, 1877-04-01

MI SDlSDa4s HI hlL J.,
until last season. He likes companx. is not afraid
Of the whip, and seldom leaves his feet: His first
lust June, where he showed great Speed bui
owing to i bad oTeak was distancci
In raee With agcd horses Il sane Ia mesiins x l.
match With Belle Hewitt, tic latter being shut @ on1
the ia race in sraght hca beatins Fee MG
Hewitt, Lady Putchen, and Belle Curtis, the time
1,e beins 2;;Nln, 2:1lk, a;4sM llo then vent to
above stated through bad management. Iis great
est triumph, however. WAS at Lexington, Oct. 10
when he won tho best +ycar-old rnce ever trottcd,
defeating Erie and Jim. The first named won the
first heat in :,:asAa, tho best 4-year-od time on
record, and the second in 2:3s14, Woodford Chief
making a bad break. Tic won the third, fourth,
the lust quarter Of the ifth heat Icing trottcd in
:41: eeconds-a Els gait. Woodford Chief has
win;cred we'll, and it will take clever 5-ycar-ods
to beat him.
Girl l.. ttuccn is Il dark-brown marc by Manlbrt-
10 patchcn, ont Of Il marc ny Dixie, and Why bred
BY DR.. Herr tho well Kentucky horsoman.
She made her first public appearance at Lexington
IN the fal! nf 1873 in 2 race for ;.ycar olds She
WIS confronted by lint field, but won the rnce
;:ss s ali an te i .th in s5 She appeuTed @ red Ut
the Philadelphia meeting last year, but won moth
ing. being OIL OF form.
4 mare that may lHn.e her appearance in some
Of the :,-ytar old contests this year IL Miranda.
By Messenger Duruc. She il full sister to Pr.,s-
pcro, unl has aecn in several colt races without
much SUCCESS.
The year old stallion, Happy Thought. by Hap
ny Medium, should be good nnc unless he has
gone back on hls year Old form, in which he
crcditably in public, winning l-year old race at
Hartford in 1874.
another good one, and in fact, considered by
tho chestnut ycld4ng Edward, by Fiakc's namblc-
tonan Star. tic II owned by O'Brcn l. Co., Of
Flint, Mci'., and in his t-year- old from LAST
trottcd several cret.itaoc races, hts most nota-
bic performance being In the 2:35 race ut the Dex
tcE Park meeting, when le trottcd third tu Gov.
Sprnguc md Manbrno Kate, beating such good
Gen. Mc.srthur and Frank Myers. lie has not
received the Dest Of handling, but, even with this
disadvantage, should prove Il hard customer in j.
ycar-oll cOnlests-
ANON. the other 5-ycar olds that arc liable
to make IL WARM for tho best of them, but whose
performances thus far do not cnti>le them to u
separate consideration, are Montczuma, by Ed
ward Everett; Consul, by Almont; Belle Hewitt,
By belmont; and Post Boy. by Magic.
THE NEW ORLEANS MEETING.
While thu tratt1!I- horse men have been busy ar
ranging plans fO- the campaign Of 1H7T, the lovers
Of tho thoroughbred hayc not been idle, nnd there
is every indication that the present season Will be
ever known. Although the weather in this
vicinity for the past four months has been
Of thcnost unfafosuble character SO far the
preparation Of rulnin. horses is concerned, the
reverse has been the case in the South, where the
winter llns been one Of the best for preliminary
work ever known: In Kentucky alone, over :,5O
the great majority Of them will come to the post
in high form. Some weeks ago all effort was made
to form racing circuit to BE- composed Of the
associations coustutin. the Octoateral, but as it's
principal advocate was New Iurk sporting paper
that looked only ut the prospective advertising it
Fell through, US 1t deserved to.
The first meeting Of the year Is that OF the Louisi
ana Jockey Club, which begins at New Orleans
April nnd continues four days, a large nusnLcr
Of horses nave win1ered IN New Orleans including
that OF Mike Wclcll, who has in chnrye the Chca-
go horses Aranfs and The Nippcr. The three
stakes, the IickwicE, Post, ana CottriIl, have
filled well, large number Of hlgh-clnss horses
and there is every inlicuton that the |
otl.rr events will be equally Interesting, as of the
represented in the club purses, the entries to which
close the evening before they run. The |
programme Ut the meeting and entries to the stable
races none Of which has before been made public,
are follows:
;, First Ract-lur'ie race two miles over eight hur-
See"n% 1aet-rhe plckwlck Stakes, mile heats for =.
S&is s.: 5S1:s s6o sesan4 is!ss; sta s:sed
II sf"fs!$ s;:I S%sniS%s t:%
Ss by b apee Gen. nSs dan ravet Lug sptels 1aF
i; ca Linn; 6y peasoa. DAM safai IcDonoash b
snssf Ii seSan sn'fss s
,uah y |. T;n:ten: lc) Lewis Jones cnt. c!! f. u
E1s?s Ms% sa
by nc,sy Ps Is q am Gyy
y lexington o. W!Illain CoiTIIl enters } t. l. Eya s
ea as: a y b 9SanS's ssniy %atos
@ S 1T ss; gssn's e sso9ans s1ss
e s y s e sS ncst sS
@ las $:3S ~aea s'so f Tss ho'se. So
steoas Esce.iost stakes, for al .:es; txo,mlls
t. 5o]i,xin* Hoaaa!iens: T.? 4; WIN :: Law.
r1 miie H witt ' ID s IN cach &c
ssy !SF xte: z; xhaS asxf
s *l'e s ss*fs' fss &sss e.
Ssond Xace-Th,ee raes for all ages. Club nurse.
os st 1@HS *Ssl :1! sss aP'Fss
Ss9sf is SSS so Z Which
sa i:%ce one mile and quarter
ss S9S!se IS tSS e sa'$9 Is
=; If for s1 a. rs is; for $s9. :2lhs The winner TO
lrplas over the amount entered to be soia for win
the SET o1d 1arsc. Cfu purse 500: OF which $50
1rst horse, s:U to second. s., to third,
7hfrd Race-Mc heats. three best In five for oil
;cs. Club purse. S450 Ut which $3.50 to first l.urse
lUU to second |
THE s;rRorr1So 1Ssr1scT.''
The business Of breeding horses for the road and
ack has been followed by many persons during !
10 last five years that the supply of horses Of tnis
aaracter IL ut present greatly in excess of the de-
and This is no doubt due in great degree to
c hard times, which tell perhaps On tho elias Of
en that encourage turf sports and do not like TO
Ike anybody's dust when the road more
ycre]y than on any other. All over the country
lri1lg the past three years thousands OF have
compelled either to reduce their stock of fast
adsters or dispose Of it altogether. This throw
9 on the market OF so many fast horses, not =
urse, produced tumble in prices, and a horse ,
at will ''lead the line on the road can
w be purchased for about onc-fourth | ]
e money thut -would have been re- c
tired in the days when everybody
If tusi This state OF affairs llas brought TINT |
tier high-toncd class, the breeders, to their j
nees, anI they are beginning to realize that the
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