The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-01-14

high and weighs 900 pounds, is a 8, o l
chestnut in color and looks like good
| one. He also has a brood mare that Las
| got him some good colts.
MI. w. F. Ward of China has large,
handsome nine year-old chestnut geld
ing by Nelson 200; dam by Dictator.
This horse is quite fast and Mr.. Ward
intends to come out to Waterville when
! the going gets good on Silver street and
it will be good one that beats him.
Mr.. Ward purchased this horse from
the Burleigh estate, where he was
raised. He also has three wo-year-old
colts, black one and a chestnut one,
| both by Tarratine with their dams un-
traced, and third, bay in color, by a
son of Mystic Withers; dam Handle
| tonian mare. These colts are all of good
size, straight and we'll formed and give
promise of making three fine horses.
| They have the breeding and will I'M
doubtedly be in the fast classes in a
few years. The black one and the chest
nut one were shown at the China fair,
the black one winning the blue ribbon
and the chestnut filly the red ribbon.
Mr.. James Vickery of Unity has a
weanling filly by by Broomal Wilkes;
dam Knox mare, that is good one.
This filly is coal black, tall and straight
and is very pretty little horse. She
had hard time the first of her life as
her dam was sold when she was three
months old. but she is now in good
hands and shows that she has had good
care. Mr.. Vickery took her out to show
your representative and led her all about
the yard by simply throwing his arm
over her neck, something you don't
often see done with eight months old
colt. Then he has brown colt also a
weanling by Columbo; dam by Daniel
| Lambert. This colt is little fellow
only five months old, but he has a
bright eve a well shaped head and leg
! and is undoubtedly booked to be trot-
ter some day. Mr.. Vickery also has
several driving and work horses, all OF
which he keeps i'll comfortable and
well appointed stable.
Mr.. W. A. Gerrish of Unity is one of
! the leading horsemen OF that town.
/ He is a great lover of good horses; has
! owned some exceptionally good ones.
| Gerrish has owned some that have
made a name for themselves, among
them the horses Ned Wilkes 200 IA,
/ Harry l.. 220 Ia. Wilkesmont 2.20 IA
and Dr. Wilkes, who will be remember
| ed as one of the winning race horses
| this year and a thoroughly goou, conSiS-
tent horse which has not vet reached the
| limit of his speed. Besides these Mr..
Gerrish has owned many other good
ones which have not been marked so
| low, but were perhaps just as fast and
worth just as much. MI Gerrlsh still
has two good ones. The first, a four
year-old stallion, Broomal Wilkes, by
Broomal, four-year-old race record 2.l5
by Stranger: dam by Jay Gould.
| Stranger, out OF Goldsmith Maid by
Gen. Washington; dam Daisy Wilkes
| by Mambrino Wilkes, he by Geo.
| Wilkes; second dam by Judge Advo-
cate; third dam by Gloster and fourth
by Brown Harry. This colt stands l6
hands high and weighs 1175 pounds; he
| is beautiful seal brown in color and
is one of the great, slashing gated
| horses that it is pleasure to see
go or ride behind This colt has the
blood and the gait to be very fast and
will undoubtedly be one of the fast
ones next year if he is trained. He
has taken the premium every year in
his class at the Unity fair, which
one of the handsomest horses we have
{
telligent head. He is perfectly kind,
Mr.. Gerrish Harvesting and unhar-
Messing him without hitching him up
in the least. This horse is the kind of
horse for farmer to breed to, he is
pretty sure to get a good sized horse and
if he is neither stylish nor fast he will
be of value as work horse. We like
to see horses Of this type in Maine, the
more the better for they mean good,
big horses for Maine people, the kind
that look well and sell well. Mr.. Ger
rish also has a nine-y ear-old thorough
bred gelding by Mambrino King. This
horse stands 1913 and weighs about 1000.
He roads at the trot: in fact can trot a
good clip, but when he gets down to
business goes at the pace and he is re-
ported to have gone a mile in 2.13 and
probably can beat 20 easy now. He is
a chestnut in color and one of the finest
| haired horses we ever saw, and shows
he is thoroughbred in every move.
He is perfectly safe for a lady to drive
and will stand in any place, being afraid
OF nothing. He is one of the few horses
where check rein is waste OF leather
for he holds his head high in the air all
the time. He is as near the ideal fam
lily horse as we ever saw, safe, easy to
handle, kind and fast. Just the kind
Mr.. Gerrish has never raced horses,
preferring to let the other man win the
honors and lose the money on the track,
but he surely has two as good horses
as it is necessary for anybody to own.