TROTTING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIII, Issue 752, 4 August 1904, Page 10

TROTTING.

The trotters Mummell Maid and. Mummjell Childe were offered at auction in Sydney last week, and passed in at 48 cruineas and 70 guineas respectively.

Mr A. D. Playfair, of Sydney, has purchased the champion pacer Kibbonwood from Mr Price for 1000 guineas. It is said that the black son of Wildwood will take up stud duties, in which case the question as to whether he is a better horse than Almont is not likely to be settled.

When Lou Dillon starts to beat 1:58> this season she will pull a sulky weighing iust 24 pounds and will carry on all four feet just 16 ounces of shoes. The com" bined weight of her driver, Sanders, including sulky, harness, boots arid shoes, will not aggregate over 180 pounds.

Here is a storv which will be appreciated by the trainers : An owner of a 2:30 trotting mare wrote a trainer that he would lease her for the ensuing season, adding that he had expended all the money he cared to on the mare, but believed that she should earn some money in her class. The trainer wrote back to this effect : “ Your mare may be all that you claim for her and a money winner in her class. As you know her better than I do, and do not care to spend another dollar on her, then it is quite certain that I don’t.”

The successful breeder of trotting stock is the one who more nearly succeeds in making every colt a perfect one (says the “ Breeder and Sportsman ”). Justi so soon as it is possible for a breeder to find a fair market for each and every foal, just so soon the establishment is placed on a paying foundation. The rearing each year of a few colts which find new owners at high prices is not a sign that the breeder is an unqualified success. There have been instances without number where a nursery of trotting stock has turned out phenomenal youngsters, but accompanying these have always been a lot which have sold for a mere song. Of course it has not always been the case that the high-priced ones have turned out to be the great racehorses and money earners. But in accounting for the deficit at the end of the year it has too often been found that the raising of a lot of no account youngsters ol no particular merit has turned what might have been a profitable business into more or less of a lottery with the blanks greatly predominating. These youngsters, of royal lineage, have too often proved to be of no value either for race, road, business or family use. Barring their pedigree they have turned out to be iust plain, ordinary scrubs. The ideal ever present in the mind of the breeder is to turn out annually a crop of foals of individual excellence. It is an Utopian fancy, but nevertheless one eagerly striven for.

A most remarkable old mare was recently killed in Maine, who is thus described by the ” Turf, Farm and Home : “ Kitty, the Hotel Coburn, Skowhegan, delivery horse, was killed on Saturday,

Is our climate an overrated one, or are the present varying samples of weather merely the results of the tremendous storms in the sun which we dimly see as spots on its face ? Whatever the answer may be, it is certain that every second person one meets is feeling the effects, and these generally show in a general depression and lassitude, an allround unfitness for business, which makes of work a weariness and of the pursuit of pleasure a toil. Some people seem completely prostrated, and yet do not realise what is the matter. In others, the malady takes the form of eczema, boils, blotches on the skin, and other signs of impaired health. Cases frequently occur of people being debilitated and languid for years, and the physician, when consulted, can do but little to help. There must be some remedy for this state of affairs, and fortunately for us all this has been found. It'has been) achieved by getting to the bed-rock of the trouble, which is the condition of the blood. When .this is impure then the whole body sul' Purify the blood and the various diseases are banished at once. Nothing better has ever been discovered for this than Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, which removes the cause of disease bv enriching the blood, thereby strengthening and building up the body, and soon good health returns. There are thousands of people in the Colonies and elsewhere who can testify to the wretched state they were formerly in, and now that once again they can really enjoy life naturally they are prepared to extol the praises of Aver’s Sarsaparilla.

she having been so infirm from old age as to be unable to stand. She was one of the most remarkable horses in the country. Her age was 46, and for 25 years she has been employed on the Cobum baggage waggon. She knew the hour of the arrival and departure of all trains, and if for any reason her driver did not start for the depot when she heard the train whistle she would go without him and back into the place reserved for her without help. Woe betide the horse which ever secured her regular position, for there was sure to be trouble.”

There’s dozens of remedies mother has tried, If we hadn’t been strong, 1 expect we’d have died. For weeks we’ve been moping and swallowing trash, And when there’s a lot it walks into the cash. I agreed with my Dad, who says ‘ Woods is a brick For showing the world how to cure a cold quick ; No need to be laid up for weeks, when you may Take Peppermint Cure, and be well in a day.