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The Maine Horse Breeders' Monthly, January 1883

J. W. Thompson

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This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine History Documents by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY J. W. THOMPSON, Canton, Me., U. S. A. —(o)— Terms, $1.00 per annum, in advance. Single Copies, 10 Cents. Vol. V. - No. I. JANUARY, 1883. Entered at the Post Office at Canton, Me., as Second Class Matter. ADVERTISEMENTS.

First Annual Renewal of the MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ PEARL's TROTTING STAKES. WHITE Open to all Colts and Fillies bred or GLYCERINE owned in Maine. BEAUTIFIES THE COMPLEXION, CURES ALL KINDS OF SKIN DISEASES, No. 1. Annual Nursery Stakes, tor two year REMOVES FRECKLES, MOTH­ old colts and fillies, foals of 1881, to be trotted in Aug. PATCHES, TAN, BLACK-WORMS, 1882. Mile beats, two in three to harness; $25.00 en­ and all Impurities, either within or upon the skin. trance. $5 to accompany the nomination, $10 to be paid For CHAPPED HANDS, ROUGH OR CHAFED SKIN it is June 1, 1883, and the remaining $10 Aug. 1, 1883. Ten or more nominations to fill. Entries to close April 1, indispensible. Try one bottle and you will never be 1883. without it. Use also No. 2. Annual Breeders’ Stakes, for colts and fillies three years old or under, to be trotted in Aug. PEARL’S WHITE GLYCERINE SOAP 1883. Mile heats, three in five to harness; $25.00 en­ it makes the skin so soft and trance, $5 to accompany nomination, $10 to be paid white. June 1, 1883, and the remaining $10 Aug. 1, 1883. Ten PEARL’S WHITE or more nominations to fill. Entries to close April 1, GLYCERINE CO. 1883. New Haven. Ct. Jo. 3. Maine Trotting Stakes, for colts and late of Jersey City NJ fillies four years old and under, foals of 18879 and 1880, to be trotted in Aug. 1883. Mile heats, three in five to harness; $25.00 entrance, $5 to accompany nomina­ tion, $10 to be paid June 1, 1883, and the remaining $10 Aug. 1, 1883. Ten or more nominations to fill. Entries to close Aug. 1,1883. EARS for THE MILLION ! Distance in each Race to be 150 yds. Foo Choo’s Balsam of Shark’s Oil To be trotted at the Maine State Fair Grounds Positively Restores the Hearing, and is the Lewiston, Me., Thursday, Aug. 30, 1883, Only Absolute Cure for Deafness Known. This oil is abstracted from peculiar species of small or on the first fair day thereafter. White Shark, caught in the Yellow Sea, known as Carcharodon Rondeletii. Every Chinese fisherman knows it. Its virtues as a restorative of hearing were DIVISION OF MONEY. discovered by a Buddhist Priest about the year 1410. Its cures were so numerous and many so seemingly If three or more horses start, and continue miraculous, that the remedy was officially pro­ claimed over the entire Empire. Its use became so in a race until its close, two-thirds of the universal that for over 300 years no Deafness Stake shall be awarded to the winner, two- lias existed among- the Chinese people, bent, thirds of the remainder to the second horse, charges prepaid, to any address at $1.00 per bottle. and the balance to the third. If only two Hear What the Deaf Say ! horses start, or if there shall be only two It has performed a miracle in my case. horses in at the end of the race, the rest being I have no unearthly noises in my head and hear distanced, the money which would have gone much better. I have been greatly benefited. to the third horse will be divided between My deafness helped a great deal—think another bot­ the two so remaining in, two-thirds to the tle will cure me. My hearing is much benefited. first, and one-third to the second. If only one I have received untold benefit. horse starts, as in the case of a walk-over, or My hearing is improving. if only one remains in at the conclusion of the It is giving good satisfaction. Have been greatly benefited, and am rejoiced that race, the rest being distanced, he shall be en­ I saw the notice of it. titled to the entire Stakes. Otherwise the National Rules shall govern. “Its virtues are unquestionable and its curative CHARACTER ABSOLUTE, AS THE WRITER CAN PERSONAL­ Nominations made to— LY TESTIFY, BOTH FROM EXPERIENCE AND OBSERVA­ TION. Write at once to Haylock & Jenney, 7 Dey St., J. W. THOMPSON, Canton, Me. New York, inclosing $1.00, and you will receive by re­ turn mail a remedy that will enable you to hear like anybody else, and whose curative effects will be per­ manent. You will never regret doing so.”—Editor PERCHERON MARES. of Mercantile Review. To avoid loss in the mails, please send money by FILLIES, Young and Matured. Registered Letter. Only Imported by Haylock & Jenney, STALLIONS FOR EXPORT. Sole Agents for America. 7 Dey St., N. Y. Every breeder and amateur should read my circular, sent free to any address. Corres­ This Paper may be found on file ROWELL pondence in English. Write at once. at& GEOCO’S. P.newspaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce Street), where A. ROGY, advertising con­ tracts may be •59 Rue Lafayette, Paris, France. made for it NEW YORK Knights of the Ribbons. NO. II.

To tell people in this country anything about believed, while others that have come since Budd Doble may seem like a superfluous task, her racing career ended have had more; she for the horseman who does not know the was occasionally beaten after arriving at her principal happenings of his life is a rara avis best, but considering all of these admissions indeed. From the days of his early appren­ we have had no race-horse her equal, Rarus ticeship with the old master Hiram Woodruff, comes the nearest to her from those possess­ his life has been subject to the searching light ing the top notch of speed, and he might, if of public curiosity. Few men in any walk continued in public life, have left a record as of life have withstood the blinding glare of uniform in its success as hers, but in company fame with less effect to natural characteristics; with many another good one his light is now although sensitively proud his pride has never hid under a bushel; the public greed for fiction been of the pompous, overbearing fashion enables the lover of ghostly performances to that makes enemies, but rather the natural rival the crazy king, who at vast expense, sits conservative instincts of a gentleman, that the solitary auditor of a grand opera. have enabled him all his life to preserve in On the 7th of October, 1874, I was waiting most exigencies a well-balanced and unoffend­ at old Dexter Park to get a sight of the latest ing dignity. Now that circumstances have phenomena among trotting wonders, Gloster, restored him to a seat behind the speedy trot­ the son of Volunteer, then on his way to an ter, the public have reason to congratulate untimely grave on the Pacific coast. Solitary themselves. A race with Doble in it has al­ and unknown to all about me, the time passed ways an element of satisfaction to the crowd, drearily enough, and the hail of a commercial and for that matter to the judges and report­ traveler whom I had met in Minnesota was a ers ; everybody knows him, everybody believes glad surprise. “Don’t you know any one?” he will try to win always, and every one be­ said he. “Only by sight, as public person­ lieves, when his story is told, that they have ages,’’ I replied. “Well, you are a horseman heard the truth. The first great trotter with and would like to know Doble; come along which Budd Doble’s name is associated came and get acquainted.” We went to the stable to his hands from the master already crowned and my drummer friend gave a knock which king; it remained, however, for Doble to brought a cautious rubber to the door; he give him his best record and greatest fame. held it ajar long enough to recognize my After Dexter, the public learned to link his companion and let us in quickly, to cut off name with the greatest race mare, all things the curious crowd passing to and fro. The considered, we have yet known. Some of Maid occupied the first stall to our right as her contemporaries had as much speed, it is we went in, Gloster next to her, and Fuller­ 2. THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. JAN.

