The Owosso times., 1881-09-09
etroit Live Stock Market.
Sports and ADJUSTMENTS.

Maud S. is merely another illustra-
ton of the fact that time is money.
Oarsman have to have long arms
when they hug the Shore Lo,oeU
Citizen.
ST. Julien is said to be suffering from
trouble in his throat, supposed to be
sort of quinsy, and there is no pros
pect of his being started anywhere for
several weeks.
The Philadelphia Evening News is
responsible for the report that a colt
called FELTON, lately trOtted quarter of
a mile on the 18th inst, at Belmont
Park in 29a seconds. If this proves to
be a fact Maud s. will probably be fur
nished with coffee pot forthwith.
At Hartford, Conn.,, the pacing
horse Little Brown Jug, owned by Mr..
III. V. Bemis, of Chicago, lowered the
pacing record to 2:11a. beating by half
second Sleepy Toms record of 2:l24;
and also accomplished the three fastest
consecutive mile heats ever paced or
trotted-viz.: 2:l1a, 2:11a, 2:12f.
Miss. M. b. Williams, the champion
lader rider of England, is matched to
ride 20-mile race at Minnesota on the
9th Of September, against Miss Belle
Cook, champion of California, for ST.
600 side, and $1,000 added by the
Great Northwestern Exposition. Each
lady will be provided with twelve
thoroughbred horses, to be used as Oc-
casion requires. These two ladies are
also matched to ride the same distance
at Chicago, and also at Rochester.
Convoy, owned by Robert Bonner
was lately driven twO-mile trial to
harness on slow a-mile track, by john
Murphy, in 4.45a, which is 2a seconds
better than the best two-mile record
that of Steve Maxwell at Rochester in
1880, where he trotted two miles in g
public race, winning in 4.48a. Convoy
was fOaled in 1873. His sire is Wood
ford Mambrino. a son of Mambrint
Chief, and his dam, Vanity Fair. was &
daughter of Alexanders Abdallah
The dam of WoodfOrd Mambrino was
WOOdbine, by Woodfor1, a son of Kos
ciusko, by Sir Archey, by imported
DiOmed Woodford MambrinO (2.21d
was the sire of Princess, whose daugh
ter Trinket is one of the most wonder
full six-year-Old trOtters that ever ap
peared upon the turf, and has VOL
more severe races in fast time the pre-
sent season than were ever before wor
by any trotter of her age in the same
length of time.
There was great sensation wher
Steve Maxwell trotted two miles al
Rochester in August Of last year in
4484, because it wiped out the 4:5OI
of Flora Temple, which record as q
best was made in 1859. Convoy was
practically ruled out of twO-mile purses
last year; therefore he had no opportu-
nifty to distinguish himself over dis
lance of ground. During the winter
Mr.. Funk sold him to Mr.. Robert Bon.
ner, and the first thing his new pur-
chaser did was to balance him by shoe
ing him in scientific way. The three
quarter track on the farm at larry
town is very slow this year, owing to
the fact that it was too heavily MANFRED
last spring, but few days ago Convoy
was given a twO-mile trial over it, John
Murphy in the sulky. The first mile
was trotted i'm 2:233 and the second in
222, making total of 4:45a. Tie
fractional division was 364, 1:1la, :48,
2:23a, z:58a. 1851, 4;1Oa, 4:45a. The
last half of the second mile, it will he
seen, was trotted in 1:1Oa, and the last
quarter in IS seconds, thus showing
that there was really more in the horse.
On fast track and keyed up for a
race Convoy should trOt two miles in
not less than 4:42. He has size and
speed, and is one of the gamest horses
that ever stood on iron. He is years
old, and was got by WOOdford Mann
brine, out Of Vanity Fair, by Alexan-
der's Abdallah, second dam thorough
bred Vanity, by Vandal.