Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1892 — TROTTERS AND PACERS. [ARTICLE]

TROTTERS AND PACERS.

Milkmaid, 2.221, failed to get in foal to Mambrino King last year. Knickerbocker, son of Ilambletonian 10, is now owned at Nashville, Term. There is nothing like the prejudice against pacers for road use that formerly existed. The old-time trotter Wells Fargo, 2.18}, by George M. Putchen. Jr., is being driven on the road in Michigan. Budd Doble's opinion of Monbars, 2.lG}, is such that he will breed a mare to Jay Bird, tho sire of that colt, this year. There is a very fast young mare by Jerome Eddy, 2.16}, owned at Bayou Sara, La., that will bo campaigned this year. Deck Wright, 2.19}, mado in 1880, is now owned in Brandon, Manitoba. He was the subject at stake iu a raffle the other day. In 1806 the gelding Yankee trotted a mile in 2.50, and in 1891 the mare Sunol took a record of 2.08}. What will 1892 bring forth? A yearling colt latoly trotted a mile in Indiana in 2:10 around the stove. His owner was presented with the armchair and a fresh chew o Munroe Salisbury, is reported as*saying that Direct has paced a quarter in 27 seconds, a 1:48 gait, and he thinks the champion will go a mile in 2:04 this year. F. D. Barton, of Waltham, Vt., is reported to have refused a large offer for his Nutwood stallion Homestead, dam by Pancoast, 2.21}, and 2dam by Hambletoniun 10. Margaret S., 2.12}, will be bred to Axtell, 2.12, and afterwards will be campaigned. Her dam, May Day, who also produced Incas. 2.14}, will be bred to Direct, 2.06, this year. C. W. Williams, «wner of Allerton, declares that the great stallion shall never again be placed on board the cars and that all his racing in the future must be done at Independence.

Drivers should know that the region ovor tho kidneys should be kept cool rather than warm. “Don't put a doubleply blanket over tho kidneys,” is the advice of an experienced care-taker. The colt Fred S. Wilkes, 2:18, by Hector Wilkes, that last Fall beat Belle Archer, 2:15}, Dr. Sparks, 2:17}, and Stella Jlelmont, 2:21}, will be sent to Buffalo, N. Y., soon to bo trained by Ed. Geers. Tho success of Captain Lyons, 2.23, last season is attributed to better handling and balancing. He was shod lighter, and given longer scores so as to get on bis stride. He beat some of the best in the Central New York circuit last year. Tho pacer Indianapolis Boy, 2:21}, that during tho early part of last season was about the most unreliable horse on the Western turf, but that afterward became comparatively well behaved, is to be driven next season by Mat Maloney. It is claimed that Mat can bold him down. Ono of the latest farms to appear in the directory of New England’s breeding establishments is that of C. 1. Hood’s, Lowell, the celobrated manufacturer of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. It is located on the banks of the Merrimac, between Lowell and Lawrence, on the highest point oi land between tho two cities. Amy King, 2.22}, like Constantine, 2.19}, is another instance of very close inbreeding. She is by Mambrino King, by Mambrino Patchen, and her dam is by Kentucky Clay, who is out of the dam of Mambrino Patchen, and her second dam is by Mambrino Patchen, out of Betty Brown, by Mambrino Patchen, her third dam bbing by Mambrino Chief, sire of Mambrino Patchen.