ton opposite him. Doble set on a feed-box love of horse, for the drummer plainly show­ behind Gloster, with a troubled, preoccupied ed his lack of interest. Curious to know the look in his eyes, that I have often thought bond of union, I went back again and again since was premonitory of the sad luck in store until the trail was struck, and the drummer for both the horse and himself upon the shores went on with “I owe Doble a great debt of of the further ocean. He greeted me with gratitude; my nose would be playing check­ quiet courtesy, kindly answered my inquiries ers but for him. I had some trouble up in regarding the horses, cleverly striving to re­ Wisconsin and killed a man. I was in the press the symptoms of boredom which attacks right, but had no friends or money; Doble all men long subjected to a repetition of put up for my bai1, and is helping me through queries by a public whose curiosity is only further he would not go. The beginning and limited by time and space. Many persons in end of the romance or tragedy is unknown to similar positions break under the strain, and me. Doble in the sulky is what one would sing a melancholy growl to all who approach expect him to be, quiet, graceful, gentleman­ them. Doble endured the vexations of his ly, eager to win ; his face a mirror of success position admirably, and his face never as­ or failure, now aglow with triumph, again sumed the offensive look that arouses in an overcast and despondent at failure. His great instant the belligerent nature of the crowd. success as a driver has been associated with Herein lies the secret of his success with the the long and patient study of individual Maid—an endless patience. Her turbulent, horses; it is the work of a master, but it is fiery humors broke constantly against the not off-hand work; rather is it like the artistic smooth, impenetrable armor of his sympathy painstaking of Meissonier; not the bold, care­ and good nature. Like the wearing away of less stroke of self-assured genius, like the stone by constant drip, did her temper slow­ driving of Mace and Johnson, or the pro­ ly yield to a steadfast purpose, until all that ficiency of Dore and Nast; but it has in re­ wild energy, that feminine perversity and sults gone further. As the writer predicted desperation of spirit was expended at the will last July, Monroe Chief succumbed at last to of her driver solely in an effort to get to the its steady influence, and has been the only front in the manner which he willed. There horse this year to break the record in harness; may be a young horseman somewhere who while his defeat of Rosa Wilkes demonstrates has not seen. Doble, possibly an old one; that horse and driver have established that equally improbable with the latter supposition oneness of purpose that will make them hard is the possibility that some horseman of the to down next season. future, mousing among the musty relics of W. II. McCarthy, familiarly known as of the past, may be curious to know how the “Knapsack,” has been brought prominently great reinsman looked and moved and talked; before the public as a driver of first-class for them a brief description of personnel. horses by adventitious circumstances. What He is a small man, of graceful, symmetrical is not to his discredit in the least is the fact proportions, the hand and foot of an aristo­ that he began at the bottom, but it has been crat. He has the pure, unalloyed nervous rather his misfortune than otherwise to be ad­ temperament; dresses with the quiet, subdued vanced more rapidly than his acquisition of taste of a gentleman; his light hair and dignity and self-control would warrant. He moustache, with a tendency to curl, and a is a large, brawny, sturdy young man, with tinge of sunlight it it; a broad, evenly de­ great muscular strength and a hot temper, of veloped forehead, of medium height; bright which he has but slight control. An admirable blue eyes, set wide apart, with a laugh in fitter and handler, a driver with many faults them indicative of Celtic origin; a nose of of method and manner, he has yet to learn Grecian type; a wide mouth, with thin lips, some serious lessons before life will smooth and a well-formed, prominent lower face—in out its wrinkles to him. His position in the all, a union of the Celtic and Teutonic types, sulky is awkward in the extreme as to ap­ with but little suggestive of Yankee origin. pearance, owing, possibly, to habit from My commercial friend seemed to regard much monotonous jogging while at work for Doble as a sort of patron saint, which could Dan Mace. His management of horses at not be accounted for on the score of mutual high speed indicates that his experience has 1883. THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. 3- been principally at slow work. With a stable thick-set, lieavy-built man, round-featured of top sawyers, the pick in their classes of the and good-natured, and his weight does not whole country, many of them noted for being seem to have been an obstacle to success, al­ steady and level-headed, they were all ready though it is noticeable that his best ones have to jump up with little provocation, this year, been .big, strong fellows, with the nerve pow­ showing their lack of confidence in their er to pull a load. And yet this specialist in driver. All speedy and in good condition, equine mechanical appliances now drives for their moderate success was due more to their his best one as pure-gaited a trotter as ever unsteadiness than to the combinations against lived, one who needs no iron except as a pro­ them. tection from injury. As a recreation from NO. III. legitimate business this may be correct; but Some writei* down East has recently called I always think Glidden is out of place driving attention to the diminutive stature of most of Wilson; it looks like a master-builder doing the eminent drivers. This is a subject that the easy, preliminary work of a beginner. has been fought over and over again, with It was a fancy of mine at Cleveland that reference to nearly all pursuits, from war Gladiator had such an idea as this in his head down. Formidable arrays of big men and when he jammed his nose bump into Glid­ and little men, physically, have been present­ den’s back, nearly knocking him from the ed by the partisans of each side of the ques­ sulky; it was a gentle hint, in equine form, tion, until it has been firmly established that to get out of a soft job and tackle something neither big nor little men have a monopoly of commensurate with his ability; the driving genius. An arbitrary natural law, aided by of Gladiator, for instance. The latter soon proscriptive enactment, bars the way to great fell into good hands, however, another big eminence as drivers for big men. That noth­ man, too—by the way, some of these big men ing more than this stands in the way I am are getting quite eminent, after all as drivers; firmly convinced. The best natural driver I and, with due respect for the ability of all ever knew measured fifty-two inches about the rest, this one especially big man, measured the chest, and was built in proportion. This by every standard, has not today, and never giant, despite his weight, in a coterie of driv­ has had, a superior as a driver. This is not ers, professional and amateur, some of whom the language of hero-worship or enthusiastic are now well known, could drive any named favoritism, but an opinion reluctantly forced trotter faster than its owner or driver. Ilis upon me by observation and the logic of was simply genius as a reinsman, associated events. with tremendous will power to drive a horse The incorruptible Peter, as he is sometimes to its utmost. Men have attained eminence called, has given The Gazette’s circle a brief as drivers without either of these qualifica­ resume of his experience with some of the tions; and, as a rule, men of this stamp do most noted trotters he has handled. He omit­ not make fast horses. Some drivers have ted to state, however, that much of his most achieved success through the possession of an briliant success has followed upon the heels acute mechanical instinct ; others through a of failure on the part of others with horses special gift for coping with mental eccentric­ that were not thought much of or were even ities ; others, again, with trotters that are pure considered entirely to be no good. Last sum­ gaited and good-tempered, by judgment in mer I wrote The Gazette from Cleveland as the amount and kind of exercise given. There follows; “Peter V. Johnson has taken charge are few drivers so constituted as to cover the of Aldine since the Chicago meeting, and whole ground; and the perfect union of horse gave her this morning a mile, and then brushed and driver is as rare as the perfect marriage. her out. She met Witherspoon, who seemed The king of the mechanicians is undoubtedly unable to get the better of her. Aldine is Gus. Glidden, and he is not a small man by liable to be a good mare in Johnson’s hands.” any means. His great success in remedying How good was shown the following Thursday structural defects in trotters has won him by her winning in fast time and getting a fame; and no one as yet has turned out so record of 2.19L At her stall, Tuesday morn­ many very fast ones from the ranks of the ing, after the trial, I observed Johnson close­ liobblers and double-gaited fellows. He is a ly, as well as Aldine’s old driver, Mr. M. K. 4- THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. JAN.

Norton. The work had been a demonstration well. His genius—for it is more than talent that the change was for the better. Mr. No­ —is versatile, and covers nearly the whole ble, in charge of the mare for his brother, range of requirements in a driver—that is, was jubilant. Minnesota readers will be in­ the essentials. Some of the fancy points he terested in knowing that this is the Noble most wofully lacks. A fact over which I who used to have charge of Capt. Henry’s imagine he never mourns any. He is no horses at Rochester. Norton was much down­ beauty in the sulky or out of it, and I have cast and asked me to say for him that he had never observed his wasting any efforts to at­ driven the mare in her races thus far. John­ tract the attention of feminine auditors; his son showed no signs of triumph, was quiet business is solely to win, and that object ab­ and very intent upon the business in hand, sorbs him. He sits in a sulky with his broad but the drama of human emotions was of shoulders describing an arc, his head dropped greater interest to me than the speed of the slightly, as if in deep reflection; his face im­ mare, and I watched the man closely. John­ perturbable, and showing little sign of elation son is a broad-shouldered, brawny, muscular or despondency, which is all in accord with plan, with a habitual stoop that is acquired his temperament—a union of the bilious and by many men who handle the feet of horses. sanguine, a temperament usually accompani­ He must be considerably over weight, al­ ed by great physical strength and a strong though far from being a fleshy man. He has will. In his dress he is almost as plain as bone and frame enough to hang fat on that Jack Batchelor, although he makes conces­ would require a dray instead of a sulky to sions to popular fancy when in the sulky by support it. His hand is like the popular image donning colors. Sober brown, however, is of that belonging to providence, and must be as far as his imagination goes in this direction. a formidable-looking weapon when doubled His special characteristic in the sulky is his up. The most prominent feature in his face success in keeping horses at the trotting lick is a large Roman nose, which is strongly in­ without breaks. Many observers may disa­ dicative of his mental caliber and character­ gree with me, but they would not if they had istics. Johnson is a thinker; he studies out known some of his horses before they came his subjects as a physician would. In addition to him. One of them, that he has given a he is a natural reinsman, ranking with Dan record of 2.201, I met in exercise at a county Mace. Drivers who are proficient in this re­ fair, where I had gone to trot my road-team spect are usually lacking in many others—it in a double team race. He came along to me is a physical rather than a mental accomplish­ down the home stretch going the right way ment, and inspires an overweening confidence of the track, and by the time the wire was in many that leads to the neglect of more im­ reached we were at top speed. I saw that it portant considerations, for no matter how was just about nip and tuck, as to a brush, well a man can drive, he must have a trotter but at the quarter, in 39 seconds, the horse to win with, and this trotter must often be was a bobbing; at the turn coming into the evolved from what seems very hopeless ma­ home stretch he broke so hopelessly that 1 terial. Here is where Johnson excels. He pulled up and jogged in. At the stable an gets a larger proportion of good ones from excited crowd gathered around me, and a the material submitted to him than any other man says, “You downed a pretty good one; man within my knowledge. This success is that fellow went to the half in 1.15 the other in a measure a bar to superlative. achieve­ day.” “Stud-horse talk,” says I to myself; ments with anyone, and while he has quickly and when word came that Johnson had him, shown the way to many for a record of about I felt sorry for Johnson. Not long after 1 2.20, he would get one close to 2.10 if his saw the horse well up in 2.22, showing great reputation should wane a little. Suppose, speed, making an occasional tumble, and fall­ for instance, Aldine had remained with him ing back a little; but such a wonderful change and he should get but few horses to handle from the track-jumping, cavorting, fool of a in 1883, that mare’s record would in my horse that my little old mare had downed so opinion, go down very low. easy, that respect for the ability of the man In brief, then, Johnson makes trotters, or behind him was irresistible. The horse Glad­ improves their speed, and then drives them iator used to act as if insane before Johnson 1883. THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. 5< got him, but his record of 2.221 indicates that Rarus, 2.131, is by Conklin’s Abdallah, be­ his recovery must be nearly complete.— lieved to be, with a strong degree of proba­ M. T. G., in Breeder’s Gazette. bility, a son of Old Abdallah, dam Nancy Awful, by Telegraph, son of Burr’s Napoleon; The 2.20 list.—Ilaiiabletonians. grandam Lady Hunter, by Vt. Black Hawk. In point of numbers and the greatest speed, Rarus was a campaigner of campaigners. A the Hambletonian family comprise nearly 50 stout and improving horse. per cent, of the 2.20 list. There are 97 mem­ Goldsmith Maid, 2.14, is by Alexander’s bers, forty-three of which are Hambletonians. Abdallah, dam by Old Abdallah. She was This may be regarded as an essay, eloquent in one of the greatest trotters this country ever all its bearings upon the much-discussed prob­ had, getting her best record in her seventeenth lem of how to breed the trotter. It does not year. tell all the tale, but demonstrates the fact that Clingstone, 2.14, is by Rysdyk, son of the greatest excellence comes from excellence Rysdyk’s Hambletonian out of Lady Duke, —at least in the genus equine*, that the horses by Lexington the thoroughbred, dam Gretch­ which have reached the extreme limits of en, by Chosroes; grandam Lady Fallis, by trotting speed were those in which the trot­ Seely’s American Star; great grandam by ting element predominated. The dominant L. T. Black Hawk. In him the trotting ele­ blood controls the formation and instinct. ment surely predominates, controlling the This is an inexorable law of nature. The conformation and instinct, but the warm blood chief aim in breeding the trotter is to get an of the great racehorse has done him no harm. animal which will be very fast, and at the Clingstone started the past season well, but same time stout and lasting. Both these at­ was unfortunately thrown out of training. tributes depend upon proper selection. A His brief career has shown that he is of the sire that is fast himself, or comes of a family right kind. noted for speed, bred to a mare having the Hattie Woodward, 2.151, is by Aberdeen, same characteristics, is apt to get a fast and son of the old Horse, dam not traced. Aber­ lasting one. The 2.20 list as it now stands deen, was out of Widow Machree, record proves the truth of this assertion. There are 2.29, by American Star. Widow Machree some horses in it which have made good rec­ was a noted mare in her day, and imparted ords, with no great trotting strength in their her finest qualities to her son Aberdeen. pedigrees, but with one or two exceptions Hattie Woodward was one of the sensational they have not equalled their records or made performers of 1880, an J proved herself stout great campaigners. The two leaders of the and lasting, list are dyed-in-the-wool trotters, and have Darby, 2.161, is by Delmonico, son of Guy both gone on and improved. Maud 8., by Miller, by the Old Horse, dam by Glencoe, Harold, dam Miss Russell, by Pilot Jr., has a Delmonico’s dam, was the Harvey Adam’s record of 2.101. She is stout, lasting, and Mare, by old Hambletonian, grandam by imp. pure-gaited. Harold was got by Rysdyk’s Bellfounder. Guy Miller’s dam was by Nan­ Hambletonian, dam Enchantress, by Abdal­ ny’s Bolivar. Darby, therefore, has a double lah ; grandam by imp. Bellfounder. Miss Rus­ cross to Hambletonian against the Glencoe sell is out of Sally Russel], by Boston, the strain. He was a great campaigner in the thoroughbred. To the cover of Belmont, by hands of that master, Dan Mace. Alexander’s Abhallah, dam Belle, by Mam- Edwin Thorne, 2.161, is by Thornedale, brino Chief, she produced Nutwood, 2.18|, 2.221, son of Alexander’s Abdallah out of and Cora Belmont, 2.241. All these three of Dolly by Mambrino Chief; dam by Ashland, her produce partake most strongly of trotting son of Mambrino Chief; grandam by Eureka, blood. son of L. I. Black Hawk. Ashland was out St, Julien, 2.111, is by Volunteer, son of of Utilla, by Margrave, the thoroughbred. Hambletonian, out of Lady Patriot; dam True to his fine breeding Edwin Thorne is a Flora, by Harry Clay, son of Neave’s C. M. horse of thorough trotting conformation, is Clay, dam by imp. Bellfounder. In him the very fast, and is a stayer. He was one of trotting strains predominate, and he too is a the great horses the past season. campaigner and pure-gaited horse. Jerome Eddy, 2.161, is by Louis Napoleon 6. THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. JAN. son of Volunteer out of Hattie Wood, by land Chief, son of Mambrino Chief. Here Harry Clay; dam Fanny Mapes, by Alexan­ again is another combination of the potent der’s Abdallah. Hattie Wood also produced Mambrino Chief blood. Santa Claus has been Gazelle, record 2.21, to the cover of the Old several seasons on the turf, improving each Horse. Jerome Eddy was the best entire year. He is a stout, reliable trotter, has with­ horse of 1882, trotting a number of hard races stood the weakening influences of climatic against old hands. He has endurance and changes, and was one of the principal at­ great will power. tractions in the Grand Circuit of this year. Gloster, 2.17, was by Volunteer, dam Black We saw him trot the gamest kind of a race Bess, by Stockbridge Chief, son of Vt. Black at Boston for the $10,000 purse last Septem­ Hawk; grandam by Mambrino Paymaster. ber, and a lame horse at that. It is said that Gloster was one of the most promising horses John Turner will handle him next season, of his time. He was pure-gaited, an all-dav and we are inclined to think the General will fellow, and had the longest stride of any never sit behind a much better one. horse contemporary with him. Gloster died Nettie, 2.18, was got by Rysdyk’s Hamble­ before he had the opportunity to show what tonian, dam the County House Mare, by See­ he was capable of, but had in him the ele­ ly’s American Star. Nettie was another good ments of a great trotter. one of the Ilambletonian-Star combination. Dexter, 2.171, is by Old Hambletonian, She was a good campaigner. dam Clara, by Seely’s American Star. Ham­ Dick Swiveller, 2.18, is by Walkill Chief, bletonian crossed best on American Star dam Madame Swiveller, by Henry Clay Jr., mares, and he never got a better one than son of Henry Clay; grandam Old Tad, by Dexter. Dexter in his prime had no superior. Rattler, son of Abdallah. True to his breed­ He was a stout, never-failing horse, and even ing and characteristics, Dick Swiveller, while now, in his old age, is as lusty and strong as before the public, was a sensational horse. many a horse considerably his junior. Clara, He is now a mate to Edward, and has the his dam, also produced Alma, 2.28i, to the honor of trotting a mile with him in 2.16t, cover of the Old Horse. one and a quarter seconds faster than his rec­ Piedmont, 2.171, is by Almont, sou of Al­ ord in harness. exander’s Abdallah, dam Mag Ferguson, by Great Eastern, 2.18, is also by W alki 11 Chief, 'Mambrino Chief, grandam by Grey Eagle, dam bv Riley’s Consternation Colt, son of the racehorse. Almont’s dam is by Mambri­ imp. Consternation ; grandam by Fergun son’s no Chief, grandam by Pilot Jr. There is a Old Kentucky Hunter. As a campaigner splendid combination of trotting blood in Great Eastern was not a shining light. He is Piedmont. A double cross to Mambrino a very large horse, and not cast in the mold Chief, one to Hambletonian and one to Pilot of a thorough going trotter. As a saddle Jr., helped him to win a number of hard- horse he was a better performer than in har­ fought contests. He is now in the stud, but ness, getting a record of 2.151. is able to stand another hard campaign. Judge Fullerton, 2.18, is by Edward Ever­ So-So. 2.17.1, is by George Wilkes, son of ett out of Fanny, by imp. Margrave, dam not Hambletonian, dam Little Ida, by Alexander’s traced. Judge Fullerton is one of the notable Edwin Forrest. The dam of George Wilkes exceptions. He is a horse of decided trotting washy Henry Clay, the founder of the family. conformation. He was an able campaigner, George Wilkes, with a record of 2.22, was a horse of great substance, and very speedy. himself a great campaigner. As a sire of Robert McGregor, 2.18, is by Major Edsall, trotters he stands in the front rank, seven of son of Alexander’s Abdallah out of a mare his get entering the 2.30 list the past season. by Harris’ Hambletonian; dam Nancy Whit­ So-So is a worthy daughter of her great man, by Seely’s American Star; grandam by sire. Durland’s Young Messenger Duroc. Robert Santa Claus, 2.17£, is by Strathmore, son of McGregor was an able horse while on the the Old Hero out of Lady Waiterwire, by turf. He trotted several seasons in the best North American; dam Lady Thorne Jr., by company, and retired" with a reserve of Williams’ Mambrino, son of Ericsson, by speed. Mambrino Chief; grandam Kate, by High­ Midnight, 2.18j, is by Peacemaker, son of 1883. THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. 7-

