Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-11
AFRAHkLIN COUNTY BREEDING FARM.
Mont View, the Home Of Editor ParIin's High
y Bred Equines.

INC american Horse Breeder, fOunC
himself by reason of service as a SOL
der who had been engaged in putting
down the late ''unpleasantness," in
capacitated for active labor and begar
work upon the old Boston Cultivator
now the American Cutivator. Mr.
Parlin always had a love for q soot
horse and had owned several nice
roadsters., In travelling about he nat.
urally looked over the breeding farm,
and wrote out his observations for the
paper These horse notes were up t.
date and occasionally some of Mr.. Par,
I'M IDEAS We're incorporated in a par
aSfaph. The columns thrivcd apace
Ihe paragraphs grew to column ar
licieS ana instead of a paragraphel
the writer came to be regarded as q
teachef. A page was taken then tw,
pages and still there was demand fo,
more horse. Advertising began te
come in and the horse department out
grew the paper. 1t had come to n
question whether it should be all horsf
or something else.
Al inns time there were the HORSE
and Stable and Spirit ofethe Hph j.,
session, The Turf. Farm and HON,
CIV Tioise breeders Monthly in Maine
WINE several weekly papers gave 6
aisese OF the turf news in their regular
issues. The Horse Breeder was mi
ioiih eulted by Mr.. Parlin with one OF
Two assistants. It's success was i'm
mediate and beyond expectations II
absorbed the horse and stable and IFS
circulation began to spread over the
land. The name was changed to the
American Horse Breeder. From time
TO time it employed new assistants
until 1t now has four associate editors
ana Veterinary editor, while a corps
OF competent correspondents aid in
giving the news from all around
In course of time the breeders farm
which has been christened Mont View
from its elevated situation, came into
Mr.. Parlin's hands and it was. ot
course. perfectly natural that it should
be stocked with horses Mr.. Parlin had
always been an advocate of the Morgan
roadster and one of his first purchases
in the brood mare line for his farm was
Daniel Lambert mare He also had
several stations, a son of Constellation.
Patchunteer by Volunteer Boy, and
later Black Hawk Wilkes, Altus now a
sire of some note, and Allectus the last
three by Alcantara. 2.25. Aileetus was
kept in service for some time and to
the cover of a Hurd's Knox dam pro-
duced the PAGER Fred Wilkes, a1S1.. in
his first seasons campaigning Belle
Wilkes. 2.33la and Claude Fisher with a
record of about 2.55 are also his get.
Aliectus was a full brother to Irene.
2.23i4 being out of lola by Admin.stra-
tor son of Hambletonian, 10. There are
Others of Allectus' get which will yet
be heard from With the success of
Fred Wilkes trainers will be likely to
look for others of the horses get and
the real good ones will come to light
Mr.. Parlin also found a full sister to
FL. p. Winship. the great performer to
pole called Daisy Jaquiih and bred her
to Ailectus. Franconia by Almont, Ella
Robinson by Almont, hilies by Messen-
ger Diomed. Wilketta by kentucky
Wilkes, 2.21h, etc. were also bred to
him and the dams were sold before
they were too aged to be of value and
he now has some nice young lillies OF
good breeding,
The Alma Mater family were good
enough for Mr.. Parlin and he deter
mined tounite the blood by crossing the
-AiA f'iit tlP'i VIZ llisit VI Aitdllldld.
Consequently he bought the chestnut
colt -hclayone by Alcyone. ~, dam by
Harry Clay. 45. second dam Voluntary
by Volunteer, third dam Fanny fAiills-
paugh marco by Seeley's American
Star, 1t will then be seen that Al
clayone is a brother in blood t. Harrl-
eta 2.n5a, and is the only stallion bred
this way. Alclayonc has developed into
a horse l5-2 weighing 1850 lbs Ills
record is 2.22, made in the third heat nf
a winning race in which he trotted the
middle half in los and the third quarter
in 33l4 seconds, and this in the first
season of being campaigncd Alcantara
AMI Acyonc were fun brothers by Gen.
Wilkes ont Of Alma Mater. dam of
eight in the 80 list. .tlcantara is the
greatest sire whose life has been mostly
spent in New England. and Alcyone
sire of Martha Wilkes. los, Harrietta,
2o9&t. etc, whose son Mckinney. 2.iiit,
has those promising youngsters,
Zombo, 2.13. and sire Xcus 2.1S, Wilkes,
1871, sire of Fred Wilkes, 2.13ii st.
Croix. 2.143i. etc. and Quartermaster
with IS in the list show what he would
have been as a sire had he but lived.
Mr.. Parln regards Alclayonc very
highly as well he may. The horse is
very strongly made, kind and sensible,
a horse which trots With his head and
whose set are fine roadsters. He tells
us that he thinks If properly trained
and given an entire seasons fitting.
this horse is capable of any perform
ance yet made by Il son of Alcyone.
Sandy River Boy, a two year-old
colt owned by Mr. +. A. Goodell of
Waltham, Mass. went to a record of
23Sta last year, holding the half mile
track pacing record for the state of
Vermont in race. Mr.. Goodoll thought
so highly Of his colt and his abilities
that he authorized Mr.. Parlin to put in
500 against an equal amount from the
respective owners of Woven Wind, t2}
22534 and Pooh Bah, 2.29. for a matched
race This the owner of the named
colt did not see fit to accept. Mr.
Goodell thought his colt equal to PA
at Mystic and he has shown half in
/ ii.
Mr. F. d. J. Bampim Of Kinglield
Maine. has very handsome fiily OF
1895 by Alclayone, which he thinks is
sure to be fast and is a remarkably
good looking one.
There is one by Alcyone over in An
dover that is out of the dam of Iona s.,
l. 49, 1x..csf -,