Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-02
HORSE GOSSIP.
Interesting Turf Items-Suspension
 of the Veteran Driver, General

Interesting Turf Items-Suspension
 of the Veteran Driver, General
 Turner-Great Fifteen Mile Race.
 Viking, 2:194, is at Hampden park, Springfield.
 Both trotting meetings at Philadelphia were successes financially. ... The Western Bookmakers' association has secured the betting privileges for the St. Louis meeting; reported price $50, 900. D.J. AcGrath has resigned the position of manager of Horse and Stable, and it has fallen into the hands of Luce Brothers.
 "Jock" Bowen is about the oldest active man now on the sulky. He began driv- ing at twenty-seven and is now sixty-three years old.
 0. J. Hamlin, Buffalo, N. Y., has pur- chased the seven-year-old stallion, Play Boy, by Almont, jr., dam Play Girl, by Mambrino Patchen.
 The trotting gelding Orange Blossom, 2:264, by Victor won Bismarck, has been sold by James Calvin of Boston to Frank Work, the New York readite, for $4,00O.
 Count Valensin has shipped from Cali fornia to Terre Haute veterinarian, Nel- lie Lambert, dam of Sister V 2:1S4, and Valensin 2:23, to be treated for barren ness.
 The fact that F. H. Foster of Hilton, N. H., is one of the nominators to the $10, ,00O stake for 2:20 horses at Hartford, is . pretty good indication that he means to head Viking, 2:194, for first money in that noted event.
 ''The recent victory of Tenny was not stainless" says prominent writer. "His owner, David Tenny Pulsifer, is generally believed to have announced that he was broken down for no other reason than to affect the ante-post betting."
 The selection of William Russell Allen, proprietor of the Allen farm of Pitts6eld, Mass, for the presidency of the American Trotting Register association, ,honored alike the man and the office. A better choice could not have been made. New England is proud of her selection.
 Charles H. Nelson has received a letter from the president of the Minneapolis Driving park asking him to send his stallion Nelson, 2:10a, and the rest of the tho Minneapolis association. Arrange ments have been already concluded for Nelson to start for Detroit in July.
 A ffteen-mile road race took place over the Manchester, N. H., driving park May g between horses owned by J. Boudreau and Albert Turcotte of Ripping. The formers horse gave up at the end of 13a miles, and Turcotte finished winner, ,com- pleting the whole distance in 53 minutes, 15 seconds without distress.
 The stake entry list for the Rhode Isl- and state fair, to be held September 21-25, is large and attractive. There are twenty two nominations in the two-year- stakes, twenty-nine in the three-year- old, twenty-two in the four-year- old, twenty seven in the 800 and seventeen in the 2:25 stake. The purse races close September 12
 The Connecticut Valley association an- nounces a midsummer meeting over the kite track at White River Junction, Vt, July 4. The sum of $1 BOO in purses and specials will be given, and entries close with Secretary E. J. Wallace, June 25. Tho classes are 2:50, purse $500; 2:33, purse $4O0; and 2:22, purse $500. Horses must be eligible June 1.
 The American mare, Bosque Bonita, has again lowered the European trotting rec ord. It occurred at Vienna, Austria, May IA, when she trotted in 2:18 and 2:19a. She won the grand stakes of 5000 florins and an additional l, 800 forins for break ing the record. Her previous record was 2:194, which was the European record. She is now six years old.
 Forty-seven of the ffty-three heats trotted and paced at the Point Breeze meeting last week were made in 2:30 or better. The fastest mile of the meeting outside of SilvertaiPs 2:084 with running mate, was G. R. s. g 2:1S3 in the 2:20 pac- ing race. St. Elmo was credited with the fastest mile trotted, he having turned the track in 2:21 in the second heat of the 2:19 class.
 The mile four-in-hand trotting record made by MT. George Gordon's team in Cleveland, Ohio, is in danger of being lowered this season according to Lawson N. Fuller of Washington Heights. MT. Fuller has his quartet of steppers in train ing for an attempt at the record, which is 2:37, and some time in June he will invite his friends to Fleetwood park to see what he can do. He is confident that he can easily chip 8 second or two off the mark.
 John E. Turner. the veteran driver, was from all tracks of the National association by starting Judge Wenderoth at the last trotting meeting at Philadelphia. MT. Turner has telegraphed President Johnson of the National Trotting associa- tion his side of the story in the Point Breeze suspension and asked for temporary reinstatement pending an investigation.
 General Turner showed his ability as driver at the races in this city last spring, when he drove the famous Harry Wilkes mile on the half mile track in 2:1S.