The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-28
HORSES AND HoRsEMEN.

Bits of News and Gossip About Them.
 Dick Blumenthal and Allen Risk, of Hartford, says the courant, have come to an understanding by which Guy Wonder, 2:15A, will go into the hands ot his former trainer who drove him to the world's pacins; record over half mile track at Bethlehem, Pa, in 1885, Guy was great laddie that season, starting eleven times and scoring sev- en firsts and four seconds. MT. Risk seemed to get in touch with the son of Whalebone more nearly than his later handlers, and he rates him as a good horse In his class now. MT. Blumen- thai refused a good smart advance on his purchase soon after Guy landed at his stables, his intention then being to use him on the road a while for his own pleasure.
 Speaking of Timber Boy, the gelding that was brought to bay by the Ma ,tional association last season after he had won a fast heat at Waterbury, and who was identified as Leverone, 2:16, the current Chicago Horseman" says that the horses history from the day he was foaled would make inter- esting reading if it could be spread on paper. He has been raced certainly from Maine to Texas, and perhaps on through to the Pacific coast. As Le- verone, by General Hancock, he ob- tained mark of 2.16, and there is It. tie doubt that he got to the wire first under that name in still faster time. Ac 1,a oF 0, O0. as Richard w. he paced in 2:17, and as Timber Boy he was taken to Worces- ter, eligible to the 2:23 class. He got a mark of 2:1SA before being held up. For all this campaigning on all sorts of tracks and after all. kinds of treat ment, nasty exits from fair grounds. etc, he is sound as sound can be and apparently has all his old-time speed with him. Timber Boy has lately been sold to New York parties for seven hundred dollars.
 A case that will be watched with in terest is soon to be tried in one of the Maine courts-that of E. Murchie of St. Johns, N. B., against the Wash | ington, Me, Agricultural society. A | mare belonging to MT. Murchie broke one of the small bones in her leg In an accident which, it is claimed, was | caused by the negligence of the socie- | ties officers, and the society has been | keeping the mare ever since; her own CT refused to take her off its hands. A | few weeks ago she was shipped to MT. Murchie, but on the advice of his counsel he refused to receive her from | the railroad company, whereupon she was sent back to the consignor. The suit is to recover the value of the man.
 Bridgeport's new race track will be dedicated by a four days meeting June 2S to July 1. Purses amounting to s5, 400 will be offered and the associa- tion is determined to make the initial meet one to be remembered.
 | Albany horsemen are said to be out of gear because the mayor refused to accord them the use of one of the pub- lie streets for speeding purposes cou- pie of hours each day, as Is the custom | in some western cities. The same re- quest was made to Mayor Preston of this city, naming Washington street, | but the mayor failed to find anything in the ordinances warranting him in | 6lNluS OpCll ouL llO Ollt l thought of getting mad about it.
 It is difficult to imagine In what way licensing drivers is to have any bear ing whatever on the ringer" question. The applicant makes no promises to be a ''good boy" nor does he agree not to push good thing along if he gets one. He simply brushes himself up, has his l picture took drops around to MT. | Goscher's oce and asks for admission to the picture gallery. If he is not un- der the ban of the National for cause his title is clear and his credentials are l forthcoming. For the purpose of iden- 1 tifying drivers the plan should work l well, but the still hunt for the out classed horse will continue until some l better plan for identifying him than by means of his driver shall be adopted.