Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-05
HORSE GOSSIP.

HORSE GOSSIP.
Notes from All Parts OF the Country.
Ten states have kite tracks.
Nutwood has seventeen in the 2:20 list.
Simmocolon, 2:19, stands at 5000 next
Ice trotting lie all the Ego" at Mime
apolis.
. Palo Alto, 2:0sa, has been lame for four
years.
An English stud book for trotters is to
be published.
Dam Bad is the name of the dam of |
colt in the West. <.
Delmarch, 2:114, stands in the stud next
year at a fee ofs$S50.
About $50 horses are in training at the
covered track in Buffalo. i
Three of the yearlings that have beaten
$50 trace to Strathmore.
Sprague Golddust, 2:164, goes into the
stud in 1892 at fee of 5000.
Allerton, 2:091, commands service fee
of 81 900 the coming season.
termaster, 2:214, next season.
They have an expert lady horse trader in
Idaho named Kittie Wilkins.
Barnhart, 1924, full brother to Allerton,
2-094, is to be sold at auction. 1
Exercise is as essential to health in the
equine as in the human family.
G. II. Nelson is wintering 191 head of
horse kind. Quite horse show!
Marcus DAILY of Montana has contracted
for $4,000 worth of horse pictures.
|. 1t is predicted that 500 horses will be
trained at Stockton track next season.
There are eighty Electioneer mares at
Palo Alto that have never been worked.
The leg of Ethel Y, 2:2O, which was
broken, has healed perfectly under plas-
ter cast.
Mombars, 2:16a, as a two ear-old, will
| serve few mares next season at fee of
$500 cash.
Philadelphia will have horse show next
season, opening May 80, for three days.
The first prize for trotting stations will be
$500.
l. Bonnie Wilmore, 2:144, is the only trot-
ter shat ever took heat away FROM Nancy
Hanks. It was his first start in a race,
too, at that.
The thoroughbred race stallion Laureate,
lately bought across the water by the
Messrs. Sanford of Amsterdam, N. Y,
for $50, 900. reached New York on the 18th
| inst.
Electioneer now has an even 100 sons
and daughters with records of 2:3O or
better. The last to enter the list is the six
year-old stallion Pomona, which got rec
ord of 2:284 at Augusta, Ga, December 2.
The first arrest under the "ringing'' law
took place recently at Oshkosh, Wis. Sec
Trotting association caused the arrest of J.
o. Clarity, Tracy, Mimi, on charge of
"ringing" the horse Josslyn at the Oshkosh
fair.
Old Driver, 2:19t, as game race horse
as ever came to the wire, is dead. He was
the property Of George W. Leavitt when
he died, and his days were ended at Calais,
Ne. In his career on the turf he won 1877
heats in $50 or better. He had a foot
nerved three years ago, but it gave out re-
Gently.
No man in this country has paid so
much money for trotting stock as Robert
Bonner. He has always bought the best,
regardless of cost. Mr.. Bonner will sell
fifty one head of his animals at auction
through the popular auctioneers, Peter G.
i
ing in the lot.
Charles. Marvin. who for fourteen years
has been head trainer at the Palo Alto
stock farm in California recently reached
New York with the famous Sunol, 2:084
in charge. The queen of the turf was i'm
mediately taken to the stable of her own
er, Robert Bonner, where she occupies the
large stall formerly occupied by Maud S.,
2:08a. Sunol was looking none the worse
for her long journey.
The millionaire threshing machine man
ufacturer and horseman, Jerome I Case
died at his home, Racine, Wis, on thu
22d inst. Mr.. Case will be remembered a,
the owner of the wonderful little blacl
gelding Jay-Eye-See (2:10), and the gam
race stallion Phallas (2:134). Among thu
other distinguished trotters that he ownet
was the stallian Gov. Sprague, for whicl
he paid $27, 500 as a fve-year-old. Mr.
Case leaves son, jackson, now mayor o
Racine, VIA, who is natural horseman
w and we'll qualified to carry on the extern
sive and diversified business so success
fully managed by the deceased.
The Christmas number of the Hersema
is unusually attractive this year and as
customary contains large number of POI
10 this year are Sunol (2:084), Maud S.(2:08a
al Nancy Hanks 600, Allerton (2:09D, an
es the PAGERS Direct (2:06), johnson (2:064
I Hal Pointer (2:094), and large number {
~ ~. others. The picture of Allerton is colore
i'd and is not bound with the publication
ae This portrait with handsome frame, G
Ill which it is worthy, will make a fine orn,
a. ment. The reading matter contains tt
$3.50 list complete for 1891 and list
horses that have reduced their records tn
season and very many pages of other vail
able information.
e, Somehow report has been started tn
he Sunol was famed by her final effort whe
she reduced the worlds trotting recor'
D. and that on leaving California the ank
was much enlarged, also that she was vel
lame, for which, however, there appea
not to have been the slightest foundation
She shows no lameness, and,
ne fact, looks none the wor
a, for her wonderful performance
-, Directly in front Of the door as you enter Il
stable was SunoPs brightly painted trun
be with her records, two-year-old 2:104, thre
m year-old 2:10t, four-year-old 2:10t, iv
year-old 2:084, very plainly painted in 81
f letters on the dark blue groundwork.
large number of horsemen have visit,
Mr.. Bonner's stable since the arrival
the queen. Her owner drives her doubl
with Eldred, steady going trotter with
I $50 gait.
At Chicago recently Professor O.
Gleason, the horse tanner, so well-knov
in New Haven and all over the countr
- subdued in an hour and a quarter, Il
nd man eating stallion, Junius, that has be-
~ the terror of Central Illinois for year
/ a Professor Gleason entered the ring carr
re- ing a whip in his left hand and build
sly revolver loaded with blank cartridges
lot his right, while in the outer circle ten
o.. tendants with bulldogs loaded with she
no na stood on guard, preparing to perforate tt
,o' animal if occasion demanded. Gleason
. tactics were simply an alternate crac
ling of the whip and discharging
the blank cartridges. For the f,
ten minutes the animal was inclin
to kick and bite and Gleason h
hard work to avoid his attacks; at the Q,
of fifteen minutes he was strokiug t
terror's neck; in twenty he was holdi
his name, and ten minutes later he b.
put on it's neck the first halter it had ev
worn. In forty minutes julius came a
went as commanded. In fifty he had pc
mitted his tanner to place his hand in
mouth, meanwhile standing as meek as
Shetland pony. An hour from the tir
that Gleason entered the ring the teri
was harnessed to an open one seated buge
4 and for fifteen minutes the profess
\ drove him around the ring, while t
v audience howled itself hoarse. Afterwa
the animal, now as docile as a babe, ~
mitted strange attendants to lead b