Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-08
Horse Notes
vassar, 2.o7, is dead.

Vassar. 2.07, is dead.
Geers is riding miles around ESQ.
Gulvallis Directum, 209M, goes to
Russia.
sporty, 2141a, has FLY by Colorado
They want the tall Yankee to try his
skill with Russian trotters.
Jimmy Brady is expected at the Dover
track this week.
Allen Farm has bought the stallion
Todd Swift, 215A, son of Todd, 2; ~
Jimmy O'Brien moves to Rockdale
| Park, Peabody, this week. He will have
| Worthy Prince, 214H, Lord of Quality,
2.21 u, Alfridi, 2.1SA, and half dozen
4. H. cosden, owner of the $12,5oo
Lulu Lumine, 2.09A, paid $4,000 for a
saddle horse at a New York auction last
| week
Frank Nolette of Somersworth, N. H,
is to try oxford Boy Jr., 2.14A again.
He will train in Dover.
| The 2-year-old Bingara trotter Btu
! men, in the Andrews stable at Thomas
ville Ga, has been in 2.21 ".
! John Adams of Bennington, n. H, has
sent the 5-year-old son OF II =, Mains beet
| 205. and Carthage Girl, 2.0SA, to Wal
| ter Cox.
KNAPP Mccarthy has engaged stalls at
Detroit.
Aileen Wilson, ZOE y, will be bred to
Branham Baughman, 2.04A. i.....=-..,,-
Frank Hayden has been temporarily
reinstated by the National Trotting As
George Bayes of Dover, N H, will
send May Day, 214A, to Henry Harding
at Barton, VT.
ship the Hillandale Farm horses from
Memphis to Lexington.
James Gatcomb will soon move from
| his home in Concord, n. H., to the SYRIA
cuse track where Audubon Boy 1.59A,
| is to stand
Mrs j. T. Malloy of Syracuse, who
has named a 2-year-old in the Messina
declares
drive the young trotter in the race.
Nat Ray says the game on the Grand
Circuit is toe tough ar 9S that aea ne Will try
Frank Hayden is at Lewiston, Me-.
with Ell Gallo, 2.1SA, and number of
The he psbds q Ms e s1aO of Miss n
making of champion.
Amos Rathbun, who is training at
| Messina Springs, ". Y, has an Audi
bon Boy mare that he thinks will de-
velop into stake timber.
Grand Opera, 2.12A one of the Cham
Der of Commerce eligibles, has already
won s11,625 in two campaigns on the
| dirt.
Horace Murphy, secretary at Middle
town, N. Y, announces nine early clos
ing $1,000 purses for this newest of Or
ange County tracks. Middletowns dates
are August 1927, the week following
! Goshen, which is only FIVE miles away.
T. D. Marsh of Dover, n. H, has a
yearling by Prince Mckinney out of
the dam of Prince Cochato, 2.26h that
can show sensational speed on the trot;
The colt is in all the Futurities and
right now surely looks to have chance.
Mike McDevitt has dozen head pc
longing to Capt Rayid SPAN pam a. ne
Grace, 2.o4 a. and four stake trotters
who have worked in EOS or faster.
Charles Slaight is to have HarTy a sne
others owned by Charles Hayes of Co
iumbus 1t was expected Valentine
would get the string; ,,. -, -,
| the late Dennis Harrington, is said 10
be the fastest young trotter in the
string that KNAPP Mccarthy is hitting
| Todd, 2.14s4, out of the erratic black
mare Maud c., 21oA, once owned by
Robert Bonner.
| While horsemen are wondering who
| will drive James Buffers great PAGER
Directum l., 2.02A, this year, the stall
lion is taking his work at Empire city
Benson is the trainer of Buffers run,
| ners He drove The Roman, 2.o9h. and
other fast trotters to their records;
Walter Winans has followed the lead
of his brother Louis and quit the Aus
trian turf His stoek-34 head-was
sold at auction in Vienna last week.
Farm, woodland. Calf, recently pur-
chased the stallion Robert Bingen. p.
2.i4A. He is a 9-year-old son of Bin
gen, 2.o6As and Episode; Us, us, by An
VI
dam of Peter the Great, 2.07A. While
Robert took his record as PAGER. he
is said to be capable trotter and is
being trained at that gait by Harry
bowling. He is described as large
horse Of show-horse style and finish:
| Trotting in Great Britain looks like
having a better season than in the pre-
vious two or three years, and will be
/ considerably helped by the opening or
new tracks at Manchester and Dublin
In the Irish city the sport was popular
q few wears back and the meetings.
| which were mostly held Sunday AFTER
moons, were largely attended. Man
chester has also always been a center
of enthusiasm for the trotting horse IN
/ the northern counties and the meetings.
there were we'll patronized. The Man
chester track is a half-mile ring. COW
cred with loose cinders and very slow.
At Dublin the track is three times
around to the mile and is also show.
Bud" Murray has entered klcharo
Delafield's stallion Shawbay, EOS u, 10
trot for the high-wheel sulky record al
Goshen next August. and has proposed
trotters to go for race to the old-style
track vehicles. Whether enough sulkles
could be found to equip all the horses
for such race is a question. To trol
against time Vance Nuckols has entered
Peter Billiken, 2.11 Il, brother to Lady
| Wanetka, 210. B. A. Bulkley has named
Raffies, 2.11A, and half dozen other
fast horses are already being pointed
for an attempt to beat the Toledo per-
Torrance of Rarus in 2.16.
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