The Wichita daily eagle., 1898-01-08
NOTES ON HORSES.

| Joe, Z.US, TO western nOrSemen.
ChehaIis. 2:o71s, the two-mile champion
is to race in the east next year.
| Alonzo Mcdonald drove in 60 races II
1897 and was placed in 56 of them.
Colonel Kuser, 2:11A, although owned II
| Austria, is bein wintered in Italy.
| w. p. Sullivan of st. Louis, has deSer
ted New Orleans for California this year
D. A. Smell of New Bedford, Mass.
| owner of Jupe,2, 2:13z4 is reported serious
ly i'll.
Senator A, 2:1o, had bad lucy last sea
son, but retired sound and will be ready
for 1885,
The pacing gelding W. Wood, 2:07, /!
running out in California. His racing day.
are probably over.
The New Orleans management refused
s1.5O0 for the betting privileges offered by
a western syndicate.
The Tennessee Derby for 1898 closed
$50 is due on Jan. Is.
Drextell, brother to Axtell, will bs
raced next season. He is PAGER and ha:
passed quarter in 81 seconds.
Ed Geers is the hardest working trainer
in the profession, the most successful, and
at 5000 per year, one of the heapest.
1t is reported that the fast pacing mare
Effie Powers, 2:10A, is now owned by c.
F. Kenyon, of the Union Stock Yards
Chicago.
A B. Spreckles has paid big price fol
the option of sending Is mares to st. Car
10, undoubtedly one of the best young
sires in America today.
James A Martin of Feast Liverpool, O..
owns George Wilkes, which is in foal to
Rubenstein. 205.
The four yearlings sent to England re-
Gently by P. Lorillard on the Atlantic
transport steamer Mississippi arrived
safely and in good condition.
In the st. Louis Derby for 1893 there are
155 entries eligible to start, amnog which
are Plandit, Fonsavannah, Bannocksburn
and Lieher Karl.
At Meadowlands Farm, near Pittsburg,
Pa, there is very fast youngster by Ire
william, 2:0SA, out of the dam of Hannis,
Jr. 2:16l4, by Almont.
The pacing mare Mabel P, 2:10k, by
Bourbon Wilkes, who fractured her hip
at Hartford last fall and was in sings for
weeks, is coming around all right.
E. H. Hartman, of New York, the own
er of Stamboul. 2:071R, has notified the
Goshen Driving Park association that he
will renew his lease of that trotting track
property. which expires on May 1.
The five Morello yearlings, and on by
imp. Mariner, from ]. B. Chase's Sonoma
ranch, were sold at the Ingelside track
by Messrs. Killip & Co. recently, and ave-
ragged within a trif1e of $500 each
At an auction sale in Boston week be-
fore last Marion R., 2:251s. brought $3.50;
Leo Wilkes, 2:2515, $500; Caters, 2:2414,
s2O2.5O; an dthe PAGERS Star Wilkes, PISA,
and Amos J., 2:15. s725 and s295 respect
lively.
n. W. Hubinger, New Haven, Conn,
has sold to Herman Bronson, of the same
place, the fast PAGER Sphinxetta, 2:0Sz,
and Forest Herr, 2:0s. The price paid for
the pair of horses is said to have been
5000.
Jils Johnson, bay horse, foaled 1876, by
Longfellow, dam Fanny Wells, by imp.
Sovereign, out of Reel, by imp. Glencoe,
the property of F. B. Harper, died from
CpliC dl lilt 4NdluI ClOu OIl "
Dec. 16.
Green B. Morris arrived at New Or
leans in time to see Sallie Clicquot run
third to Sligo and J. A. Gray. Sallie
started again a day or two afterward,
and was beaten by a 80 to1 shot, Elsie
Bramble, in hair raising finish.
Tom Burns has a three years contract
with Jockey Tommy Burns which extend
ed to the close of 1895. For relinquishing
the Jockeys service for the latter year
he receives a handsome bonus, report put
ting the figure at 5000.
The report that Ben Walker is In Cali
fornia training for Monroe Salisbury is
incorrect. He is now in Chicago and will
winter in the east. II is probable. how
ever. that he may drive for Mr. Salisbury
again next year.
Marcus Daily OF Montana, through Ed
4. Upton. has been buying some very
choice young mares in Kentucky. among
them a sister of Baronet, 2:111:. and sis
ter of Ralph Wilkes. 2:ess.. They are de-
stined for the harem of Prodigal.
Roy Lochiel, years ago a great sprinter,
broke down at New Orleans. 1t was
shame TO start the old fellow at all. as ne
has been patched up cripple on and of
for years. and his latest brakedown was
the second or third OF the kind.
Eleven yearlings by St Carlo. the pro-
perty Of W. OBJ. Macdonough. were sold
at auction in San Francisco, Cal, last
wekk. at an average of 5000. The high
est price was $3.50, paid for the brown
flly St. Kristine, out of imp. kissing
Crust.
Marcus Daily has not in any way
changed his plans. Hamburg will be
raced the east. and Ogden and two or
three others viii be sent here 10 Join the
stable. which will be trained by William
Lakeland. and under the direction Of ".
L. Powers.
z. Corrisan bought Lucky Dog. brown
horse. 6. by imp. Darebin. dam Lou Ian
ier, after he won the fifth race at Oak
land. Cal. Dec 15. Lucky Dog was en-
tered 10 be sold for 500 and Mr.. Corrigan
ran him up TO sl-coo at which price he Sc
cured the horse
Mike Bowermar. of Lexington. Ky,
has bought of H. Ratclif. Princeton.
X. the handsome chestntc road geldinc
Red Bub by Ia Mode, 2:sSL. dam By Lex
ington Golddust- Mr.. Bovsernan also
bought OF John T. Jones, Jr. the bay
geidtng Davis Russell. with q trial OF