Hambletonian, out of Sally Feagles, by George; dam by Daniel Webster, son of Smith’s Clay, son of Neave’s C. M Clay, Jr., Cassius M. Clay, is an old campaigner. He dam by the Drew Horse; grandam by With- has been some seasons on the turf, and is now erell Messenger. Midnight has always been one of the most valued members of Mr. W. J. a first-class first-money horse. He is resolute, Gordon’s stable. fast, and of great endurance. 2.185 is not Cleora, 2.18f, started a green mare the past the limit of his speed. season. She participated in but few races, Monroe Chief, 2.185, is by Jim Monroe, but at once leaped into prominence. Cleora son of Alexander’s Abdallah, out of Lizzie is by Menelaus, son of Hambletonian, dam Peeples, by Wagner, the race-horse; dam by Thorneleaf, by Mambrino Patchen, grandam Bay Chief, son of Mambrino Chief; grandam Dandy (dam of Silver Duke, 2.28f), by by Toronto, son of St. Lawrence. Monroe Young Engineer, the sire of Lady Suffolk. Chief was a sensational horse from his first Menelaus was out of Jessie Bull, by L. I. appearance upon the turf. He has trotted Black Hawk. Cleora is by right a trotter. some of the best contested races the public As she is now in the hands of a private gen­ have ever witnessed. This fall he beat Rosa tleman, it may never be known whether she Wilkes in a hard-fought race of six heats— will make a great campaigner. She is bred his first contest for the year—and a few days for it, however. after trotted two miles in 4.46, the best on Nutwood, 2.18f, by Belmont, dam Miss record. He is a game horse, of true confor­ Russell, the dam of Maud S., is a first-class mation, level-headed, and of great substance. entire horse. He has shown his ability to His record in harness is by no means his train on and can beat his record. limit. Alley, 2.19, by Volunteer, dam by New Fanny Witherspoon. .2.185, by Almont, York Black Hawk, son of L. I. Black Hawk, dam by Gough’s Wagner, is one of the best grandam by Mambrino Paymaster, the sire of Almont’s get. She is a very blood-like of Mambrino Chief , was an improving horse mare, of fine trotting action. She started while on the turf. He placed 46 heats in several seasons ago in good company, and 2.30 or better before his retirement. has been a good campaigner. Kitty Bates, 2.19, by Jim Monroe, damPop Pickard, 2.185, by Abdallah Pilot, dam by Corn, not traced. Kitty Bates was an able Bourbon Chief, is another member of the campaigner, and was one of the shining lights tribe that has shown his breeding. He is al­ the season of 1880. so inbred to Mambrino Chief. Abdallah Jay-Eye-See, 2.19, by Dictator, dam Mid­ Pilot is a son of Alexander’s Abdallah, out night, by Pilot Jr., is the greatest four-year- of Blandina, by Mambrino Chief, grandam old the American trotting turf has produced. the Burch Mare, by Brown Pilot. Blandina Dictator is a full brother to Dexter, and old also produced Swigert, the sire of Calamus, Clara never produced a mean one. Midnight George K., and Resolute. Bourbon Chief, also produced Noontide, 2.205, and is out of the son of Mambrino Chief, got Calmar, Twilight, by Lexington. Jay-Eye-See is a 2.22. Pickard is a very speedy, game horse. small horse, of true conformation, compact, He was several seasons on the turf, improv­ true gaited, and is confidently expected to ing each year. improve in his five-year-old form, as he un­ Rosa Wilkes, 2.185, bv George Wilkes, dam doubtedly will. by Mambrino Patchen, is one of the best Adele Gould, 2.19 by Jay Gould, dam campaigners that ever stepped upon a track. Emeline, by Henry B. Patchen, son* of Geo. She is credited with having trotted over 100 M. Patchen, is the best five-year-old in the races in the best company, with a large list list. She trotted a number of hard races this of winnings. She is bred'just right for season, and got her record well on towards downright hard work. At the tail end of the the close. Jay Gould is out of Lady San­ past season she was beaten in bruising six ford, by Seely’s American Star. Emeline al­ heat race by Monroe Chief, but the defeat so produced Kate Taylor and Ray Gould, took nothing from her prestige. both very speedy, to the cover of Aberdeen William H., 2.18-5, by Young Wilkes out and Jay Gould. of a mare by Prince of Wales, son of Royal Edward, 2.19, by Masterlode, son of the 8. THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. JAN.

