The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-07

GRAY ana SOrrlRhn nave poln Deeh
very lucky so lar.
Tux merchants ought TO give half
holiday Saturday.
THERE we're between 1000 and 5000
at the track yesterday.
THE first race to day will be filled at
the track this morning.
MARY ELLIS is not much thought OF
in the second race to-day.
MopRsrY will have to do some tall
running to beat Editor to-day.
SLoouM stock will not be worth
much the remainder OF the meeting.
YESTERDAY was a good betting day.
Many were the lambs that were
ehorn.
PAT SHELBY failed to realize the
hopes that were built on him by four
lengths.
The winners yesterday were Lam
caster, Revoke, Bob Swim, Bluestone
and Puritan.
BLuRsroNK's' trainer bet $50 against
him yesterday. He did not expect
the gray to win.
Coon horses should not be worn out
because an old spawned stump-sucker
refuses to start.
THE iavorites yesterday were Henri
eta, Leaman, Uliimatum, Bluestone
and Bucephalus.
TIE iavorites in the races to be run
TO day are McBowling, Modesty, Ulti-
matum and Ascoli.
IT is a great wonder somebody Ia
not badly hurt in the reckless gcram-
BILE to get on the train coming home.
ULMAN made ha,ful on Revoke
Yesterday. He bought him every
whack In the pools at the Peabody the
night beiorJ.
PEoBARLE winners to-day: Henri
eta, Modesty, Miss DAILY and Judge
Jackson, and for'second places Prima
Donna, Editor, Lgan and Slocum.
LANcAsTRR's victory yesterday will
ruin him for the big race at Baltimore
in which he Is entered. He will be
saddled with ten pounds additional
weight.
MONTGOMERY stake race to-day, with
Editor, Longview, Modesty andlPunka
as probable starters. IL will be a
struggle worth witnessing for q stake
worth having.
THE only doubt about Modesty's
great chance for the Eclipse-that Of
whether her last falls abscesses In the
iowl had affected her wind-is solved
by her Memphis race OF Monday.
"THINK I've seen you BEFORE"
} patronizingly remarked party to
Col. Zsb Ward yesterday. "Yee,"
said the Colonel, looking him In the
eye, I've kept three penitentiaries in
my time"
Len Martins promising four-year-
old bay hlly, Tipsey, broke q leg yes
terday, at Louisville, while being
taken out OF the car after arriving
, from Memphis. Tipsy ran second in
the Memphis Derby last season.
JACK BACHELOR insists on running
Princess, and backs her with his
, money though she now has no chance
10 win stake race. He values her at
$4,000, but $1,000 would be good
/; price. She 10 worth that as brood
mare.
MEMPHIS Ia having week OF "hoss"
races, and Parson Doak, Of the Ava
lanche, calls Oh the public to "unbend"
and make it gala season. OF course
the good parsons idea OF unbending
ia to "go on bender."-LouisVIte
0 Times.
A wRLBKNowN sport said this morn
) ipe that Pate's gray gelding Editor can
, beat any horse on the turf this sea-
/, son. He Is entered in the great Eclipse
f; stake AZ st. Louis, in which Freeland
and Miss Woodford will probably
start.-Lo Louisville Times.
. JOHN KELLY, an ex-jockey, who had
been dismissed by the owner OF the
| horse, was lately sentenced TO three
months imprisonment at Dlmboola,
Australis, on being found lettering
0 near the box Of q race horse, Gameboys
with q bottle Of laudanum in his
pocket.
The rain, and not the railroad, was
responsible for the weary wait yester-
day. The understanding has been
that the crowd is to be held until the
Somerville train passes out, when the
excursion train has clear track. The
rain hurried up the programme yester-
day, turning the people loose at .
, o'clock.
ED CoRRIGAN's Gaston Hotel win
ntr, Jennie T., Is entered in the st.
Louis Carriage Bullders' stakes, the
Sale and Livery stakes, Hotel stakes
and Mechanics stakee. The only two
> year.old stake race of the meeting for
which she has not been booked Is the
, Cotton Exchange stakes. At Chicago
she is in the Lakeside, Hyde Park,
Lakeview handicap, Society, fremont
and Quickstep. She is left out Of the
Leland.
r. C. PArE's Editor, who rms
against Modesty in the Montgomery
stake to-day, is handsome gray colt,
sanding about fifteen hands three
. inches in height, and by Enquirer Of
Alice Murphy. He is the property OF
r. G. Pate, who purchased him when
i yearling at the Bell Meade sale, toe
gether with his stable companion
4 Clay Pate, aud others. As two
year-old nc only won one race ana
/, that ut Chicago Driving Park
u where he had but a common lot
to contend with. As three-year-oid
Q he first ast1nished the pubic by run.
ming a dead heat with George kinney
II st Monmouth park. Later on he Won
the Falsetto and Spriugbok ssskes q
, Latonia, both in gallop, one being 8
u mile and threeQuarters, and the
other two miles. He was beaten a
81 his first appearance this season a
Nashville by Kirkman, but good Judge!
le say that had'he been rightly riddeI
.e then he could not have lost It,