Gossip Of The Turf., Daily Racing Form, 1896-05-26

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GOSSIP OF THE TURF Chris Smiths luck with the mares seems to have waned Urania Urbana is racing indifferently for him and Handspun Handgun is a jade The little Ohioan is here and none too flush His stable is one of poverty compared to the once great Kendall lot which grow out of a 10 note and won its owner 500000 in purses and bets First Maid Marian died She was perhaps the fastest filly on mere spaed spaced the American turf has ever seen In four seasons she performed this way bee Un UnYears Buyers Years Racs Races Won ond bond Third plad plaid Total 4 81 46 14 12 9 The average in the table above is high and the Maid holds two records still though mere knowledge of the facts must cast suspicion on her mile and twenty yards at Washington Park July 1893 in 1 40 The race was actually run in 140 The timers slipped a cog that day and timed the mile only Maid Marions Marion five fur ¬ longs over the Morris Park eclipse course in 56M was a keen tribute to her speed speedThursday speedsters Thursday Yo Tambien Ambient a high class mare of the second American class was killed in Ken ¬ tucky tuck She had finished her work as a racing tool Yo Tambien Ambient was in foal to Hanover when she died She won some 125000 for Smith in five seasons as follows Year Eacs Enacts Won 8 2 13 1 10 4 10 3 Good fillies and mares are scarce in these days Mr Rogers Lucania Lucian was about the best of 1895 Since Firenze Irene and Los Angeles the femininity of the turf has been of moderate quality Yo Tambien Ambient and Maid Marian were the best of all Lady Violet and Helen Nichols were more occasional reminders of greatness Smith got Maid Marian at Washington Park in 1892 from Tom McDowell who bred her She had won a race or two for McDowell and was sold for 6000 6000Yo Yo Tambien Ambient was one of a lot of four which through big Jim Grant Chris Smith bought from Theodore Winters for about 17000 after winning some 25000 one afternoon in the fall of 1891 at Garfield Park ParkYo Park Yo Tambien Ambient was then a twoyearold toehold and rather cranky As a threeyearold she was the star of western fillies and in 1894 scored in a harmoniously consistent way Last season she was an insane puzzle and retired to matron dom met her death at play playThe Playtex The two mares left to the Kendall Stable will not add to its owners capital Urania Urbana is con ¬ sistent sixteenth but second class and Handspun Handgun groat goat at times but delicate and cranky It would seom Secom that the femininity of the turf has turned its fickle back on the man who whether flush or all out never had a taint on his turf career


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