The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-28
Horse Notes.

Prince Direct has been fired.
Lou Dillon goes south after Thanks
giving day.
Harold H, 2:O4, will wear the hopples
again next season.
Scott Mccoy and Frank Jones of Mem
phis, Tenn, have parted company.
Northern horsemen have been the
highest bidders at the recent Kentucky
Among the fast mares that will be
bred to Direct Hal is Ellen Wood,
2:19N.
H. M. Nichols Easton, Md, owner of
Andrew M, by Allerton, dam Mary
Lola Mix, 2:1O1k. has been bred to
Merrick Diver, brother to John R. Cen
try, 2:0012.
Reuben Rush, late of Harrisburg, Pa,
will in the future be located at Man
chester. N. H.
is now owned by William Buechley &
Son of Pottsville. Pa
1t is estimated that six strong stables
will go over the grand circuit from Lex
ington next year.
Laura Anderson, sister to the good
race mare Grace Keller, 2:1014, has been
bred to Colonel Cochran. 2:10A.
Good horsemen pick China Maid, by
Mckinney, as one of the likely canol-
dates for 2:10 honorS next year.
e. T. Stotesbury's team, Rhea W. and
Easter Bell, were blue ribbon winners
at the New York horse show.
The Urbana, Ohio. half mile track is
being resoiled and put in first class con-
dition for next seasons racing.
Frank Jackson is wintering at Bel
mont track Union Bell, 2:14A, by Bell
man, and Piscara. 2:15A, by Pistachio.
Horace Brown, the well known Amer
lean trainer, is home for short visit,
after an absence in Europe of over six
years.
Ben Hal, 2:16A. raced the past year
by Frank Turner of Amber, Pa, is
1x,intarinp nicely and is looked upon as
a 2:10 prospect.
The latest statement regarding the
weight of the peerless trotting queen,
Lou Dillon, is that the mare now weighs
S22 pounds.
The horses of the Ohio owner, H. M.
Hanna, will be wintered at Thomasville,
Ca, under the care of George Saunders
of GlenvilIe.
Major Muscovite, 2:07, after a busy
and successful campaign on the eastern
half mile tracks, is back home in Chi
cago for the winter.
David Lees recent purchase. Reflect
ed, 2:1115, is in the stable of w. j. An
drews and will be trained for all the
PIP classes next year.
Black Diamond, the late JACOB jus.
tees favorite trotter, is still living al
the age of SO years. He can be seen al
Van Leer'S stables.
A wean1ing colt by The Bondsman
dam by Strong Boy, 2:11A, recently
broken by w. w. Evans, at Lexington
is showing very fast at the trot.
The stable of Grant Sloan of Green's
burg, Pa, was destroyed Monday night
by fire: also the b. m. Nelly w, 2:1SA
and the b. G. ]. T. o., 2:24.
James Halon of Monessen. Pa, has
a promising 4-year-old, by Red Chute
2:24IA, dam by Bow Bells. that should
trot well. He will be raced next year.
Milton Rumsey of Norristown owns
the fastest PAGER in that locality IL
! Annie Steadrnan. trial 2:17Z, by Stead
man. a son of Morgan Messenger.
Lon Mcdonald is trying to buy tbs
PAGER Gallagher, who is credited with
] a mile in 2:09N over the Nashau, N. H.
track An offer of $4,000 failed to gel
the horse.
over sixteen and a half millions OF
| horses were in the United States. ac
cording to the last census, with an esti
mated value of one billion and thirty
| one million dollars.
Harvey Thompson of Monessen, Pa
! former owner of Sue Dix, 2:161z, has
good pacing prospect in a mare Dur
chased in Indiana James Thompson
will campaign her