Old Horse, dam by Bacchus, was an able nian, dam Dolly Mills, by Seely’s American campaigner. Masterlode’s dam was Lady Star, was a very able mare. She trotted sev­ Irwin, by Seely’s American Star. Edward, eral seasons, improving with experience. She as a mate to Dick Swivelier, trotted a mile in was level-gaited and very fast. 2.16|, improving on his harness records. He Prospero, 2.20, by Messenger Duroc, dam is still an able horse, and is claimed to be able Green Mountain Maid, by Harry Clay, gran­ to beat his record. dam Shanghai Mary. Prospero was a very Wedgewood, 2.19, by Belmont, dam Wood­ fast, improving horse. His dam also produced bine, by Woodford, thoroughbred son of Dame Trot, 2.22, and Elaine, 2.20. Kosciusko, started several seasons ago, and Graves, 2.20, by Whipple’s Hambletonian, was an able campaigner, although he carried son of Guy Miller, by The Old Horse; dam weights. He is not what is called a true-gait- Rose Austin, of unknown breeding. Graves ed horse, needing artificial appliances to keep wTas fast and trotted a number of good races him level. He, however held his own in good in California. company. Woodbine produced Woodford Elaine, 2.20, by Messenger Duroc, dam Mambrino, 2.211, a great horse. Green Mountain Maid, by Harry Clay. Elaine Bodine, 2.191, by Volunteer, dam by Harry is a very speedy and resolute mare. She Clay, was a good horse in his day. He trot­ showed herself one of the right kind at an ted some seasons, winning a great many hard early age. Her record of 2.20 was made races. when six years old. Aldine, 2.191, is by Almont, dam Mother The blood elements in the direct female Hubbard, by Toronto, of St. Lawrence stock. line stand in the following order: Daughters Aldine has always been a fine performer, of American Star bred to Hambletonian sires training on and improving. She is very contributed five to the 2.20 list. Daughters bloodlike, of good conformation and very of Harry Clay gave four, Green Mountain speedy. Maid furnishing two. Pilot Jr. mares con­ Von Arnim, 2.191, by Sentinel, dam Mary tributed three, Miss Russell furnishing two. Short, by Blood’s Black Hawk, grandam by Mambrino Patchen has two daughters which Downing’s Bay Messenger, is a very speedy have given two to the list. In the second or stallion, a stayer, and’a good campaigner. third removes, the Mambrino Chiefs number Sentinel is a full brother to Volunteer, and five, one being out of a daughter. The rest had himself a record of 2.291. are distributed among the Clays, Vt. Black Driver, 2.191, bv Volunteer, dam Silver- Hawks, Edwin Forrests, L. I. Black Hawks, tail, by American Star; grandam by Wildair, and three inbred. As a cross upon Hamble­ son of Hoagland’s Grey Messenger, is one of tonian blood for stout, speedy, and lasting the best year-in-and-year-out horses on the trotters, the Mambrino Chief element seems American turf. He started in 1877, and has the best. The power and good heart of the been before the publie ever since. He is a last-named is aided by the action and speedi­ thorough trotter, game and enduring. Driver ness of the former. It is a combination which has won a fortune for his owner. trains on and improves. Witness Edwin Daisydale, 2.19f, is by Thornedale, dam Thorne, Piedmont, Santa Claus, Monroe Daisy, by Burr's Washington; grandam by Chief, Pickard, Rosa Wilkes, and Aldine, all Old Abdallah; great grandam by Engineer campaigners of undoubted ability. Of the 2d. Daisydale while on the turf proved her­ Hambletonian sires represented in the 2.20 self a Worthy daughter of Thornedale. She list, six have records of 2.30 or better, name­ was very fast. ly ; Thornedale, 2.22j; George Wilkes, 2.22 ; Nancy Hackett, 2.20, by Wood’s Hamble­ Major Edsall, 2.29; Jay Gould, 2.2U ; Young tonian, dam the Hackett Mare, pedigree un­ Wilkes, 2.28j, and Sentinel, 2.29J; Thorne­ known, was a great campaigner. She was dale and George Wilkes got two each. The one of the attractions of the Grand Circuit, Old Horse without a fast record got three, and a first-rate money horse. Her dam, the and so did Almont. Volunteer, the best son of Hambletonian, heads the list with five, got Hackett Mare, also produced Argonaut, from Clay, Morgan, Star, and L. I. Black 2.231. Ilawk mares. Walkill Chief, also without a Orange Girl. 2.20, by Rysdyk’s Hambleto­ record, has two.—New York Sportsman. 1883 THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. 9<

Types of tlie Turf. whole stable of trotters—seeing that this one THE DRIVER. is fed the precise amount which his condition The driver of the American trotter, from requires, that the shoes of another are of the being a sort of cross between stable boy and exact weight, and set in just the manner hoodlum, has developed, during the past dozen which alone will enable him to show, his years or so, into a distinct type of the Ameri­ greatest speed, and that a third is given some can life; and his business, which was not so other equally important attention. To-mor­ very long ago looked upon with silent dis­ row he will be in the sulky, driving a horse, trust, if not absolute suspicion and scorn by perhaps upon whose victory or defeat tens of the generality of people, has grown into the thousands of dollars depend. The starting dignity of a profession in which only those judge may be a man who means well, but possessing the attributes of a gentleman, the knows little enough about the business he thoughtfulness which impels them to con­ has in hand. It is in cases of this kind that stantly study out the hidden problems with the diplomatic driver shines with a luster which their business abounds, and the ability that nothing can dim. If the scoring fora to grasp and make use of the points which heat has been long and tedious, and the bell daily experience brings before them, can summons all hands to the stand, the diplo­ hope to attain permanent success. In the matic driver is certain to stop his horse in a early days of trotting more depended upon the position where the eye of the judge cannot horse, perhaps, than the man. A 2.40 trotter fail to rest upon him. and when the injunc­ was quite as likely to be found made to order tion to “score by the pole horse, and don’t as any other way—and in those times horses come here ahead of him” is given, the Talley­ that could beat 2.40 were not more numerous rand of the sulky, looking up to the judicial than are today those for whom 2.20 is not functionary with a countenance upon which the limit. Of course, the master minds of deep regret at the misbehavior of his com­ the profession, commencing with that grand panions and respectful sympathy for the old man, Hiram Woodruff, were always above judge is equally mingled, remarks in the the common herd, both in point of manners, blandest possible manner, “all right Mr.----- ,” education and dress, but the rank and file of and then drives away to delay the start half trotting-horse drivers were, it must be said, an hour longer, if such action be necessary to sadly deficient in many of the points which the success of his plans. go to make up the modern knight of the rib­ Among the glib-tongued orators of the bons. They were uncouth in appearance, quarter stretch Jack Phillips stands pre­ fatally deficient in education, turbulent in eminent, and it would not be necessary, were spirit, and those with whom they mingled, this article written only for those who know and who followed their varying fortunes, were him, to say that the same remark applies to too often absolutely disreputable. him with equal force in other positions. The Now all is changed. The driver of trotters gift of gab is essentially Phillips’ strong is a nattily-dressed man of trim build, and point, his long suit, as a whist player would his whole appearance betokens the nervous say; and, more than that, he knows as well as energy that is nowhere met with so univer­ anybody how and when to utilize it. Others sally as in the United States. His business are not so fortunate in this respect. Peter has made him a cosmopolitan in the truest Johnson, for instance, has a habit of saying and broadest sense of the word and he can exactly what he thinks, no mattter what the conduct himself with equal Case in a parlor occasion or circumstances be. There is no or in a bar-room. During the progress of a oil on his tongue, and while always ready and race he is speaking at one minute to a man anxious to secure a good start, and help gen­ whom he knows to be none too good to use a erally in having a race trotted as it should revolver should his passions be aroused, and be, he is not disposed to assume and burden an instant later he is, perchance, holding of blame that does not rightfully belong on converse with some merchant prince who has his shoulders, and when a judge attempts to the true American fondness for fast horse­ reprimand Johnson he is pretty certain to re­ flesh. And added to all this, the driver must ceive a reply that is both tart and emphatic. be a diplomat. Today he is busy with a But though Johnson is one of the quietest IO. THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. JAN- and most amiable men in the profession, there enough to hold his position when other driv­ are none that will resent an insult more quick­ ers, in rounding a turn, attempt to pinch and ly or effectively. Brought up to the trade of pocket him. He is not afraid of shattered a blacksmith, his arm is big and brawny, and spokes, and he understands the advantage of can strike a telling blow, as one man who being well up when the word is given. He impugned his honesty at one of the Central is a judge of pace as well as condition, and in Circuit meetings last summer can testify.— a three and five race will not drive with the Breeder’s Gazette. hot zeal of a contest to be decided by a two hundred yards brush. In the stable of Com­ modore Kittson he will have horses which Splan and the Kittson Stable. will restore him to prominence on the turf. John Splan has taken charge of the strong Fanny Witherspoon has speed and courage Kittson stable, and for the present his head­ to trot a mile as fast as it has been trotted, quarters are at St. Paul. Splan became emi­ and Minnie R. ought to hold her own with nent through Rarus. This great horse was Clingstone and Edwin Thorne. So-So is an­ king of the trotting turf until Mr. Bonner other speedy mare, but it is better for her paid $36,000 for him and placed him in retire­ when she is able to win in straight heats. We ment. He was the card at every meeting, do not expect Splan to make anything out of and his trainer was able to dictate terms. Little brown Jug, but in Gem he will ride be­ John did not then wear an anxious look. He hind a pacer fast enough to win at least half did not dread suspension for the non-pay­ the races in which she starts. Commodore ment of entrance money: he indulged in Kittson cares more for the glory of victory champagne at dinner; had the best room in than for the money value of the prize, and as the hotel for himself and his faithful wife, John Splan is not ignorant of this fact, nor Little Splan, as he fondly called her; ran up of the other fact that he has a prompt pay­ a carriage bill at a livery stable in every town master behind him, it is to be presumed that which he visited; cracked jokes like one who he will drive to win in the shortest and clear­ had no notes to pay, and carried himself with est order. With the removal of anxiety about a jaunty, cock-of-the-walk air. When Rarus Winter coal and the barrel of flour, has dis­ passed from his hands the change in his appeared the excuse for whip-saw races. He postition was marked. Track managers no should no longer hanker after the fleece of longer paid him deference, the crowd ceased the lambs which flock around the pool box. to cheer him, entrance money was demanded We congratulate Commodore Kittson on the from him in advance, judges frowned upon change of drivers. When a man puts a great him and promptly fined him for lagging be­ many thousand dollars in a stable of trotters, hind or coming ahead in scoring; he was ac­ he should have a general to occupy the sulky cused of jobbing and he had to shin around seat. A good horse cannot win without a lively to pay his transportation bills. Stern good driver.— Turf, Field & Farm. necessity forced him to take little turns whhch he would have scorned in the golden days of Rarus, and he spent sleepless nights in devis­ Our Haverhill Annual.—Haverhill, ing plans to keep afloat. He excused himself Mass., Dec. 20.—In accordance with my an­ for playing the part of helper in a race on nual custom for the past eight years, I send the ground that if he did not provide for the you the horse news from this city. At Birch­ ton of coal and barrel of flour Little Splan brow Farm, Mr. Thomas Sanders has the would have to go cold and hungry during the foundation laid for a first-class stock farm. Winter. His horses were out-classed, but he At the head is Goodwin’s Hambletonian, by often got credit for pulling when it was im­ Rysdvk’s Hambletonian, dam American Star possible for him to win. When the man who mare, sire of Onawa (2.225). Among the has stood on the top of the hill begins to slide broodmares, I noticed Dora, by Daniel Boone, downward, the public has little charity for out of a mare known as the Lon Morris mare; him. It looks upon him with coldness and Bessie, black mare, by Fearnaught Prince, suspicion. John Splan is a good handlerand dam unknown; Lady Murray, by Young and a skillful driver, and he has courage Morrill, dam raised by Rev. W. II. Murray; THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. ii. white mare, sister to Wolford Z., colt by side Mass., foaled May 1, 1877, got by Jubilee from Goodwin’s Hambletonian; the Calico Lambert, he by Daniel Lambert; dam Gen- mare, record 2.34, well known in Salem; tianella, by old Golddust, grandam by Tecum- Dolly, pedigree unknown, can trot in 2.30. sey, sire of the trotter Pat Hunt, whose rec­ Colts—Howard, 3 years, by Constellation ord to wagon is 2.25. Tecumseh is also .sire (by Almont,) dam Nanny Marders, by Clark of Capt. Walker which got the dam of the Chief; Knickerbocker, 3 years, by Huguenot, noted trotting stallion Black Cloud, record (by Smuggler), dam Ella Ellwood; Annan­ 2.17L Jubilee Lambert has a faster record dale, yearling, by Goodwin’s Hambletonian, (2.25) than any other entire son of Daniel dam Dolly; Blitzen, weanling, by Knicker­ Lambert. He is a horse of good substance, bocker, dam Dora. Fillies—Aris, by Good­ very strongly built and now owned jointly by win’s Hambletonian, dam the Calico mare; Mr. W. H. Wilson of Cynthiana, Ky., and Asteroid, by Goodwin’s Hambletonian; Gid­ Mr. Otto Felton who are using him for stock dy Boone, by Daniel Boone, dam by Gideon. purposes. His dam was the Harvey mare by Mr. H. H. Hale has the bay stallion Redpath, the Taft Horse, a son of Vermont Black Hawk. by Gen. Sherman, dam by the Churchill Gentianella has a public record of 2.35, won horse, and some twenty of his colts; he has when carrying Boston Lambert, and has trot­ also a large herd of Jersey cattle. Ramsey ted a full mile on a sandy track in 2.27. She & Chick have roan mare Rangeley Belle, 5 has also trotted halves at Beacon Park in 1.10 years, record 2.491, sired by Chase horse (by and once trotted fifteen consecutive miles over Hampton), dam by Lewiston Boy; never that track, without urging, in a fraction less had a day’s professional training, and her than forty-four minutes, averaging a mile in record is no measure of her speed. Dr. J. C. 2.52|, and trotting the thirteenth mile in How has four-year-old filly Hope Medium, 2.34L She is a mare of wonderful courage by Happy Medium, dam by Gen. Knox, and endurance, and thought by good judges which he bought at the American Horse Ex­ to have no superior in New England as a road change sales, two months ago, and, as she has mare. She was bred the past season to Al­ shown him a quarter in 42 seconds, he is hap­ mont Eagle, full brother to Piedmont, 2.171. py. E. H. Foster has chestnut mare Lady Boston Lambert is a horse of fine style and Foster, 4 years, who has a record, on our poor excellent trotting action, is powerfully mus­ half-mile track, of 2.46 ; and Ed thinks he has cled, has great substance and weighed with a world-beater. Mr. D. D. Chase, the well- a light blanket and halter, the morning of the known lumber dealer, has gray colt by Patch- sale, 1182i pounds, although only in fair flesh. en Star, that is always in the front rank, and When a yearling he was taken to Phillips, is, to my mind, the fastest colt in the city. Franklin Co., Me., where he was kept until These are the best of the young stock, and, as last September; then brought to Boston. He my letter is already very long, I will only add has left excellent stock around Phillips, his that we are to have a new opera-house, to colts being uniformly large and stylish, with cost $100,000, and 1 also hear rumors of a capital trotting action. He is a wonderfully mile track, to be built at Riverside. The great well-bred colt, being standard under the rules increase of popularity in the trots under the of both the National Horse Breeders’ Associ­ management of Benj. F. Brickett, Esq., has ation and those of the Kentucky Breeders. shown that Haverhill can and will support a Mr. Parsell, his present owner, is an exten­ well-managed race-course.—Spirit of the sive breeder of fine stock, including gentle­ Times. men’s road horses, Shorthorn cattle and Po­ land China swine, has followed breeding thirty-five years, and now owns the gray Mr. Peter R. Parsell of Jerseyville, Jersey stallion Plato, record 2.31|, by Gen. Knox, Co., Ill., has just bought of S. W. Parlin, dam the Allen Horse, he by Hunton Horse, this city, a promising, standard bred, Lambert he by Bush Messenger, he by Winthrop Mes­ stallion, which he proposes naming Boston senger, son of imported Messenger. Mr. P. Lambert. He is a large, rangy, stylish colt has also a Hambletonian stallion and an in­ of a dark bay color, with black points and terest in Ben Patchen, sire of Burlington.— star, bred by J. A. Sawyer. Esq., of Allston, American Cultivator. 12. THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. JAN.

