Evening star., 1909-02-11
TURF AND TRACK NOTES.

News has reached the officers Of the
Jockey Club, New York, that George Sa-
portas, who raced steeplechasers in the
name of the Bonnie Brook Stable and who
now has a stable in France. has lost by
death his well known Jumper Fallaheen.
by Parachute out OF Stonecrop. On Feb
ruary Is the cross-country season will
begin in France and Mr.. Saportas expects
to start Banyah on that date. Both Ban
yah and Malacca, which is also in Mr.. Sa-
portas' stable. were formerly raced by F.
j. Nolan, but an arrangement was made
with MIR. Saportas to race them abroad.
Malacca is expected to run we'll in good
company. He is no stranger to the cross
country game.
The directors Of the Saratoga Racing
Association will have meeting today in
New York for the election of officers. 1t
Is expected that r. r. Wilson. jr.. who,
with Harry Payne Whitney, is the largest
stockholder in the association, will be
elected president.
At the office of the Jockey Club. New
York it was emphatically denied yester-
day by Mr.. S. 9. Howland that the Wash
ington Jockey Club had decided to hold a
race meeting at Benning. Such re-
port is misleading" said Mr.. Howland.
be done about the Benning meeting. Tho
trustees merely held their annual stock
holders meeting. Nothing was done about
race meetings"
"Eigilant," OF the London Sportsman,
has looked over the horses under A. j.
Joyner care at Ballaton Lodge. Newman
ket, and speaks favorably of all. though
he does not see how Mr.. Belmonts Pris-
Gillian ran so we'll when his enlarged
ankles are considered.
Harry Payne Whitney will ship to Eng
used by him and his friends in match
games at Hurlingham and other places
this season.
1t Is expected that when the stewards
of the Jockey Club meet today in New
York there will he Some discussion of rae
ing dates for 1899, hut well-informed Of
ficial said yesterday that i'll his opinion 1t
thing definite is known. The fact that
the Maryland Jockey Clubs officials desire
to race on the same dates as last year,
about April 30. TO May 10, would some
what complicate matters, as 1t would
mean that there might not be any racing
on New York tracks until the middle Of
May.
Maj. Daingerheld. who is in charge of
James r. Keene's Castleton stud, In Ken
lucky. celebrated his seventieth birthday
Monday and walked about twenty-six
miles in all that day in looking after the
details Of the breeding farm.
Not only because Broomstick holds the
record for a mile and quarter did Harry
Payne Whitney purchase that stallion la 81
fall The better reason was that two of
Broomstick's yearlings showed very fast
trials. and they are row at Nj. Whitneys
English training establishment They are
out OF Audience and Sally of Navarro. re-
spectively. Broomstick is now at Brook
dale, n. j., and visitor who recently
saw him says he and Rock Sand are the
two best looking young stations In Ameri-
ca.
One of the two-year-oldS now in Joyner's
charge at Newmarket which Is expected
to be a high-class performer, is the chest
nut colt by Meddler out Of Homespun, and
known as Newcastle ii. This colt when
sold at auction at Sheepshead Bay pad
decks last September was bid upon by
half a dozen milionaires. but was knocked
down at $1,000 to .Joyner for II. =. Whit
ney. He is half brother to Hands Down,
a racer which ran in Mr.. ". G. Whituey's
interests in England in 1903. was one Of
the best of the year and sold ut a very
large sum. Hands Down is the only two
year-old which ever made Pretty Polly
exert herself as two-year-old