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RACING GOSSIP FROM THE EAST. New York, January 25. Word lias recently been received from Harry II. llunn. who is racing a stable of American-bred horses at Trinidad. Mr. Hunn, who was a successful gentlemen rider in this country in the nineties, when lie trained" Rright Phoebus, Ferrier and other capital racers, has made a number of shipments to Trinidad and South America, which haw proved particularly good investments. Two horses. Athlete and Amazon, that lie shipped from these parts recently, have started six times and won all their starts. The former is a three-year-old chestnut colt, by Matchless, and Amazon is a bay filly, by Griffon. The string of horses handled by Mr. Hunn race under the name of the Savannah Stable, and the colors are "all blue." There was much regret over the death of the Canadian jockey. Charley Phalr. who was a big favorite with racegoers and turfmen. Old Saylor. the chestnut gelding Hint won on the Xew York tracks when owned by James II. McCormick, is still in good form. A season or two back Saylor was considered invincible, and a horse named Houghton was brought from England to take his measure. This he accomplished in the running of the Savannah Handicap, at one mile, in u drive. Mr. Hunns racing ventures have been so successful that he has purchased an extensive coffee plantation. H. A. Buck, editor of the Racing Calendar, lias just returned from Bermuda, where lie spent a brief vacation. Mr. Buck found much in Bermuda to amuse a man Interested in horses. The island is getting ready just now for the annual spring race meeting to be held March 7 and S. The principal f-vent of the two days meeting will be the Bermuda Derby, a race that has boon renewed intermittently a score of times, and which numbers among it winners the American horses Contend, - Vitellius, Bob and Harold E. Frank. Bermudas meetings are amateurish. The horses carry welterweights on all occasions, and the riders are nonprofessionals, principally officers of the British garrison of the island, with a stray fox hunter from America or England. The distances of Bermudas races range from five furlongs up, and their values from 00 to 00. The form of betting is the pari-niutuel.
