Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-13
SOME AUGUSTA HORSES.
There Are Trotters Among Them and
sOthers Are Workers.

IL. f. Cummings has hired the Trot-
ting park of Col. II. G. Staples, for
the purpose of working out his horses
the coming season. Mr.. Cummings has
10 speed horses this spring, and rather
than to send them away to be worked
he has made arrangements with Col
Staples for the use of the park. The
horses Mr. Cummings has on hand are
the stallian Claude Fisher, Little Boy,
Helen Gould, Lon Wilkes, Pearl J.,
Robert Nelson, Jack the Ripper, VIII
Sidney, Gerald and Rosie N, and that
there is speed tied up in the bunch
has many times been demonstrated 1t
is the intention of Mr.. Cummings, be-
side using the track himself, to allow
others to work out their horses upon
it also.
1t is hoped by Augusta horsemen
and others, that this occupation of the
park may be the means of retaining
it as q race course and public amuse-
ment ground, and that in some way
it may be purchased and used for the
purposes for which it was intended,
instead of being sold off in lots, as
there seems to be possibility. The
park is the only place which Augusta
has for out of door sports, and surely
it ought to be maintained, if possible.
In the Trotter and PAGER of April 8,
G. Milton Hatch, the veteran writer on
matters pertaining to the turf, has the
following in relation to a well-known
mare which was until recently owned
in Augusta:
IF there be a man in Maine who
really loves good horse and takes
r,1a in, ~, ipI-
may fairly give G. r. Brown of BAN
ger, eX-sheriff of Penobscot county,
that credit. Mr.. Brown laid down the
insignia of his office last January, and
now has more time to devote to the
horses of which he has always had
few that are good. He lately purchas ed
of Warren Malcolm of Augusta, the
mare Gwen P. 2.24A. at the pacing
gait, but now going at the trot. Gwen
P. was by Haley, 2.17, and the one
Mr.. Brown bought her to mate is also
by that horse, and I take it is one he
purchased a year and a half ago of E.
D. Tasker of Gardiner. If this be the
one, she was bred by Mr.. Tasker and
out of a mare by Madrid, son of George
Wilkes. Certainly Mr.. Brown has the
real thing if he has one that looks like
Gwen z. and can step with her. It is
possible that the other can go at the
rot or the pace, and if so they would
certainly be a great team"
There is not much doing in the way
Of speed horses yet but there is a good
demand for gentlemen's drivers, and
the wide-awake horse with lots of
oction is the one that sells. There is
also a good demand for heavy horses
at good prices.
Purinton Bros. of this city, bought
a big team of bays, last week, of Mr.
Cummings, for use in their coal and
wood business. The horses weigh over
5000 pounds and are n handsome pair.
Al. Saben also bought a pair of blacks
of him, Thursday and, Friday. he
shipped a big one to Lawrence Bros.
of South Gardiner. In all. Mr.. Cum
mings sold IA heavy horses, last week.
John Mcdonald known among his
friends as Johnnie" who puts the
finishing touches on the horses at the
Cummings stable, has returned from a
two weeks vacation, and is again busy
among the steppers. Johnnie is well
known at every race track in the Maine
circuit, and is a familiar figure among
the stalls at the fall races.
Wallace M. Prescott IS comfortably
settled in his new quarters in the Cony
stable, and is much pleased with the
accommodations. Mr.. Prescott does
not handle speed horses, but he has 40
animals in the stable at present, which
includes everything from the heavy
horse to The gentleman's driver.