Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-15
Miscellaneous.

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Miscellaneous.
It is generally understood that Feakes
ends his connection with the Rancocas
! stable the present season. He has made
no engagements for next season.
Maud s. has been sent to Cincinnati, and
will be wintered there under the super
vision of Captain Stone. She will be at
tended by Charley Grant, her colored
groom.
Edwin Thorne, 2:1615, has recovered
from the attack of bronchial pneumonia
which came on him at Hartford, and is
now running out at his owners farm in
Duchess county, N. Y.
Mr.. T. Williams, Eminence, KY, re-
used an offer of $4,000 from Messrs.
Dwyer Bros, Brooklyn, N. Y, for his chest
nut colt Bob Miles, 2 years old, by Pat NAL
10y, dam Dolly Morgan by Revenue.
The stallion Joe Young, by Star of the
West, has reduced his trotting record to
2,291I, giving his sire four representa-
tives in the ESQ class, and clear lead of
any Iowa stations as sire Of fast trot-
tiers.
Mr.. R. G. Pate, st. Louis, Mo-, has pur-
chased of Mr.. James A. Grinstead the
chestnut colt st. Paul II. (3), by ST. Mar
tin, dam Sophy Badderly by imp. Austria
liam, out of Lorette, by imp. Sovereign.
Terms private.
Mr.. j. P. Bidleman, Columbus, o., has
recently purchased of Mr.. VIM. Williams,
same place, the gray mare Nellie Gwynne,
foaled 1862, by imp Bonnie Scotland, dam
Grey Alice. by Chorister, out of Alice Car
neal (Lexington's damn, by imp. Sarpedon.
Price paid, $500.
The last of the great trotting meetings
is set for Chester park, Cincinnati, O., Oct.
%, "a, 25 and rs. Following the custom
of this track, the purses are $1,000 each,
and there are eight of them, for the 2:45.
2:19, 2:27, 2:25, pacing, 2:22, free for-all
pacing, 2:33, and free-for-all trotting, the
races to occur in The order named.
Iroquois has been doing steady work at
Jerome park. He looks much improved
bodily.
Shauer has been re-engaged to ride for
Mr.. P. Lorillard next season, which will
make the fourth season he has worn the
cherry Jacket. There has been some COM
plant against Shauer, recently, for wild
riding.
Decoy Duck, who fell lame on the morn
ing of the Champagne stakes, at Jerome
park, is still on the complaining list, and
mas been eased in her work for several
days past. The trouble seems to be in her
left hip, but nothing serious is appre-
hended.
Mr.. r. G. Pate has sold to Mr.. P. A.
Brady, of Chicago, the bay gelding
Endymion, two years, by Enquirer
Bergamont, by Bonnie Scotland. He is
we'll engaged next season, being in the
Kentucky Derby, St. Ledger, Clark stakes,
at Louisville, and the Iroquois and Foxhall
stakes, at Saratoga.
The Preakness stable recently pur-
chased of Mr.. NJ. S. Barger the chestnut
gelding Euclid, three years, by Glenelg-
The Nun, and the chestnut flly Elkhorn
Lass, three years, by Glenelg-Finework,
by Lexington. Both were trained in the
stable prior to the sale. Elkhorn Lass will
be sent to Kentucky to be bred.
Mr.. William Whitehead has added an
other to his list of trotting roadsters, hava
ing purchased the grey gelding George
K, 2:2JI, by Swigert, for $4,000. This
horse began the season of 1881 without a
record, and closed it with the mark above
mentioned. I hear that he sho we'd Mr..
Whitehead three heats close to 2:20 before
the day of the purchaee.
Captain G. W. Kennedy, Montgomery,
Ala, has purchased for a gentleman in
Savannah, Ga, fve-year-old bay mare,
pedigree unknown, which was raised in
that county, and which trotted a mile in
3:091h to top buggy weighing 335 pounds
with driver wGhing 1862 pounds. She
trotted the last half mile in 1:31. This
mare was in use on the streets at the time
and never had an hours handling for speed
in her life. Terms private.
Turf, Field and Farm: Ex-Governor
Leland Stanford cables us that Kinda Rose
will be allowed to rest on her well-earned
laurels for the present and is reserved for
the great stallion stakes in Kentucky next
year, when it is reasonable to hope che
will be able to add another best on record
by lowering the four-year-old time of 2:19,
being now but a second behind those fig
ures as three year-old. Governor STAN
ford has come to wise conclusion, for he
can we'll afford to bide his time with such
a valuable and phenomenal flly.
''Veritas" in the Spirit: Geo. Sanders
returned to Cleveland last week with
Clemmie g., Clingstone, and George ",
his trotting sea son with Mr.. Gordon's
string having ended at Island Park. In
recent conversation with Mr.. G. learn
that he is fitting up the large amphithea-
ire on the Northern Ohio fair grounds,
recently purchased by him, and will con-
vert it into winter exercising track, suit
able for all kinds of weather. 1t is large
enough to give him an eighth of mile
| track and plenty of stabling accommoda-
ton in the centre. Mr.. G. is strongly in
favor of sand as floor covering for stalls
Turf. Field and Farm: The sister of
Modoc, son of Aberdeen. is chestnut mare
seven years old and close to sixteen hands.
She is coarser than her brother and has
larger bone. She also has curbs. She has
been doing work on farm near Passaic,
N. j., but will be handled for speed next
year. One year ago Modoc could have
been purchased for $500, and it is barely