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severe illness he is very cheeriul and likes to have “ iriends visit him. We are all in hops that Alex will be able to come out and we the horses train later on when the weather gets warmer.

Here's a letter irom C. H. Mc- Ginley. I-loulton, Maine....."Bom¢ oi your readers may be interested to know that June Morning 2.04 3.. has ioaled a bay colt by Tu Heel 1.51% and has been bred back to the same horse. she has a beautiiui black two-year-old colt by Norris Hanover 2.0255 in train at Houlton and he is very D!‘ I and the owners. slmonson Bros. or Bridgewam, Maine. also have a black yearling iiity by Norris Hanover out or June Morning at their farm. These com are a little larger with heavier hone than you would expect irom June Morning. Early Dawn 2.05 «a by Plllidlle 2-0456. has a year- ling colt by Knight Dream 1.59 and 1 believe she was bred back to him. There are 26 horses in train- mg at Houlwn but there is stiu quite a bit of snow on the track. Charles simonson asked me it 1 wuld iind out ior him the. breed- ing of Possibility 2.02%. He raced in 1914-16. I wonder ii you could supply the iniormation?"

Possibility 2.02% was not regis. tcred as Standard. His sire was Newton Boy out oi Pochantas by Pochantas Chiei, grandam, Lady hr Gerry smith and was a ioal or 1906. He was the horse that iirat made sep Paiin iamous. Sep was a young Indiana horseman starting out his iirat campaign on a large scale and he made an almost clean sweep, winning 15 firsts with Possibility. From then r.n horses were turned over to Sep by leadina owners and he be came the world's greatest driver, In 1982 or theresbouts. Monte Gerow brought the pacing mare Miss Possibility by Possibility with silier horses to Charlottetown and the was purchased irom him by Power :Bros_ or this city and later mated to Kaimuck [1555 and produced Miss Victoria 214. a grand little race mare. Miss Vic- toria was bred to Calumet Budlong 2.02 94'. and June Morning was the result. June was sold as a three- roar-old to George MacDonald, Mermaid, who raced her and gave her a record oi 2.10%. on June 30. 1947, at Covehead, and then sold her to J. Henry Dewitt oi Wood- stock, who raced her with suc- cess and sold her ior a long price to Bimonson Bros. She is the fastest pacing mare ever bred in the Maritimes.

Yonkers Raceway, New York. opened the season last Monday night and their spring meeting will run through to Saturday night, May 32. then the summer meet- ing from August ill to August as and the Fall meeting September 27 to November 15. The law calls ior the harness racing season to close on that date. Two top dri- vers. Billy Haughton and Stanley Dancer, start the coming season in the iamiliar roles oi defend- mg title holders. Both have large stables at Yonkers and as usual will probably finish at the top or very close to it. Last year !-laugh- ton started 2'11 times and had 52 iirsls. Dancer made 204 starts and finished 100 times among the llrst three—60 wins 32 seconds. is thirds. Haughton thirty years old and the youngest U5. driving champion oi all time. He has won the driving honors at Yonkers the last iour years. with 52 wins, 53 seconds and M thirds he was actu- ally in the money {>5 percent oi.’ the time. while Stanley Dancer was there 49 percent oi the time. Henry Oiukey who is 68 years old. was in iourth place and Hugh Bell was runner up ior in-the- money honors. The best night ior iavorites at Yonkers in 1958 was April 27 when six won. The worst night was August 26 when not a single favorite was iirat to the wire.

Among the older drivers that will be racing this season is John

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and .-.»'s 69th. The youngest driver oi harness horses this season is Jackie Hogan oi Ml1'1b°T°ll8h. Mass. who is aged ten and began racing last Jgnu. ary. He won eight quarter mile races on the ice at Derry, N. H.

Glancing over the records made by 'trotters and pacers at Yonkers Raceway we iind that the {our- year-old trotting mare Martha Doyle. <riven by Joe O'Brien. holds that Mark with 2.04%. Joe also holds the mark ior three-year-old trotting colts with Darn Flashy. time. 2.04%. Earle Avery holds the record ior two-year-old trot- ting wits with Victory Mon 2.08.

In the early 90's John D. Rocke- ielier had a stable ior his last road horses at Cleveland Driving Park, Ohio. During the summer and early autumn months sandy McLean was located there with them while the balance oi the year they were in New York in a brick stable adjoining Robert Bonner's champions. one pleasant summer morning while sandy was out on the track jogging a pair oi horses a groom appeared at the blacksmith shop leading Bob Frost, owned by Mr. Rockefeller. Bob had brittle ieet, a common iault with grey horses, and blacksmith Adams had a dirti- cult task to keep him balanced ior iast wqrk. That particular momlng Bob Frost was minus a iront shoe and when he pulled it oi’ he broke a portion oi the s ell oi the hooi and it looked as ii it would be impossible to reset it. Aiter examining the horse's ioot blacksmith Adams told the groom to ask Sandy McLean. bo.-A oi the stable, to take a look at the wreck beiore he did anything with it.

