St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-16
EQUINE ETCHINGS.

Phil Dwyer is typical looking Long
fellow, a dark bay, about sixteen hands
high, with blaze face and his two hind
legs white nearly half way to the knees.
He is in the Kentucky Derby and Clark
Stakes at Louisville. the LatOnia Derby,
and the Hawthorne and Garfield Derbys
at Chicago. lie is also in number of
other stakes, but is not i'll the Washing
ton Park Derby.
The Brooklyn handicap is likely to
be run out of chute this year, as Mr..
Dwyer said yesterday that he would
have it completed if possible in time for
the race. The outside rail is to be
moved out. and extended to the Kings
Highway fence and the space graded.
which will give every contestant III the
race chance for 1air start. as there
will be tract at least 100 feet wide,
! and the first quarter mile will be
straight-awdy.
When the improvements now going
OH at Washington Park are completed
the betting Enclosure will be 800 feet
long by 90 feet wide, and will contain
81, 500 feet square of space. enough for
10000 standing people, and an increase
OF 1850 square feet. This will make it,
next to Morris Park, the largest betting
ring in Ameri ca.
A novel match is talked about at
Bridgeport, Conn. X. j. Viets, of that
city, has offered to bet Secretary Nc
Enerney $1,000 that the latter cannot
name horse that will trot thirty-siX
miles in three hours. Secretary Nc
Enerney thinks he can produce one
that will do the trick, and the probable
| ity is that the match will be made and
that it will be decided at Hartford.
The Morris string sent to Gravesend
| numbers twenty-five, and will be sure
| to win many races before the meeting
ends. Mars is said to be really the best
three-yearold in the lot. despite the SUI
periority of st. Florian last year.
The name of the three-year-Old colt
Curt Gum, by OnOndaga, out of So
phrOnia, which Pierre LOrillard pur-
chased last season, has been changed to
Locohatchee. He is heavily engaged
in the future stakes. and is expected to
render worthy account of himself.
Plimmer received $l,700 and Kelly
$500 for their late fight. Plimmer says
he is ready to fight George Dixon at ITO
pounds, but experts, who claim to
know, say that Dixon cannot possibly
get down to that weight and be in trim
to make good fight.
Little Brown jug, 2:11sl. by Tom
Hal Jr, one OF the great PAGERS of the
"lOng ago." is now owned at Cambridge,
Mass. He is getting up in years, his
feet bother him. and now nothing re-
mains but the memory of his greatness.
1t is a somewhat singular coincidence
that ROllO, 2:28$4, the first yearling
PAGER to beat 2:30. Manager. 2:ll12, the
champion two and three-year-Old, and
Strong Boy, 2:12, the fastest fOur-year
old pacing stallion, are all gray in color.
1t is reported that John E. Madden,
of Lexington, KY, has concluded to
dispose of his entire thoroughbred in
terest and retire from the running turf,
i'm the future devoting his time and
attention to the trotting horse.
Probably the largest horse in the
world, standing twenty-five hands high
and weighing 1900 pounds. owned by
L. E. Ridgeway, of Fort Worth, Tex,
died in that city on May 4. He had been
on exhibition i'll many states.
The entries to the stakes of the Blue
Grass circuit have been unusually nu-
merous and some of the best bred trot-
tiers in the world will contend for hon.
Ors and money over the Kentucky tracks
this season.
Waxana, by General Benton, dam of
Sunol, Will be twelve years old the 9th
of this month.
THURMAN Fred Foster. of st. Paul,
owner of Sui Ross and other useful