Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-23
TRACK AND s1AsLE GOSSIP.

bred mare imported by the late J. b.
stearns, and after II. NJ. Beans fine
Wilkes stallion Veni Wei, record 2.21A.
Cecil weighs about 900 pounds. stands Is 2
hands high, is square trotter and
very stylish. Mr., Davis also has a
promising animal in the three year-old
Harbinger gelding bought Of Percy F.
Moore. This colt is fast gated. a
strawberry roam in color and a very
clean cut animal.
Percy t. Moore Of Rockland has
bough, four-year-old Joe Howe PAGER
of Fred &. Ingraham.
Roy Wilkes. 20G4. is the only stallion in
the 2,10 list which has sired Two animals
10 enter this list. He is the sire of PEAR
G. 2o5la, and Royal Victor, 20s4.
When Ed A. Upton was in Montana
Marcus DAILY made him present of any
winnings the Ally China silk might earn
in the Kentucky Futurty for two-year-
olds. The flly's victory at Lexington
therefore meant 5000 in Tiptons pocket
For the protection of innocent horse
| men says Trotter and PAGER. The rules
should positively require secretaries 10 re-
jet an entry when the identity of the
horse is not furnished. BY no other way
can good many of them be made to
realize that safety only lies in u strict
scrutiny of every entry offered.
George A. Chapman of Saco. has
| swapped Gidmont. his gray trotter
with Irving Rowe of Portland, for a
bay mare that is said to be a flyer.
She Is seven and has never been driven
for time. but is bred with a license to
race fast.
in Bernice Bayard. w. f. Sheerer Of
Tenants Harbor has a most promis-
ing four year-old colt. She was sired
by Bayard Wilkes, dam Rose s.. by
Dorchester. She is fine looking ami
mai, clean limbed. of free action and
very speedy.
Dr. Garth of CORTLAND, Ala. has what
IS PROBABLY the largest 3-year-old colt in
America that is fast PAGER. He calls him
SIG Ike. lie Is fully Il hands high and if
fat would weigh 1890 pounds. He was
sired by Hal Braden. 2i2i.. and is ele-
sdniiy bred on the side of his dam He
mas paced quarters in % seconds and a
mile IN 2.lS. On account of his great size
Mr. Garth is driving him very moderate
~ this year. but he steps as lightly as a
thousand pound horse.
The phenomenal pacing mare Nelly
Brnce, winner of the 2.l5 pace at Lexing-
ton in 2l0l@, 2.1 and 2.l0a4. without an
apparent effort. is unbeaten this season
and has won sixteen races. She is inbred
TO stout strains. Size WAS foaied in 1885
bred by John Lackie of Thamesford on
tario. and got by Franks Hambleton
son of Highbred Boy 1920 by Hamlet. son
Of Volunteer. Nellie Bruce's. Mag was
got by Albion. another son of Highland
Boy whose dam. Black Maria. was got
by Mambrino Chief
Young Wilkes. 2.2Si5 is dead and of him
The Horseman speaks: Young Wilkes
was great favOrite in Michigan having
endeared himself TO the breeders OF that
state by the high quality ana shapellness
of his get. While he has moi sired as much
speed as some of the other sons OF George
Wilkes. he stands unsurpassed asa progen-
tor of fine lieht-harness quality a suffi-
cheney Of speed for the road and general
uniformity Of conformation that made his
colts easy to match with one another"
The foregoing tribute might as aptly be
applied TO that other good son of George
Wilkes. Mambrino Wilkes. that has done
50 much 10 improve the road and light
that at q years of age stands today
clean. sound, shapey and vigorous.
Senator A.. winner of the Pennsylvania.
is a pony in size. standing less than fif-
teen hands high probably and he is as
round and plump as pig. He is a wise
little chap. and his owner has taught him
the clever trick of suddenly stretching his
nears the wire ia IA close finish Although
the little gray horse is known as one of
the gamest stations ever seen on the turf
his breeding is far from being fashionable
In the direct male line he is a descendant
of Ethan Allen. his sire Tramp Panic
who was by Ethan Allen, and was taken
out to Iowa from Ticonderago. n. ",
away back in the sixties by Col. c. W.
Ensign. Nothing definite is known about
the dam of Senator A., but she is said TO
be by a horse called Tom Wonder.