Handsome Pictures. Mr. W. E. Andrews who has lately been appointed Agent for the sale of the work commenced in 1880, by Mr. S. E. Cassino of Boston, entitled the Celebrated Horses of America, lately called upon us and exhibited the work. It consists of twenty-four portraits of cele­ brated horses, both runners and trotters, as the following list will show, all of which are lithographs in oil taken from the original paintings, of which they are exact copies, possessing all the richness of coloring and life of 4he oil painting. The list is as follows: Volunteer Almont St. Julien Piedmont

Advertising Rates.—One page one insertion 10 Parole Messenger Duroc Second insertions, and 6. for each subsequent in­ Ten Broeck Santa Claus sertion. One-half page one insertion 5. and 3. for each subsequent insertion. One-fourth page, or one- Harold Thora half column $3. for one insertion, and 2. for each sub­ sequent insertion. Maud S Hi ndo Nevada Clingstone

Mr. E. P. Bosworth is, until further notice, duly Luke Blackburn Edwin Thorne authorized to solicit subscriptions and advertise­ Smuggler Capt. Lewis ments for the Monthly. Daniel Lambert Black Cloud Bonnie Scotland Iroquois CANTON, ME., JAN., 1833. Leamington Foxhall. The paintings are by Henry Stull, Scott Another year has passed, and with this Leighton, James Scanlon, Edwin Forbes and issue we commence the fifth volume of the other artists. The picture of Parole, with his Monthly. The feeble bantling which wre jockey up, is by Harry Hall of Newmarket, sent forth into the world with so much solici­ England, and was painted when Parole was tude, has grown and developed into a vigor­ in that country. The pictures of Volunteer ous youth, giving promise of great future and Harold are especially fine, possessing the strength and usefulness. Our relations dur­ finest coloring Ave have ever seen in copies of ing the past year have been pleasant both oil paintings. Maud S. in the field by Scanlon, with our readers and contemporaries, and we and EdAvin Thorne, Clingstone and Black trust profitable as well. Indeed we can but Cloud, each in the stable, by Scott Leighton, feel Avith the many assurances we have had are also worthy of mention, as also Nevada from men capable of speaking by authority, and foal, Foxhall with his jockey up, sport­ that the Monthly is doing a great deal to ad­ ing the Avliite jacket with blue spots, and vance the horse interests of the State. We others, by Stull. Imp. Bonnie Scotland held could copy letter after letter, assuring us of by his colored groom, by an artist whose this fact if it were necessary. Our increase name we do not know is one of the best. in circulation has been very satisfactory, and Then there is Messenger Duroc, and Almont, if our subscribers will be prompt in remitting by Stull, and finally each one of the collection the amounts due us for subscriptions and ad­ is a gem of itself, surpassing anything we vertising, we need feel no anxiety about the have ever seen in this line, and are things of barrel of flour or ton of coal. We are situat­ beauty which will be a joy foiwer, to ahorse ed then to do better work than ever, and it fancier. They are mounted on heavy card­ shall be our effort in the future, as in the board 19x24 inches suitable for framing, and past, to give our readers reliable information, are sold at $1.25 per No., or $30 for the en­ and to keep the Monthly up to the high tire set of 24 pictures. Mr. W. E. Andrews standard which it has maintained in the Avill canvass the State during the next six past. months, and as he is the sole agent for the 1883. THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. *3- work in this State, it can only be had through cause for complaint. We were accused last him. Parties wishing particulars can address year, by parties who ought to know us better, him at Biddeford, Me., where his family will of entrapping entries by the peculiar wording remain while he is canvassing the State, or of the call for entries, that whereas it read Boom 7, 403 Washington St. Boston, Mass. “open to all colts and fillies bred or owned in Maine,” it was understood by some to read “bred and owned in Maine.” The fact is that The editor of Dunton’s Spirit of the Turf has been imposed upon. A scribbler acknowl­ we meant what we said, bred or owned. It edged to be the Special commissioner of the was not intended by this for parties to select above paper, informs the public that he has colts from the whole country and bring here visited the Fashion Stud Farm at Trenton, to win these stakes, and if this should be done, New Jersey, and among other things equally the conditions will be changed, but it was in­ untrue, speaks as follows of Lady Thorne tended as an encouragement to those who had and her produce. “Regarding the produce bought and brought into the State well bred of Lady Thorne, we will say that before dy­ colts and fillies, to improve our horse stock. ing, she left four sons and two daughters. They are here and their future history will Her oldest, Gen. Washington, now seven be intimately connected with the future of years old, was gelded when a five-year-old.” our State, and we feel that it would be unjust Now Gen. Washington was foaled Feb. 22, to their owners, and a blow to the best inter­ 1874, and his dam, Lady Thorne, died June ests of the State to make invidious distinctions 23, 1877. As Washington was her first foal, against them. it will be seen at once that no four sons and two daughters could have been produced. Correspondence. The fact is Gen. Washington and Thornetta, Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 29, 1882. a full sister now in foal to Jay Gould, are the Friend Thompson.—I have got Cleveland old mares only descendents. As to Gen. about canvassed, and have seen nearly all the Washingtons being now seven years old our fast ones and their drivers. Saunders, Call, readers can reckon for themselves, and the Muckle, Palmer, Whitney, Caton, etc., are statement that he was gelded as a five-year- here in the city or just out. Clingstone, old is equally absurd. That our readers may William II., Largesse and about a dozen oth­ know that we speak by authority we publish ers are up at the track. They cut a tumor below a letter from E. K. Riddle the Supt. of from Clingstone the first of this month, the Farm. weighing two and one-half pounds, He is all right now. I like the looks of William H. Fashion Stud Farm, Trenton, N. J., Dec. 30, 1882. the best. Voltaire and Abdallah Bov are just above at Hosmer’s place. C. F. Emery Ed. Monthly.—Your postal of the 28th, received and noted. Gen. Washington son has about 30 head of horses and colts. Cal­ of Gen. Knox and Lady Thorne, was not mar and Middlesex were clipped and are be­ gelded and is still in the stud on this farm. ing used on the road. Mattie Hunter was His colts are all of good size and have a good running out in a lot, and she looks like a little way of going, which promises great speed old mare turned out to fat up and swap. Her legs and feet seem to f>e in bad shape, for them in the future. His full sister is in foal to Jay Gould. the dams of Parana, Hermes by Harold, a full Yours very truly, brother to Wedgewood, and a number of others from Kentucky were in his stable. (Signed) H. N. Smith, D. M. Marsh had Mollie Kestler 2.275, Min­ by E. K. Riddle. nie D. 2.35, Redwood 2.33, and Lula K. 2.34, all by Blue Bull, Raymond by New York, The Colt Stakes. Grit 2.41 at four-years-old, Ellen Jackson With this number of the Monthly we 2.39, by Ethan Allen, and a large span. He open the Colt Stakes for 1883, on the same sold Grit and one other Monday, and an­ plan as that of last year; the conditions be­ other yesterday went on trial to sell. He has ing the same. And we wish our readers to discharged Call, and says he is going to sell note them carefully, so that there may be no the geldings and breed the mares and see if 14- THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. JAN. he can raise a trotter. Is not going to send Nickel Plate.—I claim the name of Nick­ his horses to track next season. In New York el Plate, for my black gelding foaled July I saw Hopeful. I have heard that he did not 10, 1880, got by a son of Old Eaton. look like a trotter. He does though. He is A. J. Marsh, about 15J hands high, a long heavy quartered Cleveland, Ohio. horse, and standing directly behind him he don’t look as though he could go any, but side Questions and Answers. or front to he looks well, with heavy well Subscriber, Portland.—Will you please shaped limbs. His eye .sticks out like a give the pedigree of Robert Bonner, Jr., and billiard ball. He ambles when going slow. his record, in your next number; also record Clingstone is 15| hands, light bay, white and pedigree of Lewiston Boy. By giving stockings behind, good looking head, ewe the desired information you will confer a neck, drops in front of coupling and rather favor. crooked legs. William II. is a good one to look at, of a long, low build, strong limbed, Answer.—Robert Bonner, Jr., got by Rob­ back slightly roached. His head is very large, ert Bonner, son of Rysdyk’s Hambletonian, but his ears are fine and set close together, his dam by Hiram Drew, and his record 2.35. and has a large full eye. I have seen several Lewiston Boy, got by Pollard Morgan, by Blue Bulls. Those that I have seen are good Whalebone, by Sherman, by Justin Morgan; size and fair lookers, not very stylish and dam of Lewiston Boy by Quimby Messenger. have crooked hind legs as a rule. They say Record 2.36. here that they nearly all can go fast, and are Can you give me the breeding of old Ken- nearly all rank quitters; either big gaited and ebec, a sorrel horse with flax mane and tail, high going, or very low and rapid; decidedly formerly owned near Cleveland Ohio. He one or the other; that is the story here, but was brought to this country some fifteen years they lay it to the low bred mares he had, and ago and left some very fine colts, all of them all unite in the opinion that if he had been in good roadsters. I have one which I have Kentucky, he would have been the greatest often driven a full mile in 2.40. I have sev­ sire of all. D. eral fine colts from her; they all show a good way of going.—Dunton’s Spirit of the Turf, Names Claimed. Chicago. Iolanthe.—I claim the name of Iolanthe, Answer.—The horse Kennebec inquired for my bay filly with black points, excepting for above, is recorded in Maine Bred Horses, one white heel behind, bred by me, foaled June page 33. He was a sorrel or chestnut stallion, 12, 1879; got by Victor, son of Gen. Knox; 15£ hands high, foaled in 1849, got by With­ dam the Countess, by Old Drew. ered, son of Winthrop Messenger, dam by John C. Mullen, Quicksilver, son of a Barb horse called Dey No. Vassalboro, Me. of Algiers. Fred Lotiiair.—I claim the name of Fred Lothair, for my dark bay roan stallion; dark In the families of Rysdyk’s Hambletonian bay head, heavlfcblack mane and tail, black and Mambrino Chief, both descendants of legs, foaled May 25, 1877; got by Lothair, imported Messenger, we have the material to he by Gilbretli Knox, he by Gen. Knox; dam breed great speed at the trotting gait with Mary Ann, by Brandywine, 2d dam by a reasonable uniformity, morever we have only to stick close to those lines to insure success. Drew horse. Also This question which has been a mooted one is now settled and practically out of court. Fred Lotiiair, Jr., for my black colt a few The progress made in breeding the trotter white hairs over the body, foaled June 1, and fixing the trotting instinct within the last 1882, got by Fred Lothair, he by Lothair, by ten years has only to go on in increasing ratio Gilbretli Knox, by Gen Knox; dam Whale­ the next five years and we will have the horse bone and Black Hawk, known as the Stevens that will flee for his life in the trot, and this, will not be in isolated instances, eAery well’ mare. Eugene Taylor, managed breeding farm will have youngsters Dover, Me. that Avill do it.— Western Sportsman. 1883. THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. *5.

