The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-02-28
dBOUT HORS ES.

The assessment value of the Norris
Park property has been raised from
$3.50, 900 to 100000. This means a tax
alton of $4,000 for the Westchester
Pacing association. Quite a sum in it.
self, by the way.
The horsemen are arranging for big
time at Growers Casino some time in
the near future. The men who can and
do handle the reins with experience
will then try the exuberating influence
of tripping the light fantastic.
When the combination Bob Way
| Dick Blumenthal and Monopole, 2:2514,
uncork, there will be speed loose on
some track that will make money jim
gle. It's a great combination, and no
mistake.
Glib Doolittle has a gray gelding by
| Hinder Wilkes, 2:201a, out of mare by
Thomas jefferson, 1928, that is as nice
moving PAGER as is Dick Blumenthars
Robert B., but the pride of GIBBS" sta
| BILE is a little 600-pound AL Magic
| Wilkes, four-yearold pacing filly,
which he VOWS can go faster for mere
baby than any horse he ever sat be-
hind. She is a beauty, perfect pet,
extremely stylish, but Clever, although
| she is all horse.
Mr.. Henry Fleischmann, the Ameri-
can trainer now located in Vienna, had
the following to state to the Turf, Field
and Farm on his return from Europe.
| 1t is a summing up of the doings of
| American bred trotters on European
tracks during 1895:
| Archie Sherman, by Sherman, started
| twenty-seven times, won six firsts, two
seconds, four thirds and was unplaced
| fifteen times; his total winnings were
81, $50
! Beltair by Quartermaster (our Dan
bury horse), Won one first, five seconds
and one third; his total winnings were
81, 600
Blue Bells, another Quartermaster,
out of Belle Medium, won ten firsts,
four seconds and one third; her win
nings were $6,040
Quarterstretch. by Quartermaster,
started sixteen times, winning seven
firsts, six seconds and one third; his
total winnings were s4,440.
| Shadeland Delmonia, by Young Jim,
started twenty two times, winning four
firsts, one second and one third; he
won 49, 900.
Recently Blue Bells broke her leg,
and is now in the Austrian club sta
bles.
Happy Thought, 2:221a, the bay stall
lion, by Happy Medium dam Lady Du-
val, by Cassius NJ. Clay, jr., grandam
Rogers Mare (by imported Glenco) died
at Stonington on Thursday last. Hap
Ply Thought was foaled in August, 1872.
He was the property of Mr.. T. d. Pal
mer of that place. He was the sire of
Little Sport 2;25A; Happy Home,
2:24A; Stoneridge, 2:21A. The latter
will be remembered as competitor in
the great stallion race of 1898 at Meri
den, in which he won the first heat in
2:261a. Little Sport and Stoneridge trot-
ted to a double team (wagon) record
of 2:24A Over the Willimantic track,
under electric light, he trotted a mile
in 2:2S-the fastest ever trotted under
such conditions.
The Hartford Times says: Fired
Reynolds, now of Bates Farm, Yer
mont, has been in town for the past
few days. principally as witness in
the Pond will case. Fred has evident
ly become homesick, or perhaps better,
a sight of old Hartford has brought
him back eight or ten years, and now
he says he will return to Hartford and
again train horses to his own liking.
We all remember Fred when he occu-
pied the stable and premises just out
side the west fence of Charter Oak
park. 1t was there the writer first saw
the son of Mr.. George Rich's fact stall
lion. Red of Waranole, 2:14A. The
horse was then called Little Red, but
later his name was changed to Hornell
Wilkes. He was a low-down, heavy
necked horse, with all the vim of half a