The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-02
News from the Horse world.

The trotting association at Peoria, will, it is
said. apply for admission to. the Grand Circuit
league.
The $1O,o 600 Charter Oak Stake. which was
ness horses in thu East under the old regime at
Hartford. is to be revived next season. A. J.
ment of the old track are also contemplating a
$4,000 futurity for threc-year-old ~trotters.
Ex-Congressman Joseph G. sibley of Pennsyl.
Bel, 2:24i2; BY Electioneer., has leased Barney
Treacy's old Ashland Park stock farm, near
kexington: and is about to remove his extensive
vile and Franklin, Pa. to Kentucky. Charles
Marvin will have charge of the farm, and it ia
ing purposes.
G. B. johnson. Ozone Pnrk.-Jay-Eye-See. 2:lO.
was not driven to a milk wagon before he made
GG Case, Eacins, Wis Wis. who When sG 9hre a' YEARS aS S S%sE0T Jack (:
ing Jay.EyeIseo on tho road. You probably
have in mind st. Julien. 2:1ll4. who was driven
made his record.
Richball, the sensational PAGER of 1888. who
made q record Of 2: gig IN that year, driven by
John s. Campbell met with an accident RECENTLY
been owned for several years by u. /. Hughes Of
keokuk. where he was the boss of the road until
he Slipped and fell in his stall. breaking his log
aboyo the stife: His owner is trying to save
Richbali's life BY having him suspended in a
bllHH VI lid bl'tolt. nlluOuBh u IL ItilDN WIS
foaled in 1876 hopes are entertained that he will
pull through.
The Hermitage Stud OF Nashville and the
Saginaw Stock Farm Of Saginaw. Mich, two Of
the most widely known horse.breoding estab-
lishments in the West. arc to be sold out at
the %trotterS in the Hermitage Stud are Preston,
who made q th re- yenr:oId record OF 2;i3'4 in
Bells. 2:104, the son OF Electioneer that got
jamie 7 2;l4, the fastest tw9;year.old trotter
STUD paid sos: 900. viii not be sold. lie is 81
Is at the head Of the saginaw Stud. lie is Is
years old and is the, sire Of f~orty.onc ~trotters
and fifteen PAGERS in the $3.50 list.
The expulsion of John f. Barrett. Secretary
OF Rigby Park. by the Board of Review of the
n. T.. A; has stirred up = rnmpus in harness,
the Tepiston Journal. Barrett is going to or,
ganize n crusade against pool selling, on the
widely ka9Tn track next year: L viii DO re-.
bought pools on a race while officiating as Judge.
The Board of Review also cited the officers OF
Chicago md show cause why they should not
be penalized for violating The provision Of
entries, II. F. Farnham, manager of the Maine
track, Is reported as saying that he will
seiyod at Rigby. but viii defend his action BY
insisting that tho methods of other tracks be in.
veStigated. and that all offenders he treated
alike. Manager Farnhnm claims that the prnc-
tice of accepting conditional entries is almost
universal, and that tho rnlc against IL Is virtually
n dead letter. The subject was brought up at
tho last congress OF the n. T. A.. but The dele.
gates voted against n proposition to repeal tho
old rule.
Little Brown jug. 2:llat. who held the
worlds pacing record as long ago MS 1881. 10
near Spring Hill, Tenn, where he was foalcd in
1878. After having been used as u road horse
for several years the old PAGER fell into poor
hands at Buffalo two or three years ago, and. 1t
Is said. was greatly abused. Tho jug. was the
nrst horse that drew attention TO the widely
known Tom Hal family OF PAGERS in Tennessee,
and some sentimental horsemen there. headed
by John Trot GOD Moore. tho poet, tried I'M
successfully to buy the freedom of the little
brown horse and take him back TO his
native State. AT last his Buffalo owner
got the Klondike fever and consented to
part with the OLD PAGER, So The jug was
ago. He has heon turned out in a paddock near
his aistiRRsu sirS 4, ~ siar brother PoI br SSI H HI,
horsemen, who were instrumental in taking him
back TO the South say that he belongs 10 the
State of Tennessee, and that he shall never
wear harness again.