Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-21
Miscellaneous Notes,

Miscellaneous Notes.
Morgan Blackhawk died recently, at Melton,
Del, aged 4Oyears.
Gus Wilson, the driver, has permanently To-
Gated in Philadelphia.
Mr. George L. Lorillard has gone to Florida
to get rid ofrheumatism.
Silvio, winner of the Derby in 1S77, has
been sold to French nobleman for $35,OO0.
Santa Claus will, it is said, serve two or
three OF Robert Steel's Happy Medium mares.
Fred. Archer got terrible "facer" for his
seasons record at the "back end" of the sea-
son. Out of sixteen mounts in the three DAYS
OF the Newmarket Houghton meeting, he only
bestrode the winner once
The Chicago Times says that Mr.. Bemis
contemplates driving Piedmont and silverton
together this winter, with a view if they 90
well together, OF putting them into the double
team contests next season.
Passaic, (bred In America), years, by
Longfellow, out of Jury, by Lexington, was
purchased by Lord Rossmore, for $4,000,
after winning the Cambridgeshire Trial Plate,
on Thursday, October I'd.
New York Sportsman: "California holds
the joker. as well as the bowers, ace and king,
in the shape of phenomenal trotters. Two
year Old's getting close to twenty, and year.
lings beating forty five, speak for q great fu-
ture for the trotters of the Pacific slope"
The young trotting stallion, Hambletonian
Pilot, owned by Mr.. H. s. Sweet, Chicago, ILL.,,
has been sold to Mr.. P. s. Nelson, of Halena,
Mont, for 5000. He is son of Rysdyki's
Hambletonian, out of Jesse Bull, by Long
Island Black Hawk. he will prove decided
acquisition to the trotting stock of Montana.
William c. France, of st. Louis, has bought
the trotting mare Enchantress, years old, by
Happy Medium, dam Kitty Olives, paving over
$4,000. Enchantress is an inbred Hambte-
tonian and has record of 2:26sl. 1t is Mr..
Frances intention to use her in q double team
with Hattie woodward, who has record of
2:15A.
The training stable of Warren A. Russell,
at Danville, KY, was destroyed be fire on the
7th instant, and a number of horses burned,
among them Nr. 8. B. Fields ch, s., Austral.
Austral was by Australian, from Coral (dam
OF Uncas and'Wanderer), by Vandal. He was
purchased for Virginia as yearling, but did
not perform with credit. His relationship to
stud in Kentucky the past season.
Mr.. J. R. Keene has purchased of Capt.
Conner, of Nashville, the yearling colt Bolero,
by Bonnie Scotland, out of Waltz, full
brother to Glidelia: Capt. Conner bought
sold him for $4,000, the largest price ever
paid for yearllng in this country. The pur-
chase includes all his engagements in this
country and England. It is supposed the colt
will be sent across the ocean to reinforce Mr..
Keene's English stable.
The London Eng.) Liue Stock Journal an.
nounces the departure from that country for
the United States, of Mr. Fowler, the we'll
known horse trainer. He is sent to America
by I. W. Coney, of Huddesaeld, the Yorkshire
omnibus proprietor, with the object of ex-
porting to this country continuous supply
Of American horses for Mr.. Coney's teams.
This is new departure in the matter of direct
supply, and suggests that our Clydesdales,
Shire and Fylde breeders must look to their
laurels, or Mr.. Coney's example, may he fol-
lowed by some of our great London and LIVER
pool carmen"
M. H. Sanford, whose heroic struggle to
put America to the front on British soil
against overwhelming odds, with such horses
as Preakness, Bay Final and Mate, will long be
remembered, has retired from the turf. His
North Elkhorn farm, near Lexington, KY,
was recently sold to D. Swigert, with it's
STOCK, 1Or nearly $2OO, ,OOO. The farm contains
about $50 acres, and is one of the finest in the
blue e-grass region. The mares and the stud
are of the best, mostly by Lexington. The
stations include Glenelg, Monarchlst, Bay
wood, Virgil, and King Lear.
Mr.. E. 8. Stokes having authorized the
Turt, Field and Farm TO announce that he
would match the California fllley Sweetheart
against Mr.. c. H. Raymonds Kentucky colt,
Phil Thompson, for $4,000, the race to be
trotted in July next, either in Chicago or
New York, that gentleman responds that if
his colt is in good condition in April or May
next, he will accommodate the owner of
Sweetheart with race, to come off in July
or August, and that he Will not object to other
colts coming in upon the same terms, the
winner to take all the stakes and gate money.
Phn Thompson has record of 2:21, and
Sweetheart of 2:12.
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