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PRESENTS FOR TRAINER AND JOCKEYS. "In commemoration of the success of his home-bred horses. Dishabille and Ethon, In stakes at Sheepshead Bay, July 4, Geo. C. Bennett will forward his check to trainer Charlie Mulholland for a handsome amount, wliile jockeys Sewell and Jack Martin will also bo remembered," says the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. "It was the first time the Bennett silks Aad been returned winner of two stakes in the same day-Mr. Bennett was busy receiving congratulations yesterday from friends. A telegram was also received from Mickey Shannon, who trained Dishabille for her first stake triumph In the Junior Championship at St. Louis In 1904. It was the first victory In a stake for a Bennett home-bred product and likewise the first stake winner Mickey had ever sent to the post. It was through the solicitation of Mickey that Mr. Bennett refused to part with Dishabille for a small consideration and when she showed her heels to the eastern owned cracks Wednesday, Mickey -was among the first to wire Mr. Bennett. Your pea vine hay will be worth 00 per bale from now on, wired Mickey, which meant that the substitute offered by Shelby county breeders for the famous blue grass as a diet for thoroughbreds may advance in value since tha home-breds won in New, York."
