The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-20
HORSES AND
HORSEMEN

HUKNEMEN.
Miss woodford has bssn bred 70 SAWS
TOT.
The Hot Springs raos meeting proved q
Tsnny i isavorits for ne Suburban hand
ioap.
Firsnzi has wintered aplendidly at Mon
mouth Park.
There are over 1000 entries for the Ken
tucky Futurity stakes.
There are upward of ITO entries to tho
Chicago Jockey club stakes.
Jockey Garrison says that, despite all r.
ports to the contrary. he has not been en-
gagged by any one as yet for the coming
season.
Trainer McGinty, who has already sent
two Kentucky Derby winners to the post.
1hinks well of Georgetown's chances this
gear.
Jockey Pataey Duffy, who rode Tyrant to
victory In both the Withers and Belmont
stakes, died at Bellevue Hospital last Tues
day.
Pleaston string of t~rotters. about june ].
Margaret s., Homastaks and Direct will be
members of the string.
Thompson, the Australian bookmaker,
appears to be having trouble in perfecting
arrangements for his ideal race-course at
San Francisco.
T.he Indiana legislature has passed a
similar bill to that of the Maine for the
criminal punishment of the ringing brigade,
and Illinois is to follow suit.
The chestnut gelding Gypsy King, foaled
in 1887, by Ryan dor, dam Liahtunah, by
John Morgan, died at the Gutternburg race
track recently from lung fever.
George A. singerly will send his bay
mares Pretty Belle, 2.26A, and Messenger
Queen, to Belmont course to be worked by
"Dod'' Irwin for the Southwestern circuit.
Ma%rgarhita, the yearling sister to Margaret
S., record 2:12119, for which he paid $4,000
at the Pleaston farm sale at New York this
week.
Clay & Woodford. proprietors of the
Runnymede farm in Kentucky, have placed
a draft of two-year-olds with Trainers
Murphy and Holloway, which will be raced
this season.
The New York State Trotting Horse
Breeders association will hold it's seventh
annual meeting at the Hudson River Driy-
ing Park, P~ouRhkeepsie, N. Y, onaAugust
% to %.
The following jockeys have applied for a
license from the new board of controls:
Fred Taral. w. Donohue, Stevenson.
DeCkOT, EelpGl, james LHmDlyy JOuIl
Lambly and Francis.
has purchased the C%ollegeville Diving
park from James G. Detwller, acting for
the Farmers and Mechanics bank, Of
Ph@nixville.
Matthew Riley, president of the Driving
club Of New York, claims that the amount
repte sented on the membership list of the
club mount to one Thousand million dol
ars.
Miller & Sibley, of Franklin. Pa, state
THAT the price received by them for Palo
Alto Belle from j. G. Lineman, of Lima,
Ohio, was $4,000 cash and the mare Altar
etto by Alcantara.
There are 1854 entries to the Monmouth
park race meeting, made by 10 different
subscribers. OF the total number of en-
tries 1.495 are in the two-year-old stakes,
and $40 in those for three-year-olds.
The King, by George Wilkes; Pistachio,
brother OF Nutwood; Rustique, by Election
eer. out of Miss Russell, dam of Maud g.,
and Lady Russell, sister of Maud s., have
arrived at Allen farm from Kentucky.
Fred Gerhard has compromised his suit
against the Erie railroad. He sought to re-
cover $4,000 for the loss Of the horses Eole,
Eolist, Palanka, Pauline, Certainty, Sweet
bread, She, Frank and Orphan Boy.
Miller g. Sibley. proprietors of Prospect
Hill stock farm, Franklin, Pa, have sold to
W. H. Bridges, Mount Sterling, KY, the
tro tting stallion Sterling Boy. by Bell
wood, dam Kate Pennington by Standard
Bearer.
Leslie, sister to Guy 2:10A, by Kentucky
Prince, dam Flora Gardiner, by -see!y's
week from influenza. Leslie was the dam
of Guyda by Messenger Duroc and four
others, all owned at Stony Ford.
The Reavis and Salisbury consignment of
California ~trotters came across the conti-
nent in the same train. Near Ogden one of
the cars was derailed, and four OF the
horses were killed and a number injured.
The cripples were left at Ogden.
E. l.. Smith, OF Boston. Mass, has pur-
chased from Peter Olinger, Dubuque. Iowa,
the great campaigner Keno f., 2:17, for
$4,000. Keno I. is a chestnut gelding,
eight years old, by Mohawk Hamble-
>tonian (Little Moak), dan Fan, pedigree
untraced.
Tom Grady will give the spring meeting
Thursday and Friday, May u, ID, IA and Is:
There will be ten races, with a premium of
$500 for each. The classes have not been
decided upon. This arrangement will
bring the Belmont meeting ahead of that
of the Philadelphia Driving Park associa-
As surmised, Secretary J.. G. X. Law
renee was elected to Ahe Office of President
of the Coney Island Jockey Club to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Leonard
w. Jerome. The other officers elected
were: Vice President. Colonel Lawrence
Kip; secretary, G. Fellowes; assistant -secre-
tary, Samuel Il. Rork; member of the
executive committee, George Peabody Wet
more, and Director John M. Bowers.
At the meeting of the American Trotting
association held at Chicago last week the
secretary's report shows that during the
two years which have elapsed since the
last congress a deficit of $500 has teen
converted into a surplus of 49, 1888 Sc
strong is the financial standing of the asso-
citation, and in spite of its moderate scale
of fees, it has been decided to omit the 81
fee to each member for outfits, which will
reduce the revenue for the year 1891 by
$4,000. During the four years the associa-
tion has been in existence it's membership
has grown from %sixty-fve to 800.
In securing the services of "Knapsack"
Mccarthy Mr.. Withers made a break Which
somewhat astonished those who fancied
that he WAS too conservative a turtle to
look to the trotting track for a trainer, but
IN doing 80 he evidenced his claim to the
title of 1.-THE Sage of Brookdale." Last
season showed that Mccarthy is as much at
hume with the ''bangtails" as he was when
making a record for straight heats with
Little Brown Jug; but to zee him at Brook
dale one would never imagine that he had
ever dallied with the charms of the stand
ard-bred sort. True, his own tongue be- |
trays him at times, and Mrs. Mccarthy does