Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-02

JOHN MADDEN has been collecting Temple Bar
afdavits at Cleveland.
GEORGE BRASFIELD, the trotting horseman,
died at Lexington of heart disease.
TRAINER RODGERS, who has charge of Captain
Sam Browns stables was In the city last night on
his way to Denver.
Breeders will hold its annual meeting on December
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York.
SOME of the Gideon stable will be sold at Gutten-
burg this week. including Hoodum and the Holm.
del colt also some green 2-year-olds some of
which have shown good trials on the summer
course at Jerome Park.
PERHAPS the greatest trot of the year was the
2:2s contest at the meeting at Saginaw, Mich, won
by Prodigal brother of Patron, 2:14x. 1t has gone
ON rcopd 2 as tn tne fastest
eVer took place between trotters.
THE best record of the late champion jumper
Rosehery; who was fatally hurt at Chicago. was Z
Not since his great contests with Ontario at the
Horse Show of 1850 has Rosebery been seen in this
s'S stted sn' his un'i"ey end will be generally re-
TUESDAY. December /. viii be an important one
for the arbitrators and the regulators of the trot
ting tracks. The Board of Review of the National
Trotting Association will meet here in the Murray
Hill Hotel at7 P. NJ. and the Board of Appeals of
Chicago on the same same dsy. The New YORK State M
Breeders Association will meet at Rochester.
THE yearling trials of the fall beginning to
two youngsters at his Montana raEch which have
outworked any trials there. In California
a
brother, Lew Martin, who has shown some rapid
trials. Both of these Youngsters, by the Santa
Anita sire Gano, are well engaged East next year.
A BROOKLYN LAWYER as attorney for four resi-
dents of the City of Churches has brought suit to
recover the greater part of the ground on which
the Dwyers' track at Gravesend Is located: also
for $50 GOO damages for loss of the income. etc.:
since 1885. The suit grows out Of clause In will
made 40 years ago by the then owner of the prop
erty. which, 1t is claimed. invalidated the subse
quent transfers of the property.
HORSE sense has been a matter of record for
ages. Among herd of horses in field near SYRIA
cuse was a mare and her sucking colt A few days
ago the mother partly pulled off one of her shoes.
blacksmith shop. The smith started to drive the
animal away. but finally discovered and reset the
bent shoe. The mare then went contentedly back
to the pasture, scaled the fence, and once more
mingled with the herd.
MANY important horse sales will take place in
the West and Southwest during the next two
weeks. To-day Mr. William Easton will begin an
extensive sale of thoroughbreds of Lexington; on
December and Peter c. Kellogg & Co. S full
combination of trotting stock will take place at
Chicago: on December .. and Colonel S. ID.
Bruce and X. z. Edmonson will sell the Meadow
thorp and London studs of Lexington: on Decem-
Prather will be sold at Lexington by p G. Kidd
and the same auctoneer will hold the annual COM
hination sale of thoroughbreds at Lexington
December 10 and ii.
that have succeeded in giving one or more trotters
in the 2;l5 class their best records: Bucd Doble,
four-Nancy Hanks (2:oa), Delmarch t2:I11.. Jack
four-stamboul C2ID st.Julien i2iilk). Arab (2:I5)
and Balkan (2:15): c. W. Williams, three-Aller-
f2n ID B6efs WGap 2 AND Eve sess nnd
Phallas (2:I3Ss }; Andy Mcdowell, two-Margaret
t2:l2h.l and Homestake f2:I4,4): Frank Van Ness
(2:i44*): Crit Davis, two-Prince Wilkes t2:i4sIl
and Bonnie Wlimore Ce:15tl: Charles Marvin. three
nsunol sumo {2;osi4l, Palo Alto [2:1IlG and Arion
(2:l41D: John Murphy, two-Maxie Cobb (2:l41zD
and Majolica (2:15).