The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-11
HORSE NOTES AND NEWS.

There are now seven horses racing in Cali
fornia that hod worlds records Tim MUIR
Phy, five and one-half furlongs :O6 -;
Weinberg, six and one-half furongs, 119 2-5;
Mamie Scott seven and one-half furlongs,
1:33k Libertine, one mile, circular course,
1854 Cash Day. one mile and seventy yards,
1:44 Red Skin, one and one-sixteenth miles,
1:45H, and Hotspur, one and three-quarter
miles 3:00A.
James Murphy. the Chicago horseman, and
the new owner of Star Pointer, 2:O212, took a
trip to SomervilIe. N. j., recently and criti-
cally examined John r. Gentry and Robert ].
Trainer Dave McCleary Will ship Star Pointer
from Boston to Baltimore next week. and will
fit him for fast work over the Pimlico track.
McCleary will take with him the Canadian
mare Nelly Bruce, 21012 and the Kentucky
pacing stallion Guinette, 2:08.
The Hartford Post, in speaking of the sale
Of John R. Gentry at $4,000, declares that
when N. w. Kittson paid $26 600 for the IA
nous PAGER Johnston, that that was the larg-
est price ever paid for PAGER To the con-
trary, however, Feb. g. 1893. George Fl.
Hammond, of Detroit. paid $27, 900 at public
auction for the we'll known PAGER Sidney.
Three years ago NJ. E. McHenry set great.
store by his two-year-old Gene Wilton, brother
Of Willmarch, 2:17H. He was expected to
prove a very fast trotter, but, somehow,
he failed to materialize, and finally the imam
from Freeport" let him go. At the last Fasg
sale in New York he turned up as a gelding
and brought $85.
A large consignment of trotters was shipped
to Honolulu, Sandwich Islands from San
Francisco, CAL. last week The lot consisted
OF mares stations and youngsters by Guy
Wilkes Sable Wilkes. Altamont Monroe
Chief and Mambrino Wilkes. Al OF the
mares were in foal to Dawn, 2:18A, son Of
Nutwood
There is no truth whatever in the rumor
that w. Waldorf Astor is about to embark
in racing. says a London paper. He takes not
the slightest interest in any sport. and he is
the most unlikely millionaire in the world to
follow the example Of his compatriots who
are just now making big splash on the turf
in England.
When Andrews took John B. Gentry they
shod him with an open shoe. He has ever
since been shod with bar shoe full at the
heel weighing six ounces. His feet were
Tewksbury took him than when he passed to
the ownership of Mr.. Simpson.
The we,l-known trainer Of trotters, Joe Rea,
Of Danvil,e, KY, has severed his connection
with Marcus DAILY, owner Of Bitter Root
farm. at Anaconda, Mont. He left Kentucky
on the 20th inst, with twenty-three head OF
trotters for the DAILY farm.
G.. w. Williams has bought the Galesburg
mile track He has purchased number OF
speedy Allerton colts, and with LIST years
successful string. will make a vigorous
campaign this season. Two meetings will be-
held at Galesburg, in June and September.
Not only will the little mare Sphinxetta,
2:081z be a stable companion to Frank Agan
W.. Nubinger having purchased Sphinxetta
and Robinette, 2;121a, of their former owner.
S. R. Ellis, Cambridge Mass.
Gold Leaf, 2:161k, by Nugget, dam Maple
Leaf, by New York, has sixteen in the list
at thirteen years Of age, and added six last
year. He is the sire Of the great race horse
Franklin.
New York horseman says Joe Patchen.
203 may be in the stable of an Eastern train
er this season. instead of being in Jack
Curry's stable. as II has been supposed he
would be.
Maud 5. 2:0SA, was twenty three March Z.
Star Pointer stays with McCIeary.