Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-23

1TN intention Of giving q
Ny big purse for four
mile race during Its
coming fall meeting.
The exact date on which this important and in
teresting event will be run, with the weights to
be carried and the time Of closing the stake,
will be announced later; but il il definitely
settled the race will be four-mile dash and
that the entrance Is 800 each, with 5000
added, in any event; while should the winning
horse cover the distance in 7.25 an additional
sum of 80, 500 will be given, and should Ten
Brooks record a. 19alO be equaled 5000 extra
Will be given by the club. making the added
money $4,000. This liberal offer should GER
tainly induce many owners to enter their best
stayers, for it is quite likely that with sufficient
time to train horses for the distance Ten
Brooks four-mile record cannot only be
equaled, but lowered. The event will be de-
nominated as the "Old Time" race, and it will
no doubt draw to the beautiful grounds at
Sheepshead Bay an attendance equal in num-
beers to suburban day.
70 Tambien, the crack western three year.
old filly, bred by Theo. Winters, and is by
Joe Hooker, son of Monday, by Cotton, by
son Of Orlando, by Touchstone. 70 Tambien's
dam Marian, the dam Of King Of Norfolk,
Emperor of Norfolk, FL Rio Rev. Rey del Rey,
&C., by Malcolm, SON Of imported Bonnie
Scotland and Lady Lancaster, by imported
Monarch, grandam Maggie Mitchell. by i'm
ported Yorkshire, out of Charmer, the best
daughter of imported Glencoe, she out of the.
noted Betsey Malone, by Stakeholder. Yo
Iambien Is a chestnut with stripe of white
down her face and white around the coronet of
the near front foot. The name of Yo Tam
bien means Il also" or me too. As q two
year-old she started thirteen times. of which
she won eigh. races. This year she has shown
marked improvement and has proved that she
is not only fleet of foot, but a slayer FOR her
race for the great western handicap at a mile
and a half, which she ran in 2.33Sz is only half
q second behind Firenzi's record She has
started a three-year- old nine times And has
suffered only one defeat. when Bashford beat
her for the merchants stakes at Latonia. bat
she was cOnceding him ten pounds and sex
allowance. She WAS on this occasion beaten
only half length, the mile and an eighth being
made in 1.53A.
July IA, With 122 pounds up, she won at a
mile La, and Tuesday last she won. with 80
pounds up, at 1-6 miles, in L4514, lowering
the record half second.
Palo Alto, the celebrated trotting stallion
owned by Senator Stanford, died Thursday at
the Senator's stock farm. near Mayfield, Cal,
Of pneumonia. Palo Alto was a bay horse,
foaled in 1882, and by right of his record,
2.C54, was the unquestioned king of trotting
stations. His record. indeed, has never been
surpassed, except by Sunol, 2.0sA, though it is
TIC sdlLc as tIltt VI ti:tlu -. lie was regarded
as one Of the most valuable horses in the world,
and his owner held him beyond price. He was
bred by Senator Stanford and was by the great
Electioneer and GU. of Dame Winnie thor
oughbred daughter of Planet As a race horse
he was distinguished for his gameness as much
as for his wonderful speed, and at the stud he
promised to be grand success. His colts are
oil young, but alrea1y indicate that he was des-
tined for the highest honors progenitor but
for his untimely death. His loss will be re-
garded by breeders and horsemen generally as
O national calamity.
During the last week it is said that the Judges
at Monmouth have made serious mistakes in
placing the horses in at least two races. The
judges claim that they were right in their de-
cislons, and that the newspaper men and the
public were wrong themselves. This NAV be
80, but every intelligent race goer knows that
the judges are not infallible in their Judgment
The regular attendant at races knows, too that
when the judges do make q mistake they al
most invariably throw the cloud of track
angles over their decisions, and calmly say that
for seeing they cannot have made a mistake.
And that is ali bosh, to say the least. judges
can, and judges do, make such mistakes.
TURF GOSSIP.
The book makers at Chicago have lately been
flooded with lots of ''the queer"
At the Fairyiew sale Of yearlings F. A. Ehret,
the owner of Yorkville Belle, paid $4,000 for
her yearling brother.
Ex-senator Fair intends, it is said. to build a
magnificent race track near San Francisco.
Freedom, the first yearling to trot in $50,
will be out this season in his th-ee-vear-old
form, and is said to have already shown phe-
nomenal speed.
Wilbur F. Smith of California has sold the
three-year-old colt Zaldivar, by Joe Hooker,
dam Lena's First, to J. s. Gray Of Missouri
Price reported to be $4,000
The vear1ipr colt hx-r no -
and-Toe, which was recently sold to the Blem-
ton stable, has been appropriately named Song
and Dance.
From what know of the history Of the
trotting horse" remarked Senator Leland Stan
ford the other day, lit is my opinion that he
traces back to the thoroughbred, and not the
trotter.'
The yearling colt by Hampton. out of Cherry,
for which Mr.. Marcus DAILY recently paid
SIS, 600 in England, arrived at New York on
Tuesday: He will be sent to join'the horses in
care of Trainer Barnes at Monmouth Park.
p. s. Donovan gives Tenny regular exercise,
but goes carefully with the once famous .'sway-
back" He is afraid to put any but light boy
on his back in his work, as weight is likely to
cause his ankles to give away at any time, and if
he breaks down Donovan wants him to be try
ing for a race when it happens.
Before the first race at Monmouth last Tues
day Mayor Grants two-year-oid colt Reginald
broke away from a stable boy who was leading
MN tnrouSn the inner neid jumped two fences,
ran out through one of the track gates and went
more than q mile over a country road before he
was caught. Nevertheless he was Started in
the last race on the programs fve-furlong
scramble for two-year- olds-and went to the
post favorite ats to l. He won by head after
o hard drive.
Pierre Lorillard on Thursday bought from
Mr.. Hardy of Virginia the yearling cot by
Eolus, out Of Cerise, by Mortimer. This
youngster is a brother to Morelo and the price
paid by Mr.. Loriliard was q large one This is
the luck of race horses and racing. One year
ago Morello went begging in the New York
market and young Mr.. Boswell q neighbor Of
Mr.. Hardy's, gave s100 for the colt Mr.. Dos
well won two races with him at Benning last
spring and sold the colt for $4,000. Twenty
thousand dollars would not buy Morello today,
and it is probable that Mr.. Hardy got at least
one-quarter of that sum for the yearling he sold
Thursday.
Eight winners Of the English derby have
been imported to America. They were Diomed,
Saltram, Spread Eagle, Sir Harry, Archduke,
Lapdog, Blue Gown and st. Blaise OF these
Diomed, Sir Harry and st. Blaise have exercised
the most influence on the blood Of American
horses. Blue Gown died on shipboard Diomed,
winner Of the first derby, was a chestnut, foaled
in 1777, by Florizel, out Of sister Of Juno, by
Spectator, and imported to Virginia in 1893
when twenty-five years Of age.
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