Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-25
Mintzer Engaged for the Great Pimlico
and Rowie Stakes at Baltimorc--Hippo-s
drome Affair at Conoy Island--T rotting
Blood for Minnesota BIiscellaneous.

trance, half forfeit, only $40 If declared out
on or before October LIST proximo club to
add 5000; private contributions $500 more;
the second horse to receive 300 out of the
additions, and the third to have the stake.
Among the entries in both stakes are Geo.
Lorrillard's Lou Lanier and Harold, Dryer
Bros Bramble, w. jennings Glenmore, +.
Stearns, Jr.'s Virginian, Oden Bowie's Oriole,
Thos. Puryear 6 Co.'s Danicheff and For.
tuna, E. A. Baldwin's Mollie Mccarthy,
Spartan, Day Star, Checkmate and other
horses. Bramble, Fortuna and Mollie Nc
Carthy are the acknowledged running cracks
of the country for the distance named. DR..
Mintzer, and Mr.. Morris, who is handling
Mintzer, believe him faster horse than
either, for this or longer distance, and one
of the main inducements for entering him
is desire to meet them in square race, and
test the question of superiority. OF course
the rich stake is another inducement.
Is IT HIPPoDRoME.
A few days since the telegraph announced
that the owners of Bramble, Fortuna and
Mollie Mccarthy, had arranged race for
their horses, 2I miles, at Coney Island,
Friday the Goth inst, of $500 each, $3.50 for
felt, with 50, 800 added by the Englemans,
owners of the track, weight for age accord
ing to the rules of the Pacific Blood Horse
association. This will result in MolGe Nc
earthly carrying Ill lbs, Bramble lO4, and
Fortuna 1O1 lbs.
This announcement looks fair enough on
it's face, but certain facts have been brought
to our attention which affords ground for q
suspicion that the enterprising owners of the
three horses named and the Messrs Engle-
mans have arranged hippodroming affair,
by which all will reap good harvest with
out any particular reference to settling the
question of superiority among the horses.
Our reasons for this suspicion are briefly
these:
While DR.. Mintzer was in Saratoga recent
~, in response to telegram inviting prop.
osition for the sale of Mintzer, the subject of
q race similar in it's terms which would
bring Mollie MCCARTHY, Fortuna, Bramble
and Mintzer together was proposed. The
race was thoroughly talked up between the
different men, and finally the Messrs. Engle-
man issued the following announcement
Brighton Beach fair grounds. Cup race.
Opened for fall of 1879. The Brighton
cup. A sweepstake for all ages
of $50 each, p. p, with $4,000
horse, and the third to receive 5000 out of
the stakes. Horses not having won this
year race of the value of $1,000, allowed
seven pounds. To. close on August 25th,
and the race to be run on Thursday, Septem.
Der 4, 1873, two miles and a quarter.
For this race Mintzer was entered and the
doctor returned home. Soon after his re-
turn he was notified that this cup race was
off, and that this special race for the same
distance, with Mollie Mccarthy, Fortuna
and Bramble for the contestants, Mintzer,
generally believed to be the equal if not q
better horse than either left out was sub
stituted. Such is the history OF this great
special race, as we have learned it, and if we
have heard it correctly, the whole thing
looks to us like a swindling hippodrome.
IMPROVEMENT IN THE SPEED OF TRoTT1Na
The following record shows the marked
improvement in the speed of trotting horses
within the last sixty years: In 1920 the best
mile time was 300; in 1880, 2:4O; in I $40,
Lady Suffolk made mile in 2:26; in 1860
Flora Temple made record of 2:19A; in
1870 Dexter trotted mile in 2:171; in 1876
Goldsmith Maid completed mile in 2:l4:
in 1873 Rarus, against time, made mile in
2:13I; on the 9th instant Edwin Forrest
made mile in the unparalleled time of
2:114.
HORSES FOR MINNESOTA.
The Kentucky Liue Stock Record of the
23d, mentions several sales of horses to come
into Minnesota, as follows: w. II. Harvey,
Utica, N. Y, has sold to Minnesota parties
the trotting gelding, Red Oak, for 81, 900.
DR.. G. s. Otis, Downer's Grove, ILL.,, has sold
to E. j. Stillwell, st. Paul, the bay fllie,
Katie G., 8 years old, by Hanscom's Ethan
Allen, dam Puss Handy, by imp. Stone
Plover. r. P. Pepper, South Elkhorn stock
farm, Frankfort, KY, has sold N. Van Loon,
st. Cloud, MINI, the trotting 3.year old stall
lion, Bronze, by Passcas, dam Toronto, I'd
dam Yates Copperbottom. He is fifteen
hands one inch high, very handsome and
strong, blood bay, no white, with level 90
ing trotting gait, indicating great speed.
sPENDTHR1FT AND FALsETTO.
One of the most distinguished veterinary
surgeons in America, a native of Great Brit
ain, now residing on this side of the Allan
tic, writes thus:
II have just returned home from Saratoga.
saw the Kenner stakes run for, and think
Falsetto and Spendthrift two of the grandest
horses have ever seen. / witnessed the St.
Leger in England last year, and it is my
opinion that Falsetto and Spendthrift are the
equals, if not the superiors, of any of the
last years cracks in England
IMPORTATION OF NORMAN HORSES.
There were landed in New York last week
thirty-six Norman horses-tw twenty stations,
six mares and ten colts, foaled this year.
The grown ones average about sixteen hands
in height, and sixteen hundred pounds in
weight. They were brought from Havre,
France, and bought in Normandy. They
were imported byM. w. Durham, Of Wayne,
Du Page county, Illinois, and will be taken
there.
GEN. w. G. HARDING.
The Kentucky Lace Stock Record of the
23d says:
"We regret to learn, as will his many
friends, that Gen. w. G. Harding, the vet
cram turfman and proprietor of Belle Meade
stock farm, Nashville, Tenn, is again in q
critical condition. He has had slight re-
turn of paralysis, which has affected his
speech. We trust he may soon be restored
to his accustomed good health and spirits"
SALE OF FALsETTo.
Mr.. J. w. Hunt Reynolds, Fleetwood stud
farm, Frankfort, KY, has sold to Mr.. p.
Loriliard, Rancocas stock farm, Jobstown,
N. T., the brown colt Falsetto, three years
old, by Enquirer, dam Farfaletta by Aus
traiian, for $4,000. Mr.. Lorillard intends
taking the colt to England, and agrees to
pay all Falsetto's forfeits and cancel his en-
gagements.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Spirit Of the Times says: "Mr. Rob-
ert Bonner, who claims to have in Edwin
Forrest the fastest trotter in the world on
private tracks, has at length yielded to the
stringent arguments of the Spirit Of the
Times, and announces his intention of ex-
hibiting the horse in public, on . fell mile
track, where everybody can see his perform
ancee.'
Colonel Howard Bowman, Of Haszpds-
burg. KY, was recently offered 5000 by.
MI. Hamilton Busby, for his noted four year
old trotter, $3.50, by George Wilkes.