The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-25
SPORTING.

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number of trotters that have developed spec
enough to fill purses of those classes Th
subject is being agitated by the owners Q
horses who think it useless to compete will
the nonpareil Goldsmith Maid. The II ee TO
all purses can then be competed Tor by tn,
Maid. American Girl, Lulu, Occident ETC.
who have records better than 2:l8.
The TEoTTEEs. 0. A. Hickok has
challenged Occident to trot against Jude Full
lerton, over Dexter Park in Chicago or over
either Fleetwood or Prospect Park in New
York, two races for 5000 or $4,000 side,
the races to be mile heats, three in five, to
harness, and mile heats, three in five, ia
wagon, and to be trotted between the LIST and
18th of June. Half forfeit on each race.
Mr.. Humphrey is anxious to match Fuller
ton against the California champion Occident,
who is now here. Fullerton is still in Cali
fornia, but will be brought East in the latter
part of May, under charge OF Hickok, the
trainer.
Hennigan, the we'll known Irish steeple-
chase trainer and rider, has arrived IN this
country, and is to take charge Of Donohue's
stable. Mr.. Hennigan taught Gaffney all he
knows about stee ple-chase riding, and the
latter was q stable-boy in the formers en-
ploy.
mare American Girl, says that she has WIN
tered well, and looks better than ne ever saw
her at this season Of the year.
MI. Brewster will bring out by the 18th Of
next month o new and elegant yacht made
by McGieghan, the celebrated New York
builder, The boat measures nineteen feet.
Base Bal.
The St. Louis Brown Stockings and the
Amateur Olympic, of Louisville. played
match game at the latter place on Monday
last The result was q victory for the st.
Louis boys by score of 2G too.
The ST. Louis Professionals beat picked
nine at Louisville, KY, on last Wednesday,
by score OF % to g.
Pacific Jockey Club.
The Pacific Jockey Club, Of San Francisco,
has Just issued another invitation from Cali
fornia to the world to bring forward its best
horses and compete for coin. At their third
annual meeting, in November next purse
Of $4,000, in gold will be put up for four
mile-and-repeat race open to the world, and
divided as follows: $4,000 to the first horse,
$4,000 to the second, $1,000 to the third, and
$4,000 to the fourth. The terms are thus set
forth:
Horses from Europe allowed $500 and five
pounds in weight; horses east of the Rocky
Mountains, $1,000 horses from Oregon,
Nevada, Utah and Colorado, $500, for travel
ing expenses. Five to enter and three to
start to make a race. Entrance, ten per cent
Entries to close October Ii, 1875, with the
at the Lick House, San Francisco.
The President A. J. Bryant, and the Secre-
tary. Mr.. VIM. Shear, have issued the follow
ing address:
The Pacific Jockey Club take this opportu-
nitv Of thanking their fellow-citizens and the |
public for the very liberal support given to |
heir form 81 efforts, and refer with pride to
he success that attended them. Relying
upon the hearty cooperation of the business
portion OF their fellow citizens, they have de-
termined this year to increase the size of the
purses sufficiently to induce the best horses
II the world to contend tor them, their object
being to "bring to and keep in this State
,lass of horses that will enrich the State with
heir blood, and enable our breeders to pro-
luce in few years horses so near perfection
to satisfy all parties that California is really
he horses paradise.
Betting Intelligence.
Winter lingering in the lap Of spring may
% very poetical, but it is decidedly adverse
% the interests of the owners of thorough
)reds, who are more than anxious for good
Weather, SO they can work their stables. Up
o the present date, horses trained in the
south and Southwest are having an immense
over home-bred stock.
Yet owners Of horses in the habit of coming
EAST every year from Tennessee and Ken
ucky complain seriously that the weather has |
o interfered with their work that they will
Ot be ready for the meetings at Nashville. I
lexington and Louisville, but that they will l
nave to take their chances with horses coming
p from Mobile, New Orleans and other places a
outh. While the running in New Orleans {
an not influence the betting here, only as
" thxl Nnttr AZ Sc -
IN influence in Judging other sta
les. as against Cottrill's for distance races.
For with Bonaventure beaten at a mile and
hree quarters by Capt. Hutchinson, and Van
alite and Limestone broken down, as an
ounced by dispatches from New Orleans !
nd Lexington, races of two miles or over !
ould seem to lay between Acrobat, Aaron
Ballankeel, Lizzie Lucas, Ruth
ford. Sprlngbok, ShyIock, Saxon, Tubman a
nd Wildidle, an exceeding small field to
lex from considering the ups and downs of Q
seasons campaign. Notwithstanding the a
weather there is a steady demand
y tho odds on the fixed events at Jerome v
ark. v
Racing and Trotting Notes. b
A thoroughbred mare belonging toJ Early
Boise City, Idaho, recently dropped FLY o
al, which is said to be the first thorough 6
red ever toaled in that territory. Elk Judge
ullerton, the well-known counsel in the q
trial, has bought farm of GOO G.
res near Fairfield Court-H House, Va, which .
, intends converting into fine stock farm. Y
he Valley City Driving Park Association,
rand Rapids. Mich, purpose holding 81
ring meeting the second week in June an Il
fering purses to the amount Of $4,000, TO
zen to the world. They also intend to ex- Il
nd large sum on the track, and make it
ual to any III the West. OF
The PAGER Defiance is being converted into 81
ast. square trotter, and promises to dis VI
!guish himself in hisnewly acquired gait ga
Messrs. Ware and McGoodwin, of Danville,
:, have just purchased the famous short la
RI bull. Third Duke Of Oneida, for ST., 900, Il
, largest price ever paid for bull. in this re
lntry. At the great New York Mills sale, te
dam, Tenth Duchess Of Geneva, sold for pi
], OOO
Mr.. David Bonner has purchased Of Major tel
burn, Of Haverstraw, n. T., his four ear De
tiily, by Edward Everett for $1,000
Tie well-known New England tro.ting mt
rse Hsrod dropped dead in the street at :,
ene, N, III last weak vvhila haipo Ar;r.n III