The evening times., 1895-12-12

county lair md the best pdrs. H. be secured,
the race to be ten miles -
Imp. Herinence, 4 chestnut horse, by ison.
omy, out of Thebias, was sold at Lexing ton,
Ky, yesterday, for ST75.
During the / 40 days OF racing at the ST.
Louis fair grounds the association distrib-
uted over $500 900 in purses and stakes.
New York has n speedway and Boston is
going to construct a new one. yet Washing
tonans think an asphalt street is good
enough to pound their horses upou.
Albert Moser, representative nf the Aus
trian government, who visited the Erie
county stock farms last week, will return
home December 10. He. VIII visit America
in March on purpose To attend the Jewett
sale.
Matt Dwycr has returned from his Euro
pean trip, and ls making arrangements to
take another consignment of horses to
Austria. There viii be more trutters of a
high class exported during the next four
months than any previous season.
For the last month or so three trotting
horsemen from Europe have been selecting
| American stoke to take across the Atlantic.
Henry A. Fleischman is the most prominent
| Of the trio, and he has made purchases for
the stable which he and his brothers send
| through the circuits of Germany, Austria,
France and Italy. Albert Moser acts for
! the Austrian government and b. Tappan,
who was trainer in this country before he
went abroad, had commission from the Ger
man government TO secure additional ma
terial for the trotting turf in the Father
land.
1t is a curious fact that when horses
racing career is over he is seldoni If ever,
heard from again. The stations, if they
have been race horses of good class, are
! put to stud duty, and sometimes become
| popular again by the success of their pro-
geny, and the mares. no matter OF what
| class 20 to the stock farms; but what be-
comes of the old geldings? Very few are
killed outright. yet a brokendown thorough
| bred is a useless animal.
| Patrick. the property of Pat" Dunno.
and well-known to Chicago race-goers. is
retired and turned out, on Eugene Leigh's
| farm, to end his days in ease and plenty.
| Parole, the winner of eighty-seven races
in this country and England. was and may
be now. on Pierre Lorillard's place at
| Jobstown, N. J.
Old Barnun, who ran until he was 10
years old, earned the title of 1.-THE iron
horse" long before PA" Bradley's Bitten
was foaled. Barnum's last appearance in
the ring was at East st. Louis. where he
was beaten by lot of cheap "skates," a
sad end to the racing career of the conqueror
of Hanover.
Longfcllow. LexiRaton, bennington, Bon
ME Scotland and Gl died on the farms
INIT
day alone belongs the honor of dying. not
"in harness." but under saddle on the field
| of battle. and he is buried near the scene OF
his hardest fights and greatest triumphs.
says n Western turf writer. Sunday. by
Sun Dance. was a handsome, big bay horse,
and although not strictly thoroughbred. at
his distance-half a mile-a gamer race
horse never looked through bride. Sun
days first races were run in California and
Montana. and in half-mile heats and dashes
he was practically unbeaaable. Jack"
Dowd. Butte, Mont, gambler and saleon-
keeper got control of the horse and took
him East TO Guttenburg. where, like his
predecessor. old Hickory Jim," he spoiled
| many n s'gOod thing and won many good
races for DOwd and his followers. Alternat-
ing between Gloucester and Guttenburg.
Dowd and old Sunday were the terrors of
the ring for several years. until finally
careless stable boys allowedthe horse tn be-
come chilled after race. and be died right
on the track. Ontbe infield. just at the head
df the stretch, the Old spriutcr is buried; q
marble slab marks the SPOT: which is fenced
off with an iron railing The result of gen
eFal contribution from the old borse's ad-
mirers, who had often profile cd by his game
ness and speed.
Allow us to correct yorr statement hro-
ther. Sunday died N his s, able from poison.
given to him q an apple. n nd bis burial and