Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-21
Youngsters from Bangor
Who Will Step, 7 his Year.
A Few from Augusta That Will
Make "Wise Ones" Take Notice.
Other Green Ones From About the
State.'AlI Likely Winners.


trotters. 1t will be remembered that i'll
1912, Mr.. Burrill devoted his entire at |
tention to tie square gated ones, and |
it WAS rare race meeting that did not
see some of his trotters heading the
summaries. MIR Burrillts stable looks |
to be even stronger this year, than in
1912.
William Withce of Bangor, a prom
inent figure on Maine race tracks. Will
be seen. this year. up behind a 4-year
old PAGER, sired by Canada Mae, dam
Gladstone by Godfrey Patcher, that
shows brush enough already To please
the critics. This good looking 4-year-
old is bay IN color, stands l5t@ hands
high and will weigh 925 pounds. His
conformation is of the right sort and
very compact IN form.
Pope .icknTon, proprietor of the
Globe Hotel. Bangor. is another en-
thusiastic follower of the horse game
AT presentsoMr. Mc<innon has four
fast nprSes of his avn that will hear
the, bell tap. this season. Flera p
2.1SA the only record horse in his
stable, looks as rugged as Il bear and
should be able to tramp down Il cas-
ily Mr.. hickinnon has TWO new horses
in his stable. and il is predicted. by
men 0ho know the game, that they
Will give good accounts of themselves
before SNOW dies. The first is the green
trotting mare, Goidie Wilkes. 4 1o'4-
1025-pound bay, sire Wilkes, dam by
Nelson: as good n hooker as ever were
the harness, and has the khee and
hook action of a blue ribbon winner,
and a gait that has been surpassed by
few seen on Maine tracks, last season.
With limited work, last year She
showed herself to be q trottcr If class.
and the wise ones Who looked her
over. are likely to bend their heads
low before she gets through. The sec
second recent acquisition to Mr.. Nc
Kinnon.s stable is a 4-year-old brown
pacing filiy of good size, sired by Simp-
son, Il Wilkes trotter that held the
state of Maine race record as 2-yeaf-
old With 227i2. This llly's dam is l'ys-
pepsia Cure, 2.19it, the dam of the nn-
beaten PAGER, Dan @. Jr., 2l'A Inc
two other horses in the Bangor horse
mans stalls are sure to be heard from
in the near future. Few others knox
the game better than the man In
charge of Mr.. McKinnon's horses. Tom
Vincent.
man more widely known and more
popular man among the race goers of
the State than Warren Malcolm. of Au-
gusta would be hard to find. Although
he is kept busy with his hardware
business. yet he can generally find time
10 talk horse with the followers Of the
game, and when launched on his fa-
voritc subject the other day, said that
| in all the 80 years he has been connect
ed with race horse business, during
| which time he has owned large num-
| her of fast ones he has never found Il
horse more to his liking than the good
little mare Lady Wilkes, 2.19i4, both
as a read and race mare. Mr.. Malcolm
| worked Lady Wilkes at Pittsfield
mile i'll Hi. She is staked III all OF
| the Hanks meetings.
May Queen, a green trotting mare,
has showed what she can do, and con-
sequently is staked along with Lady
Wilkes. Mystic Maid is another mem
Der of his stable. She is d 915 pound
racing built pacing machine sired by
Alewood, dam by Binser This mare
has been matineed with success ana
should be faster, this year. than ever
before. A 3-year-old chestnut trot
ter, sired by Simon Kenton, weight
1850, shaved mile in "a in her two
year old form. A four year~old brown
ltrotting fily, sired by Lord Thayer,
| that can show n good mark, and own
| ed jointly by Mr. Malcolm and George
| W;idleigh, should also win name Tor
Ilierself during the coming season. ON
| race day Mr.. Malcolm always takes
Ithe mount and has been as successi ii
| in his winnings as almost any driver.
( who has drawn the ribbons over the
| fast ones.
| William Hanks of Augusta, brother
of the wellknown promoter, Eden
\ Hanks, has "A royalty bred 3-year-old
| pacing filly, sire Hal Sterling. dan.
| Baron Posey, 2l0A by Brown Hal. Mr..
Hanks states she has speed and il
| way of doing it that pleases him.
! DR.. c. p. Small of Lincoln, who
| likes the game as we'll as all the big
owners. was in the city, few days
ago. and purchased from Webster
Williams. a green trotter that comes
as near being an all round gentle |
mans horse as can readily be sound. I
She is a bay mare, stands 16 hands |
II,
She was sired by Broadway, 2.29K. +
dam by Also. 2.20h, and out of the |
same dam as Ruby Wilkes, 2.Z2A. His I
n lot of style; plenty of action, 4 I
fast walker: has go speed and /
wears no boots.
Webster William of this city has i
come into possession of the handsome
trotting gclding, Sir George ISL In /
this horse Mr. Williams has one of /
the soundest, fastest samest and most I
reliable matinee trotters in New Eng /
land He has a mark of half mile |
i'm |. 02. and quarter in 30 seconds II
his credit.
Fl. l.. Jones of this city has recently !
sold the good green trottlnS mare, |
Goldie Wilkes, to Pope Mckinnon OF |
Bangor, and George Grondin has also I
sold to Mr.. McKinnon Il very promis- |
ing 4-your- old pacing flly, sired by I
Simpson, dam Dyspepsia Cure, 2.19A.
( Trainer Edward Fisher will soon be |
located at the Central Maine Fair |
grounds with string of horses. Mr.. |
Fisher has had a lifelong experience |