The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-12
EOTINE RREVITIES.

Great things are expected Of Carbonate,
2:O9, this year.
Plaudit will be hard to beat in the Ken
lucky derby.
The new tariff in Venezuela doubles the
duty on horses.
Walter S, PIPE, is the fastest horse
owned in Maryland.
There is talk of holding a state fair at
Louisville in the fall.
The trotter Willow, 2:161z, is to go at
the pacing gate this year.
Plaudit is out of the Suburban, but will
start in the Kentucky derby.
]. E. Seagram, the Canadian turfman,
has in training about SO horses.
r. c. McDoweITs Sudie McNairy dam
Of Maid Marian) has been bred to Halma-
With Hamburg out of the Kentucky
derby the race should be a more open one.
An effort will be made this year to race
Frank Bogash, 2:O44, without hobbies.
The hundred or more horses at Cumber-
land Park, Nashville, are taking earnest
but not fast work.
Hiram Scroggin will have pretty fast
string in training this season. He will
race at Chicago most of the time.
st. Bartholomew, 100 pounds, and Mo-
hogan, 3. 81 pounds. have been declared
out of the Brooklyn handicap.
Lou Wilkes, 2:1994, and Nell. dam Of
Vassar. 2:07; Belle Vara, 2:OS34. etc, have
both dropped foals by Stranger.
Nellie Wilkes, grandam of Nellie A,
2:13, is now owned by c. w. Williams,
who will breed her to Allerton, 2:O9A.
John Mackey, superintendent of ]. B.
Hagin's Rancho del Paso, is the owner
of the fast PAGER Anaconda, 2:0SH.
A trotting association has been organ
lied at Eldora, Ky. A meeting will be
held at the fair grounds May Alto 26.
Presbyterian, with only 100 pounds on
his back, has about as good a chance as
anything in the Montgomery handicap.
The old Roby race track has been found
to be a capital place for training, and
there are number of big stables exercis-
ing.
Egbert IT. Bass, one of the best known
of the older generation of horsemen in
Virginia, died at Richmond, February g.
James Sherlock, of Oxford. Iowa, owns
a very promising yearling by Joe Patchen,
2:O114, out of Maby, 2:16A, by oxford Boy.
The PAGER W. H. G., 2:0914, by Marsel-
laise, campaigned by "Knapsack" Nc
Carly. is now in Isaac Jennings stable,
in New York.
A 2-year-old FLY by Electric, dam by
Phallas, owned by Thomas Craig, of Dali
las, Tex, has just joined Ed Geer's stable
at Selma, Ala.
Charles Patterson was asked recently
if Ornament was for sale. He replied
promptly: Yes; any horse I have can be
bought at my price"
Barney, whose mile in POS last year is
the fastest ever made by an 11-year-old
PAGER. will be trained at Readviile this
year by James McGregor.
Big Ike, 2:lSA, is probably the fastest
trotter of his size. He stands close to Is
hands high and is now owned by L. S.
Grant of Providence.
One of the oldest thoroughbred horses
in the world that is still at the stud is
Jack Of Oran. by Blair AthoI-Tunstall
Maid. He was foaled % year ago.
1t is now said that Athanasia, dam OF
Countess Eve. 2:09i4, was bid off at the
Lexington sale for J. c. zimmerman. Of
Lima. Ohio. who viii breed her back to
Norval, 2:l42a.
Though Johnson. the PAGER. is now q
years old, he retains SO muchc of his
speed that his owner, c. F. Dunbar. in
tends To exhibit him the coming summer
at fairs and other meetings within easy
reaching distance of Buffalo.
Tecora. the 2l-year-old daughter of
Straders c. NJ Clay. ranks among the
most inustrious of living brood mares. She
Is the dam Of Chehalis. 2:07l4: Del Norte,
EOS. and Touchet, 2:l5 pacing. and Te-
nine. 2:l9i4, and Coqueta, go trotting
besides Lvla, 2;S5; Venetia. 2:421a. aud
Beulah, 2:47i2, trotters. All are by Alta