Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-20
miscellaneous N0tcs.

The Brighton Beach racing association
paid out the past season in premiums
$101, 200, divided between 452 races, held
on ninety-fve days.
The Breeders Gazette is authority for
the statement that the gray gelding Silver
sides record 2:22 was out on ringing
expedition in Iowa last summer under the
name of Honest Tom.
The Mexican Derby was won on Sunday
the 18th at the City of Mexico,by French
horse, owned by Paolo Escauder. Maret-
EEK, an American horse, owned by the
German minister, was second.
Mr.. J. Henry Miller, Lexington, KY, has
sold to Messrs. ChInn & Morgan, Harrods-
burg, KY, the bay colt Leonatus, 2-yrs, by
Longfellow, out of Semper Felix, by
Phaeton, with his engagements, for $4,000.
There is now being agitated in England
a decided move to decrease so much short
distance racing. Reform is the order of
the day, and there is no telling where the
Jocky club will stop, now that its members
show such activity.
A Chicago horse sharp, named Henry
jackson, has been convicted and sentenced
to term of imprisonment at Cleveland,
O., for selling horses with bogus pedigrees.
There is splendid chance for shutting up
more of the same kind.
Jack Phillips, the lessee of Suffolk Park,
Philadelphia, has taken time by the fore
lock. and claimed the second week in May
IL 1888, for his spring trOtting meeting.
Purses of $500 each will be given for
classes ranging from 500 to 2:2O.
Hindoo, recently purchased by Milton
Young, ran thirty-ive races during his
three seasons on the turf, of which he Won
thirty, and was second OR third in the
others. His total winnings amounted to
$7l, $50, and the Dryers sold him for S15,
600.
For seventy-six years the judges box at
EPSON has been in the family of John
Francis Clark. For thirty years he has
announced the winners of the Derby and
Oaks, as his father and grandfather did
before him, and as his son is likely to in
the future.
Two yearling FLIES that are being train
ed at the Lexington track by Byron Nc
Clellan recently ran a quarter of a mile to-
gether in 23A seconds, finishing head and
head. They are by Enquirer, out of
MoselIe, by Jack Malone, and Martica, by
Daniel Boone.
The latest pacing wonder is the bay
gelding Rocket, by Greeley (son of Bald
Chief. He was bred by Mr.. Rawleigh
Kendall, Poplar Plains, ky.. and last June
taken from hide-wagon and given few
lessons on the track. He can now pace
in 2:1715, over half-mile track, and this
is said to be no measure of his speed.
Mr.. H. N. Smith, of the Fashion Stud
Farm, Trenton, n. j., made several pur-
chases of thoroughbred yearlings at the
late auction sale of the Dangu STUD, France,
all of which are entered in the prominent
English fixtures for 1854. which closed
on the 18th ult Mr.. Smith also purchased
the English bred yearling black colt Rebel:
lion, by Dutch Skater, dam Brown Agnes,
by Gladiator, second dam Wild Agnes, by
Wild Dayren, out of Little Agnes, by The
Cure, etc. Rebellion is entered for the
Middle Park Plate and other prominent
events to be run for in 1883.
Among the trotters being wintered in
Chicago are Mike Wilkes and Riette.
Wilkes is bright bay with black points,
and is one of the most powerfully made
horses in the country. Before his pur-
chase by Berry & Co., he trotted full mile
in 2:2O, and was then driven half in sos
and quarter in SO seconds. Being but
years old, sound, and so we'll bred, he is
certain to prove valuable for turf pur-
poses, and it is the intention of his OWL