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WAGERS HE WILL BEAT T. S. MARTIN. H. G. Breckenridge Thinks He Has a Crack Jumper — Inquisitor Is Laid Up — Gossip. Now Ycik. May 17. — Hunter G. Breckenridge, proprietor or the Catawba Fann in Botetoarl Coaaty, Yiiginia. is here foe 1 lew daya racing. Mr. Breck cartage haa aragered Pan] Baiaey 81,000 that he will bring to the awtropetltan races next fall ■ jumper which will lake the measure of T. 8. Martin, lie decUaea to diachtee the Identity of hia good thing, however. Mr. Breckearidge will Mhool thla Jaaipec on ■ private 11.11 k .it Catawba, lie baa at that farm an exeafaritery fanned Roehaaiptoa IDy froai tlie FTdeUo mare Bate Sheppard. Tliis youngster was foaled i u Easter atoning at Dr. James Kerrs Antrim Stud, near Warrenton. Va.. and already it sears .1 strsng reseaibhmee to Koehasaptoa. It has straight legs and a back the proverbial postage stamp woeM fast ahcut e.iver. v.r. Breekeartdge lias bred Bane Sheppard, a fast aiare a few sea-Bans back, !• Proposer this year. He will mate her uitii HerntU aext season, having so arranged with k. it. Thsaaas yesterday. That Archie Blanker litis the Mulligan stable la first class condition is desaonatrated by the rletory of Are High over Barbery BeUe in the last race Tuesday anil continued by Sir TOddingtOaS triumpli Wednesday in the race for apprentice riders. Zim tilers BOnea are as tit as any man could desire, and they all have tbeir eared, but dimmer is having bis roubles just the same. Inquisitor, the last Inspector P. gelding be ami bfalHgaa baaght from the New castle stable 11 the* day a Jamaica, bled so pro fusely in bis tare of Taesday, Zisamer lias bad to put him by for a spell. Indeed, lie is afraid the lu aperear p.. gehsteg may not get to the past again until the fall. AiTounlant i- Working nicely. He lulled a mil. ami a sjasilir That sday ssoralag at Gravesend in - id. but • i- doiibttiii for ti„. Brookrya, thoagh Knaeii has beea aired to ride him. MeCarter, thongti be disappointed many in the TshllggSlli came out of the race well ami will show great speed and coorage this i 1:. Old Slid Gun is uoinu well and soundly at Craves end and will be at his best lor the Brooklyn short three aaai ter races. Bargenaaster takes his work steadily at Bheeps- bead Bay, but Is nol being inn vied, lie goes soundly ill his Foarineing way miles around 1:50. Ktaasesha ha- all her old speed and Is about :it i race. I.ady Amelia i edging fast with a view to winning some of the Brooklyn sprint races. s.ihideie goes on tnely at Belmunl Park ami is ■early sere to mi one of hi-- earliest stake engage meats after the Brooklyn Handicap, in which be is engaged, bat will not start. The Carlton Stakes, lo be rim a week from tomorrow, will probably see his l!Mi7 debut. Good and Irlcnty iin;e out of i,i defeat b.v Col Igny in perfect c litlon, notwithstanding his mis bap. He seems to have ein more speed than last teanoa and will probably be si en at lie post again iii the Empire state Steeplechase, to be run a week hence at Brooklyn, lie will get a partial preparation for the stake in tl.e test race at Bel ■mat Park tomorrow, which is at one mile and three -sixteenths SB the Hit. T. S. Martin and Co-liguy are also in the Umpire State Steeplechase.
