The Republican journal., 1904-12-15
WALDO COUNTY HORSES.
Some of the Fast Steppers Owned in Bel
fast, IelesborO and SearspOrt.

Some of the Fast Steppers Owned In Bel
fast, IelesbOrO and SearspOrt.
Mr.. II. NJ. Colcord, Searsport, has high
going PAGER that can brush fast and is very
handsome stands Is hands, weighs 800 lbs.
Alec. II. Nichols, the popular cashier of
the Searsport National Bank, has in Crick-
EFT, 2 234, very fast brush mare and mare
that should be good in her class; weighs
800 lbs, stands Is hands high, sired by
Baron Posey, 2.214, dam by Panic by Ethan
Allen.
L. H. Rogers of Searsport has good
road horse weighing HOO lbs. bay, stands
1913 hands.
MT. G. o. Lord has the good mare Little
Dot, 2.284, by Joe Howe, 2.234, sire OF St.
Patrick, 223aa, ETC., dam Kate by Champion
Drew by Gen. Mclaughlin. This mare
weighs 800 lbs, stands Is hands and can
brush 2.l5 gait. She has been bred to
Masconomo, 2.174, trial 2.O94f, by Arion, 2:07.
The stallion Nelsonee, 2944 owned by Mr..
Jesse Staples of Belfast; is good lusty
looking horse, weighs 1850 lbs, stands 10
hands, PAGER; stepped eighths in IL seconds
as two year old and has paced a 2.06 gait.
He gets good colts and they all sell well for
fancy drivers. One of his first colts sold
for $500 to be used as show horse and
won the blue ribbon at the Boston Horse
show. He was sired by Nelson, 200. dam
May Withers by Gen. Withers dam of
Wilkemont 2.20f, Symbol, etc.
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Mr.. Joseph Tyler, the leading black smith
of Belfast, weighing 1900 lbs. and standing 10
hands; can step a 30 gait together and make
a team that attract lots OF attention. MI.
Tyler runs the largest shop in Belfast, EN-
ployS three men, and has all the work that
they can do.
A. NJ. Wilbur, Dark Harbor has good
race and brush horse in Tony e., 2.1S4, a
horse well known to Maine race goers, for
merly owned by Mr.. Fred Berry of Rock
land. This horse has great turn to speed
and has stepped quarters in Big seconds
Mr. Wilbur will brush him some this win
ter and will race him another season.
DR.. J. b. Darling, the hustling young vet
Urinary of Belfast, has great road horse
by Black Rock dam great road mare, put
breeding unknown This horse can road IL
miles in one hour and has been mile in
2.4O.
w. S. Edminster of Belfast has
stable full of first class horses. The fine
French coach stallion Vermill;on, 1850
pounds in weight, stands 1871 hands and is a
nice type of the French coach stock. Then
there is in the same stable very hand
some Percheron stallion, weighs 1900 pounds,
I6 Il hands, a very deep black in color, all
style, and good judges say he is as good ii
not the best stallion of the type in Maine.
He was sired by the great show horse Tong
leur, horse that was never beaten in the
show ring.
The handsome little mare Mildred B.,
2. o94 stands Is hands, weighs 900 pounds,
was sired by Blue Will, 2.224, goes on the
pace and should step in go another year.
She paced quarters in SO seconds this sea-
son with but little handling and gave a
good account of herself in every race she
started in. A full brother to this mare
stands 1871 hands, weighs 925 pounds, stall
lion, gray in color, is good actor, goes on
the trot and should be good prospect for an
other year.
Then they have an elegant pair of full
blooded Percherons bred at Elmwood Stud
Farm, Scipio, n. Y, by E. A. Eakins. This
pair of horses are years old, weigh 2,75O,
stands Ii hands, go with good action and
are in everyway model team of the Per
cheron type.
Mr. Edminster has 45 horses in his barn,
including the Pearl Brook Farm string,
which is winterng there.
DIR. G. p. Lombard of Belfast has great
road horse by Haroldson, 2.191 bay, stands
10 hands, weighs 900 pounds, will road -
miles an hour on her courage and does not
pull or lug
L. L. Gentner of Belfast bought the gray
mare Gelatine Queen with mark of 2.10,
at the Old Glory sale in New York, and
will use her this winter for sleigh horse,
and next summer will campaign her in the
Maine free for all.-Turf, Farm and Home.