Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-09-02
LATE TURF GOSSIP.
0rmonde Shipped to the Pacific
Coast.
THE WINTER MEETING at IVY CITY.
American Trotters Shipped to the
Gar.
A PROPOSED FOUR-MuE RACE,

Ormonde, Mr.. Macdonough's $4,000 Eng
fish stallion, in company with the mares
and weanlings imported with him, was
shipped to California in palace horse cars
Sunday night last The start was made
from Elizabeth, n. j.. and Ormonde had
for his use a compartment twelve feet by
nine In the car ben ALL" the best ap-
pointed horse car in the country, owned by
]. b. Haggin, the California turfman. The
comfort of the stallion will be as well cared
for in transit as if he were a millionaire
The horse is shipped by the Adams Ex-
press Company, but as no company would
take the horse unless his value was waived
he travels uninsured. The actual time OF
the trip will be about six days. On his ar
rival Ormonde will be kept for the present
at the MEMO Park stock farm, but later he
VIII be taken to a new ranch owned by Mr..
Macdonough- Lawson. the stud groom, VINO
arrived with Ormonde, will stay with the
morse ana make his home for the future in
Canlornla Ormonde has cost MIR. Macdon-
oush $SU,VVo IN travelling expenses since he
Was bought in Buenos Ayres. His value
Mnen tne Callfornia ranch is reached will
Exceed an investment of 500 000 which Is
Dy Tar the most expensive speculation of
flesh. Va "oise
Misfortunes OF Futurity Winners.
II Is a remarkable fact that the Futurity
Dtahe' which was first run in 1883 although
the richest two-year-old event in America
seems TO have been in every case attended
"n singular misfortune to the various
,'n Proctor Knott who won five
lars ago, beating Salvador and a ora,
Hsiu' Is dead. As three-year-oId b. -.
i-otuins but disaster and died in his
Iourth year splendid wreck Cbsos us
n m0t .ne second Futurity. amounted to
Hotnlng as three-year-oii apd 5Is
year, an ignoble failure al the cin',I.,. .sss
Iace track. Potomac the third u-Innar -,
.he iatal prize became a cripnle and haa -
pe retired from the turf. His Highness. the
winner or 1881, met with nothine h,,, 80, s.,e
Die, and had to be retired hy a. out trou-
.nis season when he should have been IN ~
prime as a race horse, while Moreiio H.,
year winner. is owned by a man who hos
o,.en. t uleo on the eastern tracks, and the
Sc eau morse Is compelled to wander tbrongb
l un west with the shadow of his o,,,nerss
Ssiaee resting upon him II a 10 r.
nopeo tnat the present winner may esca,,s
"a -, III or.una,e results which have Attend
s 81 an OF MS predecessors. The first F,,tur
ny was worth to the winner so on, ,ha
second so4.550; the third, s67 s75. fba to,r,n
ssoTs' 'he nfth. $40. $50. and that just past
Trotters for Russia.
On Monday. August rs. three American
were shipped from Palo Alto.
oound Tor Russia They are owned hv the
"a
made by Senator Stanford two v..rs
but only contaminated a few months p
fore his death. The terms of the agreement,
were that the car should exchange three
orion trotters from the imperial stables OF
tros Tor a like number of American
uotters bred at Palo Alto. Good Gift Ella
ana Pfney are the three trotters thar Will
go 70 Europe. They were all three selected
py Coy. stanford. except Ella, who takes
Ga e p G;se OF Fairest, who recently died
en- years old. He was bred ar Palo Alto
ana Is by the celebrated Electioneer out
OF Miss Gift, thoroughbred mare nv the
great sire of California race horses. Wild
idle Ella is light bay mare l6 hands
high, with white spots on the withers
she was foaled in 1887 and is by woolsey.
son of Electioneer, and fun brother 81
Sunol Zes IA The dam OF Ella is Elite, by
Mohawk CHIEF. Piney is also a bay mare
eleven years old. She is by Electioneer.
dam Piney Lewis. by that great sire OF
long-distance race horses. Longfellow.
The Ivy City December Meeting.
Clashes and double clashes are In pros
pect for the concluding portion OF the rae
ing season in New Jersey. In the first
place. Gutenberg and Clifton have not
yet reached an amicable understanding,
as the former is said to demand all the
Saturdays. This Mr.. Engeman will not
concede, and threatens that IL Gutenberg
apBENpTlakSS Inttll, ltldI SklINOu VIII race
every day in opposition. Then as to Eliza
beth and Linden, IL appears that the Gut
tenberg people are not willing to shut down
more than seven days for their benefit.
and this is hardly likely to prove sat
isfactory. a general go-as-you-please af-
fair win likely result Elizabeth and Lin
den will divide dates between themselves.
and probably race without regard to Gut
tenberg or Clifton. so 1t is possible that
three meetings in the vicinity Of New York
may be running simultaneously.
As stated in this column several weeks
ago would be the case. Mr. Engeman has
secured a lease of the Ivy City track. and
will inaugurate a winter race meeting on
the first of December. This will clash with
the proposed December meeting OF the
Washington Jockey Club, and a merry time
may be expected.
Massachusetts Pool Sellers Arrested.
For the first time in twenty-five years
the old laws against pool selling In Massa-
chusetts were put in operation last week at
Springfield, when Edwin Morse and Frank
L. Herdic. auction pool sellers: James
Clancy, who runs the mutuals, and Charles
tody for transacting business at the big
t-otting meeting held at Hampden Park
On the following day all We're sentenced to
pay a fine of 1900 and serve three months
Imprisonment An appeal has been taken
and all have been released on bail
The Coney Island Jockey Club is leaving
no stone unturned in its efforts to arrange a
fou--mile race for the closing day Of the
present meeting. If sufficient number
of good horses can be induced to enter a
suitable prize will be offered, and the race
will be run over the grass course.
The report comes from Tennessee that
the famous stallion Brown Hal, LIZ l-2
has got rid of his ailing leg and is going
faster than ever. He is getting a special
preparation for the Cumberland Park meet
ing In October. when he will be sent agains,
the pacing record.