roadster stallion. Many of his colts are own­ ed in this and adjoining counties and they are all noted for their line style, speed and en­ durance, almost invariably bearing the im­ press of their sire and showing his fine quali­ ties in a remarkable degree. We are sorry to see this horse leave Livingston county and must congratulate Mr. Weeks on having made a fortunate purchase, even at the very high figure which he paid for Pilot Gold- dust.” We learn that the black mare sired by Rocket, which Mr. G. M. Park of Canton Point, sold two years ago to Rev. W. A. At Wayne, Me. a few days since we en­ Pratt then of Lapeer, Mich., has lately been joyed a ride behind Mr. J. B. Gordon’s dapple sold in that State for $600. gray pacer. He is five years old and can pace Do you want to write a letter, a prescription, a 2.40 gait. He was sired by the Hayward endorse a check, or take notes? If so, you horse son of Winthrop Morrill, and his darn cannot afford to be without the “newly per­ by the Ridley horse, son of Gen. Knox. We fected” cross stylographic pen—the great­ also rode behind Mr. Clark Leadbetter’s bay est luxury of modern times. This really in­ four-year-old mare Mollie Garfield. She was dispensable article holds ink for a fortnight’s sired by Black Pilot, record 2.30, and he by use, is always ready, never leaks or blots, and Roscoe, son of Pilot Jr. Mollie Garfield is a will last for years; being now made exclusive­ speedy mare and we think is a promising one. ly of gold, rubber and platinum, substances Mr. George II. Lord showed us a good look­ entirely indestructible. Enclose $2 to the ing black stallion by Harry Knox, although cross pen company, 79 Franklin St., Boston, we did not see him in harness. and you will receive this Pen by registered Sale of Pilot Golddust.—A friend sends mail, in a neat box, with filler and directions us the following, clipped from an Illinois complete, together with a liberal supply of paper. ink for use in the same. “One of the finest horses ever brought to W. W. Bair has driven the fastest mile to Livingston county has just been sold, and harness, Maud S. in 2.101. Dan Mace the lovers of good roadsters in this section will fastest mile to wagon, Hopeful, 2.16£ ; Johnny not be pleased with the news. We refer to Murphy the fastest mile with running mate, B. A. Gower’s celebrated ‘Pilot Golddust,’ Yellow Dock, 2.11; Budd Doble, the fastest the animal having been purchased a few days two miles, Monroe Chief, 4.46 ; Charley Green since by Warren Weeks, Esq., of Farming­ the fastest mile to saddle, Great Eastern, ton, Me., and is now in that city. This horse 2.15|; and “Knapsack” McCarthy the fastest was bred 011 the farm of L. L. Dorsey, near pacing mile, Little Brown Jug, 2.114.— West­ Louisville, being by the famous Dorsey Gold- ern Sportsman. dust, and came from a family noted as speed­ Very true, and we might add Charles ers, his half-sister Lucille, having a record of Marvin drove Smuggler, when he won the 2.15, and his half brother and half sister, fastest stallion record, 2.151; and Wildflower Rolla, and Fleety, having records below 20, when she won the fastest two-vear-old record. and while Pilot Golddust was never trained for speed and no effort was made here to show 2.21. him for that, he was known as a horse that Sale of John F.—Mr. D. M. Foster of can ‘go’ if necessary. He has been shown at Canton Point, Me., has purchased of John F. our county fair for a number of years in the Coolidge No. Livermore, the black gelding roadster class and invariably took first pre­ John F., by Ino, son of Gen. Knox; dam by mium for showing five best colts and also Howes’ Bismarck, son of Gen Knox, 2d dam carried off numerous first premiums as best by the Root horse from Vermont. Price $325. 16. THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. JAN.

