The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-01-28
HORSE AND TRACK.


! Sunol, zNo4, Is now ten years olu
Joe Patchen is expected to be faster
than ever this season.
The Austrian government has nine
American-bred stations in service
Excellence 2:l9t stands at 81 20.
Harry Hamlin is out with letter
denying the report that Village Farm
has booked twenty trotting-bred mares
to hackney stallion.
Since Directly's record of 2 :074 was
rejected by the Register Association,
Miss Rita, 2:09a. is the champion
three-year-old PAGER.
According to reports from Lincoln,
Neb., Azote is now taking strong
work, the fever having entirely dis
appeared from his leg.
That Russia has some interest in the
trotter is shown by the fact that in
three winter months she will give
$4,000 for harness races.
Five million dollars is the amount
estimated to have been hung up on
the trotting tracks in the United
States and Canada last year.
Barondale, by Baron Wilkes, who
made great campaign in1S94, earning
record of 2:1i4, will be campaigned
this season by his owner, Tom James.
Rubinstein, 2:06t, is looking big
and strong this winter, and will be
campaigned next August Mansfield
people think he will step as near the
stallion record as any horse that wears
hair.
Dr.. o. !. Phelps, of st. Louis, Mo-,
owner of the pacing mare, Choral
2 :O94, has bought the three-year-old
bay FLY Fannie Browne, by Norval,
dam by Egbert, from r. G. Evans, of
Danville, KY, for $1,000. She
showed a mile last fall in 2:32, and
will be campaigned.
Scott Newman will not race Boreal
in 1896, but will keep him in the stud.
Mr.. Newman's Uolors will be ell sus-
tanned, however, on the track this year
by several good youngsters. His
horses are being wintered at Green
land Farm, Shelbyville, Ky, and
among them is -year-old by
Liberty Bell which he thinks will be
equal of his distinguished relative
Tommy Britton.
George w, Leavilt, of Bosten, will
this year have charge of one of the
largest stables on the turf. It vii!
include Larabie, 2:l24; Clayhontas,
2:ll4; Wistful, 2:ll4 Sprague Light
2:2O4; Eta Red, 2:31t, by Red
Wilkes; the fast filIy, Lucy Carr, by
Empire Wilkes; the three-year-old
filly, Seddie l., by Wilton; the brown
gelding, Volante, by Wilton; the two
year-old FLY, Gaiety Girl, by Red
Wilkes, and the fve-year-old mare,
Quoddy Girl, by Domiuear 2;l3.
The race stallion EDa,d 2 :093 (the
first 2: 70 trotter ever shipped abroad)
has been shipped torrance by his owner
ID. G.. Broker, of Butte, Montana. He
will be campaigned this year on the
European tracks, and il the distance
is not too long for him over in that
long distance country he may COM
mand quick buyer at large figures
by some gentleman of the blood royal.
Elard is accompanied by the sum
mary of all his winning races, which
will have seductive look and cannot
fail to charm.
Perhaps there has been more dis
pute over the disposition of Alix than
Of any other trotter. When Jack
Curry was asked about her temper, he
said: "Alix was not sour-tempered. |
She was peculiar and to those who
did not understand her, she was
puzzle, When L went with her, l be-
gan to study her disposition. Why, l
drove her, worked her, cared for her,
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