Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27
Notes of the Turf.

Directum, 2:05A, may be sold at auction.
p. ]. Miles stable will be sent to Little
Rock.
Arion, 2:o7R, will probably never be
trained again.
Six DAYS racing at Little Rock, begin
ming March %.
j. ]. McCafferty has been visiting his
relatives in Texas.
The 2-year-old sister of Pilot Boy, 2:10A,
is called Dynamis.
There are about 125 horses wintering at
Cumberland park.
ST. Louis will have six months continu-
Gus racing next season.
John H. Thompson, the veteran Ohio
horseman, has been forced to make an as
signment.
w. ]. Spiers and AL Shields will ship
their horses from New Orleans to San
Francisco.
Ed A. Upton may engineer a meeting
at Overland park. Denver, Col, early in
the spring.
Nashville's spring meeting begins April
o. 1t will clash with Memphis, Louisville
and Newport.
The Kentucky Association has decided to
give a spring meeting. beginning the sec
ond Monday in May.
Jockey Taral has decided to spend the
of going to California.
Nashville will have $1,000 stake event
each day, except the Cumberland prize,
which amounts to $500.
W. OBJ. MacDonough will remain in New
York all winter, and he will be much miss
ed at the California tracks.
If the Saratoga Racing Association Sc
cures acceptable dates valuable list of
stakes will shortly be announced.
Major E. o. CBuck) Elliott the veteran
turfman, was stricken with paralysis at
his home in Gallatin few days ago.
Louis Ezell lost promising colt by Jim
Gore at San Francisco recently, through
a collision on the track while exercising,
the colt dying instantaneously from his in
juries.
w. C. Trimble the veteran Eastern New
York trainer, was thrown from his road
cart in a collision on the track recently
and sustained painful but not serious in
juries.
Jockey Dorsey, who has been a bone Of
| contention between the race tracks and the
| courts, Is riding at New Orleans, pending
| decisions in some of the cases in which he
| is concerned.
| J. 3. Haggin is said to be anxious to get
| Dandie Dinmott, but he is not likely to
| succeed. Tennessee breeders regard Dandie
as highly as any stallion that ever came
| into the state.
Milliard Sanders corrects the statement
| that the 1880 paid for John R. Gntry was
the highest on record for PAGER. Sidney,
2:19a,. sold for 1880 at the Fasig sale in
| Cleveland in 1898.
"Eole" Pearsoll, New York bookmak-
| er, was at the Crescent City track about
week. He made a book for three days. and
then dropped out after losing, as report
| says, about 5000.
Speaker Reed was visitor to Palo Alto
while in California, and Il number of the
Young things at the farm were put through
| their PAGES for the benefit of the distin-
| guished statesman.
Lew Marian, who formerly trained Yo
| Tambien, is wintering his horses at Cum
| berland park. He has only few head at
| present, but will have several additions to
| his string in January.
Joe Murphy and George Munson are can
| didates for the secretaryship of the st.
| Louis Jockey Club. Both used to be base
| ball men, but of late Murphy has been act
! ing as a racing official.
This was a bad year for nearly all the
| Western racing clubs, and retrenchment
| will be in order: hence the amount of
| added money is likely to be cut down on
most of the big stakes.
The Missouri stallion Frank Erwin, by
| Goodwood. took trotting record of 2:29A
| in 1894 and n pacing record of 2:lSA the
past year. Next season will see him again
| performing as a trotter.
| prominent turfman said recently that
August Belmont and his father had done
| more for racing in the East-that is. for
| high-class racing-than any or all other
| agencies that could be named.
The Westchester Racing Associations
| National stallion race of $50 0oO for 2-year-
| olds of 1896, to be run at the spring meet
| ing OF the association at Morris park in
| 1898, has closed with 37s entries.
The announcement is made that Alix.
| 2:032s, queen of the turf, is in the market,
| her owner. Morris ]. Jones, of Red Oak.
| Ia, having decided to sell her. 1t Is said
| that he once refused $50 900 for her.
| Turney Bros, Nashville. have engaged
| fifteen stalls at Montgomery. Ala, and will
| ship their horses there January l. The
| string includes the crack 2-year-old DIR.
l Catlett, and it is betraying no confidence