, 1880-03-21
TRACk-TAIK.


Stranger has been scratched In the Kentuck,
Derby.
Beatitude is receiving considerable backing in
the Merchants Stakes ut Louisville
Jack Phillips will drive the bay stallion Sher.
man Morgan, record .:22o, this season.
Maiden, the dam Of Parole, Pawnee, Pappooge
and other well-known horses, is dead.
There are seyenty-fiye horses in training nj
Lexington, and an equal number at Nashville.
Next week Tuesday the spring meeting of the
Louisiana Jockey Club will open at New Or.
leans.
4 brother to McWhfrter was recently foaled
at Dosquc Bonita, and Gen. Buford declilres that
1t shall be reserved for the stud.
Ivy Leaf. the dam Of Brnmbie Bye and Bye.
and others, recently dropped u dead horse foaI
BY nonnie Scotland. As The sire Is dead there ,e,
will be no brother to Brnnablc.
Robert z LAuson. weli-known English trafn-
er. dle'i Feb ~ aged Is years He rude Blink
h:mnE tor fcH One Thousand Guineas Of 1867,
ana also mad tue mount on other noted winners
Rosy Cross. the mare that won the Lncoln-
shire Handicap last Wednesday. RAJ, second to
Kaleidoscope in the same event Inst ycar "a rrx.
ing lla pounds to his LII, besides giving him d
year.
Mr: James Gordon Benefits recent English
purchase, the stecple-chascr La1chkcy, was
beaten by head only in the first race be r,in
about three miics-
Lawrence Hart has begun suit against the
pennsylvania Railrold fur the sum of Sa.5
me danaEes being claimed 0n account Of the
EiliinK OF bis race-mare Bonnie Carrie near
coliatnbus o.. last October. and injuries to Char
ley Howard. Clemu1ie G.. Huckeyt ard Ref17jno
Inc ANIMALS were i'll u car which btf,tmr do
tached fr''m the balance Of the train and sl,hse-
auentiy cnllided with it.
Wiley Buckles, 4 we'll known Illinois t11rfmon
recently Won in the Circuit Court ut IIrl,ua y
lou@-contestcd suit for the ownership Of the III
nous rslee-horse Hnrkaway. He puid Puttcr-
son. Of Macon County, a large price for the
hutse. ana. atter Buckles WIS offered $lS,O}0 for
httn.-fhc result of his splendid winnings in 81
Louis,-Aifs Patterson set up the claim that the
horse was hers, and not her husbands.
Referring to the stake system adopted by the
Ghica@,n Club for its July trnttn- injecting fhfs
Kentucky Lire Sttck KeoDTl says: ..Iustcad Of
the old Sterrotypcd 10 per-cent entranf,s IA. o,,
the gross :nnount Of purses, the Club hns rnoda
Il new and coln,nendat,le departure. and .,ons
Eerte0 the purses into stakes giving Is Dor fcnt
q q. TIE entire amo1nt Of purse and entry fees to
the hEst horse y per cent to the second ani Is
t,ontcndcd that it was Impossible to have any,
thing like fair and squire trottiug and reo,,irc
parties to pay 10 per cent ..ross on rho yrnanrt
VI the purse In reality IL amounts to . nor
cent for the first horse only gets half the m,rsn
which, II S1.Oo0. nets the winner 500 one. fn,rth
OF tsic amount t'ciug his own money. The own
ers and breeders nf trutters thru,ph1mt tha
country should do all lit their power e, ,.nc,,,rs
age and foster this new departure Of the Chfcs,
60 Jockey and Trutting Club for il fs n mn..a
nsent in their particular interest Wa ara tir,nI,
convinced that they will aud we hsil n ns inI;c'
atite of = renewed interest and increased va!,,a
given to the future trotter" '0'oo