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ANSWERS TO QUERIES. Communications without names and addresses! i will lot be noticed nor answered. No answer-., will | I be sent by mail and none by wire unless reply pre- | I payment is made at time of wiring query. T. T.. Chicago. 111. There being no show price against Zali in race 33,."i . the transaction was void as to him and rested on the others alone. J. II. Z.. Anderson. Intl. When in the mutuels ■field horse wins or runs to a place, every other field horse in the race wins accordingly. 0. W. IP. Louisville, Ky., and others, elsewhere. No show tickets are sold at Blue Bonnets, nnd show wagers elsewhere should be considered draws accordingly, unless there is an agreement as to a price. W. B. K.. Chicago. III. The Melbourne Stud, not now in existence, was owned by the late William S. Barnes, of Ijexington. Ky. Part of the Melbourne yearings were sold in Chicago in lSJK and 1S99. but the bulk of them usually were auctioned in New York. J. B. W., Pittsburgh. Pa. William "Umbrella Bill" Mcf.uigan raced Bannm kbtirii as a two-year-old and until July, 1898, when, as a three -year-old, he was sold to Put Dunne at Washington Park for $." .M0. Barney Schreiber bought Haunoi kburn for a sire from Mr. Diiime. Curious. St. Louis, Mo. Straihmeath, the American B— i4,y winner of 1891. was a gelding. Ha was given to Desha Breckinridge of Lexington, Ky.. in 1S!S. for his use as a mount iu the Cuban war. He did not get to Cuba, however, and it is our guess that the old horse, which was foaled iu 1388, is dead. Jones. Chicago. 111. Yes. lat Dunne, now a contractor in Kansas City, trained Pink Coat for the American Derby, which he won in 1S98. The horse was owned by Woodford and Buckner. W. Martin, then under contract to 11. Eugene Leigh, rode Pink Coat. Dick Dwyer was the starter at Washington Park that season. The horses were at the post throe minutes. Pink Coats price was three and one -half to one. Isabey was favorite at two and one-half to one. J. W. L.. Cleveland. 0. Brait was a selling plater of good performance which raced for George Forbes of Woodstock. Ont., on the New York courses between 1S85-1890. Brait was a bay by Princeton — Uoxaline and bred in Canada by E. Burgess. Forbes lived for a long time in Cleveland, Ohio, and is now, we believe, living in New York City. He was a good, fast runner at short distances and owned several fast trotting horses, one, named like another good selling plater which he owned, Arab.