The roan gelding Socrates, which acquired cart standing still; but the experienced moth­ a record of 2.275 the past season, by Socrates, er knows better, and at once begins to gather son of Rysdyk’s Hambletonian, was out of her offsprings off the streets. No sooner has the roan mare Carlotta, formerly known she done so than a meteor in the shape of a as Belle of Augusta, by Young Indian grocery wagon driven by a red headed boy, Chief. flashs by, stops at the house on the corner and throws out a peck of potatoes, four or five Our readers will notice the sale of Boston brown paper parcels, a half-dozed crook­ Lambert to Mr. Peter R. Parsell of Jersey­ necked squashes, a string of onions and a ville, Ills. This is the gentleman who inquired mess of cucumbers, and the next instant is for a roadster stallion in the last issue of the gone from her gaze like a beautiful dream, Monthly,-and the sale was brought about by and she fairly jumps as she turns and sees a that notice, which shows the value of the milk wagon bearing down upon her like a Monthly as an advertising medium. We runaway locomotive. Of course milk wagons have another customer, a gentleman living in use a bell, or a horn, but they drive so fast, far off Oregon, asks if there is any good stal­ the most of them, that the wagon keeps ahead lion in Maine of second Knox blood, or even of the sound. At least, a person very seldom of the Old Horses get, that can be had at a hears the bell of a milk wagon, and goes out fair rate. He wants a large animal, 1100 to with the pitcher and milk ticket, without he 1200 pounds, good bone, a straight hind leg, finds the wagon has passed on to a house etc., etc., and good color, bay, black or brown half a block away; so we judge that the wag­ if possible, and he will pay for a good step­ on keeps ahead of the sound. It is not strange per. He will not buy a narrow gaited or in the view of these facts, that the fast stock vicious animal. He has 300 mares, mostly of the country should come from the grocery thoroughbred, and 70 half Knox mares. wagons and the milk wagons. The only slow Such a horse as Howes’ Bismarck, or one of horse is the one driven by the peripetetic in­ his colts that can trot in 2.40 or better, will dividual who goes about the streets yelling, suit. “Appuls, appuls, pie appu-l-l-l-ls!” No horse Where Fast Horses Come From.—It ap­ that has ever listened to that for one day will pears that the famous trotting horse Occident ever be fast. Unless he is fast asleep. The was in early life the locomotive of a grocery fastest horse on the turf if he was hitched to wagon, and the owner discovered his gait a pie apple cart and had that noise dinned in­ while the grocer’s boy was delivering goods to his ears for a week, would lay down and at his house, and bought the horse and trained die. No; the man who peddles pie apples al­ him. And it also appears that the famous ways drives a steady horse. He is obliged St. Julien was once employed in delivering to have one of that kind in his business.— milk—milk, that cheerful and nourishing Peck’s Sun. beverage so much in vogue among infants, We should have said in its proper place that and whose good name has figured in so many the series of pictures of Celebrated Horses of scandals in connection with water and chalk. America will be delivered in monthly parts, Shakespeare has said that honor and fame consisting of two pictures each month, at from no condition rise, and it is not strange $2.50 per mo., or $30. for the entire set. Ad­ that the fastest trotters in the country spring dress as stated in the notice. from milk and grocers wagons. The pace at which grocery wagons are driven, when the We call the attention of our readers to the boy is out of sight of the old man, and on a advertisement of A. Rogy, 59 Rue Lafayette, good block pavement, is one that is calculated Paris, France. to develop all the latent talent a horse has got, A comparison of the 2.25 list of 1882, with and it is the same way with the drivers of those published in previous years, will show milk wagons. Citizens who reside in the not only a remarkable increase in the number suburbs, on some level street, have noticed of fast trotters, but also that, by skill in this many times and have remarked upon it. breeding and training, a great improvement Away down the street an object appears, has been made in their speed. When, in looking to the unsophisticated like a baby January, 1876. we published our list of trot­ 1883. THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. i7> ters that had records of 2.25 or better, then ippear in this book, and any person who can were only 151 in all; 23 of them with a rec­ furnish the necessary data for additional ord of 2.20 or better, and only 7 that had summaries of this character will confer a beaten 2.18. Now, the entire list numbers >reat favor by doing so. Corrections of er­ 495, and of these 99 have placed 2.20 or bettei rors that have been noticed in existing publi­ to their credit, and 24 have trotted below 2.18. cations will also be thankfully received and During the past year 71 names have been it is particularly desired to obtain pedigrees added to the list—almost half as many as of performers, whether of early or late times. were in the entire list seven years ago. Then Every owner of a trotting stallion is request­ the 2.14 of Goldsmith Maid stood at the head, ed to send in the names of all horses sired by while now there are five horses that have him that have appeared on the turf, in order equalled her record and three that have beat­ that he may receive due credit. The idea of en it, and 2.10i is the mark set by Maud S this work is to make the records, once for all, for others to reach.—Live-Stock Journal. complete and accurate up to date, and if any Gen. Wm. T. Withers has purchased from performers are not properly credited, it will S. B. Woodward, Saratoga Spa, N. Y., the be, after this notice, the fault of those who bay stallion Woodward’s Ethan Allen, by should be most interested in securing such Ethan Allen, dam Fanny Cook, by Abdallah, credit. No information, of any sort, that is and a full brother to Daniel Lambert. It is reliable, can come amiss. The book will be his intention to use him as an out-cross on the published in May, 1883, without fail, and Fairlawn mares, and he believes that the be a handsomely bound octavo, of over 900 tempering of his Black Hawk blood by his pages; price, $10. Address Walter T. Ches­ Abdallah Star, and Bishop’s Hambletonian ter, P. O. Box 1,021, New York City. crosses (his grandam being by Stockholm’s The price of the pair of three-year-olds by American Star, and third dam by Red Bird, Winthrop Morrill, which Mr. Geo. C. Good­ son of Bishop’s Hambletonian), will cause ale of Winthrop, sold to Thomas Coffin of the him to nick most happily with mares in whom same town, should have been $450. instead of the Hambletonian and Mambrino strains pre­ $420. as in our Dec. No. dominate. Woodward’s Ethan Allen is sire The year just closed has been, taking it all of Shepherd Boy, 2.23£ ; Aulinda, 2.25; Prince in all, far better than the year preceeding. Allen, 2.27; Allen, 2.281, and Charley C., The disease, known as the pinkeye, was very 2.28L injurious to the trade during the fall and Our enterprising contemporary the Breed­ winter of 1881-’82. The traders and dealers er and Sportsman, published in San Fran­ in the country during this period had to con­ cisco, Cal., presents its readers in the New tent themselves with such sales as they could Years number, with a splendid oil lithograph make to local buyers, but last spring when in colors, of the four-year-old stallion Albert the disease disappeared, the market rallied, W., by Electioneer. Albert W. as his picture and buyers, both from the city and east and represents, is a fine bay stallion with black far west bought freely, at fair prices, all that points, possessing both size and substance. were offered. For the past few weeks the Chester's Complete Trotting and Pacing market has ruled dull, but such is generally Record will go to press next month, and in the case every season just before the holidays. the meantime any information in regard to Already the indications are that the trade is events thatare past will be heartily welcomed, moving along in better spirit, and all the sale and put in its proper place, to be preserved stables report a much improved market. forever. We wish our readers to bear in Country dealers would find it to their interest mind that this work is to contain full sum­ to send in their heavy workers and medium maries of all races trotted or paced from the grades, as there is a scarcity just now of such time of Boston Blue (or of Yankey, if his stock in the market, with a very good de­ claims to precedence are found to be substan­ mand, at fair prices.— Chicago Horseman. tial), to the close of 1882. Very many con­ AV e see going the rounds of our exchanges tests, some of them of an important nature, the statement that Dustin has been East after that have never before been published, will Troubadour, one of the sensational horses of 18. THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. JAN.

1881, and that he is thought to have fully re­ and kamighe, an inclosed place. The name, covered from the curb which retired him then literally meaning The enclosed place temporarily from the turf. The truth is that which is hoed or, simply The planting ground; Troubadour’s trouble was located in the rear and it was formerly the planting ground of a tendons just above the ankle, we don’t know powerful tribe of Indians. Here is located the technical term, for which he was fired, the farm of our friend D. M. Foster, who al­ and we predict that he will never stand train­ though a breeder in a small way, has always ing again. been an ardent lover of the horse, tie form­ In Livermore, Me., on the road from Strick­ erly owned Young Brandywine, and he was land’s Ferry to Livermore Centre, Mr. Loyd thus owned when he became the sire of Care­ Carver of Boston, has established a stock less Boy 2.28, and Gray Bill 2.30. Here also farm, and is breeding horses. We made a for two seasons was kept the brown stallion brief call there recently, and looked over the Daniel Boone, son of Rysdyk’s Hambletoni­ stock. Mr. Carver was in Boston, and the an, and Mr. Foster still retains several fillies man in charge could give but little informa­ by him out of good dams, for breeding pur­ tion in regard to the breeding of the mares poses; his first experiments in this way of and young things, and the stallions are being breeding being eminently satisfactory. Mr. wintered away. We intend to look the stock Foster bred Katie Boone br m by Daniel over again at a future day, when we hope Boone, dam by Gen. Knox, g d by Old Eaton, Mr. Carver will have his stock named, and to Gen. Withers, son of Almont, in 1881. their pedigrees printed, as it adds very much June 26, 1882, she dropped a fine big bay colt to the interest of looking over breeding mares with black points, which Mr. Foster will call and young stock, to know the strains of blood Rocomeco. He also bred Alice Boone, by from which they have descended. Daniel Boone, to Mr. Norcross’ young stallion Achilles, and although the colt come in the Mr. Peter R. Parsell of Jerseyville, Ill., last days of August, and is somewhat small, shipped three Eastern-bred stallions to his he is remarkably well-gaited and promising. stock farm, via St. Louis, Mo., on Monday of of this week; one, the five-year-old Boston The card of Young Rolfe and Onward will Lambert, mentioned in our last; the second, appear in the next issue of the Monthly. In a fine gaited three-year-old black stallion, the meantime Mr. Nelson informs us that bought in the vicinity of Farmington, Me., Young Rolfe’s book is now open, and he will got by Carrabasset, by Norridgewock, by be limited during the season of 1883 to sixty Gen. Knox; dam a fast pacing mare by mares, at fifty dollars to warrant. Howes' Bismarck, by Gen. Knox, the third In a business letter Mr. Edgecomb informs a very promising yearling colt, bought of incidentally that Redwood commenced the B. F. Hayden, of Phillips, Me., got by Boston season of 1883 on January 2d, serving the Lambert, dam by Young Hogarth. These dam of a noted winner. animals are excellent representatives of the Lambert and Knox strains of the Vermont A gentleman who saw Mr. Parsell after Black Hawk family, and cannot fail to make he had purchased Boston, formerly Golddust, a favorable impression among all good judges Lambert says that Mr. P. pronounced him the of first-class horses.— A meric an Cultivator. best horse for all purposes that he ever saw, considering size, style, substance and all the As the waters of the Androscoggin river qualities which go to make up a first-class pass through the town of Canton on its way horse. We predicted that the people in the to the sea, it makes an abrupt turn partially vicinity of Phillips would regret it if they let encircling a large portion of intervale land him go away without improving the oppor­ which from its peculiar shape was formerly tunity to breed to him while they might. known as Jay Point, and later as Canton Point. These intervales which are now fer­ From Hiram Sibley & Co., Seedsmen, tile farms, was formerly the Indian Arrock- Rochester, N. Y., and Chicago, Ills., we have umecook, abridged in later time to Rocomeco, received their Annual Seed Catalogue for the name being derived according to an emi­ 1883. It is very handsomely printed and nent authority from arake, Io scratch, or hoe, illustrated and contains much valuable in­ i883. THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. 19. formation, there being several important ings of frost so far, grass growing freely, features not contained in other seedsmens stock fat, men ploughing and seeding &c.; catalogues. no ice, no snow, only on the mountains 600 feet above our level. Our correspondents make the following inquires, too late for place in our column of We cannot help calling attention again to Questions and Answers. Can you tell me the tine pair of six-year-old colts in Mr. H. C. what marc was the first to produce three with Ellis’ care. They make a tine appearance on records in the 2.30 list. Also how many the street, are kind, handsome, stylish and mares are there with three in the 2.30 list. well matched, just such a pair as a gentleman Answer.—We believe Old Kate the dam of would like to own. The owner says they Young Bruno, 2.225, Breeze, 2.24, and Bruno, can show 3 minutes to the pole. 2.295, was the first, but liave’nt time just now to look it up. The others are Minnehaha, In the Spirit of the Times for Jan. 13, Dr. cam of Beautiful Bells, 2.295, Eva 2.26, Geo. II. Bailey gives an account of the sleigh­ Sweetheart, 2.23}. Green Mountain Maid, ing carnival held at Portland 011 Christmas dam of Dame Trot, 2.22, Prospero, 2.20, day: Elaine, 2.20. Flora, dam of St. Julien, 2.115? Some 500 teams, of all descriptions, from Unolala, 2.235, St. Remo, 2.285. Dolly, dam the “big boat sleigh,” containing Chandler’s of Thorndale, 2.225, Onward 2.255, Director, band, to the diminutive “pony rig,” with its 2.27L Lady Fulton, dam of Buzz, 2.285? liliputian occupants, began to congregate Wizz, 2.235, Rufus, 2.29. Emeline, dam of about 2p. m.. and comprised fourteen divisions Adele Gould, 2.19, Kate Taylor, 2.235, Ray each in charge of a marshal, all under the di­ Gould, 2.295, and Miss Russell, dam of Maud rection of Chief Marshal John S. Heald. S., 2.105, Nutwood, 2.181, and Cora Belmont, The grand possession was over two miles in 2.245 ; we believe this is all to date. length, and, taking in the principal streets of I see by the Spirit of the Times that the the city in its route, did not disband until bay mare Gypsy, by Winthrop Morrill, has a nearly sundown, thus terminating the biggest record of 2.245 this year. Do you know who sleigh-ride on record. Three bands of music, bred her, also who bred the mare Peaceful, the City Government in hacks, elegant double, single, and tanden turnouts, bakers’s grocers’, 2.26. and truck teams, fitted up with evergreens Answer.—The bay mare Gypsy should and bunting, expressly to give the children a have been credited to Winthrop Morrill, Jr., free ride. The horribles, antiques, and fan- 2.275, he by Metacomet. We do not know tastics, all contributed to make the occasion who bred Peaceful, and have never been able one of the most joyous memorials of time- to learn positively that she is by Gen. Knox. honored Christmas. She is said to be but we consider it doubtful. But to return to sleigh-rides. I shall always If anyone knows they will confer a favor by know I have had one from this time out, for, giving us the information. having had a professional call, last week, to A friend writing from Oregon, speaks as go to Great Falls, N. II., I was invited by follows of horse breeding there. Tom Marsh, the well-known “knight of the “There are a great many horses bred here ribbons,” to take an airing behind Boston Boy. without any care. They are never fed or I had seen something of this gelding, in the housed, but get their own living on the high­ educational races which his owners have been land bunch grass. Within a half mile of my giving him for the past two seasons, and in table in this city there are men who own in which I have frequently seen him trot a half- the agregate 2000 or more horses, in bands of mile in 1.08, and liis mile better than 2.25, 100 to 600. About once a year they round although he has not yet obtained the penalty up, and pick out 50 or more to send to market of a public record, but I was entirely unpre­ in all directions. Cut the colts and turn out pared for the flight of speed he showed on again. They separate the mares and put stal­ this occasion, and I unhesitatingly pronounce lions with them and take the chances. We him the fastest horse to a sleigh after which are having a mild Winter, only three morn­ I have ever ridden. 20, THE MAINE HORSE BREEDERS’ MONTHLY. JAN.

