The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-22


farm, 10; Suburban farm. Il; E. S. Wells.
Hermitage stud, Ashland stud, and En-
pire City farm name 10 each; Muster Hill
farm and r. C. Estill name each; sum-
nit View farm and W. R. Janier, each.
These are the heaviest nominations.
NOTES OF EQUINES.
Bert Sheldon. 2:161l, won IS, 400 last sea-
son.
Coastman, 2:osH. will be out again
next season.
Robert j., 2:o11A, stands 151h under
the standard.
."rod" Sloane expects to sail for home
on Jan. %.
The Coney Island Futurity for 1900 has
nearly 1000 entries.
Isaac Fleming thinks Page, 2:o9A, will
stand training again.
The dam of Be Sure, 2:0sA, is to be
bred to Ananias. 2:063z.
The Texas horse, Rebel Jack, is show
ing good form in winter facing.
There were 30 books doing business at
Macmillan, 2:15l4, by Drawn Hal, will
be raced by Ed Geers next season.
Ben Walker says that he once rode
mile behind Dan Cupid. 2:O914, in 2:O6 IL
John R. Gentry, 200 IL, stands exactly
Is hands and an inch tall under the stand
ard
It is reported that James Gordon will
train Silver Chimes, 2:0S IA, and Courier
Journal, 2:OS IA.
Electioneer now has 81 sons that have
sired 2:2O performers of which 80 have 2:15
representatives.
Page, 2:O9 ga, has been fired and blister
ed. and his trainer is hopeful OF racing
him another season.
1t is rumored that Azote, 2:0tS-4, will
stand a race preparation and start in
few races this year.
Ed Corrigan has returned to Sam Hill
| dreth the horse Lucky Dog, which he took
out of selling race recently.
J. B. Ferguson has won the favor Of
the California horsemen by his splendid
use Of the starters gate and flag.
The American stallion Sunrise Patchen,
2:19 IA exported to Austria several years
ago, is now owned in Roumania.
The New Orleans meeting is still be-
| hind financially, but business is improving
and the club will more than win out.
! Pelleas, bay gelding. 5. by Bersan, dam
I La Belle Helene, died at the st. Louis fair
| grounds recently from blood poisoning.
| At New Orleans a few days ago in a
race in the mud Lady Cordell fell and
broke her neck, dying almost instantly.
Their eport that Bow Bells, thewell-
| known son of Electioneer and Beautiful
Bells, will soon go under the hammer, is
! contradicted.
Trainer ]. H. Farley, who has handled
many horses for T. ]. Caldwell, of Toledo.
has leased the Exposition track in Toledo
for next year.
The California breeders, at a recent
meeting in San Francisco, approved a
resolution advising the discontinuance of
the use of hobbies.
T. C. Stackhouse, of Lexington, KY,
| has full brother to Rex Americas 2:11 IA
coming year old, that is entered in $780,
900 worth of stakes.
Masvero and his owner, G. Pacheco.
have been suspended for 60 days, dating
| from Dec. o. on account of the glaringly
| inconsistent form of the horse in his late
races at Oakland, Cal.
| W. H. Mccarthy has just returned to
New York from Waterloo, Iowa, with the
| promising trotter Mamie T..2:21 1-2, that
he purchased there for William Kelly, the
owner of Dan Cupid. 2:09 IA.
Joe Station is jogging on the road
George Rowe's string. He will campaign
next season David c., 2:17 IL; Ella Vert
ner, PIG IA; Silverware, (2:1S traiD, by
Wilton, and a recent purchase that can
go very fast.
The European record for trotting teams
is held by the American horese Autrain,
| 2:16 ga. and Chatsworth, 2:24, who trotted
| a fourth heat (of a mile and furlong)
at Milan. Italy, Nov. IS, in 2:4S ga, a
2:3O rate for the mile.
Trainers at Gravesend are all talking
about the form shown by P. ]. Dryer
colt Miller, by Hindoo-Bonnie Gal. He
moves easily, and has already shown
great speed. Frank McCabe thinks that
in this colt Mr.. Dwyer may have another
Hanover.
One of the most sensational develop
nents that has yet occurred in the an
nails Of Australian sport took place Nov
ember Il. 1897, when the committee of the
Victoria Racing club ruled off the tur;
for life Samuel Allen and Thomas Arm
field. two Of the best known bookmakers
Of that country. This heavv penalty was
incurred in connection with the perfor-
| nance Of the race horse Parthenopaeus
| owned by these two bookmakers. at the
recentVictorian Racing club meeting.
Sir Walter has arrived atthe Beau
mont stud. property of H. P. Headley
Lexington, KY. and with him the mare:
Fireworks, by Falsetto. dam Explosion
Nutbrown. by Uncas. dam Mimi.tand Ny
Own. by Sensation, dam Queens Own, the
| property of n. K. Knapp. and they vii
be bred to him this season Ida X, tbs
| dam OF Ida Pickwick. was recently pur
chased by Mr.. Knapp and Will also b
bred TO Sir Walter. Sir Walter will serv.
the mares mentioned and be put in train
ing again in the spring.
Plants are placed in the celalr 70 rest
not to grow. Nothing is moro harmful 4
them when thus stored away than water
and fl should never be given unless [,
| keep the soil from becoming dust dry
, In early spring II the buds on the plants
are seen to be starting a little, do no
give water which would only favor thei
growth. but keep as dry and cool as pos
s.ble until the tine 20 take them cut o
he cellar.-vicks Magazine