St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-07

in training to trot he has paced short distances
at 2:lO gait, and thinks that If permitted
this fall he will make alower record than any
pacing stallion in the country, He is truly a
wonderful little horse, and in the near future
many OF his colts will occupy places in the
2:3O list of PAGERS and trotters.
Judge WalterI Hayes, Ringwood park,
Clinton, Ia, has sold to John Hoehl, Musca-
tine, the standard stallion colt Impetus, by
Osman, son of Cassius NJ Clay, Jr., and out
of the dam of Piedmont, 2:171, first dam
Vivian, by Almont Rather; second dam by
impeachment, son of Van Waggoner; third
dam bf Comanche Chief, son of Vermont
Black Hawk.
The inaugural trotting meeting of the South
ern Minnesota Live Stock and Fair associa-
ton, which takes place at Mankato Aug. 20
to %, inclusive, will doubtless prove the
great success that its projectors are endeavor-
ing to make it, The purses offered amount
to the handsome sum of of So, 700, and as
other Minnesota meetings follow that at
Mankato, horsemen should not fail to take
advantage of the opportunity offered.
The bay mare Lady Kensett that obtained
record of 2:264 at Providence on June
20, was sired by Kensett, son of Rysdak's
Hambletonian. Her dam was bred to Ken
aett when the horse was three years old and
whil4 he was owned by j. H. Walker, Esq,
of Worcester, Mast Lady Kensett was
foaled in 1878, and is owned by w. jerome,
of Gilbertville, or Spencer, Mass. Kensett,
the sire of this mare, is now owned by j. h.
Cartwright, of Oregon, III.
A new PAGER with considerable pretensions
to speed, appeared last week at Lexington,
KY, taking part at a trotting matinee. In a
race against Wick and Fugue, he paced the
third heat in 2:22, and could have gone
somewhat faster if necessary. The horse is
called Bulldozer, and like many of the re-
cent fast PAGERS, is trotting bred, being by
Standard Bearer, son of Volunteer, out of a
mare by Kinney's American Eclipse, and
she is out of the dam of Coaster, record
2:264
Lord Roseberry has purchased of Mr. Jas.
R. Keene the bay horse Foxhall, faaled 1878,
by King Alfonso, dam Jamaica, by Lexing-
ton, out of Fanny ludlow, by imp Eclipse,
her dam Molie jackson, by Vandal. As a
race horse Foxhall was one of the best that
has appeared on the English turf for some
years. The price paid for him was "a, 500,
about 1874, 900, and he will be sent to Ment-
more, Lord Rosebery's breeding establish
ment. Foxhal1 is stoutly bred and with an
opportunity, which he will undoubtedly have,
he ought to be oneof the leading sires of
England.
Mrs. Eliza Bethune, widow and administra
trix Of the late j. G. ,Bethune, has COM
unenced suit in the United States court at
I Covington, KY, against Mr.. T.. j. Nichols,
|, Oakland Stud, Bourbon county, KY, for the
possession of the thoronghbreds owned by
her late husband, and claims 5000 damages
for the detention. Among the horses claimed
by the plsintif are Wanderer, Clarissima,
Lady Lanphier, two Wanderer FLIES, out of
Vestvalli, Vestvalli, a flIy by wanderer out
of Clarissima, Kiss-Me-Quck and others,
making twenty-eight in number, and valued
at $4,000.
The yetran colored trainer, Bill Bird, died
from consumption at Chicago on Thursday,
June 20. He was one of the most competent
and trustworthy trainers on the turf, and his
death will entail on Capt Cottrill, in whose
employ he died, an irreparable loss. In 1859
Bill Bird went to England with Mr.. Ten
Broeck's horses Lecompte, Pryor, and
Prioress, and after he returned he had a
charge of Idlewild Mollie jackson, Hennie
Farrow and Laura Farris, and later Reporter,
Avalanche and Revenge. Among the other
noted horses trrined by Bird may be men
TONED Blackbrd and Climax. He went to
California with Lodi, and on his return he
trained for Mr., Abner Turner, of Nashville,
Tenn, and after his death Bird trained u
public stable at Nashville. In 1880 ne was
employed by Gov. O. Bowie and handled
Crckmore, Compensation and Sportsman in
their two-year-old sorm. Bird has a long
experince with horses and developed some
of the best this country has produced.