Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-05-19
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

TRACK AND STABLE GOSSiP.
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Capt. Reed of Orrington, is making ar
rangements for the races to be neld on
the Orrington track on May 2s
A. O. Lombard of Waterville. formerly
of Lincoln. will send his Delong colt out
of a Drew mare. to Bangor to De handled
by Charles G.. Andrews.
Mayor Beal of Bangor. has purchased
of +, G. Noon handsome bay PAGER to
match the one he recently purchased OF
"A. f. Gerald of Fairfield.
John Morrison of South Springfield,
has a very fine horse known as Spring
mer by Charles Pray of South Spring
field.
Mr.. Frank Myrick, the well-known
horse trainer who has been i'll for over
a year and half of kidney trouble, olea
Wednesday, at his home In Lewiseoh'
leaving a wife and two children
The Waldo and Penobscot Agricultural
society has decided to hold horse. trot
over its track at Monroe, July 3, ana 'ns
following purses are offered: Irot ., 20. %.
pace, 3-mnute class, $50; PA class, si'''
235 class. sl00; 2.S1 class, sllo.
Dolly Wilkes is well bred mare oWnso s.a
bv MIR. j. w. Dunham of Livermorsee 1se
E,us dronped a foal by Regal Nelson 70,
233s. the 9Th inst. The MY stoou w
inches the day it was foaied. anu eli, ~ an
unusually fine bodied good limoed MY
David Miller of North Monmouth; mas
valuable six-years-old OF the .tan1ine
Morrill, cross that is finely built. stahdins
II; hands and weighing 100 pounds, oeep
bay and stylish This six-years-oiu can
SET them a merry clip down the roio' anu
attracts the attention of horseiheh'
Chandler Berry of North Monmoulh.
has one Of the best brooa a mars az arn ra her
produce. Her yearling colt IS one OF the
best in western Kennebec ana the COY , d.
foot is a beauty. She is the dan ol o.i,ei my,
goou ones. The mare is iieet .,, -
the colt naturally inherits this propeh-
sity.
One of the handsomest colts foaled IN
waldo county for some time Is owned
by Nat Delano of Belfast. IL is stanualu I,a.
bred on both sides, being sired oy SliVe, !,
Spray. dam by Wilkesmont. STANDS II
inches high, is well built. round ana
plump, sound in every particular ana mas
prospects of making a very handsome
horse.
NJ f. French of Madison, has three 81.
Crox colts, a three-year-oid, a two-y eS. e.
old and a yearlng, all chestnuts IL 81.
Croix ever got any fine colts these are
the ones. They are all good size ana eN.
ira gated. He still owns the dam ol
these colts This mare was by 1ouiiS
Volunteer and her dam was ol tHe w
Witherell stock
A very promising four-years-old is the
bav colt Bert. owned by l.. F. Berry OF
Wayne. He stands 10 hands ana WelsLis
900 pounds. He was sired by Alperlo' oy
Albrino. by Almont: dam by Danlel
Rnona. % dam bv Young Tobin. son of
Rising Sun Sd dam by Hunton's Messen-
ger. This colt has splendid trottlng ae-
tion and can speed naturally at three
minute clip.
There was an exciting horse race at
Watson's Bend, in South Levant, on the
night of May s, between Lady Goodspeed.
formerly owned by Henry Brown OF
Stetson, and Newport Tie. owned py
Walter Storer. The race was won oy
Lady Goodspeed. There being dissatis-
faction in the driving of Newport Tie,
the driver. Verrill. was removed.
large crowd witnessed the race.
Albert Lewis of Bangor, has sold his
well-bred colt Don to I. V. Monahan OF
Houlton Don is by Matchmaker, py
Won Moltke; dam Blossom by Gideon 1i5,
by Rysdyks Hambletonian. TO- He was
foaled May 1893. Don's dam was mare
called Bessie Oakley, which was pougnt
in Kentucky by F. H. Tupper of Bangor.
This mare was by Frank Oakley, he py
Administrators a son of Rysdyk's Ham
bletonan-thus making Don an inbred
Hambletonian
Another ringer" has been uncov'
cred in New England, which adds cnt
more to a list of several that has beer
discovered in the east during the last
few months. This one is the brown
mare Dolly Brown, that the RushVllie
Ind, trainer, Harry Jones, campaigneo
in 1898, and gave pacing mark OF
ZIG 1-2 at Anderson, Ind, July 20. Al
terward she was sold to eastern parties
and has not since been heard of among
the turf performers. The mare, how
ever. has recently been discovered ir
the hands of a New Bedford, Mass.
physician, who was an innocent pur-
chaser of her. She is now known by
another name-which we fail to learn
and carries a first-class bogus pedigree
During the past three seasons the
mare under her alias, has been racing
in Maine Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire and Connecticut, and has won :
great deal of money, yet her character
and pedigree have never been suspected
until recently. Mr.. Jones has been or
a visit to New Bedford, and while there
saw the mare and fully identified hel
as his old charge, Dolly Brown. The
doctor who now owns her raced hel
some in 1896, but it is believed he is in
recent of any wrong-doing, and thai
he was totally ignorant of Don!
Browns real identity. The names o.
the parties who bought her after hel
racing career in Indiana and took hel
to New England and raced her have
not vet been given to the public, but
is to be hoped that they will be, ant
hat speedy justice will be meted out L