Alter a careiul examination the blacksmith believed that he could change the nail holes, make some change in the shoe and that it would stay put. Finglly alter a consultation that was as deliber- ate and grave as though it in- volved millions. they agreed on this procedure. Sandy McLean and his companion_ who was a tall man dressed in black, watched the black- smith point his nails careiully with the bevel to the outside and drive them slowly into the shattered hooi. As each oi the seven nails held and was clinched they heav- ed a sigh oi reliei and alter a little rasplng Bob Frost was him- seli again. The tall man was so pleased with the work that he was soon busy going through his poc- kets to iind something to reward the blacksmith with. Finding noth- ing but a small watch and a poc- ket kniie he borrowed iiity cents irom the groom and handed it to blacksmith Adams. who took a piece oi chalk and made the usual stable charge of $1.00 on the his slate hanging near the bellows. with a bow and good-morning sandy McLean and his companion departed and as they walked to- wards the track someone asked the blacksmith who the tall man was. and he replied, John D. Rocker- ieller. the richest man in the world.

In the middle 1890's a yeariinz trotter contracted distemper. His condition became so hopeless that a veterinarian gave up on him and went away. George Ketchum. the trainer, kept the colt through the night. In the morning he handed a gun to a stableliand. told him to take the colt down the road some- when and destroy him. About an hour later the boy returned. hund- ed the gun with one empty C31":- ridge in it to Ketchum and said. "The little iellow is gone." Three weeks later the boy reported ior work leading the colt which was very weak and emaciatcd. "Cute little fellow." he said to Ketchum "I Just couldn't shoot him. I-lid him away. doctored him and now he's all right. the distemper is cured_"

Ketchum nursed the youngster careiully and he developed into a rugged horse. In 1900 he became the leading money earning trotter with 813,260. In 1001 he was again on top with 822,874 and in that

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Good Friday morning would be I real treat_ I expect on the morrow I'll be moving about meeting old friends and some not so iriendiy. I have lost the yen to cast a line when one cannot see the " bank or the pool and the worms stit- ien while one is threading them on a hook. I like to relax while iiahlng and soak up sunshine and watch Nature's children work and play. There will .be lots oi stories on the rounds next week about happenings along streamslde and there will be the one that got a- way and also the ones that didn't get away. I iind myseli wondering who will be top trout man tomor- row and irom what water the champion will he landed. There is a heavy flight oi wild- geese this spring and the birds are pretty well scattered over the province. There are no heavy con- centrations in any one spot. Black ducks still hold the spotlight and bid fair to break all records this spring. I observed the iirst big ilock oi robina today. It gave me

same year at the age of seven he trotted a mile in new world's re- cord time of 2.02%. His name was Cresceus and in 1902 he was sold to the Russian government for $25,000. While training he was bred to a few mates and one of his get. George Crescsus, came to this province and was owned by the late Frank Beals. He was trained and took a trotting record at Char- lottetown Sept. 24th, 1913 oi 2.24 driven by Dannie Steele.

We had the pleasure of a vial: Wednesday irom Frank McAlduii. noted trainer and driver who was co-driver with Myron MacArthur of the Jimmie smith stable oi Woodstock last year. Frank plans on leaving for Woodstock about May 1st.

W. Rupert Godirey. Marshiield, leit Thursday ior Montreal where he will install his Photo Chart System which was so highly thought of last year at Blue Bon- nels Raceway. Mr. Godirey has the rights ior this system ior the Dominion of Canada and in the United States it is used by all the larger night racing plants such as Roosevelt. Yonkers, Maywood, etc.

Before leaving for Yonkers Race- way last week Billy Haughtoi. worked the t\vo-yearold pacing iilly Princess. Lorraine a mile in 2.13%. This is the record ior the season at Ben White Raceway.

F'}orid:i_ Del Miller worked the trotter Way Ahead a mile in 2.17%, last quarter in .3225.

We understand this is also the record ior a two-year-old trotter in the south... Wendell wathen's Chuck Voio 2.00‘/s will probably be the heaviest staked pacer racing out oi New England this season. He is expected to cut his present record by at least a second and will likely be retired to the stal- lion ranks in l955.....Lee McKin- ney. veteran trainer-driver oi Westbrook, Maine. well known to

many Marltimers. was severely in- lured in a matinee race at Fine Point. Maine. two weeks ago but is now on the road to wellville.

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