The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-15
From Track and Stable.

The cold stove circuit opens In a couple OF
weeks or so.
Rhythmic. 2:Oe4. will be retired perma-
nently 10 the stud.
1t is claimed that Vermont holds the rec
ord for pacing mares.
Major c., 2:04. holds the race record for
the year for pacing stations.
Jockey Dominick will ride in California
till February and then go TO Europe.
All the trotters and PAGERS look alike to
Lou Dillon on the New York speedway.
PAGERS that can step a half I'm a minute
are so common as to be hardly worth men
tioning.
Joe Yeager, the plunging bookmaker. has
signed Jockey Redfern TO ride his horses
in California.
Harry New, who won last years Latonia
Derby. has gone wrong, and will never be
raced again.
Jockey Hegelson will ride at Latonia and
then go TO New Orleans. He Is In hne FORM
just at present.
There is no truth in the rumor that Capt.
Sam Brown was going to take a stable OF
runners to Europe.
1t is reported that 1t costs the government
s1,0Oo in gold for every horse which Is sent
to the Philippines.
Star Hal. who won a half-mile dash In
59% seconds, Is the largest money-winning
PAGER OF the year.
After a short season on the New York
Speedway. Lou Dillon. 1854. will be taken
to Memphis to winter.
Grand Opera, who made a fine impression
in one race at Hawthorne, has turned out
a failure as a race horse.
At the two California Jockey Club tracks
there will be 100 days of racing, and no
purse is offered less than $500.
Ed Geers believes that Onward Silver has
not reached the limit of his speed, and
thinks that he can drive him In 2:O4.
John j. Winkler is educating The Ghost,
by Euchre, to go without the straps. He
should be converted to the trotting gait.
, Jack Curry says that the ~trotters and
PAGERS are good enough for him., and that
the other fellows can have the runners.
John E. Madden has decided to sell thirty
eight of his brood mares, in foal to Mirth-
full, Imp. Sandringham and Plaudit, next
month.
rather lame, George Spear thinks that he
can be brought around all right by the
beginning of next season.
w. C. Whitney's colt Infexible. whose
tendons were cut In a race at Saratoga last
summer will be seen on the track cext
year, as the wound healed up nicely.
The twelfth annual meeting of the Amer
lean Association OF Importers and Breed
ers OF Belgian draft horses Will be held at
the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, Dec. 2.
Last season as a four-yesr-old. Lou Dill
Ion, 1:5s1z, worked a mile In 2:0SA. A short
time ago the four-year-old Axtell lilly. An
COLA. trotted a trial in 2:O6A for w. +.
Freeman. II she should get in c. K. G.
Billings's stable. how fast will she trot In
1904?
NJ. H. Reardon, of this city, has made a
consignment to the Blair-BakerM March sale.
his list including the grand trotting stall
lion Colonel Wallace. 2:19A, public trial
2:l0%; Alice Brooke 90, PAGER, trial 2:llh;
Miss Quick, green trotter, trial 2:16. and a
number of other great money winning
prospects.
Gambeta Wilkes, 2:19A, now tops the list
Of sires of 2:10 performers, having twelve to
his credit. thus leading both Brown Hal
and Onward. His new ones are Credette,
2:O51a; Foxy Curd, 2:07; Charley c, 2:09A
Don Cozine, 2:10, and Wealth, 2:10, while
Cubanola reduced his record from 2:OSA TO
2:O61a. The complete returns for 1903 are
not yet in, but it is almost a certainty that
Gambetta Wilkes will lead all sires in the
number of new standard performers by a
comfortable margin.