St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-04
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Gossip About Horses, Horsemen
and Their Doings.

A story, more or less sensational, Is
going the rounds of the California press
anent the reported lameness OF she great
colt Flambeau. 1t was given out at the
time Of the spring meeting OF the Blood
Horse association that Senator Hearst
had secured the racing qualities OF
Flambeau from Palo Alto, just as ne
got the running qualities OF Gorge: a
couple of days after the report Flam-
beau started in race and cut himself;
at least 1t was so stated by Henry
Welsh. The story goes now that Flam-
beau did not iDjure himself at all. but
the report of the injury was given out
by Henry Welsh to preventsthe colt 60
ing into the Hearst stable. Welsh saw
what Matt Allen did with Gorge. and.
knowing that Flambeau was the best
colt that Palo Alto had ever raised. ne
did not want him put into Aliens hands
to be ruined, so he bandaged the colt up
and allowed it to quietly leak out that
he was lame. and so took him back to
Palo Alto after the meeting at Sacra-
mento. Flambeau is galloping now at
Palo Alto. There are good many peO-
pie who believe that the story is true.
The horses belonging to Scoggan
Bros, of Louisville. cut quite fgure
at all the spring meetings, but Tor the
past six weeks they have been little
heard of. Proctor Knott and English
Lady were sent from Latonia to Sleeps
head Bay to run in the Suburban handl-
cap, but both went amiss and neither
started. English Lady went East APP
parently in the pink of condition. but
when she got back West again she
could not beat Selling-plater. The
whole stable was shipped from Chicago
by rail about three weeks since.
and majority of them are now rapidly
on the mend. Proctor Knott has been
reported as totally broken down, but
that statement is probably untrue,
though he is not in good racing. form;
English Lady, Longshore, Ja-Ja and
other members of the stable will, no
the meeting ends. and if they get good
again will be hard animals to beat in
any race in which they may start.
Marty Bergan rode an awful race on
Judge Morrow Saturday. He fairly
extent did he exhaust the Morris crack
by his steamer chair" around the big
turn that the arrant Stockton was able
to gallop away from him in the stretch.
Some of the wiseacres had 1t. after the
race, that the Judge was only out for
an appetite for his dinner, and in this
wise ones were quite as sapIent as they
usually are. The DIVERS, than whom
no one knows more about the condltlon
of Green Morris nagS, had quite a
plunge bet down on the namesake OF
the limb of the law Bergan'S stupidity
alone landed the money for the wise one
who banked on the Judges lack OF con-
dition.
Starter Caldwell is singular indi-
vidual, in that he cannot stand crltI-
ciSm with equanimity. A New York
reporter the last few DAYS has been
criticising Starter Caldwell perhaps
more severely than the occasion de-
served. Caldwell. smartlng under the
Ito him) unjust aspersions OH his work,
met the scribe at Monmouth on Satur-
day, and high words led to blow. The
reporter at once called the attention of
the executive committee to the occur
renee, and later Mr.. Caldwell acknOwl-
edged mis- error and rendered an
apology. Men in public position will
always be criticized, and If they cannot
stand the same should step down and
out
The Travers stakes, won by Sir John
at Saratoga last week, made the fifth
success of the DWYer Brothers colors for
that time-honored event, they having
first won it in 1881 with Hindoo, in 1883
with Barnes, in 1886 with Inspector B,
and in 1885 with Sir Dixon. Other OWL
erS who have captured the stake more
than once were Col. Mcdaniel, with
Harry Bassett and Joe Daniels in 1871
and 1872; Mr.. Belmont in 1869 and 1876,
with Glenelg and Sultana; and George
Lorillard. with Duge of Magenta, in
1878, and with Grenada in 1880. Up to
this year the race has been mile and
three-quarters, but the distance has
now been reduced to mile and half.
Of the $4,000 offered for stock preni-
ums at the Davenport, To-, fair and ex-
position $500 is devoted to the racing
test. The purses in the trotting classes
range from $500 to $500, while 5000 is
offered to the running horse that can de-
feat his field in three in five heat race
at mile. The Davenport people seem
bent upon studying the question of the
relative gameness of the thoroughbred
and the trOtter in a practical way. Eli
tries close Monday, Sept. %.
Theodore Winters stable, including
Ell Rio Rey, Rey del Reyes, Joe Court
ney and others, reached Monmouth
Park in safety. 1t is the opinion of
many good horsemen that El-Rio Rey is
not confirmed rOaref. and that he will
come to the front again. He was sent a
fast mile in company with Rey del
Reyes and Joe Courtney before leaving
Chicago, and when the trio pulled up
FL Rio Rey was not blowing as hard as
his running companions.
G. W. Williams announces that he has
completed ARRANGEMENTS for the famous
AXtell to appear at the meeting at indie
pendence, To-, in August. He is to re-
main during the entire meeting, and
will trot one or more exhibition miles.
Negotiations are in progress for Sunol
for the same meeting. Johnston. the
world-renowDed PAGER, will be there and
contest in race with his rival, Brown
Hal.
The estate of the late Hon. r. J. Me-
gibben. Cynthiana, KY. has lost in the
past few months the brood mares Mollie
Cod. twenty-five years old, by Licking
ton. dam imp. WaterWitch, by Weather
bit; Mayf16wer, by Bob Woolley, dam
Flower Girl, by imp. Australian; Cen
eva, by Planet, dam Geneva, by Lex
ington, and Emerald, by imp. Saxon,
dam Second Hand, by Stockwell.
Dundee Park, Patterson, n. j., is
WdllbiuS u6llu6I Ill dluUllIOL enter
prise. The management announces a
mammoth purse of $4,000 for AxtelI
and Sunol, entrance free, the whole
amount to go to the winner, to be trot-
ted between September 2S and October
IL. The question now, which CAM only
be answered by Marvin and Doble, is,
will AXtell and Sunol enter?
Del Mar, the fast colt that was run
ming at Hamline, and owned by SEN
ator Hearst, was bred at HobartviIle,
Australia, and was purchased at the
yearling sale at that place in 1888 by K.
Newton and shipped to California. The
dam of Del Mar was purchased at the
Hobartville sale little more than a
month ago for the small sum of 70
guineas.
The report that Charles Reed pur-
chased Exile and French Park to take
Mr.. Pickwick's place in the stud is not
altogether correct, as he had purchased
those horses before he heard of Mr..
Pickwick's death. However, they
should prove worthy successors to Mr..
Pickwick-that is. If breeding and pre-
vious performances count for every
thing.
Take a fine nohla-spirftad horse. cut