The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-14
TURF NOTES.
Horse Gossip, Tracs News and General
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Horse Gossip, TracS News and General
Following are weights and entries for
| to-days races at PimlIco:
First race, fve-eighths of a mile. for
maiden 2-year-olds-Ha Ha, Mile NJ. los;
| Chester. Fred K. Nestor, 101; DR.. Ashe.
| 49,
III Maurice. 107; Thurston, 107; Long
bridge. 10S; Candelabra. Merry Duke, 106;
Shelley futile. los; Sue Kittie. Mckee,
Juanita, "a.
Third race, mile and an eighth, Germa-
MIA Brewing handicap-Lake Shore. 116;
Helen Nichols, 100; Sunup. 1902; Marshall,
Maurice. 100.
Fourth race, three-fourths of a mile.
selling-Hugh Penny, ia; Irish Reel, 1o1;
George Dixon. 1902; Cuckoo. los; Pitfall.
a.
Fifth race. one mile, for maidens-Mar-
garet, Fatal 107; Salvor, 107
Clear: fast.
A remarkable case of aged vitality is
that of the stallion Blacks Hambleton-
ian, one of the few surviving sons of
Rysdyk's Hambletonian. He is now Is
years old, is quite frisky and got two
colts this season.
w. s. McChesney of Lexington, KY,
has a 2-year-old PAGER by Earl Medium
Moliie d.. by Wilkes Boy, who is doing
miles in 2:17 He will bear watching next
year.
A wealthy English gentleman is nib
bling after the great campaigning mare
Nightingale. 2:OS. If he buys her she can
easily beat anything there is in Eu-
rope.
No trainer in this country is cleverer
than Byron McClelland in developing the
speed and endurance of a horse. Witness
his successes with Halma, Buck Massie
and many others that began by showing
very moderate form. Hence the loss of
filly that has shown the speed of Au
Revoir was particularly unfortunate.
There can be no doubt that the travelling
accommodations for horses in this coun-
try are singularly poor in comparison
with the amount of money expended by
owners for railroad fares each year. The
proportion of mishaps consequent on
travel is singularly high. and should lead
to improvements. In the South, below
Washington, the accommodations are
simply disgracefuL-New York Mer-
curry
Ottinger, who had a record of 2:11h as
a trotter. has also taken a record of 2:11A
this season as a PAGER, which gives him
the distinction of being the only horse
with the same low record at both gaits.
Five yearlings from the Castleton Stud
Farm, Lexington, KY, the property of J.
X. and F. p. Keene. have arrived at
Sheepshead Bay, in charge of ]. Miller.
The Messrs. Keene promise to hold
very strong hand in 2-year-old events
next year. as they have about score of
grandly bred ones. several of which are
extra good looking youngsters.
It was at Pimlico during its palmy days
that such horses as Tom Ochiltree, Mon
archist. Parole, Harry Bassett, Freak
ness, etc. ran some of their greatest
races. Speaking of Preakness, by the by,
brings TO mind the noteworthy perform
ance of the veteran William Hayward.
who, at Pimlico rode Preakness to vic
tory In the inaugural Dixie stakes. at two
miles, and also rode Taragon. the winner
of the Dixie stakes. I'm the last year OF its
existence. Preakness. IL will be remem-
bered, was afterward taken to England
by c. Littlefeld, sr.. when Mr.. Sanford
sent his string to England in 1875. There
Preakness won the Brighton Cup and
several other important races, being SUBJ
sequently sold to the late Duke of Ham
iton, whose estate near Newmarket has
recently been rented by Pierre Loril-
lard.
Jockey Willie Simms has decided to re-
main with the Dryers for the season of
1896.
Sam Doggett will not ride for the
Brookdale stable after all. Jimmy Rowe
tried hard to get him, but Doggett has
decided to remain with the Oneck
stable.
The mystery OF the season has been
who owned the great 3-year-old colt
Larabie. 2:lih. He was bought and con-
trolled by the well-known @. Leavitt of
Boston, who did not claim to own him,
but would not say who did. Now that
the season is over IL is admitted that he
is owned by Alexander McLaren. a
wealthy Canadian lumber merchant, who
also owns wistful. 2:i44: Claypontas.
2:11h. and other fleet ones.
The sensational young trotter. Red Bud.
2:l4iz. as a 3-year-old, will. I'm all proba-
bility, be one of the sensations in the
slow pacing classes next season. Gil
Curry, his trainer. found out this year
that he wanted to pace. and this fall he
has been giving him lessons at that gait
He went his first mile in 2:S5 and has
made such satisfactory progress that he
recently paced a mile I'm 2:l2ik. the last
half In i:O5. and the last quarter i'm
0:3iiz