Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-03-28
RACING NOTES.

Lady Knapp. 2.o94. famous ringer.
has been bred to Col. Cochran. 21OKt.
H. Z. Wright of Dorchester has bought
the halfmile track at Mansfield. Mass.
Henry s. Neatly has been appointed
race secretary of the New York state
fair.
An Illinois breeder recently made an un-
successful attempt to buy Alliewood.
o.Gt,..
Tom Phair will go into Lon McDonald's $
stable after the spring matinecs on the
Boston speedway.
1t is almost sure thing that neither
Cleveland nor Memphis will give meet
ings this year.
Winfield Stratton. 2.OJ4. goes to Nova
Scotia. having been bought by a. B. Et-
ter of Amherst
Two mares are being shipped from Rus
Sia to be bred to the matinee king, John
A. McKerron.
Alcyoner. go is dead. He was a son of
Alcyone and sired Neil Alcyoncr, 2.l2,;,
| and 10 others.
| Hazel Patch. 2O3A, is reported sold
again. This time to w W. Fleming OF
Winnipeg. Man, for son9e.
Last week eight trotters with records
below 2.35 were bought for use on the
Pioneer coach this season.
The Register Association credits 21.229
trotters with records of go or better, and
12,S9 PAGERS ir the 2.2J list.
Tobias Burke of Providence talks OF
taking Leonora. 2.121z, to Boston this
spring for the speedway matinecs.
Dick Lawrence has added a green trot-
ter by Bingcn to his stable. 1t is Bin
iolla. who showed better than 21S last
summer.
Word comes from Cleveland that hiStor-
ic old Chenille. tho track over which
| Maud s. trotted in 2.OSE. is to be cut up
| into house lots.
Ed Geers and the ChafIin Bros have
sold the lalf-brother of Walter Direct.
| ".05'.. by Brown Hal. 2.l3E. to r. c. Max
| well of Orrville, Ala.
Senator George Whitney Of Enfield. n.
r.. has bought of Connecticut River
farm. Hatfield. sister to Lady Sealskin
and sister to Dodie X
| Charley DeRyder lately drove a green
| trotter by Mckinney mile in 2.16H. Tho
second dame of this fellow is Lou Milton.
the dam of Lou Dillon
S. w. Parlm. editor of the American
| Horse Breeder. will send a sister to Oc-
| tone. 2.2S4, to Cochato. The offspring
will be something very choice in the WY
of breeding.
| A New York dealer lately signed CON
| tract with .h 81,
riagc horses at 500 per head. The ship
per would not agree to deliver them inside
two months.
John p. Halls good marc Nelly Nc
| treSor. IA, has given birth to u bay colt
by BinGen. 2.06'l and has been bred t"
| Lord Roberts. 212I.. the son of Aron ara
Nancy Hanks.
| AS Frank Yoakum 2.OF.. is now in ac-
tiv, pre- paration for another campaign. it
| is evident that the damages which lc
| sustained last fall in that railway wrccl.
| wore not so severe, after all.
Joseph Battell of Middlcbury. Vt. re
Gently bought 16-hand stallion in Cali
| fofnia that traces directly in tie NAL,
line to Justin Morgan. The pedigree cf
this stallion shows 10 crosses of the found
er of the Morgan family.
| w. III. Lake, inventor Of the famous
Memphis double-bar shoe has Just
opened big horseshoeing establishment,
IN Memphis. which is described as being
PROBABLY the most elaborate and perfect
~ appointed in the country.
Those who think Thomas Lawson has
lost interest in horses are mistaken. ",
"as consigned o. head to the Readville
| SdlC simply to mako
foais at Dreamwold. All told, his hors,
stock foots up very close To 200 head
lhat extremely fast but erratic n,cir.
mare The Duchess. 2l9h, by Gambctta
Wilkes. is wintering at the Belmont firm
Nenia. 0. This mare went a mile below
-."' last year. but, like Stein. was no,
sure TO get away from the wire. He,
owner intends intends to try it again thi.
year. and If she goes good is sure to TAX,
; lower record than her full brother
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