Norwich bulletin., 1918-07-02
mentioned. On account of their value

mentioned On account of their value for breeding purposes. fast stallions and mares are well cared for as long as they live but with a gelding it is an entirely different proposition as soon
 as they are outclassed or break down. Unless they are in good hands when
 the no more racing" sign is hung
 out they begin to drift either through
 the auctions or by private sale. while
 occasionally unprincipled owners take them on a ringing tour or as they term
 it work them over" Others are re-
 tired to the road or light work on
 stock farms where if they can be con
 trolled easily when at speed many of
 them are used as pace makers. That is the berth which the Kentucky Flu
 turity winner Peter Thompson has fal-
 len into at A. B. CoXe's farm at Paloi,
 Pa. while HiIlandale Farm used Leon
 ardo many years for the same work.
 Of the champion geldings, Dexter and Rarus died at Robert Bonner's
 farm near TarrytoWn, N. Y, and Jay Eye See was well cared for by the
 Case family at Racine, Wis. The Ab-
 bolt passed into the shadow while
 owned by John Scannell and the Tam
 many sachem erected monument to his memory on the roadside near Peekskill, N. Y. Uhlan, the present
 champion, is now used as a saddle horse by c. K. C.. Billings and can sprint like a quarter horse at that way of going, while Lewis Forest his mate when he made the team record, is driven on the road in Richmond, Va. l by W. J. Carter
 Charley Mitchell is living ir com 1 fort on one of the broad pastures at ! Walnut Hall while his former stable companion R. T. c. is used as a run about horse on the same farm. Jack 1 Leyburn when last heard of had drift i ed into the hands of the gypsies and
 was being hawl1ed about the country as a trading proposition. A couple of | spavins and a disposition to pull when at speed placed him on the undesir- able list. Tiverton, whose five heat contest with Sweet Marie in the 1904 1 Pennsylvania and his splendid victory in the Charter Oak PursE the same year will never be forgotten, is spend ing his last days on a farm in Nir-
 ginia while Wentworth, the fastest trotter bred in Canada, dropped dead on a race track in England where he 1 was shipped after his owners were un- able to ring him as Reuben s. By overhearing a chance remark in 8 rest aurant at Lexington, Ky, l learned
 what was going to be done with him
 at York, Pa. A night letter, however
 kept the horse in the stable.
 Azote, who was, all things consider
 ed. the best racing gelding that ever took the word dropped out of sight after being matineed at Cleveland by Will White. TNe commanding manner in which he defeated Hulda when Hickok considered her good convinced
 me that he was one of the best trot- ters that ever wore a shoe and if il had not been for an ankle that was injured while he was being used as a farm horse on the Nina Ranch in California before anyone ever though
 of racing him. he would in all pro- bability have been the first two min ute trotter Lord Derby, another mag nificent race horse, was when last heard of on the road in Alabama
 Aside from making a break occasion
 ally when least expected, he filled the
 bill as a first class racing trotter. One
 of his most profitable starts was al Hartford when he defeated Boralma
 in a S20 900 match and as much more
 as anyone wanted to bet as E. E T Smatters never stopped that day.
 The mention of Boralma's name re-
 calls his spectacular career and the
 stir created by Thomas w. Lawson
 when the Boreal gelding was on tht
 turf. Lawson gave Dr. Mccoy $17.oo' for Boralma when he won the Ken
 lucky Futurity in 1899 and quit S25,
 000 winner on the race. The following
 day he also made plunge on Peter th'
 Great in the Pennsylvania and lost 1t was in this race that Andy Welci , bet him sS,000 to 5000 and s10 900 tt 5000. taking the field end of it ant ,af won both tickets. The second one | , the largest pool ticket ever sold ol } a trotting race. In 1900. however , Thomas W. Lawson showed tha money lost on a race is only loaned , without interest by returning to Lex } ington and winning the TransylEanl; with Boralma after betting almos everyone to a stand still one of hi wagers being S5 900 even that hi
 horse would win The famou strotters. however, ar , not the only ones which prompt tn
 inquiry as to where they go as man, l q man asks about the pacing gelding l which caused the buzz in the gram ) stand to become d roar at the tnis1 :, of a heat. Frank Bogash, Jr, tn f fastest horse bred in Canada, is nov . owned in that country and a shor l time ago won race over the trac
 at Sherbrooke, where he made his de : but from the afrn1. Prince Alert i : in England where if still living he
 owned by Lewis Winans. Little Boy :. after 2 spectacular career during whicl s he passed fro ma colored mans cabi [ to a millionaires stable and shove
 as much speed a sany horse that eve
 wore a harness. died as a pensione
 at Ottawa, H.. or the farm of Waite
 Palmer, to whom he was presente
 hy c. K. G. Billings. The great pacer l Hal Pointer and Robert J., which di g more to make Ed Geers famous tha z any horses he ever drove. both die ] al East Aurora, N. Y and were burie fat the Village Farm while eAnacand ial is waiting for the last call at th