, 1879-02-09

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TRACK TALK
| Oid 4nsei" has again been installed q:
trainer for the McGrath stable,
One Of the handsomest and best road teams
III New York is the pair Ut Hambletoniun nures
| Esq. 80
Hiram Woodruff, Que OF the Oldest and best
SHOWN trainers III Boston, has gone to Vermont
10 reside. John Trout has taken his stable oi
horscs.
Among the trotters wintering ut the St. Louis
Ha,, IIack are Frank Palmer, Arkansas Bob Carrie
son, Dwarf, and Blanche Pratt.
i: ". Hunt Reynolds reports that he has
Felicia. Fortuna, Falsetto Alisaidie, Clarissima,
Cailsula, Blue Ewes, Balasiaya, and Eli in train
ang Tor the spring running campaign.
Mr.. Hart Tanner, Of New York City, has pur-
chased Lady Smell, record 2:234, and Is driving
! ner on the road. She acquired her record IN
1871, aud has never been good one in the 2 %
| class.
1t is understood that the trotttng stallion
Scott's Thomas, that was one Of the best per-
formers on the turf last season, is troubled
With an affection of the eyes, and will soon 70
| blind. He has record Of 2:21.
1cvelcr, Que Of the best 3-ycar olds in the
country last year, reared and fell with bis rider,
| John alcGlnty, at Lexington recently. AIcGnty
Was severely but not dangerously Injured. Tie
horse-like most ill-1clnpered brltcs-came out
OF the difficulty ai right.
George Rice, the well-known trainer of rum
! ming horses, has changed the name OF the chest
] nut gelding Warhawk to Friday. His reason
for changing the nau'e is because Friday is cor
sidered III unlucky day, aud the horse has never
| brought anything but bad luck to lin.
Great Tom, the stallion recently imported
from England by Gen. Harding, of tic Belle
Meade Farm, will be bred to but eighteen mares
this :; season, or, AMONG them being .Vesper Light,
the Meade; and Ivy Leaf, dam Of Bra1nblc.
Not long ago there was trottns match, mile
DASH, at Manchester, Eng, aud q local paper in
reporting the same SAYS that - as JacI broke
before going far, aud was obliged to turn around
once tthe penalty provided in the artlclesA the
mare won easily" II this extraordinary rule was
enforced in America, it is doubtful il Proteinc
Or Lulu would ever get away from the wirc.''
Miss Morgan and Lizzie Morgan, Two of the
best known brood mares at the Alexander farm.
died recently OF old age. Miss Morgan was tIrc
aa% Of Mazurk1 Milton 1nda Matte Morgan,
Alorgan: Lizzie Morgan's produce included
alo1Iie Fisher, Sally Morgan, Morgan Scout
Ellen c, RATTAN, and Rosy Morgan.
The Spirit Of the Times, we see, notices the
death OF John Greybehl's lrotting horse, Little
Jack, and states that lie was worth $4,000 Lit
tic Jack w3f one OF the poorest old plugs Of
been offered 500 for him hc would have snapped
at the otter with the ayidity OF black lass
snatch1ng ut fat miunoW.-GiActnuaI CONNER
cidl.
Carl Burr, the well-known trainer Of trotting
colts, recently said that the fastest riding he
ever did was behind Mr.. Bonncr's horse Joe
Elliott. many years ago. In the fall Of 1877
Mr. Burr remarked that uogarth had carried
him faster clip than any other horse with
which he had anything to do. Mr. Burr should
not be giving the nonor of carrying him two
minute Gait to more than one horse at Il time.
It has been several now days since Mr. Bonner
rushed out With horse that could beat 2:Uy15.
lhe snrcst way Of getting 4 horse that will beat
9:l0 is TO drive Tim AMI time him yourself.
lime llm by comparison, something As they
weigh hoss in Arkansas: Lay board across
the fence, put the hog on one end and then pilc
stones on the other end till they exactly balance
The hog. Then they ''gucss ~ Ut tie weight Of
The rovks--Hanksye.
As soon rs the weather will permit, tic inside
track ut tue Jockey Club grounds will be graded
and nut IN trst-cass condition for working trot-
tcFs: Dan Mace has already spoken for sixteen
stables Tor the use Of his string, and Will be
one of fhe first to arrive Several other East
ern trainers will also make Chicago their bead !
quarters early III the spring, and there is no !
doubt that by the 1st of June, there will be |
over $50 horses-ruuncrs aud trottcrs-on the |
track.
In the fall of 1876 Col Conley. Of this CITY,
was one OF the judges Of weanl,ng colts at tic
Lexington, Ky., Fair, and selected from thirty or
forty youngsters tlat competed for the prize
tle smallest Of the lot,-a brown tilly, BY Ad-
ministrator, dam by Alex. Abda'|ab. A few
years ago the Colonel rerriyed a letter from Mr.
George F. Stevens, owner Of Administrator, re-
calling the 1act OF thu award, and stating that
the little brown filly was none other than the
since celebrated Menento, who has 2-year-oId
record of 2:3l1.
An interesting incident concerning Hopcful is
given BY Mr.. ". J. Thompson. gentleman who
publishes annually list Of the Maine-bred
horses tn that ~, nsye beaten $780, He says that the
wonderful little gray was born on a stormy
night IN spring. his dam, during her struggles,
had kicked OF the boards from the side Of hcr
pen in the old barn iu which she was kept max
ing an aperture through which her hopeful son
had slipped out into the storm, where he was
found in the morning, nearly as hopeless an OBJ
Jet as Andrew jackson when rescued from the
clay pit.
Between Mr.. Weeks and Mr.. McKimmin the
Board OF Review is getting into hot water. ,lr.
Achlmmin was not paid the money lie won at
Fleetwood Park, and tho Board suspended the
park, but declined to suspend its managcr and
President. Mr.. Weeks was not paid money
won at Prospect Park, and the Board suspended
the aessees, Atwood O. Co., but dodeed the
question Of suspendjng the park. It is evident
that different decision will have to be reached
in one Of the cases In the May session at Chi
He was small, gray-headed man, with mel
ancholy look. '.My God! ~ he exclaimed, wiring
ing his hands: "just think Of it. I've been on
the turf forty-odd years. have ridden the best
horses America has produced, have been in the
employ Of such old-tmers as Stevens, johnson
aud Hampton: my head is chock-fuII OF re1nu-
scences, and yet cannot raise the s1nnll sum
of Is centst The speaker was Gilpatrick, the
celebrated Jockey, who rode Lexington in his
great four-nle race, and who went to England
With Richard Ten Brock. He said he wanted
he Is cents for car-farc, but, wett-any way it
vas sad.-EIchange.
As we 20 to press, Mr.. D. Swiccrt, Stockwool
Farm, Spring Station, n.y., informs us that his
Jay horse sahlstick, s years old, by Lever, out
# Rebecea I. Price BY Tile Colonel, died Feb. 8,
rom IN accident. He was looking better, was
sound and i'll biz flesh, and promised more
highly than ever before in his life. While out
Walking Ae threw his rider and raD after some
'-year-old fillies in Mr. Sniscrt's Avenue, and
me Of tho tifiies kicked him above tho eye. bu.
did not seem to hurt flim until tile fifth day,
shen he showed symptoms OF paralysis and |
.radua'ly grew worse, and died on Monday !
fternoou, Feb. 3. Mahisttcs run somc nine |
cen races in his 2, 3, and 4-,car-od form. and
ron ten, amongst them the Louisville Cup, in |
SIS. He was speedy, good horsr, and is quite
loss to the Stockwood Farm string,-Live-
;fuc6 Itecord. ;
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