The evening times., 1896-02-27

mares worth.
The stock offered during the day was, as
a rule, of good quality, but the prices OBJ
tanned were unusually small.
WHIP AND SPUR
Lee Jones. the jockey. has been suspended
at the Crescent City track.
A. Clayton will ride at New Orleans.
Frank Bray is a candidate assistant to
Starter Flynn at the Jockey Club tracks.
P. ]. Dwyer arrived at Rockledge, Fla.
from New Orleans on Monday. He Is ex-
pected In New York about March 6.
j.. j. McCafferty, who Is now in New Or
leans, says he may visit Enoch Wishard
In England, aud. If he is satisfied with the
outlook there, take over a string OF horses
in 1897.
Scroggan Brothers of Kentucky have pur-
chased from Hankins Il johnson the stallion
Terra Gotta, to take the place OF Buchanan.
who died last spring at the head of their
breeding establishment.
The latest addition to the San Francisco
starting machine is an electric timing de-
vice. When the button releases the screen,
or apron, 1t sets timing clock going. The
timer can stop it as the winner reaches the
winning post.
Declare, who was sent to Eugene Leigh's
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will be shipped to New York in the course
OF a week or two. Mr.. Leigh thinks he will
stand training, and advised Mr.. Dwyer 10
that effect some time ago. H'-
Among the earliest foals at the Mcssrs.
Kcenc's Castleton, KY, breeding farm are
the following: Black fllly. by Tournament
imp. Elsie; chestnut colt. by st. Leonard
imp. Lucille; bay colt. by Chorister-imp. Ec-
centricity. and chestnut filiy, by Hyderabad
imp. Innerdale.
William Lakeland is schooling Ajax and
Sport over the timber. Both OF them are
doing well, although Sport still shows a
disposition To sulk occasionally. Lakeland
thinks that II he would take to the work
kindly there isn't horse in America that
could beat him at the cross-country game.
Handspring is developing into an exact
counterpart of his sire. Hanover. He is
now about the same height as Hanover.
16.1. and is filling out in his quarters,
where he most needed development. The
Gravesend trainers are already beginning
to prophesy that he will make a clean sweep
OF the spring three year-old stakes.
The poolroom proprietors In Covington,
KY. have been fined $500 and costs on
each case against them and the cases OF
the employees held on the abatement. This
close all the poolrooms in that vicinity.
The five-year-old bay horse Claudius,
owned by Charles Root, of the Elmwood
Stock Farm, has been declared out of the
Suburban handicap.
Sport has been in the shafts of O wagon
when needed this winter, as well as pushed
over the jumps.
The folks at Gravesend are inclined to
think Handspring will clean up the three
year-old events in the East
violating the anti-pool law, was found
guilty by jury at st. Louis Tuesday.
His punishment was placed at six months
Imprisonment in the workhouse and fine
of 81 900.
Judge Badger Of the court of common
pleas of Ohio, has decided that receiving
money in Ohio to be sent to poolroom in
Kentucky to pay racing bets is violation
OF the laws Of Ohio.
The jury in the case of Judge Lambert
n. Tree, ex-United States minister to the
Netherlands, against NJ. c. Mcdonald. the
idely-known sporting man, brought in
verdict yesterday at Chicago in favor
of Tree, granting him $3S,320 damages.
This is the elimination of the long-drawn
out litigation over the old Garfield Park
race track, the rental of which was guaran-
teed by mike" Mcdonald. When the track
was closed down Mcdonald refused to pay
the rent and was sued by Tree, with the
final result as stated.