The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-30
Eagle Horse Notes.

Dan HONG has been due at San Fran
cisco with his string of runners for
some time back, but up to latest adj
vices had not arrived.
J. j. Burke will be the presiding
judge at Saratoga. Jockeys F'itzpat-
rick and Garrison are applicants for
the position of starter.
Trotting races to saddle are still popu
lar in France, and scarcely a meeting
is given there without one or two races
OF this kind each day.
They timed horses by fifth-seconds
at the Lawrence Mass.,) meeting last
week. Going at a 2:10 clip, a fifth-sec-
ond means nearly length.
Governor Bunn's bay mare, Beele A.
will start in the 2:27 class al the July
meeting at Baltimore. William Scat
tergood will hold the ribbons
Jockey Thrope and the Fleischmanns
are on the out, and although the former
has contract for the year, he is not
likely to don the stable colors again.
Miss Pollard. by Spreckels Imp Ida
loum, full brother to Sir Modred, re-
| Gently won 2-year-old event at the
Bay Distritc track at odds of 100 to l.
The bay horse, Trotwood, who earn
ed a record of 2:l5% in winning a race
at Dubuque. Ia, Wednesday, June II.
is a 6-year-old son of Phallas, 2:lS&.
Lissak, Chinn & Morgan's famous g.
year-old, now at Detroit. will be ship
ped to Oakley. and he will start in the
Liberty stakes there on the opening
day.
a subordinate branch Of the Ameri-
can Leauge was organized in Louisville
/ Tuesday, with Frank Fehr as president
and w. p. Davies secretary and treas
urer.
The failure Of the Illinois legislature
to pass a racing bill. and the conse-
quent closing of the Chica go tracks. is
bound to effect a big boom for the De-
troit meeting.
The American 4-year-old colt Bla elk
burn recently won $500 in a trotting
race at Marseilles, France. trotting
nearly two miles at 2:49 gait and beat
ing three others.
The western jockeys. Houston. Over
ton and kunZe, are at Sheaphead Bay
track. Houston has been engaged by
George Forbes and Overton will ride
for j. Mclaughlin.
Eolus was foaled in 1858. and is there
fore q years old. The old son of Lean
ington and Fannie Washington APP
pears hale and hearty and good for
many years service.
Horse-owners in the west will miss the
Harlem and Hawthorne races There
were $4,000 worth OF stakes programme
ed for 1895. and $S5. 900 worth q : Harlem
all OF which are off.
Charles 5. Caffery has shipped one of
his latest improved sulkies to Belmont
course, for the roam mare katherine S.
2:lIS.. The sulky is one OF the best out
and weighs Sc pounds.
Rody Patterson has clipped 81 sec
onds of Maud C's record already this
season. Her mark is now 2l0i3. Few
horses reduce a record that much after
Ed Greer gives them up.
Joseph McGiensey, Of PhoenixvilIe.
Pa, sold his fast pacing horse. Pomp.
2l112, TO Thomas Neiss, OF Bethlehem,
after the e:lS class race at the latter
place last Tuesday. Price $500.
Brook Curry has purchased a splen-
cid bluegrass farm near Frankfort.
KY, and viii within a short time en-
gage in framing and breeding trotters.
The farm contains about 500 acres.
John Raynor. prominent horsemsn
fast mare, Sinful. 2.eSt4 a heat over
the Homestead track at that place
June Is, fell dead from heart trouble.
c. H. Smith, the Chicago Board OF
Trade man, intended to spend so. 900
in yearlings at New York. but owing 70
the ahandonig OF racing al Chicago
changed his mind and kept his money
number Of colts by Ormoude VIII
make their debut as 2-ysar-olGs in the
Aregntines this season. They are the
sc; OF orInonde while he was IL South
America and are out OF well bred mares