Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-14
HORSES wIxreRIwG At aleBY.
Ten Are Chartered There. All Maine Horses
The Coming Season.


Ten horses are being wintered at
! Rigby. AS rule summer race tracks
are not equipped with buildings that
| can be used all the year around. but
Rigby's Club stable, the one at the left
of the main entrance, is as tight and
warm as modern house, and neither
man nor beast has any difficulty in
Keeping warm therein.
| They are all Maine horses and their
Keeper and trainer is J. b. Kilgore of
| browniield. The upstairs apartments
used in the summer as the secretarys
office serve him as kitchen and lodg-
ing room. No attempt is made to keep
! the snow leveled on the mile track, for
| outside 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 a Sabattus merchant. One.
a trotter. sired by Robinson d., has
! been going some extremely fast miles
/ over the snow, and before cold weather
| set in she did an occasional mile over
| the track that greatly pleased her
! driver She has been in no races of
any consequence. and was never mark
| ed lower than 2.391a. but her trainer
declares she is capableof three straight
miles in better than 220.
| Mr.. Woodside's other mare is a PAGER.
which he raised on his own farm. Her
| sire is Bayard Wilkes. She made her
| debut at Rigby last fall. in 4 race IN
| which Arlington was the faVorite. She
| was unlucky in the drawing, getting a
! place on the outside of the rear tier.
| while Arlington 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. Arlington s
| mark in that heat dropped to 212A,
| and those who witnessed the race can
testify that her mile was as good as
his But in the next heat she spoiled
all. or rather her driver did for her. He
| was not acquainted with her nervous
! temperalnent and when she sluked a
| little up the back stretch he piled the
lash. and she went all to smash. failing
to recover her gait till the whole field
had rounded the turn. hundred yards
, ahead of her and she got the flag.
I Good Judges who have looked over
the winter string at Rigby predict that
! these two mares will give a good ar
count of themselves, this summe :. 4
they are given a chance. 1t is predict
ed too. that if they should happen To
fall ir.to the hands of some big trainei.
as it IS not unlikely they will. they wil
! prove as big a bargain as the little
| Maine horse Bismarck did, when Bar
neg Deinarest bought him at Old 'F-
! al n ri for $1,000
Patrick Kane OF South Portland, Is
more than pleased with his new stat
Mon. short time ago being IN neee
of some money, he went to New york
with his old favorte. Dexter X, look
Alderman Brown. New Yorker with
a fondness for good horses. and gave
him ride. On their drive they had Il
brush with one of the alderman's
sporty friends who usually had no
trouble in enforcing the right of way,
and tney beat him out with apparent
AND wanted to lsunW I[ane's figures
,rba ,.a.,lt woe, tbst pay+o. K ,vo,t
nv ""9 '"e,' ~
into aidermanic hands, ard Kane came
| back to Portland with a handsome
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Ter trained and faster performprs taa.,
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