The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-04
Ehe auis Badly Eagle: Ehursday 1ornng aueu 4 1892
TUFTS FROM THE TURF.


Jockey Sloane rides 2-year-olds With
ont the whip "a
Axtell has earned s105.o0o over his
purchase price in three years
The once peerless La Tosca has been
sent to Rancccas and viii be bred.
Lady Violet worked five furlonRs
over the Monmouth park track recently
in 1:0o1S.
There Is talk of a match race between
Fars6ay Q:16) and 70 Tambian Q:1D,
one mile, for $40, 900 q side.
Frank B. went the mile In 2:13A IN
the 2:20 trot at the Indiana Trotting
and Pacing associations meeting at
Richmond.
Tenny Is being worked steadily. but
his ankles seem stiff, and the gallant
swayback cannot extend himself as in
the past.
Budd Doble, on being asked to name
the best and gamest horse on the turf
to-day said "Axtell for stallion,
Nancy HAMS for mare and Direct for
q PAGER"
W. Livingston, the trainer that
brought out Silver Cloud, Jr., 2:21A;
Pathfinder, 2:e71S; Jumbo, e:2s1, ETC..
died at Coldwater, Mich, last month.
C. j. Hamlin says the FLY Fantasy,
by Chimes, out of Honora, by Almon-
arch, 2:24%, will come nearer breaking
the s-year-oh record than any flly ever
bred.
Thomas Mcdowell sold Maid Marian.
the 2-year-old FLY by Great Tom-Su-
die McNairy, to the Kendall stable for
$1,000. She is cheap, and perhaps the
best FLY in the west.
There is a rule at Brighton Beach
which prevents the scratching of q
horse without good reason. 1t is rule
that could be adopted at all tracks with
good results.
Allerton and Nancy Hanks are
matched to race on the Independence
Ua.) track in September for purse Of
$4,000. The Thursday preceding this
race Allerton and Axtell will have Q
race on the same track.
The fastest mile ever trotted by Q
year-old this early in the season was
accomplished at Lexington, KY, by
John E. Madden's FLY Gypsy Earl, by
Earl. She went the distance without
break in 2:26]4, the last quarter in "a
seconds.
The time by quarters of Nancy Hanks
(Phiiadelphia) mile was O:32, 1:O44,
1877, 2:11H. This is the fastest time
ever ,trotted at Belmont. In Septem-
Der, 1890, Sunol did mile in 2:11%.
Nancy Hanks worked beautifully, but
she tired perceptibly on the last half.
In four days racing Ascot gave away
$50, 900, or $150,0OO, in purses. The
chief winner was Mr.. McCalmont, with
G3, 346. c. D. Rose won G2,735. The
largest prize of the meeting was won
by c. D. Rose, the Hardwick stakes, in
which st. Damien got home first.
E. F. Garrison, the jockey, never rode
more brilliantly than he has this season,
but his illness at Coney Island, in which
he was taken with bleeding at the
lungs, gave his friends considerable I'M
easiness. His trouble is hereditary, his
ActhSl iidSihS 4IOlu AolAtAlS
spells and hemorrhages-
Baron Hirsch, who gave his turf win
nings last year 10 the London hospitals,
has just handed further sum of $35, 900
to the medical charities of the metrop-
oils, the amount representing the
greater part of the stakes won during
the present season by the baron's filly
La Fleche, winner of the One Thousand
Guineas and the Oaks.
Tammany, the great 2-year-old owned
by Marcus DAILY, won the s25, 200 Lori
lard stakes in gallop, the time for the
mile and three-quarters being 2:201l,
which, considering the fact that the
horse carried 122 pounds, is better
performance than of Ormie, who holds
the record (2:2oA) for the same dis
tance, but only los pounds up. Huron
led from the start, but fell back at the
first quarter.
The Eclipse stakes at Sandown park,
England, were won by the duke of
Westminster's famous 4-year-old bay
colt Orme, which has completely recov-
cred from its recent poisoning. J. Fl.
Houldsworth's 4-year-old bay colt Or
veto was second and c. D. Roses Swear
Did colt st. Damien was third. The
Eclipse stakes are 10000 sovereigns.