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

and won the four
year-old trot at Maine State fair. She
is probably as fast a four-year-old as
there is in Maine today, but it was at
Gorham she entered the list for the
first time. Haley, her sire, also won
the free-for-all trot at Gorham in the
fastest winning heat of his life in 2.17A.
the others in 2.1S and 2.1sh. Haley is
evidently a better horse than ever and
should cut down his mark a right good
bit when they turn him round for the
word on a mile track.
Three new performers are credited to
Alcyone.
A 3-year-old by Joe Patchen. 2.O11S.
has shown a mile in 2.11.
Allerton is credited with 80 in the
$50 list, against 35 for Axtell,
Idol Wilkes, sire of ]. H. L., 2.OS1a,
and other performers, Is dead.
Kidder French of Bangor, has lately
bought a very fast colt of James MILL
ken.
A. j. CARL of Biddeford. has sold his
PAGER Abdulla Boy, 2.22A, to Alonzo
Woodman.
I1OPClul, S.of, OWI lieu NY NuI1S lOOiC
of Bangor, has been placed in the hands
of Charles G. Andrews for handling.
Billy Preston of Bangor, has gone to
Belfast to take charge Of the fast string
owned by A. l.. Genthner of that city.
Mr.. Grant of the Winterport stable,
was in Bangor, a few days since and
purchased a finely bred six years Old
mare.
The first recorded pacing champion
was Drover, 2.2S in 1899. From Drover
to Star Pointer has beer IS years AMI
2SM seconds.
The dam of Jennie F., by Robert r.
Morris, the beautiful black mare owned
by Henry Davis of Old Town, is the dam
of seven now in the $50 list.
The fast ones, Dick West and Scooter.
in the John b. p. Wheelden string of
Sanger. are now being campaigned in the
New Hampshire circuit by Mr.. Wheelden.
Fred Davis of Dover. shipped Il fine
black six-years-old horse last Wednesday
to E. H.. Woodside of Brunswick. 1t is d
we'll bred horse and as a roader would
be hard to beat.
Allen Lowe thinks Star Pointer can
pull a high-wheel sulky in 2.02 or 2.05.
and a wagon in 2.05, and there are thos.
who agree that he has not placed tn.
figures any too low.
Ex-Governor Flower of New York.
has given $4,000 for the purpose of &
special library on veterinary science
for the state veterinary college in con-
nection with Cornell university.
w. F. French has taken a 4-year-old
Cylex colt from Mary Emery of North
Ancnp ap1 will train II for him TNht
colt is entirely green, but one day re-
Gently Mr.. French worked him out i
mile in 4G1a.
There are now three stations who
have five or more representatives in the
10 list-Baron Wilkes, Brown Hal and
Altamont. Brown Halls list is made up
exclusively of PAGERS, while each of the
others nav trotters.
"The public would always prefer to see
n race settled in at least five heats. and in
NEST cases in straight heats says Ken
lucky Stock Farm. The only way to put
Il stop to these lo~ng-drawn-out races is
TO absolutely suppress the laying up of
heats or to make the races best two in
three"
Alcidalia has started in % races and
won first money in II of them. She has
never been behind the none and in her
80 Il 'ia" tt1 wv p'N
once Her total winnings amount to
SIS. 0S3. When she took her record of 2.10l
at Hartford she wore AS OF. shoes for
ward and 3 OF. shoes ehind
The fast mare Janet, 2.24A, owned by r.
l.. Cummings of South Paris and piloted
by Theodore Thayer. won a race at Har-
rison and another at Bridgton last week.
AT Harrison she trotted a heat in 2.26,
Tuesday. lowering the track record by
three and Il half seconds, and at Bridgton
p1na a,t 1nxur, fbn iranlr ~ n
and a half and defeated the fast stallion
Black Nathan, 2.11M.
DR.. C. w. Taggart of Winthrop. is the
owner of a very fine road mare, bay in
color and six years old She stands 1873
and weighs 1920 pounds. She was by
Onward, dam by Ton Patchen. She is
fine roadster, a trot along a merry
clip and pace still faster.
Joseph Trott of Atkinson, the own
err of Lady Franklin, returned home
Saturday from New Hampshire. On
Thursday at Rochester, this horse.
driven by a woman, paced a mile in
2.21A, winning the race in three straight
heats. Mr.. Trott is also owner of six
other fast horses which will be heard
from text year.
The tender spot about Robert j. has
| always been his fore feet, but under
the careful treatment of his present
trainer, E. r. Bovine. and blacksmith
Lewis BELLS, the champion harness
gelding has not worn a pad upon his
feet since he lowered the Worcester
half-mile track record from 2.10 to
2.061a one month ago.
c. J. Hamlin explains why PAGERS are
speedier than trotters: "A PAGER does not
have to lift his feet SO high as "a trotter.
and consequently does not pound the
track so hard at every stride. This is
a very great advantage. The PAGER fairly
giides; sometimes it looks as though he
almost slides over the ground. Trotting.
on the contrary, requires high knee ac-
ton. and this makes a difference in the
speed of a horse going such a consider
able distance as a mile at full speed"
In a matched race at Pressure Isle
recently, between Winnie l.. owned in
that town and Pandcran, the latter
took second money. The race was
trotted in rain and mud so that the
time was necessarily slow yet the three
heats were made in 2.27k. 2.2S% and
2.26A. 1t was a close match and the
heats were trotted without. q break.