, 1879-02-02

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showed trials that lar outstrippcd any Of he
previous performances. She won tho thre
races in which she took part but while beu:
put on the cars at Rochester met with All acc
dent which permanently disabled her. At thi
time she was undoubtedly the best horse on th,
turf, having beaten Goldsmith Maid every tim
they met. She was bred for several seasons Il
the Fashion Farm, and died there III 1870.
| Lucy is bay mare, foaled IN 1855: got b
George N. Palchen, out OF mare By May Day
4 son of the racc-horsc Henry. Her best rccors
is 2: 1sA, made at Buffalo, Aug. 8, 1872. whe,
she defeated American Girl, Goldsmith Mait
and Henry in race of four heats, American
Girl winning the second Time, 2:lS]41, 2:1714
2:19s<, 2: e. During the greater part Of be
turf career Lucy trotted i'll exhibition race.
against Goldsmith Maid, and consequently thu
| re:ord does not show her to be the great MARI
She was. She was retired from the turf in 1873
and has since beeu used US brood mare.
- TRACK TALK.
Charlie Green has purchased i controlling in
terest in Great Eastern.
It has been decided to hold the Breeders
Meeting next fall at Prospect Park
james Clark. Esq, OF Hillsboro, O., has Dur
chased for road use the trotter Dan Howell
record 2:291@.
The black gelding John Hall, record 2:o5, has
| been sold by Jacobs, of Lincoln, Ncb., to Jacob
| Springsteen, Of Albany, n. T., for ST. 100,
| The first meeting Of the recently-organizcd
Pacific B!ood-Horse Association will take nlace
| May 10, IA, and II. An attractive program nc
| has been prepared.
! An offer OF 5000 for two-thirds interest in
the 3-year-old col. Steinway, that as 2-year-old
obtained record OF 2:31s1 in third heat. has
been made and refused.
New Jersey, a son Of George n Patchen,
died at Carrollton, Ill, last week, aged - years.
he was the sire OF Grace Bertram and other
welf-knowu trotters.
Marshall Chief, the sire OF Doc Lewis, Rat
tier, and other trotterS OF note, died recently
on backwoods farm near Union City, Mich,
OF old age and neglect.
James Gordon Bennett Is said to have re-
Gently purchased three horses OF Lord Rosebcrry
for $4,000. They are intended as the nucleus
Of an extensive racing establishment ia this
Country.
T. j.. Nichols stable, consisting Of Day
Tipsy, and Wellington, has reached Nashville in
charge of Leroy Paul, and will be AT once put in
training.
Thirteen Shetland ponies were recently re-
ceivcd from Europe bv Mr.. Isaac Dahlman, OF
New York City. They were purchased fer him
By henry Shu1ein, formcrlya wcll-kuown horse
dealer OF this city.
Ashwood, 3-ycar-old colt bY Blackwood, Jr.,
fell on the ice recently near Nashville and broke
his neck. The younsster was speedy, and had
been nominstcd in the stakes OF the Kentucky
Trotting Horse-Brceders' Association for next
year.
Mr.. l.. E. Simmons, one Of the bcst-known
horscmen jn the country, and whose stable has
contained such good ones as. Kansas Chief
Bella, ami James Howell, Jr., was married last
week to Miss Saidee Madciaiue jackson, Of New
York.
The yearling colt Vocher, By Woodford Nam
brino, out OF Vassar, By Belmont, has been pur-
chased by Mcssrs. Purl d l.atta, of Goshen,
Ind. He is one Of the best bred youngsters in
the country, and is entered in the Trottiup
Budget for foa1s Of 1877.
season. and at its close sold him to Mr. Wander
bilt. passed through the city yesterday from
Michigan, whittier he had been to get the chest
nut mare Detscy Ann, which he recently pur-
chased. She is young, last, and has record Of
2:35.
Mr. Charles Backman has had manufactured
costly and elegant cup, appropriately inscribed,
which will be presented to ex-GoV. Stanford, OF
California, owuer Of Elaine, who is credited with
the best and 4-year-oid records--2:33 :33s i3:24L44
Elaine was bred By MIR. Baclman, and purchased
By A1r. Stanford two years ago.
As the Turf kindly calls upon this paper for
further corrections in regard to the 2 80 list
the suggestion is made that Croxic's record is
2:19A instead OF 2:16. The TurJ' is also in
formed that the chestnut gclding Modoc, rec
ord 2:225, whose obituary appeared in that paper
last week, is alive and well at the home Of his
owner. Mount Pleasant, H.
Col. Conlev and Budd Doble returned from
their trio to New 1ork last Friday, and reported
themselves as having had pleasant time.
During the trip Doble paid visit to Goldsmith
Maid, at the Fashion Stud Farm, Trenton, N.
J., and found the old marc to be in foal to Gen.
Washington Mr.. Doblc brought back with |
him the well known Boston driver, James ]
Dustin, who will assist in the management of |
Budd's stable.
Au unknown party-prcsumablg Mr.. Wander |
nilt-is out with challenge to trot pair Of his ]
horses now driven together On the road against |
any team in the a. country filling the same cond-
lions, for $4,000 side, the race TO take place |
June IA, 1879, over some National Association |
track within $50 miles OF New York CITY; for
fclt OF So, 600 side to be deposited with the
Spirit Of the Times. and that paper to be the final
stakeholder.
The 4-year-old stallion Pliny. by Mene1aus,
;ecently sold by par.;es in this city, to go to
Slew, to have developed an amount OF speed
hat astonishcs the natives Of the Green Isle.
His sire, Menelaus, was somewhat neglected in
lis earlier years, but is low well thought Of as
Doughty. Of the Webster avenue stablss, has q
-ycar-old-Romeo-t!, promises to be what
Jan Mace calls "a corn-craczcr."
The recent SUCCESS Ut the progeny OF Harold,
mong whom Maud S., Noontldc, and Childe
iarold are the most prominent, brings to n1nu
he fact that full sister to the iast-namcd
ogse is owned BY Col. s. B. Shcrer OF this city.
he is chestnut tiliy. foaIcd in 1877, and re-
oces i'll tho name OF Partheue. Consuea, full
ister to Chille Harold aud Parthenc, has rec
rd of 2:344. Childc is now in England, and |
ist August wou the International handicap |
takes, two-nile heats, ip 5:o5 5:o4, 5:11.
Attention has heretofore been called in these
o1u,nns to the Massachusetts law prohibiting
le sale OF pools in that State. and its disastrous
feet On turf interests. The Judiciary Commit
&c Of the Legislature now has the matter un-
er consideration, aud has heard the statements |
prominent turlmcn and norse-owners regard
X it. They are UNANIMOUS in the opinion that !
olhing but the repeal Of the obnoxious statute |
IN remedy the evil that now exists, and restore
>e turf to condition Of prosperity.
The Italian papers contain full accounts Of :
ing ride performed BY nine officers OF cavalry
:simcnt stationed at Milan. Starting from ,
lat city, they rode. TO Bergamo and Rorato, !
here they spent the night. Upon the second
y they were to ride from Ro:ato to Verona;
BON the third from Verona to Mantua and | 6
odeua; upon the fourti, from 3fodena to Parma | r
ID Piacenza; and on the fifth they were to re-
I'm to Milan BY the way Of Paria. Only three
the officers succeeded in completing the whole =
stance, having ridden $40 miles in los hours. | /
he horses which thew rode were ordinary | +