. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. ®he gveebev emit ^povisxnan [March 10, 1906 NOTES AND NEWS. || Last Monday James Thompson drove Col. J. C. Kirkpatrick's pacer by Waldstein a mile at the Pleas- anton track in 2:16%, the last half being in 1:05% and the last quarter in 30 seconds. This pacer will go Bast to race on the Grand Circuit. Floradora 2:18% by Sable Steinway is in foal to Kinney Lou and will be bred back to McKinney's champion yon. Mr. Ronan. owner of the Pleasanton track, is train- ing Birdman fur the races next Saturday and as he drove his horse a mile in 2:31 the other day. "th
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. ®he gveebev emit ^povisxnan [March 10, 1906 NOTES AND NEWS. || Last Monday James Thompson drove Col. J. C. Kirkpatrick's pacer by Waldstein a mile at the Pleas- anton track in 2:16%, the last half being in 1:05% and the last quarter in 30 seconds. This pacer will go Bast to race on the Grand Circuit. Floradora 2:18% by Sable Steinway is in foal to Kinney Lou and will be bred back to McKinney's champion yon. Mr. Ronan. owner of the Pleasanton track, is train- ing Birdman fur the races next Saturday and as he drove his horse a mile in 2:31 the other day. "the boys on the fence" are beginning to think he knows a little something about the training business, and may win that cup. Mr. Henry drove Ed Kell b> Educator a mile in 2:20 this w^ek at Pleasanton. the last quarter of the mile being in 32 seconds, a 2:08 gait. The management of the Dixon Driving Park will hold a race meeting over that excellent half-mile track on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 1st and 2d. There will be four events for colt trotters and pacers, be- sides, races for aged horses. The races for two- year-olds will be for $100, with entrance money added. The races for three-year-olds will be for the 2:30 classes, $100, with entrance money added for each event. Entrance money is $25, of which $5 is due March 10th, $5 April 2d and $15 April 21st. Rowland Moss, Dixon, is Secretary. The stallion Greco, by McKinney, dam Alien by Anteeo, second dam Lou Milton, the dam of Lou Dil- lon, is improving right along in Chas. De Ryder's hands. He worked a mile in 2:16 last Monday and trotted it like a race horse, coming the last quarter in 31% seconds as if he liked the sport. Some years ago a Buffalo street car company which owned 500 horses demonstrated the value of clipping in this way: They clipped 250 horses and kept a careful record of results. Of the undipped horses 153 were troubled with colds or pneumonia, while not one of the clipped horses suffered. Of the fifty-
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