The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-15

Allertcn and Canary Bird double the COM
ing season, and if they should work well
together they may beat 2:13, the record
now held by Belle Hamlin ana Justina-
Captain Sam Browns old Blue Wing, a
very fast horse in 1886 and 1887, is being
violently tOuted in the south, and is ex-
pected to do wonders in soft going.
Brewer Ruppert's high-priced colt St.
Domingo, by St. Blaise-Lsdy Primrose,
and the Moonlight colt, which pair cost
him $4,000, are working well in the east.
Another whirlwind PAGER has turned up
in California. He was raised in San
Bernardinc, sold to j. Fellon of Santa
Anna for $780, and is pacing quarters in
800 seconds.
Strathmesth, winner Of last years. Amer
lean derby and candidate for the Brooklyn
handicap, is very i'll and may not recover.
1t is said that he cannot possibly start at
Gravesend.
TIE noted trotting mare Evangeline,
record 2:19 has been purchased from
Messrs. Creighton ana Salisbury, of Lex
ington, KY, by a. H. Moore, Of Colman,
Pa, for SIS, GOO.
The veteran trainer, G. S. Green, Of
Utica. will campaign Sprague Goiddust,
2:l619, and Lucilles Baby, 2:204, TINS
year, Both are from the old mare Lucille
Golddust, 2:1614, which was also driven
Dy Green.
From the point Of Sunors hip to her toe
you cen draw a straight line when she
leaves the ground To anyone who knows
anything about pacing, this magnificent
propelling power will be apparent. She is
like all the electioneers q line trOtter.
| Twepty-eight head of high priced horses
were burned in the recent big fire at Tren-
/ ton, n. J. Prince Allen, the well known
stsllion, valued ct $50 600, was among those
/ destroyed.
Milton Young has mortgaged his famous
Kentucky thoroughbred race farm to the
Tattersalls, New York, limited, for Sl00, 600,
which he is to lay out in making MIC
GarEhiana the finest breeding establish
ment of the kind in the world.
The eastern writers who get their trot-
ting wisdom from Robert Bonner, now de-
clare that Sunol trotted in 2 :0T16 or 2:O7X
at Stockton last fall, and that Orrin Hick-
ok's slow watch, which registered 2:0S14,
was preferred to those Of the other train
ers.
Ed Corrigsn will turn out of training all
but five of his youngsters, the colts Joe
Murphy and Gazette, and the FLIES Emma,
Coquette and Siren. Several of his two
year-olds by LonRfellow, never yet trained,
will be taken along in the summer and
raced late in the fall.
The day is almost at hand when it will
be possible for trotter to earn nearly il
not quite as much money as a runner.
From every nook and corner of the CONT
nent come announcements Of big meetings
and big stakes. Colt stakes, yearlings and
2-year-olds are now large enough to maks
the winning of them an object.
]. G. Sibley says that the fastest track on
earth is the one that is dryest and hardest
on the immediate surface and the wetUest
beneath. If you can have an inside and
outside ditch surrounding your track, each
kept full of water so it will stand within
eighteen inches of the surface, you can al
ways depend upon having a record break
ing track if the surface is kept in proper
shape.
Arrangements have been made with
Budd Doble by the managers OF the Bel
mont Driving club at Philadelphia to have
Nancy Hanks 600 trot against the record
of Maud S. for three fast heats made over
the same track July %, 1881. viz: 2I2,
2:134, and 2:1214. These were the three
fastest heats on record until Nancy Hanks
wiped them out in = race against Allertou
and Margaret S. over the kite-shaped track
at Independence, she Keeling of three heats
in 2 IL, 2:12% and 2:12.