Daily globe., 1880-04-05
HORSE AND TRACK.

DIR. Mintzer Sightseeing Among the
Thoroughbreds of Kentucky-Chicago
Jockey Club Board of Trade Stakes Hand
icap-J1m Keene's English Stable-Mis-
cellaneous Notes.
AMONG THE THoRoUGHBREDs OF KENTUCKY.
letter dated Lexington, KY, March 29,
brings the information that DIR. W. l.. Mintzer
is in that section for the purpose of picking up
some thoroughbreds and trotting stallion to
bring to Minnesota, of which he expects to Sc
cure at least one car load. The Doctor is an
old horseman, but his Kentucky visit seems to
be furnishing him a genuine surprise. He
says it is nothing but horse, horse, wherever
he goes. At Lexington he some ninety
| head in training, and the country is full of
tracks where horses are being trained for rum
ming or trotting, or broken for saddle purposes.
Lis greatest surprise, however, was when he
was shown a three year old stallion who could
| turn mile track in a square trot In rs. The
animal was sired by George Wilkes, and the
Doctor was given the privilege of becoming his
| owner upon the payment of $4,000. The Doc
! tor describes him as fine formed bay, and, in
fact the best horse to his eye, he saw but he
remarks that he would not be justified in buy
ing him for Minnesota, as he would get but lit
| tie, if any, better patronage than second rate
sires, an opinion that is justified by the ex-
perience of r. Barden, @. A. DeGraff, Willis
Baker and other enterprising breeders. But
| the Doctor should recollect that Minnesota is
growing in intelligence as well as in popula-
| tion.
WEIGHTS FOR THE BOARD OF TRADE HANDICAP.
The weights for the Board of Trade Handicap
stakes to be run on the first day of the second
meeting of the Chicago Jockey and Trotting
club, Wednesday, June 30th, have been an
nounced. They are arranged upon the light or
descending scale, as opposed to the heavy or
ascending scale in the English handicaps. The
idea of the British han3icapper is to penalize
fast horse by weights proportional to his per-
formanees, thereby bringing him down to the
level of the slower horses, and, of course, max
| ing q slow race. The Chicago plan is exactly
the opposite. Weight for age Is assumed as
| top-weight, and the imposts graded down.
ward from that point in proportion to the
recognized capabilities of the contestants, thus
giving the recognized leader his head at his or
dinary impost, while the others are put on an
equality with him as far as possible by lighter
imposts, of course, securing faster races than
| by the English plan.
| Under this handicapping for the Board of
Trade stakes Fortuna and Long Taw are given
| 115 pounds; One Dime Cammie T, Mark
L.. Lottery and Gen. Phillips, 112 Bill
Bruce, Charlie Howard, Jack Hardy and Round
Dance, no; Ada Glen, Krupp Gun, Beatitude
and Ella Rowitt 108; Ben Hill, 107, Mary
Walton, Victim and Vermont, 105; Sam Ecker,
104; Frank Short, Miss Hardaway and Omega,
102; Dudley, Simple Simon, Headlight, Re-
nown, zeta, Blakemore, Hamadan, John Car
| ter, Mollie Merrill Athelstane, Florence Payne
and Buckden Lass, 100, from which point they
are graded down to Longtime, who is given
the lowest impost 80 pounds.
1t will be seen that Isaac Staples, of Still
| water, has nominated Athelstane and Florence
Payne for this event, both of whom are given
| 100 pounds, at which Athelstane ought to be
| dangerous horse.
JAMES 2. KEENE's ENGLISH STABLE.
Mr.. James r. Keene's stable of race-horses,
headed by the great Spendthrift and Lord
Murphy, arrived safely at Liverpool the 18th,
ult, and have been transferred to Newman
ket. Besides the horses named the stable con-
| tains the two-year olds, Gemsbok, Bookmaker,
Bushmau, Faxhall, Mcdonald, Licentiate
Omer Kyam, Brakespeare, Eland, and Bran
Dance. The stable will be trained by Joseph
Dawson, the noted trainer, who brought to the
post Rosy Gross the winner of the Lincolnshire
Handicap, and Eef King who was placed third
in the same race. From the high breeding and
distinguished racing families from which the
horses descend, and in the hands of such
trainer, it is expected their performances will
reflect credit upon the country OF their nativi-
ty.
THE ENGLIsHMANs IDEA OF FAIR PLAY.
The sharp practice of the stewards of the
Liverpool cup race by which Lorlllard's Parole
was defrauded of his victory of beating both
the Handicapped and the horses pitted against
him, is getting to be pretty well understood on
this side of the water, and is leading to any
thing but favorable comment with which is
coupled "reminiscences of the past, where
similar tactics were resorted to in connec-
tion with American horses. A correspondent
of the Cincinnati Enquirer, writing from
Lexington, KY, says of the feeling in that
great horse and racing center:
found the same state of opinion in Lexington as
at Paris in regard to the indisposition of English
men toward American horses. The LiUe Stock Rec
ord attempts to prove, With success that cannot be
50 ba a ernoo Ss n rcs bro IN
| light upon the subject, that Parole and
Strahblane, the second horse in the as placed
by the judges, we're running side by side, and in
identically the same relative position in regard to
| Advance; that, consequently, if Parole fouled,
Strathblane fuoled, and should have been visited
with the same punishment Kentuckians feel pc
culiary sensitive this point, taken in connection
with the remarkable handcapping, because the best
of the American horses in England, with the excep
| ton Of Parole, are Kentucky bred. They remember
| the persecution which followed Mr.. Ten Broeck's
horse Umpire in 1880, in the shape of continually
appearing protest against the horses age, in spite of
the fact that the colt examined in the first part
| land and pronounced by them to be of the age
which Mr.. Ten Brock claimed for him. The last
appearance of the charge resulted in public apollo
gy by its maker who acknowledged that he had had
no grounds whatever for his action. Count La
Oranges great horse Gadiaeur, the Derby winner of
| 1865, was the object of jealousy which took the
| same form and led to the result. The Eng
shman is fond of fair play, but more so of victory
EQUEs.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Driving park at Mankato is for sale.
The title page of the present weeks issue of
Dunton's Spirit Of the Turf will contain a like
ness and sketch of the first trotter sired by Mr..
| Il. Barden's Western Chief.
DuntOn'S Spirit Of the Turf credits DR..
Mintzer, of this city, with being the owner of
the running horse Long Taw, formerly Dave
Moore. While not having the doctors thor
| ity for denying this statement, we have good
reason for knowing that the Turf is mistaken
and asserting that the horse belongs to Green
| B. Morris, who handled and run MiDtzer, the
doctors horse, last year. But whoever the
owner, he is great horse this season, having
already won half-dozen good races, most of
them with commanding ease.
| On Thursday last MIR. s. O. Phillips owner
of Sleepy Tom, the famous PAGER, left Xenia,
| Ohio, where the horse had been wintered, for
Dayton, where the horse will be put in train
for the coming races. Mr.. Phillips says that
| Tom is better horse to-day than last season,
/ H.. E. IL L