, 1876-04-30
THE TURF.

The first Of the three meetings In which 1lli-
nois turfmen take sn especial interest begins
ut Nashville on Tuesday, and Will last tiTe days.
The programme is as follows:
Tuesday-Young America Stake, for 2-year-olds. II
mile o'Connor Stake, TOR s-year-olds, ~ miles:
WsaaesdaymSashvis ESD S % Cup, AZ miles, pa.h, e
$3.50. Dash, IL miles, $50. ---
Thursday-cumberland Stale. for 2-year-olds mile
Friday-Two-naile heats, s4oo. Mile heats, $50.
Dash, 4 mile, for 2year-olds, $50; winner OF the
Satq1day-Maxwel House Stake, for 3-year-ods, IN
miles. Dash, X miles, $l5o. hlils nests for beasen
horaes, $3.50.
The Young America stake has Is entries, in
Guiding q colt, Glen Guile. BY Glenelg out Of
Capitola, Bell Mead by Bonnie Scotland ont OF
Woodbine and two Foster colts, King William.
out of an Albion marc, and Annie c., ont OF
Heliotrope. by Meteor. There will be some in
terest in seeing how they will run. Or the ID
entries for the O'Connor Stakes, the best are
Afalmistic and Mediator. The former ran seven
times last year, winning one race, the Howard
Stakes at New Orleans, beating Mediator, who
carried TBS penalty for winning the S1ocomb
Stakes, in which hIa1mistic was second. Medin-
or won the slocomb Stakes, but failed in his
other three FACES. This year he has won the
Plckwick Stakes. at New Orleans, beating euch
good colts as Harry Edwards and Harry Hill
Grit last year won twice, beaten purso at
| Nashville and the Murphy Stakes at Gallatin.
when. carrying 90 lbs, he the mile in 1:445a.
These are the besthorses paper. The ten entries
| for the Nashville Cup are Brakesman, Ozark,
| Fair Play. Highwayman. Wetherby. Ventilator.
| Damon, ABterhte. Newbu1n, and kilburn, none
of which OF high class, except perhaps
Ozark. Taking last years record it Will be seen
| that Brakesman won two Of tan races, both at
Nashville and neither important; Ozark ran
twelve times, winning five. the Ocean Hotel
| Stakes at Long Branch, beating Aristides and
| Tom Ochiltree, the Robbins Stake, beating
/ Chesapeake. the Kenner at Saratoga divided
| with hIlner) with St. Martin, Willie Burke. and
chesapeake in the field, and two puraea at WASH
! ington, in one OF which be ran miles in 7:40,
besting, with others, Nettie Norton. Fair Play
being st Lexington, where he beat Vlcksburg
who won the first heat. Harry Felter,
and two others in 1:4435z, 1441111, 1:443<
and 11< miles dash at tbs fall meeting
where he beat Vandolite and others in 1888
| Weatherby started fourteen times and Won i've
races, mono very remarkable, though for short
distance with light weight up he is = faet trav-
eIar. Asterlite won Well-conteBted mlle-heat
race last year. hilburn started eighteen tlmes
and won eight races. none very remarkable. HI
won three races 81 New Orleans the week befor'
last. showing good turn OF speed. his best per
formance being the defeat Of Survivor IL 1:45
Newberu ia this year in fair condition, winning
the mile heat three in five st New Orleans
LAT, 1:45, 1:46L For the Cumberland stalker
! there are thirty-four entries, including aeretog
out Of Dixie the dam Of the flying colt He1zog
, | q colt by Phaeton cut OF Brenna. tha dam Q
B,enuis and sister of Levity. the dam OF Kurl
: and Grinstead, Medlstor, Creedmoar, a1ste
to Sp1ingbok, Halmistie, aad otheks. Aoaon