Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-12-01
TURF TOPICS.
Players on the Turf and Thsir Winnings
General Notes.


General Notes.
Jockey Taral will ride for the Lafold
Brothers, of Cincinnati, next season.
The Hon. w. L. Scott has bought from
Mr.. j. ]. Carter, of Nashville, the three
year-Old mare Almera, by Springbox, out
Of Alma, for 81, $50 She is now in fOal at
Luke Blackburn, and next year will be
bred to RAyon d'O:.
The programme for the spring racing
meeting at st. Louis is nearly complete.
There will be at least So, 500 added money
to the Great Western Stake, but it is not
decided yet what the entrance money will
be. 1t is proposed TO increase the added
money to the Derby from 81, 500 to So. 900.
Isaac Lewis, the well-known colored
Jockey, will ride for the Hon. W. L. Scott
next season. 1t is a curious fact that
Lewis was Mr.. ScOtt's first jockey upon
his entry into the arena Of racing, and it
WAS he who rode Florio, Blue Grass Belle,
All Hands Around, ETC., in the season of
1884, when Mr. Scott's stable was power
in the land.-Spirh ofHe Times.
After the Detroit meeting ROsalind
Wilkes, 2:149, owned by Sire Bros, the
owners of Harry Wilkes, 2:134; Gossip,
Jr., 2:13l, and other fast ones, went amiss
and has bsen off her speed the entire sea-
son. SIZE has recently rounded to and
gives good promise of being again the pos
SCISSOR of all her old-time speed, and will
probably be faster than ever.
A London correspondent writes: ''It is
pity indeed if Amphion's name has to
be added to the number Of good horses
that have gone wrong in the wind. That
Ormonde, Donovan, and Amphion should
20 one after the other is a misfortune, for
the future of the English race horse could
scarcely have failed to benefit through
them, and the worst of it is that the dis
ease seems 10 be on the increase"
The Ivy City track will be sold by tie
National Fair Association. The principal
liabilities of the association consists of a
bonded debt of $45, GOO and second debt
of $25, 600, which wers incurred prior to
the fall meeting of the National Jockey
Club, which were borrowed to meet the
expenses of the event. The meeting was
unsuccessful, the losses amounting to
nearly SIS. 900. The track consists of 125
acres, and will probably bring about S125,
600. 1t will be sold for building lots.
The history of the plungers on the turf
since the first racehorse was saddled, down
to the present time, mas invariably been the
same. During the past seasons racing
tales came without number of the fabu-
lous sums won by the colored contingent,
of which Charley Jordan and William
Walker were the leading spirits. 1t is now
said that Jordan hes lost nearly all his
winnings playing horses at the winter
tracks, and that Walkers bank account has
been diminished by some $50, 900 during
the past month.-The Sportsman.
C. W. Williams, of independence, a.,
the breeder of the stations Axtell and AL
lertoD, was telegraph operator six years
ago at $50 month. A relative left him
81, 600 and he determined to 90 into dairy
ing. He required two road horses and
bought couple of road mares, by Nam
brine Boy, for 5000 each. These he after
ward sent to Kentucky, to be bred to
William L. ard Jay Bird, both by George
Wilkes, at $50 mare. The result was
Axtell and Allerton, the former Of which
has been sold for S1O5. 900, while the latter
Is priced at $4,000.
As Lord Falmouth never was beItOr, it
is not difficult to compute how large his
profits must have been from 1870 to the
sale of his stud in 1884, seeing that during
that period he won nearly a quarter of
million pounds in stakes, and that his
horses, training and breeding stud fetched
considerably over 100000. This was in
dependent of the large sums he had re-
ceived for other horses sold privately.
After making the most liberal allowance
for expenses, it will be safe to assert that
Lord Falmouth made more money out Of
the turf than any Of his contemporaries.