The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-03
HORSES AND HoRsEmES.

Hon. William J. White, owner of Star Pointer, writes that he gets his work every day, including Sundays. He will be put in training to beat his record, incidentally now and then mak- ing a drive to beat the best wagon rec ord
 J. R. Keene's English stable of run ners have returned to this country and rejoined the American stable, where ! they will be trained by James Rowe.
 The Horse Review pointedly re- marks that when five hundred trotting- bred horses sell for one hundred and i fifty thousand dollars, without a rec ord breaker in the lot to swell the total, as they did at the Splan- -Newgass sale l last week, it must cause a great many people who are not in touch with the horse business to wonder who buys them and where they all go to.
 The Buffalo Courier says that: "The pioneer road driver of Buffalo, the most prominent horseman in the world, and a truly remarkable man, the venerable Cicero J. Hamlin, who is fast approaching the four score mile stone in life, has led the way down Richmond speedway many times the past week behind the trotter Sixty-Six, 2:15H. The grand old man of the i horse kingdom enjoys the winter carni- val on the snow and is always in the thickest of the fight for first honors."
 Mrs. Jane l.. Stanford executrix of the estate of Leland Stanford, has filed in the superior court her final account accompanied by petition for final dis tribution of the estate. She reports that all debts against the estate of the late senator, aggregating $11S2, TIA have been pald All the legacies, amounting to 5115,000. have also been paid. All litigation has been disposed of in favor of the estate, except the so-cailed in heritanee case, now pending before the supreme court and in which two hun dred and thirty thousand dollars is in- volved. With the consent of the court ample provision will be made to meet this tax, should the court finally deter mine that it is legal and payable. The executriX expresses the belief that the estate is in condition to be closed, and the residue and remainder distributed
 It is stated that Tod Sloane lost more
 
 Sheedy at one sitting at the Cecil before leaving London while c. F. Dwyer, who went over with Sloane and won up- wards of one hundred thousand dollars on his mounts, on arriving home pur- chased fine residence for his father, M F. Dwyer and made other good uses of his money.
 It is said that in Buffalo the pacer outnumbers the trotter for rad pur- poses In the ratio of three to two, The p8cels pound less on the pavement, turn quicker for a brush ard are more likely to keep on their stride, besides they average faster, and these are the main reasons why the fashion for pacers Is growing among road drivers.
 c. W. Williams of Axtell slO5 900 fame, is credited with having driven more horses to records of 2:30 and better than any other driver in the world. His list foots up over two hundred.
 Three runaways were recently caused on a busy street in New York by the slipping from wagon of three large cases of snuff. The cases were broken when they struck the ground and the liberated pulverized tobacco got into the noses and eyes of all around, horses and all. 5.a5.-
 More than two hundred horses with twenty drivers and their retinue of helpers will congregate at the Jewett- vile covered track directly after the holidays.
 Topples are not allowed on the New York speedway.
 The late meeting of the board of re- view comes in for lots of criticism from well-known writers on horse mat ters
 The winnings of W. o. Foote's stable for 1898 amounted to s20.475.