Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-10
TURF GOSSIP.
Some Interesting POiuIers About the Horses
and JOckeys.

The news that D. D. Withers has engaged
'Knapsack'' Mccarthy as his trainer for 1890,
was a great surprise to the turf world. And
yet the past experience of trotting horse
trainers with the "bang tails, has been such as
to warrant Mr.. Withers' experiment. HIS late
trainer Hanrahan, was very capable and in
his death the sage of Brookdale sustained a
great loss to his racing stable Mccarthy,
however, has had varied experience with
trotters and the results of his change of base
will be noted with interest.
Jockey Hayward's engagement with Senator
Hearst now seems to be an assured fact from
the Acknowledgements Of both Hayward and
Allen, the trainer. Hayward ought to change
the luck of the stable, if it rests with the
jockey so to do, for in his profession he has few
equals and no superiOrs.
Young George Covington was hauled up be-
fore the judges at Elizabeth few days ago
for suspicious riding on Castaway II. It is re-
markable how Covington escapes from the in
late. This is the second time this fall that the
Judges have had him before them without
taking any action in his case.
H. Bondy, who two years ago was Captain
quite successful this year with the
colt Ben Harrison, which he bought
from Captain Brown as a yearling for
$500. Last week BOndy leased from the robust
and rotund Pittsburger his colt ] A B and
several others, to race this winter at the Jersey
tracks, which all means that the sport there.
with fa1rly open weather, VIII De Oh superior
order.
Although August Belmont publicly congrat-
ulated Jockey Garrison after his magnificent
effort on Raceland against Firenzi at Jerome,
and later presented the jockey with superb
watch, he let him go in 1890 in favor of Hamil-
ton, the colored pigskin artist. Mr.. Belmont's
objection to Garrison was tile latter being af-
ficted with big head" In palmer English,
instruction or no instruction, would ride to suit
himself.
Anthony Hamilton, or Tony Hamilton, as
he is generally known, unfortunately for
Banker Belmont, has the same complaint in
nearly, If not quite, as marked degree as has
Garrison. Therefore, the "swap" may not be
as good one for Belmont as he thinks The
main trouble all this past season between Al
len, Senator Hearst's trainer, and Hamilton
has been the latter's unruiness and Rowe, Bel
mont's trainer, will have his hands full, in all
probability. William Lakeland is the only one
for whom Hamilton has worked that can get
out the best work the lad is capable of doing,
and he always says that he ''clubs" it into him,
literally, not theoretically.
FL Rio Rey. the crack 2year-old of the year,
is likely to spend the coming winter among the
billiards of Westchester, instead Of at the
sunny FL Arroyo farm OF his owner Theodore
Winters, of California. That grim terror of
our climatic changes, pneumonia, in nearly
marking for its own this greatest 2-year-old
ever foaled in America, could hardly have
chosen q more shining mark in the equine
world than the big California colt, whose ro-
bust gigantic frame seemed to wIther under
the first attack much quicker than the slim,
wiry racers of our latitudes.-RorseTndn,