Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-05
EEiscelIareolts r,otes.

VI. H. Crawford has sold the strotting
stallion Voltaire, record 2:21, to Stanhope
Bros, Lexington, Ky, for $1,000.
Miss Myrtle Peek, the little Michigan
girl, is now out with q challenge to any
lady equestrienne in the United States to
ride twenty miles or more for q stake of
one or two thousand a side.
Mr.. C. G. Weeks, Hampton, Ia, is jog
cling the trotters Jennie G and Orinda, 6y
Star of the West, 2:2615, and reports them
in fine shape and speedy. Star of the
West is still owned at Rochester, Olmsted
county, Minnesota, and though in, his
twenty third year, is still hale and hearty,
and capable of trotting his mile in the
:4O's.
The Spirit announces that it has certif-
Gates from the officers of Hampden park,
Springfield, Mass, to the effect that the
chestnut gelding, Overman, did not get a
record of 2:2O at that track,a has been pub
lished, but of 2:20l4. The correction is of
considerable importance, as that little Il
saves the horse to the 2;21 class.
The Iowa Driving Park association have
arranged programme for their spring
meeting as follows: Dubuque, June 3, g.,
z; Cedar Rapids, June II, 13, IA, Is; Mar
shaIltown, June Is. 20, 81, %; Oskaloosa,
June 90, 81, %, %; Mason City, July 3, 4,
6, Z. Each place of meeting is to donate
! $4,000 toward the purses, which are to be
the same in each place forming the cir
| cult.
The horses at Midway, including
Sannie g., So So, Spottswood and others
of the more seriously sick, are GONZALES
cling and rapidly recovering their fine
| form before being afflicted. So So, espe-
cially, is rounding to unexpectedly fast.
The brood mares, too, are doing very
finely, and all in all a much more cheerful
and hopeful feeling prevails at Midway
than there did few weeks since.
''Veritas' in The Spirit says: The great
five year-old Phil Thompson was shod last
week, and his preparation commenced for
the great colt event at the Gentlemen
Driving park in June next. Phil now car
ries upward of pound shoe forward fol
road work, but when he trotted in 2:21 as
three year-old, thirteen ounces forward
and six behind were sufficient to balance
him. Hopeful wore shoes of similar
weight when he made the best time on rec
ord. 2:161a to wagon.
The b. In. Farce, by Princeps, recently
purchased by Charles N. Reed, Erie, Pa,
has been shipped to Gen. John Turner
Philadelphia. Pa, by whom she will b'
trained and driven. It is announced she
will probably be entered il
the ive-year-old purse offered
by the Gentlemen's Driving association
New York city. at their June meeting, a,
Mr.. Reed is said TO be not only willing but
anxious to have her meet Jay Eye See
Bronze, OF any other 5-year old.
Mr.. s. D. Macomber, of New Lisbon
Wis, the owner of the thoroughbred stal
lion Icicle, by Iceberg, dam b!
imp Sovereign, issued nov
ell challenge through Dunton'
Spirit Of the Tu1J, viz: To rur Icicle hal
mile heats, in 3. trot him mile heals il
) next day, and walk him ten miles and rs
peat the next day, against any stallion
used as a stock horse in the states of Hi
nois or Wisconsin, any tina during the
months of July or August, 1883, according
to National rules" As Mr.. Macombe
never bets, he proposes the races to be TO
, the gate money, 10 be donated to som,
, charitable institution; and further, that i
: the trials are made at New Liston, tina
he Will pay the expenses of the party &C
cepting, and keep himself and horse.
. We learn from Mr.. W. L. McGrath, O
the Lake Como stud, that several of hi
horses have been afflicted with the pneu
mcnia. influenza, or whatever the disease
really may be, which has had such run IL
the Midway stable recently. The last t
be taken was his stallion Thesus, who Wa:
quite sick for several days last week. Mr.
McGrath has followed the same course Q.
treatment pursued toward the last at Mid
way with the result of soon checking the
disease, and in the cases Of those first at
, tackled complete restoration to health al
ready, while the stallion Thesus, the last
attacked, is improving. So far only the
horses in one of his stables have been at
tackled. and Mr. McGrath Is very hopeful
that with the advent of the milder weather
now prevailing those in the other stable
viii escape.
The death of Mr.. Sterling Crawfurd a