Daily globe., 1882-04-10
Tu,f aud Breeding Brevtttes,

| recently lOsb LIE mares huDy anu WaXy.
Mr.. J. A. Grinstead, Lexington, KY, adver
tises l25 head of thoroughbred forses to b
| sold at auction, Monday, May 1.
Hickok has taken his string of trotters, in
cluding st. Julien, Santa Claus, and S9eet
heart, to Point Breeze, Philadelphia.
Mr.. Bride, the pool seller, says he expect
to sell pools at the Chicago spring meeting
amounting from $450,O0 to 100000.
| Volunteer, the great son of Hambletonian
stands to-day as the only horse, dead or aliv
with five trotters to his credit with records
under 2:20.
H. V. Bemis, Chicago, has sold two of hi
troiting stud, Mambrino Sturgis, 2:2s, ani
| Mambrino Sotham, to Col. M. Shaugnessy,
for $500.
Wauace's Monthly pays veteran the
compliment of copying in full his recent
article on the "Horse Sharks" recently COM
municated to the GLOBE.
| The importation of nineteen head of En-.
| glish horses by j. Il. Freeman, were sold al
auction in Chicago last week. The lot brought
| 2,961. The highest price paid for any one
animal was S1,S0O.
The noted gray mare Emma B, record 222,
| has been purchased by Richard X. Fox, pro-
prietor of the Police Gazette, who has duly
baptized her under that name, and under
which she will be campaigned this season.
Mr.. Salisbury, Californian, has purchased
of John W. Conley of Chicago, the stations
Monroe Chief and Director, the former has a
record of 2:l84, and the latter 3-year-o1d
record of 2:30. They will be campagned
this season.
Robert Steele, of the Cedar Park stud, Phil
adelphia, will have five trotters on the turf
2:23; Elwood Medium, 2:4A; Kismet and
Meta Medium. Later in the season one or two
more may be added.
The famous trotting mare Badger Girl, ia.
miliar to Minnesota patrons OF, the turf. is
still owned by J. s. and I. Rowell, of Beaver
Dam, Wis. They have fine gray stallion
colt from her by Gov. Sprague, foaled July s,
1880. She is now in foal to Swigert.
A writer in Land and Water speaks of the
recent deaths of pony and canary bird, the
former aged 3s years and the latter 10 years
The pony died of gun shot wound, and was
hearty and well just before the shooting. The
canary bird died natural death, through the
infrmities Of old age.
The spring running meeting of the Pitts
burg Driving Park Association, which COM
meuces Tuesday, May 50, and continues four
days, promises to be complete success. The
entries number 155 horses for the eight stake
events, ranging from Is, the smallest number
for any event, to %, the largest.
The managers of the Rochester Driving
Park association, have reopened the books for
the $4,000 stallion race, which failed to fill
on the date first stipulated, entries under the
new offer to close April Is. Only five entries
are required to fill, and it would seem there
should be no trouble to secure this number.
Thirteen trainers of race-horses of great
experience have given their opinions in The
Spirit Of The Times on racing 2-year-olds.
The statements are combined Endorsement
of running 2-year-olds. Eleven of the
trainers declare it to be beneficial. Not one is
prepared to sag that the practice IS Injurious,
and only two hesitate to approve it unre-
servedly.
The Newmarket (Eng.), handicap, e-and-
a.half miles, is to be run Wednesday, the 18th.
The only American bred horses left in are Wal
lenstein, 126 pounds, Mistake, 100 pounds, and
Nereid, 116 pounds, the two latter alone carry
ing American colors, the first named being
owned by an Engllshman Iroquois, Aranza
and Gerald have been scratched for all their
spring engagements.
Capt. Thomas Marrett has sold his fine
black gelding roadster, Bob Ingersoll, to Mr..
Charles G. H. Smith, of Craig, Larkin &
Smith, crockery and glassware, price not
made public. Bob 1ngersoll was sired by
Richard R., son of Swigert, LIST dam by Black
Hawk Telegraph; 2d dam the dam of Star of the
Wncf Hp in oil q hop Of rionro
kind, perfectly sound, pleasant driver and
fast. Mr.. Smith is to be congratulated upon
the possession of such roadster.
The following paragraph is from the Sport
ing Life of March 81: amongst the visitors
to Lincoln is Mr.. Dwyer. the American turf
man. He ereturns home on the 30th, but coz
templates paying US another visit towards the
end OF the season and bringing some horses
with him. Like all we'll informed Americans
he speaks very f1vorably of the old country.
He is, however, like most of his countrymen,
strong on the time test, and believes in the
watch with a firmness which nothing can
shake"
Mr. Dudley II. Herssy of Saltwater, has
ordered of Mr.. Thomas Scott, the well known
sulky manufacturer, of st. Paul, sulky
for his trotting horse Sam. Fl,
being handled by Geo. P. Smith of Hastings
sam. ID. Is gtey geldIng, 1914 hands high,
foaled in 1876, sire Guide full brother to
Calauus, 2:244) J, by Swigert sire of Geo. K,
2:25A LIST dam by Ned Sutton, son of Ethan
Allen out of Lady Sutton. He made a record
at the state fair last fall of 2:3914, but this
does not represent his speed by any means.
The following combinations were made at
Louisville last week, and are still open. Derby,
Cup land Merchandise Hindoo,
Hindoo, $50 to S; Runnymede, Hindoo, Boot
jack, 400 to 5; Runnymede, Hindoo, Runny-
mede, 400 to 5; Ballard, Hindoo, Runnymede,
| 100 to 5; Ballard; Hindoo, Hindoo, 500 to 5;
Lost Cause, Hindoo, Runnymede, 1000 to 5.
Derby: Merchants and Turf - Runnymede,
Bootjack, Hindoo, 400 to 5; Runnymede, Hin
doc, Blackburn, 200 to 5; Lost Cause, Boot
| jack, Runnymede, 1000 to 5; Knightly King,
RannYmede, Hindoo, 600 to 5.
We acknowledge the receipt of a photo
graph of Volunteer Chief, the property of A.
Post, Faribault. The description attached to
| the picture is as follows, ozark bay, 16
hands: sired by Volunteer, the sire of St.
Julien, time 2:l14, etc; Dam by Daniel
Webster, by Long Island Black Hawk" This
is most excellent breeding, and the photo
graphic representation shows an animal in
every way worthy the breeding-a stylish, up
headed horse, good name and tail, fine neck,
strong shoulders and quarters, good body and
| limbs, small star in forehead and right hind
ankle white.
On the evening of April 8, near Bluff