Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-03

I Love went on the shelf last season and spoiled the Swear old racing. The still older horses lost the head of their di- vision, Henry of Navarro, in July, and there are promised worse happenings in the coming years,
 The second payments on the entries to the famous Kentucky Futurity have just been made. Six hundred and thirty
 seven weanlings are named and their entrance fees paid. They comprise the choicest bred lot that has ever been en- tered in the Futurity or any other stake. All the sensat ational sires and most of the celebrated dams are well represented. Of course it is impossible to give the breed- ing of these. The national character and representation of the entries can, however be shown by the mention of the largest nomlnators.
 The Cloyerdell farm of A. H. Moore, near Philadelphia, home of Director, Red Wilkes and the greatest band of brood mares In the world, heads the list with forty-three nominations, L. V. Hark- ness, Walnut farm, Donerail, Ky, comes next with twenty-three, principally Rob- ert McGregors out of royalty bred mares. Next is Palo Alto. former speed nursery or the country, with twenty, including the weanling out of grand old Beautiful Bells. Thenr'J H. Shults Parkville farm. New York, with eighteen young Strangers, Rumors and Thistles. The Copper King stays in with seventeen weanlings from Bitter Root Ranehe. Fred P. Olcott names from his Round Top farm, Banardsville, N. J., sixteen by his grandly bred young sires Athol and Pa- latka. Next comes Millionaire J. Mall colm Forbes with twelve of the blood royal, principally by the $125,000 Arion and out of his superb matrons. His list Is headed by the little miss, Marion, by Arion, out of the former queen, Nancy Hanks, 2:04. The homes of kremlin, 2:07A, and Dictator are tied in next place, both Allen farm and Ashland naming eleven weanlings Patchen Wilkes farm, Lexington, home of the great sire Joe Patehen, names ten choice ones, while Mrs. Stokes, virtually it's fair proprie- tress, names a phenomenal weanlng out of old Jane L., 2:19A, over her own name.
 The.fgures which show how the horse men at New Orleans stood with dame fortune up to Saturday are interesting. The Avondale stable still heads the list, while Lon Stevens has taken quite jump in the column, his horses having won no less than $1,000 during the past week. Of this amount Seabrook won $925s One hundred and ninety-nine races had beensrun up to Saturday night and ninety-two owners have captured $100 or more. The following is a list of those who have won $1,O0o or over: Avondale stable. sS,693; G. C. Bennett 2,76s; Sham rock stable, $2,405; H. McCarren, Jr., s2,- l0S: F. T. Woods, $1 869; Springfield sta- ble. ,790; T. H. Stevens. $1,743; A. Shields, s1, ,474; P. J. Miles. s1, ,440; Caesar Young, $1,S97; Rosedale stable, $1,394. Joe Scherer still leads in the number of winning mounts at New Orleans. c. Reiff added six scalps to his belt during the past week, while M. Hirsch was right after him, with five winnings to his credit One of the most successful lads at the meeting will ha missed In
 The latter was foolish enough to allow himself to be advised by supposed friends and he decamped from his em- ployer Here is a list of the winning jocks. who have ten or morefirsts to their credit: J. Scherer. 27; Morse, IA R. Combs, IS; M. Hirsch, 13; T. Powers, Il; C. Reiff, II; Barrett, To-
 The prospects of the turf in Illinois are growing brighter. President George H. Wheeler, of Washington Park, has sig nified that his association will cooperate in any reputable movement to secure fa- vorab ble legislation which will properly restrict trotting and running race meet ings The idea Is to limit all meetings on any one track for thirty days prohibit foreign bookmaking and permit pool sell ing on local events. Missouri turfmen may secure the passage of similar bill
 The Ideal Park race track people have OpcHeu nineteen StdkeS 10 De run TOT In 1897, with added money aggregating It, tie over $26,000. The chief event is the Ideal Park handicap for 3-year-olds and upward at one mile and three-sixteenths, with guaranteed value of $6,000.
 The announcement is made that Alix 2:03%, queen of the turf, is in the mar ket, her owner, Morris J. Jones, of Red Oak, Ia., having. decided to sell her. It is said that he once refused $30,00O for her. She would probably bring a bigger figure at one of the New York auctions than anywhere else, as many of the wealthy eastern breeders would like to have her as the queen of the harem.
 The Coney Island Jockey club will soon announce the conditions and date of a new stake race, to be known as the an- nual Champion stakes, which may soon become one of the leading classic events of the turf. It will call for foals and year lings of 1884,, and will probably be run for the first time in 1900 when the foals will be 3-year-olds, and the yearlings A. year-olds The race will be over a dis tance of one mile and six furlongs. It will he a purely standard event run at weight for age; 126 pounds for 4-year- olds and 109 for 3year-olds, if run in the month of June, as it probably will be; for 126 and III pounds if run in July. There will be no penalties or allowances of any sort or description The condi- tions will be so worded that unless horse is declared out the original entry will qualify. a horse to start either as a 3-year-old or 4-year-old, or both. Hence, it is easy to see how the race will be the crowning question of horses career. For horse to win the event in both years in which he Is eligible will put him in the same category as Ormonde, who won the Hardwick staktes at Ascot, both as a 3-year-old and 4-year-old. Other associations may find 1t profitable to fol-. low the lead of the Coney Island Jockey club.
 That Lonely's win Saturday, when she broke the record, was no fiuke can readily be. seen by referring to her previous races. The first two times she started the track was heavy and not to her lik- ing She finished fourth the first time, while she had Scribe driving to beat her out the next time she started Her next two races were winning ones, in which she showed a great turn of speed. In the Mississippi handicap she was interfered with at the half-mile pole and knocked out of the race after getting off almost Toe nn ho ord tron xxrith 1ioh in,f