Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-21

IT is said the New Zealand Trottins Asso.
citation have resolved to publish a trotting
stud book.
TRAINER MARVIN will go back to California
from Chicago before taking charge OF the
Prospect Hill horses.
HoREENEN around Buffalo, n. Y, are talk.
ing of building kite track there to take the
place of the regulation track.
HONEST JOHN CROKER, since Prince How
ards last race, has been besieged by would
be jockeys who want him to write a book on
instructions how to ride.
IN California they think that if Robert
Bonner drives Sunol on the road he had bet.
ter encase himself in "a ball of cotton should
she meet an elevated train.
MosT of the yearling trials are over. and
youngsters are said to give Owner d. d.
Withers much satisfaction.
L. o. APPLEBY, of New jersey, will proba-
bly, join the ranks of race horse breeders
soon. In Tristan, who was a good race
horse, he ought to have a successful sire.
GENERAL S. sANFoRD's $50. 600 English horse,
Laureate, stood the journey from England
well. and is now at the Amsterdam, n. Y.
farm. Laureate is by Petrarch and was a
race horse of high class
JAMES ROVE, the welI-known horseman
and starter, and Frank Clarke, of the Coney
Island Jockey Club, are in Chicago. 1t is
rumored that Rowe may be engaged in
Park Club.
ELEVEN of the &c trotters that have beaten
PA made their fastest records over kite
shaped tracks against time. OF the other Is
who made their best marks over regula-
tion tracks, Phallas, 2:l3s4, alone got his
record in race.
Mr.. SUTTON says that new fall trotting
circuit is well under way 1t will consist OF
GreensbuTg, Wilkesbarre, Pittsburg and
other good points. All the places named
have good tracks.
SOME of the Western yearlings in Frank
McCabe's stable, said to be the property of
Mayor Grant, have shown some lively spins.
A son of George Kinney, named George
Dixon, and another, christened Sontul, are
said to be the smartest of the lot.
BUDD DoBLE will have Direction, 4, by Di-
rector-Lulu Wilkes, in his 1892 string. The
colt is a perfect double for Direct, 2O6 ex-
cept in color: he is a bay and fast PAGER j.
III. Ogleby, of Kansas City, who owns Nc
Doel, e:l5l4, has just bought him in Cali
fornia.
TEUToN, the sensational Western horse.
will be trained again next spring. If he lets
down then he will be retired, his present
owners, Holloway & Murphy, intending to
start a small breeding stud OF their
own in Kentucky. Teuton at his best was a
great horse.
WITH Budd Doble Marvin thinks there il
not as much advantage in the kites form as
far as speed is concerned as is popularity
planed as Marvin dressed and planed the
Stockton mile and Williams the Indepen-
dence track must be productive of speed
THE noted horses Tenny, Longstreet and
Tournament are so badly off in their "under
pinnings that they are not likely to ever
race again. The hill at Morris Park is
generally blamed for all three fiascos
Longstreet will probably go to McGrathiana
stud farm. just who would take Tenny,
with his ungainly form and cratic
disposition, is uncertain. Tournament will
probably be retained as sire by his owner
THERE is a slightly strained coalition of
affairs between Employer Rupert and his
trainer, Leighton, over the sale of the
$1,000 Dandie Dinmont yearling. 1t seems
that Leighton had priced the youngster to
his employer, giving him until Sunday after
noon last TO make up his mind. That morn
ing Leighton sold the colt to Allen for
$4,000 and a few hours later Employer Rup-
pert came along only to be told that the colt
had been sold to Brewer Frank Ehret