Daily globe., 1879-02-12
THE HORSE.
Mr.. Mealey's Importation-Miscell
Turf Notes.

Mr.. Mealey's Importation-Miscella
Turf Notes.
A private note from Mr.. 81. G. Mealey, Mon
ticello, informs us that we under-weighted the
Norman colt recently purchased by him. The
colt was bred and raised by D. Durham.
Wayne, Dupage county, ILL.,, will be three years
old June 1st next, stands sixteen hands, and
weighs l, 46O pounds. The GLOBE received its
information from one of the best horsemen in
the State, who pronounced the colt one of the
finest pieces of horse flesh ever brought into
the State, an assertion fully borne out by the
descri ption thus given of him. The corrected
description by Mr.. Mealey ia all in favor of the
colt. MIR. Mealey is to be congratulated upon
the ownership of such an animal and the horse
interests of the State upon Mr.. Mealey's enter
prise in the purchase.
This years Derby will be run Wednesday,
May 28. There are290 nominations, and should
there be twenty-five starters, the stake will be
worth to the winner something like $37 1000.
Parole, one Of Mr.. Pierre Lorillards' Ameri-
can heroes, now in England, has been entered for
the EPSON gold cup, to be run May &c. one
mile and a half; weights, 3-year-olds, 112
pounds; 4-year-olds, 1872 pounds, and years
and upwards 136 pounds.
Ut the horses trotting under 2:30 last year,
Rarus, of course trotted the greatest number
of three heats, IS. Next to him is the western
horse, Doc Lexis, with 3S; Hopeful, 81; Pro-
tein, 36; Driver, 81; Wampoline, Lew Scott
ani Derby, 26 each; Edwin Forrest, %; VOL
ford z, 81; Bonesetter, 20; Adelaide. "a; Wood
Powers, 10; Ethel, Is y. o. 10;
Edward, 18; Lucille II; Cozette, Croxie, Dick
Moore, Mountain Quail, Scott's Thomas, 16
each.
Mr.. Joseph A. Young, Rochester, Mimi,
offers for sale the trotting horse John J. Cooke,
record 2:291Ls, and better possibilities.
1t is reported that Dan Mace will have charge
the coming season, of Mr.. Charles Kerner's
stable at Goshen, including Lady Mills, who
recently showed private trial in 2:19sl.
1t will he recollected that in April, 1878,
Goldsmith Maid, the queen Of the turf, was
bred to General Washington, (son Of General
Knox out of Lady Thorn.) Budd Doble re-
Gently paid visit to the queen, and says there
is no doubt about her being in foal-
Mr.. Chas. Reed has leased the Saratoga asso-
citation course and grounds. There will be two
meetings given at Saratoga, the first July 10Th
and the second August 5th, making twenty-five
to twenty-seven days racing.
Mr.. l.. A. Hitchcock, turfman whose name
and face was we'll known on the racecourses of
the country. died Jan. Goth, 1879, at East
Marshheld, Mass, in his SD year. He was the
owner Of Limestone, Galway, Cariboo Mollie
Darling, Quits. Speculation, Crows Meat,
Lutitia II. and many other horses during his
career on the turf.
M. D. Swigert, Stockwood farm, Spring
Station, KY, has met with serious loss in the
death of the bay horse Mahlstick, five years
old, by Lever, out of Rebecca T. Price. by the
Colonel. Mahlstick ran some nineteen races in
his two, three and four-year-old form, ard
Won ten, amongst them the Louisville cup
in 1878.
The chestnut gelding John Virgin (record
2:29), and the brown gelding Morris (record
2:29), have been matched for $1,000, to be
trotted over Beacon and Mystic parks in June.
Aurora, ILL.,, claims July 29th to Aug. 1st for a
trotting meeting.
The famous Bay Final by Lexington, sire of
Bay Leaf, was sold to Major Bond at public
auction Jan. 18th, at Tattersall's, London, for
$525.