The national leader., 1889-04-06
HORSE NOTES,
.splan's book is an interesting one.

Suburban just at present.
Edwin &. recently paced q quarter
in 33 seconds in California.
Sheridan will start at Memphis
and then move on Brooklyn.
The races at Chicago will be timed
by electricity the coming season.
-Bookmaker and wrestler are two
5 year olds we'll thought of at New
Orleans.
The bill to prevent pool selling In
Minnesota failed to pass the Senate by
a single vote.
Jockey Mclaughlin is carrying a
good deal of flesh, and will begin at
once to train down.
There will be running meeting
at Birmingham, Ala, preceding the
opening at Memphis.
james Wilson, of Harrodsburg,
KY, has a fast year old gelding in
the hands OF Crit Davis.
Scott Quinton will take his $40. .00O
Mascot to Montana, in company with
Prodigal. PaJron's brother.
Mr.. Wesley 2. Balch has decided
W OACI p1O.OOO PuAoO AOA oVoAAO1S
which have never beaten 2.16.
W. Fl. Mccarthy will ship his
horses from Los Angeles. Cal, to
Terra Haute, Ind, about the middle
of April.
Jimmy Green, au the Gentlemen's
Driving Park. has fine year old colt
by Sultan, dam Ella Lewis, record
2.264.
Wesley P. Balch will give a $10,-
900 stallion race, to be trotted over
some Of the New England tracks in
The famous brood. mare Alma
Mater, who produced Alcantara, Ar
bitter, etc., will be bred to Electloneer
this year.
james keenan,; the we'll known
Boston sporting man, owner of Frank,
record 2.064, with running mate, is
to be dying.
George Barbee can now ride at 112
pounds. He has decided to retire
from training and take the saddle
again.
-Gabe Caldwell has been engaged
to start the horses at the Baltimore
meeting. After Baltimore, Brighton
Beach.
-Wlnchell will ride for Mr. j. B.
Haggin this year. The regular meet
ing at New Orleans commences April
s.
More than 200 horses are now
training at the Lexington track, the
largest number the old association has
had in many years.
MIR. Arthur Hunters young horses
at jerome Park are being trained by
Harry Brown. They are promising,
so far as looks 60.
j. F. Caldwell will handle the flag
at Nashville and Washington, after
which he will probably start the horses
at Jerome Park and 60 the grand
round.
Captain Jack Jardy, one of the
best known sporting men In the South.
west died at New Orleans recently,
after short illness of but one day.
He was we'll known character on the
New Orleans race track.
Senator Leland Stanford has a
magnifcently equipped stable at Wash
ington. Eight horses make up the
string, though there are boxes for
twenty. A pair of blacks valued at
$40, 900 are Mrs. Stanford's especial
pride.
Mat. Brown, proprietor OF the
AHnPnh0nfO1 hnu
bought from John 81. Erley, of Chi
cago, the PAGER U. Bet and his running
mate Jack Go Easy, and from Ed
Smith the black PAGER New Hope.
u. Bet and mate have pole record of
2.0544.
Hanover still keeps up his trotting
exercise. and he goes good many
miles every day. He appears to have
been reduced in flesh little bit and is
looking well. Sir Dixon, Inspector
B. Kingston, Oregon, Taviston, Long
street and the other horses in the older
division of the Dwyer string are look
ing we'll and are taking plenty of slow
exercise.
j. B. Chase, of Sacramento, CAL,
has had the misfortune to lose his 3
year old flly Catharine. by Warwick.
dam Mischief, which fell dead on the
Sacramento track after an exercising
gallop. The filly was IN the stable of
Matt Storm, who had great hopes of
her. A post mortem developed the
fact that she had enlargement of the
heart, that organ being double the
usual size.
Robert Steel sold sixteen trotting
colts at New York on Thursday March
2lst. for S8710-average of little over
S543. DaIryman, 2 year old son of
Epaulet and Dairymaid, brought the
top price among the youngsters. going
to Mr.. s. White, of New York city, for
$1,000. Mr.. Steel purchased two brood
mares from Nathan Straus-Bessie
Sprague and Fannie Temple, 10 and o
years old respectively. the first by
Governor Sprague and the latter by
Startle. They were a bargain at SI1O0