Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-31
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

Mr. Dana S Pratt of Mechanic Fails
and Lawyer Libby of the same place
have just purchased of Young Bros. So
PARTS. the promising young stallion
Fleetwood Wilkes by the great Wilkes
Boy; dam Fan by Fleetwood. by Alex
anders Abdallah. Fleetwood Wilkes is
dark bay. stands l6-l ana weighs 1850
pounds. He was bred by S s. OUTFIT Of
Georgetown. Ky. and is today one of the
most promising Wilkes stations in
Maine.
When the trolley came and with il the
bicycle. ana with them both the slump
in prices OF the cheaper grade of horses
the prices of hrst-class horses never
waVered. In fact, handsome, sound. car
riage ana coach horses We're never so
high as now in this country. They are
almost impossible to get This is because
the folks who have money TO spend use
horses now Just as much as they ever
did. They may have their wheels for fun
but they want their horses and carriages
for solid show all the same. and they
want better ones than they ever wanted
before.--kX.
Olive. the large bay mare owned by
w +. Hutchinson of l.ivermore FAILS.
recently mentioned in Tips from the
predicted for her. one day last week al
Evergreen Park. driven by her owner,
Mr. Hutchinson, and accompanied by
Patsy \. 2.32}2 she reeled off mile in
2.46le for 4 ''Warmer-up, and repeated
in 30. which. considering the condition
of the track. was as good as 80 ! con-
slider the feat a remarkable one for
green mare that has not been worked at
the track, and feel warranted in think
ing that with proper training ste can
make herself standard bred by her per
formances, writes "; Fl. Allen This
mare is considered safely in foal to Regal
Nelson 60 2.33$4. and Il record below 30
would not only add to the value Of the
mare but also to her produce.
The now popular "trot and pace" races
or trot or pace races. perhaps more prop
erly, is modern innovation, and rs a
trotter has to reach only a 30 limit To
attain Il standard record. while a PAGER
has to reach Il mark of 2.2j. there has
arisen more or less confusion in the
records from this class of races. a fail
ure to note particularly in each race
which We're trotters and which were
PAGERS: has admitted many PAGERS. with
records from 20 to go to the records, as
standard trotters. thus causing confu-
sion. and no doubt this was one of the
causes which induced the National Assoc
citation to promulgate the following rule:
While there IS no rule preventing mixed
races of trotters and PAGERS. the board
does not think them conducive to the
highest order of trottinS sport. to say
nothing of the difficulty of keeping track
OF the records they make. vet so long as
some members find il to their interest to
give them. the board has thought it we'll
to define the statues of such rae IS and
the eligibility of horses starting therein;
and it is held. for example, that if "A
member gives a purse for trotter5 only.
horses must be eligible as trotters If
for PAGERS only. horses must be eligible
AS PAGERS. and if for trotters ana PAGERS.
then horses must br eligible b0tn as trot-
tiers ANA PAGERS
Tho efY6ct Of this rule as | und, rstand
it is as follows: \ morse with trotting
record of 2 . cannot start in "A trottiug
class slower than . -. but changed 70 q
PAGER. " it'll no record at that gNit he is
eligible 10 the sioweSt pacinc class as If.
however. he starts in trot and pace
even if he starts rs PAGER. he must
start in the class to which his trottinS