Wichita eagle., 1889-01-25
TURF NOTES.

J. B. Haggin viii have 12O yearlings for
sale this year.
J. B. Haggin has made William Lakeland
an offer for Exile.
For the Futurity stakes of 1891 J. B. Hag-
gin has 106 entries.
Huntress (three-mie record of 7:21) is to
be bred to Axten (2-year-old record of 2:23)
John A. Goldsmith has a2-year- old named
Orphan Wilkes, who with three weeks
handling trotted a mile in 2:30.
Robert Bonner recently remarked: GAS
the owner of Maud S am free to speak l
consider Lucy Cuyler the fastest trotter in
the world
At Los Angeles, January Q Peppers and
Garcia rode thirty mile race Peppers won
by three quarters Of Il mile, time being h.
m. 27s. Myrtle Peck has challenged the
winner to ride twenty miles
The owner of Drake Carter thinks that
his horse will prove second Lelex So
confident Is he of a return to form that
Drake Carter may be matched to run anv
horse in Canada at one and one-haf miles
DR. Henry Buford Lapgford has recently
purchased the back gelding Vatican, By
Vanderbilt, and will make his debut on the
LuiI tH4S SSdSON - hl owner. Tue doctor
is an old-timer, and welI-lKnown from Maine
to Georgia.
Moore Floyd. of Slow-Go (2:iS19 fame.
now has the custody and conditioning of the
fire department horses at Pittsburgh, and
says it beats ten dollars a week per head
working mock trotters for owners who
think they ought to go in 2:20.
For the grand Steeplechase de Paris. to
be run for next June at Anteuil. the added
money is $4,000, while for hurdle race.
three days later. $4,000 viii be given.
What place for Ed Corrigan and Tennes-
see Jim Williams, and Bob Miles, Nike
Danaher and Killarney.
A New Hampshire writer on the breeding
Of the trotter shoots at persons who argue
that developed sires and dams can not be-
get speed the case Of Yolo Maid. Yolo Maid,
2:l4, is by Alexander Button, 2:29; he by
Alexander, 2:3l: he by George " Patchen,
Jr., 2:27; he by George II. Patchen. 2:23
There is rumor TO the effect that the
Monmouth Park Association is TO build
new track, one and three-eighths miles
straIghtaway, and that Mr.. Withers expects
TO then have the finest racecourse and ap-
pointments IN America There is much to
be said for and against a straightawav
track, but the public is chiefly interested
IN the fact that on such 4 track not one man
IN hundred can tell the positions of even
the leading horses.
There is at present in San Francisco a
horse Of the Clydesdale breed named the
Equine Jumbo. In size he is perfect Won
der, being twenty and a half hands III
height and weighs 2,760 pounds. He meas
ures around the arm thirty-two and half
inches; stifie, forty-four and half; the
length OF the face IS thirty-six and oue-sixth
inches. The horse is owned by W T Lundy I
was foaied at Brampton, Can, five years
ago, and is geldng.
The Car. full brother Of the Emperor
Of Norfolk, is said TO be the most prom /
ising Of the Pacific Coast three-year-olds. /
At his first art he ran three-auarters. with |
llo up, in 1:l4, and later ran a dead heat /
for stake race, carrying lis pounds, IL
:l52a. and won the run off in l: :16. he Is
entered for the American Derby, to be run
1t Washington Park, June % The owner.
Theodore Winters, who also bred the En-
oeror of Norfolk, says that this colt is the
better of the pair.
Black and Blue" of the New York MdiL
says of the horses at tracks near the city:
- dSiSSS HthNSLAsS III WIS scSi4OA are |
Al dong well This is especially true Of
he thoroCghoreds at Monmouth park The
dasglns horses are in grand trim. and If
lothing goes wrong with Firenzi and
Salvador they will be among the great
orl-e winners of the season of 1854 All is
lulet among the horses at Gravesend The
Owyer string Is getting along nicely in
winter quarters. Frank McCabe, trainer
# the stable, IS saag1;ine over the prospects
# next year. Hanover is winteriug here
md unless indications fail will trv his
peed in the spring with the aged hampton
4 America. The old equine hero. Inspector
}, crippled as he is, will stand training and
S likely 10 be in good shape when arf
perations are resumed ss Grayesend