Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-13
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TRACK AND STABLE.


| fine driving horse from Portland
parties Tuesday.
M. Fl. Dudley Of Napoleon has lost
one of his new horses that he bought
of Carl Hanson. @f 'HAi
a. J. McDougal of Caribou on Satur-
Gay bought Il pair of big young work
horses for sS25.' a. =. - ss@ ''i1f
George L. Day of Gorham has pur-
chased of Ear.ie Day a fine pair of
farm horsess, weighing 5000 pounds.
+. A. Merrill of South Dover has
traded span of gray horses with r.
c. McKechnie of Foxcroft for a pair
Of back ones. which weigh nearly
5000 lbs ...
Frank p. Johnson of Gorham has
purchased of Norman Smith of Stand
ish a handsome pair Of draft horses,
weighing 5000 pounds. A J. Rich has
also purchased of the same party a
fine family horse.
The Percheron stallion Zephyr. 10y
Zephyr 373. dam by Prefere Is was rc-
Gently sold to IA. p Libby of Fort
Fairfield by Thomas Culberson. who
had long owned him. Mr.. Libby has
sold him to William Shannon, who will
use him for stock purposes. Zephyr
weighs more than 1900 pounds, and is
useful and very handsome horse.
Chas. H. Berry of Houlton, has
bought the fashionable brood mare,
Chapel Bells, of A. E. Trites of Ban
gor. Chapel Bells is a very hand
some black mare years old, weigh
ing 1850 lbs. with race record 2.19 a.
This mare has been bred to Rudy Kip
2.09 n one of the most fashionable
brood stations in the world and a
great race horse.
Fred E. Peterson of Fort Fairfield
has a very pretty and promising bay.
trOtting colt, two years old, named
May z. King. This handsome
youngster is by May King 2.20, by
Electioneer 125. His first dam Isl
Princess Niobrara, by Austral 32619;
second dam Cienega, by Alcantara 729;
third dam Cigarette dam of Curio
2.25, etc), by General Washington
1161. ''''- '>'
G. Fred Plummer, formerly Of Fort
Fairfield, now of Woodstock, N. B.. on
Caribou the -year-old chestnut
Baron Bourbon, 2.23 ", by Bourbon
Wilkes 2.1S, dam by that nervy and
altogether remarkable horse, Wide
awake The price paid was $500.
Barney Baron is one of the purest-
gated PAGERS, and is more than usually
promising.
One Of the oldest horses in eastern
Maine, if not in New England, is
owned and driven every day by Walter
B. Gould of Bangor He is a sleek and
active chestnut gelding and was foaled
in the town of Corinth, Penobscot
county, June 10, 1872, making him 36
years of age this month. The name
given to him by the Gould family was
Prince, though he has borne the pre-
fix of "old" for more than dozen
years. Though Prince never estab-
lished a track record for speed. he can
claim to be a wonderful horse. as he is
without blemish or scar, or disease OF
anv kind. In spite of the fact that his
teeth extend very direct from ms
mouth, showing his years, he can still
eat dry hay and MUNICH corn and oats
as well as a colt There is not
SPAWN or windgall of splint in any OF
his legs and his ankles are as slim ana
trim as if he were six instead of 80
While on the road selling goods MI.
Gould has driven Prince from Bangor
to Fort Kent perhaps 100 times. The
man of eastern Maine is as familiar to
the old horse as it is to any man.
One of the prizes of horse flesh OF
Franklin county is the 6-years-old pay
geldine. "Timkin" owned by S. G.
SWEET of Wilton. The horse which is
six this spring is backed by the ploou
of generations of Franklin county
horse flesh He is of the real home
stock, and his owner claims that the
deeds Of the past in his family line
will be more than equalled when ne
steps his speedSter on the DIRT tnls
summer. "Timkin" was sired by the
famous Nell Sanborn horse OF Weld
and is out of the fast StInson Master
man mare. The father is a nlsh
blooded bay while the mother was one
of the speediest roadsters that ever
brushed on the roads of this vicinity.
Mr.. SWEET has ideas of his own IN
regard to horse training. He mas peeh
carving "Timkin" along slowly, giving
him few tests of speed and IL IS ms
belief that he has got him past the
stage where sudden lameness Is likely
to develop and that barring accidents
he will be able to show his best TINS
season. One of the novel acquisitions
to the SWEET stable is speed slelsh
made upon Mr.. SWEETS plan. 1t is IN
the shape of a small Rangeley boat
set high on long runners. Mr. SWEET
believes he can cut the wind with TINS
sleigh so we'll that increased speed is
accomplished.