Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-05
TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.


bought a good st. Croix colt of A. p.
Dudley of New Vineyard.
F. S. Parsons of North Arson, recent
ly sold a good bay horse for 5000 to
Capt c. o. Carter
C. o. Gardner of Eastport, recently
purchased fine chestnut mare of Jno.
B. MacGregor to add to his lot of liv-
cry horses.
J. L. Irving of PASSPORT, has re-
turned from Bangor with a handsome
four-year-old colt, dark bay in color,
and tipping the scales at something
over 1900 pounds.
Geo. F. Harrington of Mexico, recent
ly purchased a valuable speed horse
from parties in West Peru. This
horse is seal brown with white strip
in the face and has a world of speed.
Fred H. Berry of Rockland, bought
handsome brown mare, Wild Flower,
last week, in Boston. She has a mark
of 2.15A and will give good account of
herself this summer.
D. E. Larrabee, proprietor of the
Wilkes stock farm, Dover, has a
beautiful Nelson mare which is a very
promising animal. She is five years
old. bay, stands 16 hands and weighs
HOO Tbs. Her dam was by Constella-
ton.
John Richards of Waldoboro, has
sold his gray colt, of Nelson blood, to
Charles Davis of Rockland. Without
doubt this was the best horse in town,
and only a good price would have in
| duced Mr.. Richards to dispose of her.
| Mr.. Davis has also bought a gray mare
of F. C. Flynt that can step little
Lincoln County News.
w. F. Hutchinson and Guy Coolidge
of Livermore Falls, have returned
| from trip to North Arson and other
| points whence they went looking for
good horses Mr.. Coolidge bought one
on the trip, a handsome bay, five-year-
old mare. standing 1872 hands, that is
quite a lofty stopper and good actor.
| She was sired by Hugo Wilkes by
Nelson's Wilkes and is out of a mare
| by Prescott. Mr.. Irving w. Pottle, the
we'll known Kingfield horseman is
passing a few days in town. Mr.. Pot
| tie says the horses in his care are all
| maturing well and that his namesake,
| l. w. p, 2.311a, never looked better or
| was faster in his life.
| C. NJ. Small of Mexico. has a fine
| stallion colt, Syrock. This colt is by
Elder Boone, 2.1S, and he by Daniel
| Boone. This colt has never been start
ed but twice and each time he got first
money Mr.. Small also has half sis
| ter to Syrock, C. o. T. This colt is by
Elder Boone, dam by Mr.. Small's
well-known Hector Boone. Minta
| Boone nineteen months old, filley
owned by VIM. w. Knowlton is being
| broken to the sleigh. She is very
| speedy and handsome, she is a sorrell
| with two white ankles and a large
| strip in the face and silver name and
tail. This colt was sired by Archer
Boone and he by Daniel Boone, 2.311a
This colt was foaled June Z, 1901 his
weight is 720 Tbs. and has all appear
ances of being as fast as any of the
Boone family. Mr.. Knowlton took her
to only one fair last year, which was
the Dixfield fair where she easily took
first prize as yearling.
| Capt. M. w. Woodman of Rockland
has returned from New York where hi
attended the auction sale of horses
, held at Madison Square Garden by the
| Fasig-Tipton Company. These horse:
are all of the best trotting stock will
good records and during this sale al
the trotting stock owned by the lat,
Frank Jones was sold. Idolita which
headed the string with a record o
2.O9A was sold for $11,10O while Prime
of Orange with amark of 2.071a brough
$4,000. Captain Woodman purchased
two horses and brought them hom
with him. Athwild, a four old
bred on Palo Alto farm, in California
/ is a beauty, says the captain and ha
: a trial record of a mile in 221 an,
n made half in LOS. Gorse, the secon,
horse was bred in Indiana and come
from fast trotting stock, and although
she has never been sent a mile, show
t great speed.