view raw text
GOSSTP OF THE TURF. A rcent letter to the St. Louis Republic from San Erancisco says: "Admirers of Monk Coburn may be surprised to learn that the Bennett jockey may not be allowed to ride here again during the present meetincr, and that, in fact, there is serious danger of the disbarment extending further. Co-bnrn was set down principally for a ride on Mountebank, although a ride the day before on Malaspina is also said to have influenced the judges. Mountebank is owned by the T. H. Ryan confederacy, and after Coburn had got the horse away badly and finished in the ruck on a day on which he was a wall-played favorite a man named Smith, connected with the Ryan stable, went to the stand and made a complaint against Coburn. The judges investigated and are said to have found two bookmakers who laid heavily against Mountebank. Nevertheless, Coburn was only suspended indefinitely, although a few days later the order was extended to barring him off the track altogether, and has not yet been rulefl off, and no official announcement has been made of the charges against him. Danny Lynch and others have interested themselves in Coburns behalf, but it is considered doubtful whether the rider who made such a good record in Chicago will be in the saddle soon." The noted Suburban winner, the five-year-old horse Alcedo, by Esher Elopement, by Hindooj owned by L. V. Bell; and the recent importation, Hawkswick by St. Simon Plaisanterie, winner of the Cambridgeshire and Cesarewitch handicaps, bought in England by Henry T. Oxnard, president of the sugar trust, arrived at Lexington, Ky., from New York last Tuesday to go in the stud. They will be located at the Willamette Farm of John B. Ewing. With the horses came the broodmare Spanish Match, by Royal Hampton Allumeuee, bought in the recent Childwick horse sale in New lork by Oxnard for ,2C0, and the imported bay two-year-old tilly by Royal Hampton Bonnie Dundee II., bought privately of Sir J. Blundell Maple, Childwick Stud, England, by John E. Madden for ,000. The latter will be retired to the stud at Hamburg Place. John E. Madden purchased at New York last Friday at private sale one of the two-yaar-old fillies which were catalogued to be sold with the Childwick stud yearlings and broodmares at the American Horsa Exchange. This was tho filly by Royal Hampton Bonnie Dundee II., which was not in condition to be offered at public sale. The price was in the neighborhood of ,000. J. J. Ogles Texas Smith has joined the ranks of owners at New Orleans. He got in Tuesday from his farm at Terrell, Tex., and brought with him Governor Sayers, Madine, The Way, Compass and Exapo.
