The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-31

claim to be adverse to the Los Angeles race
meeting because OF the prevalence there OF
August Belmonts colt Oarsman has been
declared out of the EPSON Derby and
Grand Prix De Paris of 1893.
The Societe des SteeDlechases de France
has says the Paris herald, begun an in
vestigation of a charge that the pcdigIees
OF not less than eight horses have been
falsified during the last two years. SIX men
compromised were severely Questioned one
Gay recently by NJ. lla:Cher. the weli-known
'juge obstruction" il accordance with the
request of the society.
C F. Dwyer is spending the winter at
Oakland, Cal, where his wife Is Ill.
The Governing Committee of the Metro
politan Turf Association has just passed
unanimously the ruling that no member OF
the organization be permitted TO further
his own interests or any otner interests
with which he may be connected by the
publishing of the fact that he is Il member
of the NJ. T A a strict observance and
rigid adherence to this rule by all members
are required.
Dermott McCalmont, a lad Of Is. his
nephew, will inherit nearly all the great ss-
tate left by the late Colonel Harry Mccall
mont The race horses now IN Captain
Beatty's care will be trained and raced
During his fifteen or more years turf
total of s67l. eco. OF this vast sum Islngiass
alone won for Mr.. McCalmont more than
s2S7, 800. Deadlock, the dam of TINS great
horse, IVES once purchased for about SiVo;
The deceased was born on May 80. iS6l. and
that was the day that Kettledrum Won me
Derby.
Gill Sommers's FLY. Miss Knickerbocker,
was destroyed after meeting with an acci-
dent at the post. She was run into tEe
fence and broke one of her legs. Sommefs
is certainly having his share Of misfortune.
While being shipped here from l.ltonta, the
best horse in his stable. kalos was taken
sick and has been laid up. Then his mother
took sick and died, and now his wife IS
very III and not expected to live. Sonmers
Is quite a favorite with horsemen in ST
Louis His friends sympathize with him
in MS adversit!es.
If the movement toward short race meet
ings at upstate towns takes a positive
shape the prosperous manufacturing. city
of Bath. n Y. would beyond much doubt.
support short meeting; ~. That at, tbs rs con con
ily understood when it is known thai this
city, with a population close to 10000 peo-
pie. was founded by a race meeting he'd in
the closing years of the Eighteenth Cen
tury.'
Thomas Ownby has bought out the inter-
est of his partner. Hatfield. in the horses
Carl Kahler, Moabina. Chckadee. Lady AL
berta. etc. for si:Oo). Ownby is believed
to have been an innocent party III the
Hicks case He is trainer for the stable,
and no doubt has some faith in his position
in the matter.
Jockey Buck Mccain was warm in the
collar over having been taken off Solver at
Newport on Monday last. Some rat went
to the judge with tale about me
saying that Mabel Hurst would skin this
colt" he said. 81 d dn't say anything of
the kind. There wasn't any frame-up for
Mabel Hurst that know Of or was interest
cd in. and under the circumstances | con-
slider It hardship to have 10 pay boy s15
for winning on my horses when could have
done as well as he AM saved the money.
! know the man who carried tho tale to the
judges. and I'll HEX him before the winter is
over. I'll ride him over that Licking River
trsstle with hammer, Is what I'll do
Cine matt Enquirer.
Shades of Nose Goldblatt. Frank Wayman.
Waldeck. esse Jarhoe, Travers, ct al
hearken. hearken. If Buck was ridden over
q trestle every time he gave others the
hot end of it. oh. well. he is done now.
Last fall Barney Schreiber divided his big
stable into two divisions and shipped the
pick of his string to San Fra CISCO in charge
Of George Coyirgton. BIZ Whelan was mt
here with a dozen of the cheapest horses
raCing in the Schroeder colors. Up to date
however. Whelan has won more races and
earned more with the crabs than Covington
has placed to Schrelber's credit on the coast
with the pick of the big "Dutchman's' sta
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