Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-30


behind Maxwell, and finished, full of trot,
in 4:46, beating all previous records for
two miles in harness, by two and half
seconds. While Maxwell trotted the first
mile in 2:21, he dropped back in the
second to 2:2711s, but Monroe Chief troted
both miles in precisely the same time
cious driver fairly shares the honors with
the game and speedy horse.
Miscellaneous.
Thos. Hogan, La Crosse, Wis, has sold
to W. E. Ludington, Chicago, ILL.,, the
brown gelding, Nopska, three years old.
by Tramp.
state fair at Lewiston, Me-, was the ex-
hibition mile of Young Rolfe in 2:291l,
after heavy stud season.
A. De Cordova, New York city, lost Oct.
the chestnut gelding General Tweed by
Myron Perry, dam by Vermont Black
Hawk. Tweed's record was 2:264.
r. S. Maloney, Jr., of Lincoln, Neb., has
sold to A. b. Swan the bay horse Maxey
Cobb, years old, by Happy Medium, dam
by Jupiter, for $4,000. Cobb's record is
2:294.
The stallion Romeo, owned by Mr.. A..
Doughty, of Chicago, obtained record of
2:294 at the recent Crown Point Ind
meeting in six-heat race with another
Chicago horse, Don Quixote.
Hattie Woodward, 2:151s, by Aberdeen,
who trotted her last race at Springfield,
Mass, Aug. 20, 1880, is to be sent to Ken
lucky to be bred to one of the popular
trotting stations standing there.
James Mclaughlin stands at the head of
the winning jockeys during the present
season, up to Oct. II, with seventy five
races to his credit. William Donohue is
next with fifty, and Stoval third, with
forty-two.
The sale of trotting stock drafted from
Mr.. Backman's Stony Ford stock farm, by
Kellogg & Co., New York city, the oath,
was fairly successful, ffty-one animals
bringing an aggregate of $12,115, an
average of $237.55.
Mr.. A. s. McCann, of Lexington, KY,
lost October 18th from pneumonia, the
gray yearling colt brother to Phil Thomp-
son, by Red Wilkes, dam by John billiard.
This was very promising colt, and Mr..
Mccain had refused $4,000 for him.
Prospect Maid, record 1926, recently
trotted an exhibition race at Utica against
BERTHE c., the time reported being 1924,
2:22, 2:20. Prospect Maid is by George
Wilkes, but was not considered good
enough to send through the Central cir
cult.
Matte Graham, owned by j. H. Batche-
Ter, has trotted twenty-six races this sea-
son, and never lost an entrance. Since he
has owned her he states he has trotted her
in 1O1 races, and got piece of the money
in 100 of them. He has let her up for the
season, and will winter at Louisville, Ky.
At the recent auction sale of trotting
stock belonging to W. and v. L. Polk, of
Nashville, Tenn, Mr.. Richard Peters,
of New York city, purchased
the stallion Enfield, 2:29,
foaled 1868, by Rysdyk's Hambletonian,
dam Julia Mackree, by American Star, for
$3.50.
w. W: Bair, the we'll known driver of
''Veritas," of The Spirit, said that the mare
was to be sent to him at Cincinnati early
in December, and next season he thought
would verify the prediction he had often
made that she can beat her now unrivaled
record, 2:1O4.
located at Buffalo Driving park for the
winter. She is said to be looking none the
worse for her hard seasons campaign;
limbs clear and smooth, no soreness and
when being logged feels like a colt. She
has paced sixteen races since last May and
won nine of them, and her driver thinks
would have won two others had he not
been taken out of the sulky.
Mr.. Ale yBonner recently purchased of
Col. Stoner, of Kentucky, 2-year old colt,
by Harold, dam by Mambrino Chief,
grand dam by Zenith, son of American
Eclipse, that he thinks is hard to beat. He
is described as rich bay, black points,
stands 151a hands now, and is as fine as a
thoroughbred. He has been placed in the
hands of W. w. Bair to develop, with in
structions to train him moder-
ately, so as to have him
an improving 5-year-old trotter.
On Oct. Ii, at Newmarket, Walton, the
"Plunger," won $4,000 on the victory of
w. s. Crawfurd's two-year- colt, Energy
in the Great Challenge stakes, and in the
very next race of the day, the Newmarket
Derby, landed $4,000 additional by
Shrewsbury's success over Dutch Oven, the
st. Leger victress being hot favorite,
the result of the race at once establishing
Mr.. Jardine's colt at very short odds for
the Cambridgeshire. Walton's efforts on
the two races therefore netted $55,OOO.
There is movement in California to-
wards sending something across the water
to compete for the $4,000 purse to be trot-
ted for at Melbourne, Australia, on the