolfe Lumps, by Lumps,
from mare by Young Rolfe, the three
year-old bay mare, Betsey, by Lumps, dam
by Young Rolfe, and five suckers by ROlfe
Lumps.
Mudgett Bros. of Belfast, have sold
their gelding Proctor Knott, 2.4SE,
by Thackambau, to Boston parties and he
was shipped last week.
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