Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-08-04

trainer, broke him to harness and used
him to draw buggy. Last year ne trained
him again, and he started in thrse-quar.
ter-mile daeh race ct Gravesend. He came
in last, but received much more applause
than the winner. Dick then sold him.
and now he is being used as saddle and
driving horse by Kentucky gentleman
who admired the old fellow in his pal
miest days.
Ringers have lately been in active cir.
culation in New York and neighboring
States. The bay gelding DR.. Gordon is
stated On good authority TO be Freddie j.,
2:28. The bay gelding Victor NJ. is al
legged to be George L., 2:263. The black
geldiag Buster for Daster, as some of the
reports have it, ia supposed to be the
PAGER Jack, 2:244, that John shillinglaw
used to handle. The black geldiDg w. B.
Kirk is claimed 10 be Blackstone, 2:293
Several others that have started in slow
glasses and won handily ore under suspi-
ciOn.-Philadelphia Times.
A prominent turfmsn who has Just re-
turned home from Chicago attributes Spo-
kane's defeat by Proctor Knott in the
Sheridan stakes and his later miserable
showing in the Drexel stakes TO mis- legs,
which are said to be rather shaky. l. is a
well known fact that he has never been
none too eOund in this respect, and in both
the Derby and Clark stakes he wore the
red bandsges, which, as a general thing,
tell SO we'll that the turf career of the wear
er is not TO be long one. In the Drexel
stakes the track wasS very hard and it is
among the probabilities that the great col t
got sore and either refused or could not
fully extend himself.
An accurate record of tho fast performers
driven by John Murphy has not been kept.
Their pane is legion, however. The horses
that got their best records at his hands,
horses that are most widely known, are
Mary Cobb, 213{: Msjolica, 2:15; Maud
Messenger, 2:l6i; Dick SGiveller and Ed
ward, team record, 2:16i; Packard, 2:lSf;
Patchen. 2:183; Keene jim, 2:191; Kenil-
worth, 2:l9f; Mary Cobb and Meta Me-
dunn, team record, 2:154; Frank, with
running mate, record of 2O99. and Steve
Max we'll, twO-mile record, 4:485.
Dryer Brothers and their string Of
eighteen race horses, including Hanover,
KngstoD, Sir Dixon, Inspector B., Bella
B., and several fast two year Olds are at
Saratoga Heavy handicapping kept the
giants of the stable cut of recent races at
Monmouth.
W. w. Bair, who came prominently be-
fore the public a few years ago when he
drove Maud s., the queen OF the turf, to
her record of 2:084, is now quite low with
consumption at his home in Pennsyl-
vania.
Mr.. Beuzon, the English turf follower,
better known as Jubilee Juggins," the
plunger, has written book with the title
How Lost $3.50, 600 in Two Years."
Marius de Lazare, who purchased Sax
ony, The Raven, and Sandy on Monday at
Gravesend, says that he bought the horses
for himself.
At the grand circuit races at Buffalo on
August 6, 7, 8, end 9, $50, 600 will be Civ
en-. The famous Axtell will trot in the
2:22 class for purse of S., 600.
The Junior Champion Stakes, to be run
for at Monmouth Park, will be worth
$50, 80 The Omnibus amounts to $685.
995.
1t is reported that the Dryer Brothers
will engage Jockey Isaac Murphy il few
days for the remainder Of the season.
tits said that Allen G. Thurman, Jr.,
may before long be on the running turf as
an owner.