Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-04
FROM MILK WAGON :
TO TRACK SULKY
Story of Trotter Kenneth B. Rivals
That of Famous Plow
Horse.

The story that goes with the trotter
Kenneth b rivals the one Of the unbeaten
plough horse Captain Lewis, 2.1S. when
Horace Brown whisked him through the
eastern end of the Grand Circuit in 1882.
The winner of the ninth renewal of the
Horse Dealers Sweepstakc in 21l12
was bred by w. T. Redmond, Madison,
n j. lie was got by Brest, 2.20, a son OF
Bingara, out Of Georgia McGregor, 2,20s4
by Robert McGrcgor, 2.1713.
Having been gelded and sold as year
ling for n trihe Kenneth Is. in time be-
came the property Of farmer who used
him TO haul milk wagon from the dairy
barn 10 the depot Between times he did
q little road work and acquired a bunch
on one of his front ankles. One morning
while being led out Of the stable he
stubbed his toe on the door sill and fell,
wrenching n shoulder. On account OF
these two items those who were told that
Kenneth B. had speed turned away, rs
they took it for granted that little train
ing would be followed by a bill and n
lame horse
Last spring the owner of Kenneth b.
put him up at auction. nelghbor got
him on a bid of Sl3S. He tried him on
the road and found that he could trot,
front ankle. Finally he persuaded j. y.
Murray to take an option on him for
80 days for $3.50
Sitting on a box in the shoeing tent at
Windsor, Conn, during the recent meet
ing at Sage Park c. f. Pitman told the
balance of the story which goes with
Kenneth b. lie said:
The track Mt Chester was so bad that
Lyman Brulse took the Brook Farm
horses to PouRhkeepsie. That did not
stop Murray, however, for inside of three
weeks he drove Kenneth B. mile below
2.30, and some one caught him n quar-
ter in 81 y seconds. | had some doubts
about the latter at the time. At Hobo
kus. however, on May 81, ] had ample
opportunity TO see that he was n trotter
when Murray sailed of in front and
won heat from me in 2.2l Il. The
race was spun ont 10 five heats, and
while Kenneth b. tried in the rough
going ne landed another in 2.24l4.
after the meeting at liohokus Muir
ray was busy with business deal and
sent Kenneth II. over 20 Goshen. lie re-
qucsted Billy DiCkcrson to work him.
DickerSon drove the horse in 215I. At
the time / supposed that Dickcrson was
samplng him for one of his patrons
and asked him about It. lie SAID that
he was working him for Murray, who
intended TO start him in the Horse Dealers
Sweepstake at Phlladelphia As / had
won this race in 1914 with Direct 'ista
and in 1918 with Jessie Watts. | got
interested in Kenneth b. at once md when
Dickerson asked me if | would step him
a mile, jumped at the chance let him
loaf along in 225 but the last eighth Of it
was fast enough TO convince me that the
Chester timers were not very far OFT on
that fast quarter.
THE next evening | slipped over to
Chester and purchased Kenneth B. for
w II. Cane Murray had heard of the
mile in 2.l5l4 and wanted Sl.250, but
/ beat him down to 5000. That was the
amount which Kenneth B. won in the
Philadelphia race.
Few trotters drop from q milk wagon
in March TO 211i3 over a mile track on
June O. That is what Kenneth b. did,
and to all appearances he has not reached
the limit of his speed. st. Julien, 2.lll4,
graduated from an Orange county milk
wagon to become the king OF trotters forty
years ago, but he did not find himself as
quickly as Kenneth b.