The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-01-30

Hopkins I'd an of Geneva s. 2:l9b,
Matte =. 2 2415, Quinine S. 2:194)
Delight IOWA sister to Graylight 2:16,
and Duke of Wellington 2:20) and
Russia 2:2S, full sister to Maud 5.
2:053l.
iii, West Side Park stakes closed
well as follows: Ivy Leaf 81, Trial
75, Belle Meade 81, Duncan House "a,
Maxwell House so, Two Thousand sc
and the BroOdmares 1876.
Nashville is at last a member of a
trotting circuit. The new track at
Cumberland Park will be completed
in 1 or 5 months and the initial meet
ing will be held October 10 to "a with
purses amounting to $25, 900.
The great English three-year-Old
Simon Magnus, by st. Simon, out of
Wheel of Fortune, is on the voyage
from England to America.
One of our California contempOr-
aries prophesies that California has
the three year-Old that will win the
rich American Derby at Chicago this
year. The name of the crack was not
mentioned.
1t il rumored that ID. d. Withers
has made overtures to the Villa Site
Company for the use OfJerOme Park
next summer, and that the company
has granted him the option OF the
park. This is said to be in case the
authorities of New Jersey Interfere
with the racing at Monmouth Park.
Senator Pettigrew, Sioux Falls,
s. Oak, has a moose team which he
KEEPS in his park with nerd of buff
falo near that city. He has had the
team in the hands of trainer with a
view to using them as a driving team.
One of the animals has shown great
speed as a trotter, and an agreement
has been made for a race against Fan
chon, record 2:2l, at the State Fair.
The experiment of winter racing
will be tried in Arkansas next week
at Hot Springs. TIE track, grand
stand, stables, and other equipments
are nearly completed, and as there is
Il strong sporting contingent at the
Springs the promoters are confident
that the enterprise will prove success
full. kentucky hOrsemen and others,
to the number Of thirty-five, have app
piled for stabling, and 227 horses are
already named to compete for the
purses. Mrs. William Michigan, of
Memphis, will send her stable of nine
race horses. 1t is the intention to
make Hot Springs the Saratoga of
the South. There will be racing three
days a week.
j. b. Bowles and Mr.. Johnson of
Bardstown, KY, representing the
guests of Scott Harlan last week.
While here they bought of Harlan
Bros. the celebrated jack Dom Pc
drO, paying $500 for him. This is a
fine animal and the best jack in the
county. What is Maury county s
loss is Kentucky's gain.
1t has been rumored that g. j.
Hamlin of Buffalo had employed Ed
Geers for the coming year. Now the
facts are that this popular driver will
remain in charge of the Ewell Farm
horses, and when he starts North to
commence the campaign in the
Grand Circuit he will take with him
powerf | string of horses trained by
him at Ewell Farm; and If he does
anything for Mr.. Hamlin it will be tC
drive his horses or some of them in
their races; but he has no notion of
abandoning his present situation, he
will simply drive the horses of Mr..
Hamlin as he does those for other
people every year.
-Ewell Brown sustained quite a
loss in the death of his highly-bred
filly, Toona, by Nuthill, dam by
Tom Hal. She broke one of her legs
while running in the pasture and had
to be killed.
Joe Mooney, who successfully
trained and drove the horses belong
ing to the Piedmont Stock Farm
owned by Mr. w. Il. Garth, of Hunts
Vile, Ala, last season, has forsaken
trotters and PAGERS and will train the
running stable of Messrs. Lyle & Pal
mer, OF Nashville, next year. Mr..
Mooney haOI many friends on the
trOtting turf vino will regret to know
of his change of heart.
Capt. p. c. Kidd write of his
Louisville sale that 1.-The prospt ct is
more promising than he has ever had
before"
Bonnie McGregor, 2:1SH; Phal-
las, 2:1314, and STEAMBOAT, Ell, are
the only three stations with records
below 2:15 that have sired 2:30 per-
formers.
There is hardly a State IN the
Union that is not taking deep inter
est in the breeding of standard horses,
and making cOmmendable 70 gress :
i've strides at improving their blood
lines.
e. Koran, Newton, Kan, has
sold to James Barrett, Solomon City,
Kan, for $1,000, the five-year-old
black stallion Major Thorne IL ,32S, by
Hawthorne, son of NutwOOd, dam
We 9 " great deal about "rat-
tIe-headed" horses, but very littl
about "rattle-headedn men, and yet
(Contfnded to second pGee.)