Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-03-02
HORSE TALK.

There VIII probably be no trotting
meetings at Amber Park this season.
/ According To the last census the
4 number Of horses in Russia was esti-
mated at l0,il4,oo0
7 Work on the track OF the IT. Louis
4 Jockey Club will be commenced as
soon as the wethcr settles.
I Administrator and ten other horses
! have been entered by Robert Steel for
I the Kellogg sale In March.
I Gus Wilson expects to train horses
/ at Belmont this year, even ifsome one
/ else has the lease of the track.
The Directors of Belmont Park are
I in communication with several par
I ties relative to leasing the property.
/ The Brighton Beach race track is to
be widened and otherwise improved
before the opening of the season.
! Mr.. NJ. w. Stimson OF Boston, has
| sold to New York gentlemen his hand
some pair of dappled gray horses--a
| very close match--for 81 800.
! William Stigall of BOYLE county.
/ Ky, last week sold two Jacks 10 Mr.. J.
! +. Wells OF Nelson county. He re-
( celved 81 800 for one and 500 for the
other.
/ Wakefield & Farris sold this week,
( at Danville KY, to Colonel w. w.
/ Baldwin, of Maysville, twenty good
mules, - hands inches high nj $50
/ per head.
The other day 500 horses were
/ shipped from New York to Liverpool
/ England. as Great Britain and the
/ Continent pay the best prices for
4 American horses.
( Braxton Brothers, of Lorgottee, md.
/ have very promising PAGER. He Is Il
| bay roam, l6l hands high, heavy black
name and tail, and, it is said can
1 sidewheel runaway gait now.
/ Six of Robert Steels fast ones will
! probably be campaigned this year
These are Buzz Medium, 2:20l; Meta
! Medium, Sauveur and Hospodar.
Mr.. l.. G. Rowland, Warwick, y.
Y, has sold to Mr.. Henry Russell,
/ Albany, n. Y, the trotting mare Lady
/ Hayes, by Blackman's Messenger Du-
roc, dam Lady McCullan, for 81 200.
I Charles /. Cragans trotter, Ward
! Medium, will be entered in the Phila-
/ delphia spring circuit, and as it isstated
that Jimmy Green has driven HIM /,
quarter in thirty-two seconds, he will
bear watching.
William Whitehead, of New York
has bought, through Dan Mace, very
fne-looking black geiding from the
west as mate to his little Knox
gelding. Price $500 and gedng that
can trot in 2:45.
Dan Mace's new trottcr, Buffalo
Bill arrived in New York, from De
troit, Mich, last week. He is solid
bay, Is "a hands high, with plenty OF
points for speed, and showed quarter
in "a seconds last summer.
Mr.. William I'rimble, of Newburg
n. Y, has offered $1,000 for the trottinp
mare Lady Horton, by Sweepstakes
Her owner, Mr.. George Horton, OF
Goshen, n. y, says that amount is II,
, induccment.
. The following named gentlemen
| have been elected officers of Clcveant
Club FOR the ensuing year: William
: Edwards, president; George w. Short
: vice-president; S. II. Everett, treasurer
. William b. Fasig, secretary.
The trotting horse, Count Monte
owned by Mr.. c. Rhodes, of Milton
: n. Y, while in II match race at New
!. burg few days since, ruptured
blood vessel. He was withdraw
n from the track, but dropped dea
/ while being taken to his stable.
!; The valuable brood mare, Core
:, mandi H. by Macaroni, dam Ib
Pearl, by Newminst"r, out of Gale
o On, by Stockwell, the property Of NJ
/. I.Anson, of Nation, died suddenly o.
Z the 18th ult., from enlargement of til
e heart. She was in foal to Beauclcrc.
II The pacing stallion Chestnut Sta
y by old Red Buck, owned by MIR, lsaa
l. Meese of Glare, Hamilton county Ind
Is now quartcred in Indianapolis !
charge of Frank Mason. Friends
g the horse thinks he will make mar
" below twenty before the season close
NJ There Is some talk among the bree,
l. era of Rush county, Indiana, abo,
~ asking the legislature to pass son
T. stallion laws, such rs putting a licen.
n. Oh the stallion and u lein on the ma
10 that Is bred, so that owners of stallion
I'd will have some protection for the
in service.
to Colonel $. ID. Bruce has purchas,
" the race horse Cash Clay, aged, h
to Wanderer, dam Eclipsa, with h
at engagements, and also Sebastian,
ny ny Springbok, dam Emma Sanso
w They are 10 be trained for the openil
II races in the east.