The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-11-23
THE HORSE.
Turf Matters Dull. hut the Horse Editor
Finds n few Notes

The yearling tilly, Spring Day, re-
Gently started over the Danyille, NY,
track to beat LOO. She accomplished
the feat in the fast time Of list.
Ringers over trotting tracks have
been quite plentiful this season. q
number have been exposed, fined and
expelled from the Asso'n tracks. Two
started in the Ill. Valley circuit at
Joliet-namely Tryon-who now prove
to be TaylorsOn. with record Of 2:3lt
and Zeno, alias Victor NJ, alias George
L., 2:26t. Tryon got away with first
and second money in DAP and 300
races, but Ieno was protested and
then both disappeared from Joliet,
not caring to venture to StreatOr and
Ottawa. As the Board of Appeals, OF
the National ASSD., meets next month,
the drivers, owners and horses are liza
BILE to be expelled.
Kankakee, Ill.,, is to have mile
track and all other appointments of a
tirst-class race track. They have &c.
600 subscribed for the purpose and
they will join the Ill. Valley Circuit.
Aurora, H., claims July "a to 81 in
elusive for her races in 1890. This is
about the time the Ill. Valley Circuit
usually starts and there may be a
clashing of dates.
There are now about 300 trotterS
with records of 2:20 or better.
At the Paris Hippodrome the chief
attraction for the season has been
the spectacle of a lion taking eques-
TRAN exercises, the animal really
mounting on the back of horse
and being carried several times
around an Enclosure. The receipts ac-
cruing from the novel performance are
stated to amount up to more than
$4,000.
The following story is told of the
pacing stallion Bessemer: His sire,
Voltaire, 2:20t, was kept for service at
Lexington, KY, one season by two
young men named Stanhope. He had
light season, and they gave service
of him to a negro who was blessed
with an old mare and a patch Of wa
termelons, for what melons they might
want for their own eating that sum-
mer. The result was brown colt
that the negro traded as a yearling to
his grocer for a bill of 500. At four
years the colt trotted in 90. and was
then trained to pace. and Is now Bes-
semer, 2:l5, one of the fastest PAGERS
on the turf"
The Dixon Driving Park Associa-
ton announce that there will be a
days racing at that point on Thanks
giving day, Nov. 2Sth. There is to be
running race for the citizens stake
OF 5000, five Fights of mile and re-
peat, at $40 entrance, which
will be added to the stake. The sec
ond event is for the 2:25 pacing class
and for the sidewheelers $3.50 is
offered. Entrees will close at 8
o'clock p. NJ, Nov. Is, at Dixon.
Probably one of the largest offers
ever made to the owner of stallion
for the services of the same, has been
made to w. Corbitt. Esq, Of the San
Mateo stock farm, California, for Guy
Wilkes, 2:l54, for the season Of 1890. A
telegram has been received by Mr..
Corbitt Offering him $4,000 for the
services of the stallion next season,
and also like sum for him for 1891.
The offer is made by j. E. Green, of
Louisville, Ky.
In training colts it is well to remem-
Der that the walk is the foundation Of
all other gaits. Teach them to walk
well and you will have less trouble in
developing the other gates.