The national leader., 1889-04-13
HORSE NOTES.
Charles Rowell, the pedestrian, is
now a race horse owner In England.

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the Dwyer Bros, jockey. Taylor.
Isaac Woodruff, the veteran trot-
ting horse trainer. will take up his
residence at point Breeze.
-Guttenburg has broken down in
its no reinstatement programme, and
let in five of the ruled off jockeys.
jimmy Green thinks he has gen.
uine flyer in his 3 year old colt by
Sutton. 224, out of Ella Lewis, 2.27.
-Budd Doble says his horses now
Wintering at Los Angeles will be
shipped East early the coming month.
Del Sur will remain in New Eng
land this season, his present owners
not deeming 1t advisable to send
him to Kentucky.
Charles McFadden will drive the
Electloneer colt, for which he paid
$1,000 at the Kellogg sale, double with
the b. g. McVeigh.
Wildtiower; who reduced the 2
year old record of Bonita to 2.21.
dropped bay filly to Nephew, at Palo
Alto, February %.
Ed Corrigan has sold the 4 year old
gelding Persimmons, by King Ban out
of Aureola. to Thorpe & Pittman. of
New York. Terms privated.
The brood mare Favorite died at
Woodburn Farm on March %. She
was the dam of Ganymede, by Maca-
room, and Favor, by Pat Malloy.
Minnie R., trotting record, 2.19;
pacing, 2.164. with running mate.
2.O34, foaled bay colt March %,
sired by All So, son of Blackwood.
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The Meadville (Pa.) Horsemen's
Club has elected H. E. Wilson Presi-
dent; S. B. Wick Treasurer, and Q. G.
Dunbury Secretary and Manager for
1899.
Hamilton, the colored jockey en-
gagged to Senator Hearst, has joined his
employers stable at Sheepshead Bay,
having passed the winter in South
Carolina.
john Shepherd, of Boston. has
sold half interest in Blondine, 2.2411
and Butterfly, 2.194. and the pair will
be shipped to Kentucky and placed in
the stud.
e. B. Tole has sold to j. II.
Clark, Ridgetown. Ont, the brown
colt Nimble Ned, foaled 1885, by
Rocker. out of Gipsy Maid, 2.40. by
Crown Imperial, 2 27a.
The brood mare Dollie G., 2 Is, by
Mambrino out of Nellie Thorne, by
Mambrino Thorne. died recently at
the farm OF E. V. Mitchell, Martins
vile, Ind.
m. r. Bissell, who only few
weeks ago paid SIS 900 for half inter-
est in the stallion Anteeo, record 2.163,
died at his home in Grand Rapids,
Mich, recently, aged 46 years.
William s. Tilton, who died at
Boston last month, was for six years
First Vice President of the National
Trottlng Association, and was identi-
fed with the National and New
England Breeders Associations.
American trotting mares with
records of 2.20 or better are in great
demand In foreign countries. Agents
in this country stand ready to pay from
$4,000 to SIS 900 for such animals on a
moments notice.
of the Benerwyck string Lamont
has been sold to an Illinois party for
$500 and Jennie Mcfarland. Oarsmen,
Lonlight and Jim Reese were recently
shipped to Lexington to be turned out
until fall.
The sale for Prince Wilkes for
$50, 900 cash ranks as the highest price
ever paid for a trOtter purchased
purely on business principles and for
track use. Being gelding the blood
of Prince Wilkes is not to be perpet-
uated.
NO purse at the Island Park meet
ing of June Is to 21 will be less than
$1,000. The Clay stakes for the 2. 80
class will be $1,000. Entries closed
April l, and records made after that
date will not be bar to starting in the
Clay stakes. =
r. Cadugan, Bayonne, N. j., has
sold for w. s. Leatherman, Clinton,
N. j., to B. G. Holly, of California,
the chestnut colt Happy Prince, foaled
1885, by Bayonne Medium, by Happy
Medium, price $500.
The members of the West Side
Driving Park, at Jersey City, are ex-
cited over a match for $1,000 a side
between B. Murphy's bay mare Josie
M. and P. II. Hanley's bay gelding
Furniture Bay. A forfeit OF $500 a
side has been put up. and the race is
to take place on April "a.
Every year the encroachments of
the ocean at Coney Island become more
pronounced, and before great while
the Brighton Beach track is apt to be
submerged. The storm recently did
considerable damage. and the old Wild
West show grounds adjoining the
Brighton course were covered with
water to the depth of several feet.
Davis Ellis died the last week In
March. He was one OF the first to Join
the Belmont Driving Club, and was
always ready to contribute to any plan