The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-12
From Track and Stable.

The big Canadian ice circuit will begin
Feb. l at Ottawa.
1t is said that racing is to be resumed
at the 1ngleside track this spring.
G. Thompson, the lightweight jockey, is
now giving his services to w. Karrick.
The Brook farm at Lexington, Ky, is
to be sold at auction i'm the near future.
The enterprising citizens of Pittsburg
have decided to have horse snow next
fall
]. J. scannen. of New York, owner of
The Abbott recently purchased Shadow
Chimes, 2:0634.
One of Clevelands boulevards has been
set apart for a driveway similar to the
one in New York.
The horsemen of MorgantOwn, w. Va.
have organized for the purpose of forming
a racing association.
Dallas, Tex, is said to be well adapted
for wintering purposes So far this season
the weather has been rather dry. but cold
George II. Whitney recently lost by DEATH
in Jersey City, the chestnut yearling filly
recently purchased from the Keenes.
All the stakes of the California Jockey
Club are we'll filled. Just now the sport is
far ahead of any previous season finan-
cially.
Budd Doble, who won fame as a driver
of many fast horses. has quit the track
and is devoting his time to a newly
invented rotary engine
Lester Reiff says he cares little whether
the English Jockey Club reinstates him.
He has grown too stout to ride and he has
quit worrying about his future plans.
A. Fl. Miller has bought from A. j. Feek,
OF Syracuse, the bay trOtting mare Red
Prince IS. 2:124, for $1,000. The mare VIII
be entered in stake events only this year.
1t is said that Tichenor q Co. paid Fizer
& Co. good sum for the release Of Jockey
o Brien. O'Brien can ride at something
like 100 pounds, and had a good record last
year
Mayor F1eischmann of Cincinnati. when
shown the dispatch that Tod Sloan had
been engaged by him, denied the rumor
and said that he had no intention of using
Sloan
Starter Dade it is reported. will do all
the starting in the Mound City this sea-
son. He did good work last season, and
St Louis patrons want him to wield the
flag again.
Racing will be put upon a higher plane
at Nashville if the present purposes of the
track owners are carried out. The sport
at Nashville, as in many other places, has
been overdone.
1t is predicted on the coast that when
Josie G.. comes East she will clean up ev-
erything in sight on the metropolitan
tracks. Her owner recently set $4,000 as
the price he wanted for her.
The New Orleans Jockeys claim they are
not being treated fairly by Judge Rees
This IS doubted, as Judge Rees is not hasty
with the boys. and when he sets them down
there has been something doing"
Steve L'Hommedieu and his trainer. Ed
TrOtter, have parted company. The break
was occasioned by the bad showing which
the stable of the erstwhile plunger has
made at the New Orleans meeting.
No one expected Tommy Sheridan to ap-
ply for riding license again. 1t was
thought he had retired for good several
years ago, but he has made up his mind to
go to Europe and try his luck there this
season
Steeplechase racing has been singulary
free from accidents at New Orleans. This
is because the distractions there involve
very little danger for the jumper. while the
excitement afforded is still ample to meet
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