Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-25

gin at the Rancho del Paso farm In California.
He was sold rs yearling in New York fof
5000 His breeding. will be seen from the
following tabulAted pedigree, is excellent, being
by Ban Fox, u frst-cla-s race horse, who IN.
fortunately died in 1857. very early In his
stud career, as did also his dam imported
Queen, which was once owned by Mr. r Lori
lard. Queen was bv Scottish Chief, whose daughs
tiers have on the other side produced such good
ones as Common, winner Of the 1000 guineas
derby and St Leger: Donovan. winner Of tho
derby and St Leger, and Melton. who hkewiss
captured these same classic events. Mont.na'H
granddam is by Parme san. the sire OF two
derby winners, Favonius and Cremorne and L.
out OF fun sister TO Tomato, winner OF tho
1000 guineas and she dam imported Mr.. Pick.
wick. the sire 81 Picknicker, &c Montana's
pedigree shows some close inbreeiing his dam
being inbred TO Sweetheart. He has two crosses
OF Ming Tom, which includes two Glencoe
crosses, besides which he has two other free
Glencoe crosses on his sire's side.
Strange 20 say there were only three horse.
in the suburban which were the produce of i'm.
ported mares by native sires, and they finished
frst second and third in the alphabetical order
q their dams names, VIZ: Queen, Sweet Home,
Torchlight.
NAJoR DoMo's rEDIoRKE
Major Domo, the second horse In the subur-
ban of this and last year. IL a brown horse BY
Tom ochiltree, out Of imp. Sweet Home. He
was foaled in iss6, property Of the late d. d.
Withers, at the BrookdRle stud. but not proving
up TO bis owners standard of worth he Was cold
at public sale October 1850, for e. 800. A. he
advanced In age be steadily improved in form
and is today no doubt better horse than ever
before. He started twice during the present
year previous 70 the suburban winning the
Brookdhle handicap, y miles. with ll2 pounds
up. I'm 50 from Russell. Longstreet, &C., and
the Parkway handicap, one and one-sixteenth
miles, carrying l20 pounds. in !; AZ, again beat
ing Russell and others. He Is a large and finely
made animal and possesses a marvellous burst
of speed, as did also his dam. imp. Sweet Home
JHE PEPPER
The Pepper Is looked upon as a formidable
opponent to His Highness in the realization
stakes He has size, bone. conformation and
great turn of speed, which is backed up with
gilt-edged breeding. He has shown in his races
that he can cover a mile in fast time. and acts
As II he could run four-mile heats IL necessary.
His trainer, E. Brown ("Brown Dick') makes
no secret of his belief that his colt has a chance
70 win the race, and saws he is as good a. IL
not better than, any horse he ever trained.
which is saving a great deal. he trained
1roubador. Raceland. Blue Wing. Ruperta and
many other high-class race horses.
THE AMERICAN DERBY.
The American derby. the greatest racing
event of the west, will be decided ut Washing
ton Park, Chicago, today and promises to be
great race. With n good track II IL believed
that there will be q field of at least q dozen
starters from out Of the following: Prince u
Darkness, Bashford. ARA, Julius SAKE. Robert
wei;brec. Big Casino. Cicero. The Peer Chief
Justice. Newton, d Sullivan, Perblaise, Umatilla,
Old Pepper. Bob Rice. jr.. Faraday, Galindo,
Salonica, Zaldivar. Pat Woodcock and Carlsbad
Several Of the above have not started this wear,
but among the Others are notable three-year-
Olds which have choies vie
spring.
The race looks to be between Faraday, Carls-
bad and ARA
HERE AND THERE.
Gov. Flower Of New York has signed the bill
to make il a criminal ofense to tap the tele-
graph and telephone wires.
aessrs. Walcott a Campbells fine colt
Pessara has broken down and il Is feared 50
badly that he may never be able 20 start again.
1t is pretty safe betting that ut least seven
trotters Will equal or beat 2.05 this season. IL
we were TO pick the seven we should name
Nancy Hanks. Sunol. Palo Alto. Allerton, Nell
son, Delmarch and Axtell--BOstoH Spirit If
The Hub.
The board of control announces it's inten-
ton of enforcing the rule made Just year ago
TO the effect that jockeys who are discovered
betting on the races will have their license. re-
voked. and that any persons making bets for
any Jockey, or those knowingly receiving the
same, will be ruled of.
During the seventeen days racing at Morris
Park there were l02 races run. The money
added amounted TO SIS. 100. with a total. IN
ending stakes. entrances and surplus in selling
race of S2l7 $50. so for the meeting. In the 100
races run $40 horses commended.
Bob Soden, the well-known jockey and
trainer, died at Chicago Thursday Of pncu-
monia.
Pool rooms in Boston were swindled out of
about $4,000 "Wednesday by tapped wire
h.. Ill. sm..l.f
races. IL is believed that the wires we're
tapped between Hartford and Providence.