Since giving the pedigree of old Kennebec, and sold the shares to a number of men in in answer to the call through Dunton’s Spirit the vicinity, and he was kept as a stallion till of the Turf, we have received a later issue of 1853, when the shares were bought up by the that pa]) er in which the following informa­ writer, and he brought the horse with three tion is given. It will be noticed that each brood mares sired by Old Black Hawk to gives a different story about the man who Cleveland, Ohio, for the purpose of breeding bred him, and we, in Maine Bred Horses trotters. Kennebec was a sorrel chestnut, have given still another one. Our informa­ with light mane and tail, two white heels and tion came from Mr. S. S. Parker of Water­ blaze in the face. He was sold the next year ville, who formerly owned him. Now will to Lysander Pelton of Gustavus, Ohio, and our friends in Waterville, Skowhegan and and moved to Gustavus, in Trumbull County Mercer, ascertain the facts, so that it may be and kept as a stock horse for years. settled once for all where he was foaled, When the war broke out Mr Pelton went when, and by whom bred. into the army, and during his absence the Kennebec was sired by Withered Messen­ horse was sold to some parties in Minnesota, ger, by Winthrop Messenger, by imported where he died. He could trot to a wagon in .Messenger. Dam of Kennebec was a cream 2.40 every day in the week, and got a record colored marc brought from Canada and be­ at Medina County Fair in 2.38. He was al­ longed to an officer in the English army sta­ ways driven to a wagon because Mr. Pelton tioned in Canada. Old Winthrop Messenger, was somewhat afraid to put him in a sulky the sire of Witherel, was brought from Long as he was a hard horse to manage. Island to the town of Winthrop, in Maine, Yours truly, and took his name from the name of the town. J. A. Robinson, He was the sire of Bush Messenger, and was Jackson, Mich. a large horse, weighing nearly fourteen hun­ Kennebec ch h, 154 hands high, white mane dred pounds. Witherel Messenger was bred and tail, strip inface and white ankle behind, and owned for years by Rev. Mr. Witherel, a foaled 1845, bred on the Kennebec river in congregational clergyman, who bred old State of Maine, by the Rev. Witherell, got by Lyon, one of the early trotters in the :40 Witherell Messenger, son of Winthrop Mes­ class, nearly 40 years ago, He was a large senger, by imp. Messenger, dam by Quick­ bony horse, solid chestnut, and the sire of a silver. Kennebec was brought to Warren, good many good trotters. It was the custom Ohio, by L, Pelton, and by him sold to Dr. of a number of horse fanciers in Boston to S. S. Judd, Janesville and Elk Point. He make a pilgrimage to Maine every year and was a grand figure of a stallion, and it was follow up the Kennebec river from Hallowell claimed by Mr. Judd that the horse had trot­ and Augusta to Mercer, in search of a With­ ted in 2.28 Perley Sheldon. erel colt and buy them without breaking, and Kennebec, sorrel or chestnut stallion with the name of Witherel was a sure guarantee light mane and tail, about 15£ hands high, of a sale of a good young horse. Sorrel Hi­ foaled in 1849, bred by Mr. Weston, of ram, Daniel D. Tompkins, Zac Taylor, Fanny Skowhegan. Me., got by Witherell, dam by Pullen, the dam of Trustee, were all raised Quicksilver. S. S. Parker, of Waterville, in Maine, as well as Mac, who beat Lady bought him when three years old, and sold Suffolk when she put the ticker in 2.26£, which him to J. F. Phillips, and he was afterwards was the fastest time of forty years ago. Old taken to Ohio, and owned by L. Pelton, of Bob Walton and Jon. F. Phillips, Josh Seward Warren. From thence to Janesville, Wis., and Spence Vinal were among the men who and in 1876 was owned at Elk River, Minne­ made yearly journeys to Maine in search of sota.—Maine Bred Horses, page 33. Witherels. On one of these yearly journeys in the spring of 1848, Johnny Phillips bought Mr. W. P. Comee of Boston, has just bought a sorrel colt in Mercer of Mr Stewart, and a promising young mare of Isaac Huse, Man­ called him Kennebec. He was then three chester, N. IL, price$800. She was got by Al­ years old, he brought him to Swampscot, mont Eclipse, son of Gen. Withers’ Almont, near Lynn where he resided, and the next her dam being a descendent of Taggart’s Ab­ spring he made a stock company of $10.00 I dallah, St. Lawrence, and Vt. Black Hawk. ADVERTISEMENTS.

GREENVILLE J. SHAW, Proprietor of CREAM BROOK FARM, STETSON, MAINE, Breeder of TROTTING & CARRIAGE HORSES. Jersey Cattle, South-Down Sheep, and Berkshire Swine. Sparge Stock always on liand and for sale. Almont and other High-Bred Stallions for Service. Residence, Sale Stable for Horses, and P. O. Address: SIMPLE HARTLAND, UJE. Formerly of Trout Brook Stables, —DETROIT, ME.— Send for Catalogue. TBOTTfflfSTOCYFOR SALF The undersigned has COLTS AND FILLIES, BY CONSTELLATION, FROM WELL BRED DAMS. FOR SALE!

—also— Tw Brool Mares ii Foal by Him. WM. S. TILTON. Togus, Me. “RIVERSIDE FARM.” Jerseys, Cotswolds and Berkshires, Imported, Bred and For Sale. ’WwHome#* A fine lot of Brood Mares and Almont Fillies. •SEWIHS MACHINE CO- .*1 Fine Young* Herd Heg-ister KSuIl* FOR SAJLE. Bronze Turkeys, Pekin Ducks and Light CHICAGO, ILL.------Brahmas. First premium on all. Eggs in ,------ORANGE, MASS. season. Send stamp for Stock and Poultry L and ATLANTA, GA.—------. Sy., Catalogue. Address: C. P. MATTOCKS, Portland, Me. J. A. Powers, Wilton, Hie. AGENTS make $5 to $15 per dav with our F. H. MITCHELL, Manufacturer of PRACTICAL HOUSEKEEPEB Fine Track and Road Harness. Containing over 5OOO valuable receipts, Horse Boots of Every Description many of them worth $10 each. Every house­ Made to Order. keeper wants it. Price reduced one-half to Also Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer in bring it wdthin reach of all. Special terms to experienced agents, ladies or men. Apply HARNESS PADS. at once if you wish to secure your choice of All orders for Harness, Boots or Pads will territory. receive prompt attention. Address: The Henry Bill Publishing Co., F. II. MITCHELL, Canton, Me. Norwich, Conn. ADVERTISEMENTS.

Uylf you wish to buy a TROTTER I EFlf you wish to buy a ROAD HORSE I Uylf you wish to buy a CARRIAGE HORSE I SSFlf you wish to buy a FAIIILA HORSE I (^If you wish to buy a HORSE FOR YOUR WIFE I O^If you wish to buy a PAIR OF HORSES, LARGE OR SMALL 1 ®ylf you wish to buy a WORK HORSE, SINGEE OR FAIR ! EFTf you wish to buy a HORSE OF ANY KIND I

Do not fail to write and tell me what you want, or come to my stables and look over my stock, and if you do not find just what you want, leave your order and I will try and fill it.

My stock of horses now numbers some seventy-five head, of all ages, twenty of which are Brood Mares by such sires as Almont, Alexander’s Abdallah, Volunteer; Thorndale, C. M. Clay, Jr., Cuyler, Peacemaker, American Star, and representatives of the Knox and Drew families. My young stock are by such sires as Almont, Happy Medium, Prescott, I Gen. Withers, etc. I have purchased, during the past eleven months, nearly one hundred horses, and my sales during the same time almost equal that number, and purchasers can ; rely upon finding a good selection, at all times, in ray stables. Orders by mail receive my personal attention, and filled to the letter or no sale. The Stallions doing service at my stables, are GEN. WITHERS,

By ALMONT. Dam by Ashland (sire of the dam of Edwin Thorne). Second dam by Toronto Chief (sire of Thomas Jefferson), and GIDEON,

By RYSDYK’S H AMBLETONIAN. Dam Dandy, by Young Engineer, by Engineer 2d, by Engineer, by Imp. Messenger. Second dam by Commander, son of Commander, by Imp. Messenger. Third dam Hunter Mare, by Imp. Messenger.

.a TEDIiCi fifty doeears for gen. withers. I EHIHC. TWENTY-FIVE DOEEARS FOR GIDEON.

Mares from a distance kept by the month or year, at reasonable rates. Come and see us—no trouble to show stork.

STOCK FARM AT STETSON. SALE STABLES AT HARTLAND. G SHAW

Hartland, Me., Dec. 15, 1882.