, 1879-06-01

Ihe l,5 maximum penalty placed Refer ont IN the
ent an Tor at that he ssas the ONLY one Consist
1ront 9 OF Riaotto, and. il public running could be
Iea Mand.p apon; o. :wonid be possible to prove that
excuse @ for defeat, as, when Archer boldly seized
H. r. @opealne on the rails, Parole seemed to travel
a,1 Wh,sh even ecpsed his City and Suburban H.
~ 5qst posai6a that the colors of Afr, James
Hotuon bcnnet will be seen on the Englfsh turf
lean turf ha season as veil AZ on tina Amer
Mnscaa3a BY Capltaliste. out OF Richmond Hill.
n7Gao'n .n % vas pred IN France where last year be
steeDlechasea Of which ho won six. two Of which
we're the first and second races at 4ntenil on
shant shhnuas & N.Y. II II For tue first asteeplechaae Of
ponnds; Tor the second, = hurdle-racs nearly the
sama Instance, he carried l+2 pounds. Last Jann-
ary a. Nice he won hnrdle-raee mile and three
quarters. carrying LOS pounds, after which his
owner, Baron Finot, sold him tor q price said to
oe :. guo sulneas to Sir j. 1. Kaye, who has nom
mated him for the Epson Simmer Handicap, 10 BE-
run at Epsom On the 9th inst, oyer the Derby
course, and for which Muscadin is handtcapped 81
liz pounds, since which nomination 1t is said Nj
Bennett has purchased the horse.-Neo Yort
World.
Referring to the idiotfc custom which ENGLISH
SPORTING papers have OF predicting the winners,
the SportsU'an says, in It's article on the Derby:
1T is safe to Jay that none Of our contemporaries
horses for places, although most OF them keep
three prophets each. We snail now have very In
teresting and lucid explanations a. to how it was
they advised their readers tn back the wrong horses
They are usually after this fasnion: Neither OF
my selections got q place IN the Derby, and there
is no DOUBT the race Was regular fnke. as can
assure my readers thar one. il not two. Of my de-
lections ought to have won. When l recommend
them to back him again they must do so. The
truth is that though did not happen to hit upon
the absolute winner this. t1me-sotely because the
running was all wrong-l did good deal better
than anybody else. Ny first selection did come In
seventh, whereas all the selections Of the impu-
dent impostor over the way, whose name it is un-
necessary to mention. were clean ont OF alght at
the ultimate 1nish.1r
The 1orillards aeem to have the Knack Of getting
stables. While Parole is winning purses, stuffed
with golden guineas, for Pierre Lorillard+ on the
English turf, George L. Lorillard Is picking up
most OF the good prizes at home. He had seven
won four races. which yielded 81, $50 In noneY
prizes. The sun paid by the Jockey Club to the
winning horse is mere tEife compared to the
however, must have sen. all his good horses abroad
for his stable figures very badly in the Ptmltco
. summary" Hts nine horses started fourteen
times. and did not win single race. In four races
one OF hts horses came in second His net earn
ings amounted to $3.50. Mr.. F. ". Ha1l, OF Mary
land, started two horsea four times They won
twice, and earned S. 725. Tho three horses start
races out Of 6ye. and earned s., 6a5- The veteran
turfnan. D. Mcdaniel. who has on many former
occasions swept the stakes at Pimlco, started four
horses in nine races and won nothing. Mr.. Nc
Daniel ought to loot around for lit successor to
the Aeet-footad Harry Basaett. Since this won
derful horse went uH the track Mr. McDanfela star
has been declining. There is no use Of keeping up
u stable OF race -horses nntess aome Of them come
in ahead at the Jockey Club meetings. A winning
horse Ia most valuable piece Of property: osing
horse il quite the reyerse.-Nem York WorId-