The Portland daily press., 1899-02-13
RIGBY PARK.
4 Number of Horses Wintering There.

Some Particulars About the Horses
The Racing-Dates WIN Have To BE
Changed
Ten horses are being wintered at Rig
by. As rule summer race tracks are
not equipped with buildings that can be
used all the year around, but higoy S
Club stable. the one at the left of the
main entrance, is as tight and warm as u
modern house. and neither man nor beast
has any difficulty in keeping warm there
in.
They are all Maine horses, and the ir
keeper and trainer is j. b. kilgore OF
Brownfield. The upstairs apartments
used In the summer as the secretary s
oiioe serve him as kitcl en- and longing
room. No attempt Is made to keep the
snow leyeled on the mile track, for out
side the park there is an excellent chance
to speed the nags along the straight-away
stretch parallel with the front fence.
Two of the best ones in Kilgore's string
are mares owned by Edwin Woodside, u
Sabattus merchant One, a trotter, sired
by Robinson d., has been going some ex-
tremely fast miles over the snow, and
before cold weather set iu she did an o.
casiopal mile over the track that greatly
pie sed her driver. She has been in no
races Of any consequence, and was never
marked lower than 2.39 g, but her train
y deoares she is capable of three straight
miles in better than 2 20
MIR. Moodside's other mare is q PAGER,
which he raised on his own farm. Her
but at Higpy last fall, in race in which
Arlington was the favorite. She was un-
LUCKY in the drawing, getting place on
The outside of the rear tier, while Airing
son was in the front rank. She threaded
her way through the field and finished the
mile nearer the winner than she was at
The start. Arlipgton's mark in that heat
dropped ia 2.ls "a, and those who wit.
messed the race can testify that her mile
was as good as his. But In the next heat
she spoiled t all. or, Inther her driver did
Tor her. He was not acquainted with Der
nervous temperament, and when she
sulked little VI the back stretch he piled
ing TO recover her gait till the whole 1eld
had rounded the turn. d hundred yards
head Of her. and She got the flag.
Good judges who have looked over the
winter string at Rigby predict that these
two mares will give a coed account of
themselves this summer, if they are given
a chance. 1t Is predicted, too that If
they should happen to fall into the hands
of some big trainer. as 1t Is not un likely
they will they will prove as big bar
gain as the little Maine horse Bismarck
did, when Barney Demarest bought him
at Old Orchard for 81 900.
Patrick Kane of South Portland is
NOR than pleased with his new stallion
A short time ago, being in need Of some
money, he went TO New York with his
old favorite, Dexter r.. looking for a
buyer. He CHANGED to meet Alderman
Brown, n New Yorker with fondness
for good horses. and gave him a ride.
Or their drive they had brush with one
OF the alderman's sporty friends who
usually had no trouble in enforcing the
right of way, and they beat him out with
apparent ease. Alderman Brown was
pleased and wanted to know Kane's
figures,
The result was that Dexter K. went
into aldeemansc hands, and Kane came
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