The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-08
RACING IN THE WEST.
Dates Of Important Meetings From
New Orleans 10 Chicago

meetings. anu pEOuhpid uA Ssi VI lNe several
racing associations east of the mountains,
made public recently, is supplemented to-
day with the following dates Of meeting fixed
to take place in the west and southwest;
LOUISIANA JOCKEY CLUB.
The Louisiana Jockey club will give two
meetings at New Orleans-the carnival
meeting, beginning on February
% and continuing three days,
and the regular spyiOg meeting, besioniug on
Tuesday, April 10, and continuing ror at
least week. For the carnival meeting two
stakes are anuounCed-the Mystic kreye
stakes, half mile, for two.year-olds, and
the Rex stakes, mile and quarter, for
three year-olds. For the regular MEETING
the stakes announced ARE the Withers stakes,
half mile for two-yaar- ol1s; tte Pickwick
stakes, mile heats for three-year-ods; the
CoLtrll stakes, mile and half. for three
year-olds; the Walker stakes, two miles for
four-year- and the Howard stakes. twoS
mile heats, for all ages, The entries for all
these will close February l5 and should be
addressed to G. w. Mott, secretary, al New
Orleans.
N4ASllN lhLL blOObNllOhoh ASbOOlAIl ION
AS usual, the meeting Of the Nashville
Blood-Horse association will follow Inc New
Orleans meeting after brief interval, and
will probably take place during the first
week in Nav. The stakes which will close
February Is, include the young American
stakes No, l, half mile, for two-yesr.old
FLIES the young American stakes No. 2,
half a mile, for two-yesr.old colts; the
Jackson stakes five fuflongs, for
two-y oar-old3; The Maxwell house
stakes, mile and furlong, for three
year-odG; the Belle Meade stake No. l,
mile ana half, Tor three.year olds, and The
Railroad stak S, mile and three guar ,ers, for
all ages. There will also be The tennessee
stallion stakes, for thTee-year de-, al mile
and quarter, which closed ia August, 1879,
with twenty-three subscribers, the get of
Ballinkee Bonnie Scotland CreedmoOr. John
Morgan, Lelaps, Lever and Waverly. 1t
ought 10 be m excellent race, rs IL is likely
to bring out several dark but much thought
of youngsters
THE KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION,
The meeting Of the Kentucky association
at Lexington will begin either on the l4th or
10th Of May aud continue until the 2lst. Tne
stakes closed on the LIST of January with u
most excellent showing. Tho FLY stakes,
half mile, for two-year. old FLIES, closed
with thirty.two subscribers; the COLI stakes
the same distance and under the same con-
ditions, received thir.y.eight entries, The
colt and FLY stakes, three quarters of
nile, received thirty,nine en-
tries. TIE three events received
entries from Messrs Barnum, Swigert
Megibben, Shawhsn, Matthews, Harper,
johnson, McGrath, BuGord, Ovens Wilson,
Brown, Thomas, Grinsead and some Others,
so that the racing, with decent starting, can
not fail to show what the two yesr-old pros
poet is, aud whether there is another Hindoo
in the Blue Grass country. The tbree-year-
old stake, mile heats, for those that did not
win as tw0-year. ods, received twenty seven
entries, and The selling stake for all ages,
at a mile and o half, received six entries
The mile and quarter stake, for
all ages, received eighteen, viz
Hmyar, Long Tsw, Jils johnson,
Lahtunah, ITmntrudc, Talismam, Nenso,
Mendelssohn, Bowling Green, Aliunde
Baltic, Brambaletta, Banter, Blythe. Way,
Alhambra, Lelex, Jack Haverly and Athoa.
The other fixtures for the meeting are the
Phoenix Hotel stakes, mile and quarter,
for three-Jesr-old tillies, and the blue ribbon
stakes, and a mile and a half, for three year
olds. Each one is sure to have good field
Of starters.
LOUISVILLE JOCKEY CLUB.
If the meeting of the Kentcucky associa-
ton ends on the 20th or 2lst of May the
Louisville Jockey club will no doubt begin
on the 24,h OF May, the date fixed by the
Maryland Jockey club at Baltimore, but as
it is utterly impossible for the two associa-
tions 10 select dates without conflicting with
some other association, the conflict cannot
be said TO be duo TO rivalry. The Louisville
club will presents strong card, which will
no doubt show some seven or eight days
snort. This will bring the meeting into con-
fict with the spring meeting Of the American
Jockey club, which is quite sure 10
begin at Jerome Park on Monday,
NAV 80. The stakes which closed at Louis.
VILE on January ! received such m excel
lent entry that the fields cannot fail to be
large. The Alexander stake, half mile,
for two-year.old colts, has 45 entries the
louisville Ladies' stakes, half mile for
two-yesr-old FLIES, has the Same number
and the Tennessee stakes, three-quarters OF
a mile, for two-year-olds the winners of the
Alexander end Louisville Ladies' stakes to
carry pounds extra, received 90 entries
Nor three e9r-olds, tho Tobacco stakes mile
heats. for threoyear-olds that did not win a:
two-yesI-olds, closed with As eniries the
Kentucy Derby, milo ana half, with 81
subs; the kentucky ssOaks, a mile and half
with 40 subs, and the Clark stakes, a mile
and quarter, with Sc subscribers. There
will be- no lack for tho throe-year ODDS The
older horses will have the cup, two miles and
a quarter, and the Merchants stakes, mile
and quarter. The former received 16 and
the latter 80 subscriptions, and as the Ike
is sure to be over $1,000 to the winner, the
field will be large.
QUEEN CITY JOCKEY.
Although the Queen City Joclly club, o
Cincinnati has not as yet announced its au-
nual meeting, it is believed that it will do s;
in few days, and that the dates selected
will be very soon after the meeting at Lou
isvile.
ST. LOUIS JOCKEY CLUB.
The st. Louis Jockey club announces
six-day meeting to follow Immediately
after The Louisville meeting. L. also an
nounces the following stakes to close on
February /: Coquette stakes three-quarters
of a mile, for two-year-old illlies; jockey
club stakes, three quarters of mile, fol
two-y ear-old colts and flllies; hotel stakes, {
mile and . quarter, for threo-year-olds thai
did not win as two-year olds, and the mer-
chants stakes, mile and half, for three