St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-26

MONDAY MORNING, M
of the muscles arranged on the loins,
the launches and the shoulders. The
direction of each bone in these cOmpli-
Gated supports and the angle at which
they lie to each other is matter of
much consequence in estimating the
capabilities and pleaSantne5S of a horse.
The late Jack Thompson, the Aus
tralan bOokmaker who died at Sydney.
April 10. was federal soldier during
the late war and was wounded at Get
tvsburg. The Referee said of him:
H'With the frame of a gladiator. the
strength of Hercules, the demeanor OF
child, and liberal hand, he did more
in Australia than any other man for
every department of sport"
Over $50, 900 was won on Castaway III.
performance at Gravesend. The amount
was divided by John S. Campbell and
Ex-Mayor Nolan, the two owners, Book
maker "Eole," and G. Jordan, the col
ored plunger. At the Elizabeth and
Linden meetings CaStaway won three
times, and was placed on each of the
other three occasions on which he
started.
The only case of triple birth in the
history of the equine family occurred at
Marshall, Mo-, May 90. A fine brood
mare belonging to William Barnes, of
that city, dropped three colts. They
are small. but all are alive and doing
nicely. being perfectly formed aud as
lively as crickets.
A mare owned by Fred Kilbourn, of
Crown Point, Ind, foaled a colt May IL
by George Gordon, pacing record 2:2715.
The mare was thirty years old the day
before the colt, her first one, was foaled.
This mare and Grattan'S Jessie appear
to be the champion aged producers.
F. j. Ayers, Burlington. Wis, has
sold to E. III. Everetts, Chippewa Falls.
Wis, the two-year-old stallion Chip
pewa ii, 623. by Swigert, dam Pleurene,
by Pluto 1850; second dam Black Star,
full sister to David r.. 2:294, by SWig-
ert; third dam Kate, by Blue Bull Is.
Price 81 200.
A race meeting at Moree, Australia,
was brought to strange conclusion.
The river rose rapidly and submerged
portion of the course, Ond the horses
in the last race had to plunge through
200 yards of water breast high. One
was drowned, his rider escaping.
S. S. Howland's high jumping horse
Ontaria made jump Of seven feet at
w dSllilS lOll Mdy II, tluS DIcdhfu9 his
own and all other records. Ontario was
ridden by James Freyling. who with the
saddle and bride weighed 159 pounds.
Riley. will be shipped next week from
Louisville to West Side park. He is
entered for the Speculation handicap
OH Decoration day, and will probably
meet Robespierre in that race, which has
thirty tirSt-claSS entries.
The English horse Tyrant, winner of
the Chester cup, has won every other
race for which he has since started. it
shows how carefully he has been nursed,
and how skillfully the Handicapped was
hoodwinked.
G. G. Seaman, formerly halloween Of
Bell Boy, has. it is claimed the only
stallion foal of that sire foaled in 1889.
The colt is called Ding Dong, and is out
of a daughter of Waikiki Chief.
Hiram Scoggan says Proctor Knott is
now as sound as he ever was. He will
probably not start before the Latonia
meeting, and will receive special pre-
paration for the Suburban.
Saturday last, at the Brooklyn Jockey
club track, was day for gray horses
and colored jockeys-Gray Dawn and
Gray Rock, and Hamilton, Jones, Barnes
and Simms.
j. r. Boyd, Defiance, To-, has sold to
Sutphen Bros, Middleton, o., the bay
Stallion Won Arnim, 2:194, by Senti-
mel, dam May Short, by Blood's Black
Hawk.
The stallion Major Edsall, 2:29, died
in 1856 at Elmira. N. Y, and could not
very we'll have been burned to death at
EmpOria. Kan, the latter part of April,
1890.
Leavy and Bum have signed with the
Beverwyck stable as lightweight
Castaway ii. in the Brooklyn handicap.
The chestnut two-year-old colt Ben
Dut, by VauXhall, purchased by BnenoS
Lexington to Jersey City.
The yearling filly Rubina, by Guy
Wilkes, dam Ruby, 2:192, by Sultan.
died week before last at San Mateo
stock farm from apopleXy,
c. j. Lefevre, the famous French
turfman. gave his daughter a dowry of
100000 francs (S1,200,000) on her mar
rage few weeks ago.
The three-year-old filIy Flyaway, by
George Kinney, dam Sunbeam. by imp.
bennington, broke down in her work
at Louisville May II.
The bay stallion Despot, by Onward,
has been added to Atty McDonald'S
string at Island Park, aud will be
shaped for a record.
The chestnut stallion Mcleod, $685.,
is showing we'll at Overland Park, and
will start at the Denver meeting, May
80 to June Z.
Harry Morgan, proprietor of the new
race track at Tacoma, Wash, and
owner of well-bred tr0tting stock, died
last week.
Badge ran second in both the Brook
dale and the Brooklyn handicaps Eat
Gravesend, and was heavily backed for
first place.
Spokane is slowly recovering from the
attack of lung fever. but will not be
prepared for racing until later in the
season.
j. S. Coxey, who bought the FLY
Nankin at the Fasig sale for $500, re-
sold her to j. E. Eaton, Utica, n. Y, for
$1,000.
The total amount invested in the
breeding enterprise at Prospect Hill
fsrm. the home of st. Bel, is S4Sl,6
Jimmy Golden has added to his stable
an unusually promising two-year-old
FLY by Stamboul, dam by Del Sur.
1t is said that Theodore Winters, the
owner of Ell Rio Rey, has never seen his
horse in race.
G. H. Niles has engaged with E. G.
Long to train trotterS at Midway Park,
Hamline, MINI.