Telegram-herald., 1891-03-29
HORSES AND RORSEMEN


10 1000.
A trotting boom is promised for To
ledo and they viii build Kite track
this season
The finest bred trotting stallion IN
Toledo 10 Wilkes Bee, 30 4, by Alcan-
tarce, dam May Bee.
The date of closing Of entries 70 the
stake races of the Northwestern circuit
has been extended to April 10.
Secretary Eddy claims that this
seasons meeting al Saginaw Will be The
reddest OF all red letter meetings.
-Hambletonlan and Kentucky Prince
are about the only two great sires with
no PAGERS among their ESQ performers.
The Independence, Iowa. Driving
Park ASSOCIATION announce $1,000 IN
specials at the lrottlng meeting, july J.,
=, 3 and 4.
The colt Ike races at Parma. Mich,
June 10, has numerous entries. The
track is said 10 he the best hslf-mlle Ia
IN the State.
There are thirty-two trotters that
have records OF 2:l5 or better, and OF
this number twenty-Iour are from trot-
ting bred mares.
Sixteen hundred and fifty dollars
in purses will be hung up by the Chat
ham, Ont, Driving Park ASSOCIATION,
June 80 10 July ].
Some of the get of Alcryon, fosle ed
in 1891, will be IN with the youngsters
IN 1894 that will trot for the Clark's
Horse Review SIS 900 stake.
The Port Huron meeting, TO be
held July l. ,. 3 and 4, will be known
as the Tunnel Race Meeting" The
stakes and purses aggregate $1,000.
"There is talk of having races here
tins year. BY all means If we are 10 do
all We can for success, five per cent
entrance fee should be adopted. II IN
duces large entries and consequently
big crowds"
The Kalamazoo Trotting Associa-
ton has organized 10 hold meetings
there July Z, s, 9 and 10. They viii
give $1,000 IN purses. James Monroe
was elected president. Will Brown sec
rotary, and George w. Miller treasurer.
A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature making II a criminal oifense
TO enter RINGERS" or horses under
false names. 1t is specie of obtaining
money under false pretenses. The bill
has not been passed, but all horsemen
hope it will be-.
-Alzone, Frank Mobiles 9-months
old colt, has been entered during the
past week IN the $1,000 stake race for
yearlings at Knoxville, Iowa, a mile
dash; also IN $500 stake at Syracuse,
Neb., and III the Updergraff $1,000 stake
race next fall; place not yet deter
mined.
Among the horsemen for whom the
trottng and pacing gaits have more at
traction than the running gait, a good
deal of agitation is going on over the
entrance fee. For long time il has
been ten per cent, but in several nota-
BILE events for the coming season, II has
been placed at five per cent. Wherever
this has been done favorable results
have resulted. Said local horseman
yesterday to the TELEGRAM-HERALD:
Not many of the local trotters have
been placed in training. and Will not I've
until the tracks are IN shape, or il IS de-
cided TO carry out the plan of races in
July. In regard to the latter schem e
but little has been done during the past
week except talk. One of those inter
ested sad yesterday that the proposed
Grand Rapids Horsebreeder's Associa-
ton will organize during the coming
week and enter at once upon the work
of preparation for races this summer.
Secretary L. c. Webb, of the NJ. T.
Ii. b. A., has issued the following call:
A special meeting of the Michigan Trot-
ting Horse Breeders Association is
called to meet at the Hibbard House,
Jackson. Mich, on Tuesday. April Z,
1891, at 10 a. M, 10 take action with
reference to the appointment of two
delegates and two alternates TO repre-
sent this State at the Breeders Con-
gress. TO meet ut Chicago on April %, IS
we'll as the consideration OF other i'm
portant matters.
Frederick X. Watson has a string
of nine trotters at his barn. l72 Barclay
ST., from which he hopes to make some
money during the coming season. AT
the head of the list is the 4-year-old
Heckfeld trotter, by Observer, 1926.
dam Pet, by Magma Avlr, by Magma
Charta. los. He has no record, but an
his preliminary driving the past two
weeks shows a strong gait. tie ~ en-
tered IN the independence, Iowa, l.
year-old stake race for $1,000. Mr.. Wat
son says he lie confident of getting 2:30
or better during the season. Among
the other trotters are Belle Hardy, b.
m, . years old, standard and regis
tered. She is entered in the 3-yesr-old
class at Saginaw. but her sickness dur
ing the past winter may prevent her
starting. Lady Stickfast, i. X. w, a
Bay Middleton stallion. dam by a son
of Regulator. three Louis Napoleon
colts beng handled by Mr.. Wight, are
also IN the string and three more are
coming. Training viii begin soon.