New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-07
HARNESS RACING.
News AND GOSSIP OF THE TRACK AND
SPEEDWAY.

The newest trotter OF noto the new Speedway
Is Dexter X. 2l5h. by Maine Patriot. owned by
Patrick Kane. He is a stylish. handsome chestnut
ktallion with four white feet and "trip IN The
lYsce The horse gained his record at Bosio IN
Ss9s and he has not forgotten how 70 step In che
mean tins lie ngIT S hss, on ne road
Vast week.
A big story is going the rounds among Brooklyn
iAorsemen concerning W. IL Halstods gray PAGER
Nell Alcyoner. 2J@. and performance that ne
made on the Parkway track last week. ". H.
snyder has trained the horse 20 pace without har-
kness driver after the fashion Of Marion AHs
saidf that Neil Alcyoner displayed almost human
qisgSnSe IN race S 5 TesR 5a ag Sn vooe of S
ltraner. who talked 10 him through a megaphone
The v wa Stand Hail IN spub lie bo
Shslf a mile in o5 and won the race.
Tn. annual meeting OF the Board Of Review Of
she National Trot,ing Association will be held at
the Murray Hi Hotel beginning on December q.
1T is said that the number Of ringing cases TO be
oy tsor roii .nS me eretsnS FOR drivers
which was adopted by The turf politicians les: win.
Savins failed Completely 10 stop that sort OF fraud
Colonel Lawrence KIP vice-president OF the Ma
.tional Horse Show Association. who has annually
won most Of the blue ribbons awarded for road
horses at the Garden show VII exhibit some now
-ro:.ers this year As q for his prizs'winnne
-nare Emoleta. 2:2H4, by sealskin Miller Colonel
Kip will chow his purchase. SIX Purse. 22s
ny If BY IaS c vii 5 ano,er H Of his doubs
teams thiTd par Is made up Of Watsrcress sane ana
beta are newcomers in the show ring Nearly al OF
shem Will be shown in Single harness
Ths recent trotting neetirs IT Dallas. Tex. was.
IA one iespsc. az lssst. the most remarkable har-
uess-racing contest Of the year. Eighteen races
wers decised. and but seven horses hgurea IS
winners. TWO horses. RenA and Al Noble pulled
down no less than eeven OF tho purses. Rene IS
the gray trott.ng mare by Wukesbr!no that has
been csmpagnsd two years by J. +. Eubinger Of
New-Haven, without winning heat She was
-wcs entered and started 81 the annual 5000 race
entered her in I'VE races al the Dallas meeting ana
yen tneIn al o.ivihg her 10 record .. - -.
meeting from the 800 class the 2.21 class. he
made clean sweep Winning IN Ts' monSy n Rs six
nor Al Noble hao record last 800 when
entered 81 Dallas
Arson E Aivord Syracuse. has sold HIS noted
trotter Success 2l2sl 70 German turfmen. and the
ho-s. will go ab.oat. Success Is Z gray geld.ng BY
Sherman 2e3,a. son Of George wilkes and his dam
ves Holiness Gypsy. b. Alr'onarch. 22r5. son OF
>Alroat: granddam. the dam Of Darbee. 2:1sA. He
was bred by George y. Holmes. South Wales ~
Z. and was campagaed by Martin Demarest. who
drove him 10 his record at the Hartford Grand Cir
c,,it meeting last September Austrian horsemen
purchased last week from J. =. Shelley Ellsnville
j. y. the big bay stallion Legene. 2l2'4 for ship
,lnent abroad. Legens il SIX years Cd He Is ~
6 s2a Maggie R g. Is S 81 Gaghsr Prince q oSns
son Of Guy Miller. NJ, sheelrey bred 'he horse
strained him and drove him 70 his record al Prov:
,9enee lsst September dSring the Rhode 1sla aTa
rSate ar ~ cen 10 S-s Tss,ero
'half-mie tracks.
-Four entries have been made n the special class
-opened BY the National Horse Show Association
for PAGERS having records CT 1fs better. and the
horses VIII be shown al noon or Saturday, the
closing day Of re exhibition. {. II. Hartman
enters John r. Gentry. 7:co1a BY Ashland wakes
Lewis c. Tewkshury enters Robert j.. 2j1A3. BY
Hartford; J. +. Boyd. DanwLe. Cal. enters I;iata-
yah. 2N5's. b., stsinway. ana James Butler enters
iss record Of 2is 70 high-wheei suiky The
prize Is so. and the horses are 10 be judged by
ae shown ~ taelr performances tho turf. II
80 gyne.tsd hat James A Murphy wcuGa eatec
Jurimaa declined ali entrcaties 10 let his record
& c0 srd pa tof or me 6rds z cAamPon. S T5c
Robert J. and JOIN P. Gentry having he'd tho
7ear-oll PAGER ever seen on the turf.
4 movement IS on foot 10 restore the grandstand
snd ether buildings 81 the old Buffalo Driving
Park and hold trot,ing meeting there next year.
The property although abandoned racetrack
Two years ago when fire destroyed the grandstand
ana hostile legislation put an end 10 poolselling.
st.n remains intac-, and there IS Immediate
lkeiihood Of rs being cur Up into building lots G
tered 70 Lease !; FOR a term u ten years
c9ae " 5 PTy Te me T f0Fs o HTnsr OF
l0oA. talk OF forming 2 stock company 10 carry
stand and giving meeting next yesr. Should this
be done. the old track would resume It's place IN
Colonei Taylor Is move interested IN the Fort Ere
track across The Niagara River from Buffalo, but
Canadian soil will not III .hs bill as a home for
harness racing IN Buffalo.
The sale o. D!rectum for $4,000 has caused more
Of a stir among horsemen than any transaction in
rioters since Colonel John Z Thayer paid $1,000
FOR Baron wakes. about three years ago. Although
keen turfnsn generally rate Drectum az the fast
est and greatest trotter toaled the price paid
Tor him IS r rarded ss round one for the black
stallion IS stin virtually untried a stock horse,
snd IL is well known that his campaigning career
is ended He Is nearly ten years old and has Just
un,red stock horse for So 30 would have Created
ssnsa l. IN hs hors w2a eye aftef en- years
ters. Although Directun has not vet been repre-
peT er hs eo 9 Py by s VIII s' six ST
'hem, all yosrlings. having been sold under the
$50 an ayera@e Of $50 sacR j ' was 'H Re h lp
quality Of these earrings which induced William
Z Sper, OF Glens Falls, 10 pay $200N FOR their sire.
Mr. sper has n choice collection Of broodmares AT
his Suburban stock Farm, near Glens Falls, and
&c the best from now on. His new owner formerly
and May King C 90. the sire OF Bingen (2o6s.)
Orrin A. Hickok. who Is reported 10 be dying n
San Francisco. has been prominent a trainer and
driver Of tpnttng horses fo~ more than thirty
years lie oampaigned AnSeline. .:27l4 on Western
tracks early 10 tho sixties. and he won With the
chestnut etalion Elmo. 2aH. the first race ever
trcted at Fleetwood Park 4 fcw years later 80
Sought ST. Julien. in company with koter; Graves
and r. y. Morrow. OF San Francisco paying James
Galway. OF This city, 5000 for the horso. St.
suen's record was Their 2.22l5. At Oakland Cal
"a October, S'9 Hickok drove him in 2l224 beating
the best tiino record General Grant was ono =
the official timers. 81. Julien came East in
Hickoks stable tho next year ard lowered MS REQ
ord 2.f1i.. but Maud : robbed him az hts laurels
Iopo,e ~ cetnrai~r ended V.ff- 81, F,iifov,so