Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

d., 2.24A, and Guy Loon. Miss Esther
A. Prescott of Clinton will drive Err
vim NJ, and Mrs. N. F. Woodcock OF
Ripley will hold the reins over Paul
T. The race is bound to attract a large
crowd and the horses entered furnish
the positive assurance that fast time
will be made.
THE protection of the pole horse is
The sheet anchor of fair racing and
good starting" says Trotter and Pac-
er. without it you can have neither.
To SEND off the outside horses n or
two lengths ahead of the pole horse is
equivalent to starting the winner in the
second tier. Some fast scoring sucker
shoots in ahead of him and takes the
pole at the first turn and the last heat
winner finds a fence built around him
which makes it almost impossible for
him to get
In 1884 Jay-Eye-See reduced the
worlds record to 20. and from that
day to his the select list has grown to
50 members. This makes an average Of
only about four a year, but a large per-
centage of the number has been addedin
the last five years. From now on to the
end Of the year frequent additions will
be made. and it is perhaps safe to say
that by that time there will be over so
trotters that have equaled or eaten
20. Twenty of the SO now recorded
were bred in Kentucky.
The trotter has lost a hundred feet a
minute since the pacing and trotting
records stood on a par at 2.04. If Alix
and Star Pointer were to race and both
go evenly rated miles up to their pres
ent records, AliX would lose about ten
inches with every stride, supposing that
her stride measures 20 feet. AT the
half furlong she would not be even up
to Pointers sulky wheel. When the
PAGER reached the quarter, Alix would
be % feet back and when Pointer fin
ished his mile the trotter would be 200
feet up the stretch. This says The
Horseman, gives a clear idea of the
difference in the two gaits.
AN important change in local trot-
ting circles. says the Rockland Cour-
rier-Gazette, is brought abou by the
sale of St. Patrick and Joe Howe, I'M
ill recently owned by Capt. NJ. W.
Woodman. st. Patrick with his official
record of 2.23A and who has trotted i
mile in alta goes to F. H. Berry while
Joe Howe. with a record also of 2.23M
goes to Walter West of Belfast. Capt.
Woodman returns the handsome chest
nut mare Queenie and our valuable
colts but is talking of selling them also.
It will hardly seem natural to have
Capt. Woodman out of trotting circles
but maghap it will not be for long.
Mr.. John Eastman has made a great
success of the new bicycle sulky, which
he has been building at his works on
Harlow street, Bangor, this summer.
This suiky is much. liked by turfmen,
being lighter, and allowing of more
action than those heretofore built. be-
sides being cheaper in price. Mr.. East
man will leave for Kentucky about the
first of October on business connected
with q contract with parties in that
state TO build % of his sulkies, for
parties there, and the probable guaran-
ty of orders for so others in addition to
those ordered. Mr.. Eastman does the
entire work on all parts of these sulkies
himself. with the exception of the silver
plating upon the metallic trimmings.
Speaking of odd names, writes j. W.
Thompson. last year a brown mare APP
peared in Maine and performed under
the name of T. T. This struck me as a
peculiarly odd name. and when Il. +.
began t perform this season up in
Franklin county, / took it for granted
il was the same animal, but no, it vas
a brown gelding this time and entirely
different. This year a c. G. c. is per-
forming in the western part of the
State. and another by the same name
in the eastern. When Mr.. Nelson
named his young trotting stallion by
Nelson. Isle Dew, it struck me rs par
t%icularly odd. but another horse, a pac-
er, has taken a recor better than 2.3C
under thai name right here in New
England.