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GOSSIP OF THE TURF The Bromley Brome Co yearlings are an especially wod wood lot according to report Julius Bauer the new trainer of the Chicago stable has them on the Kentucky farm recently bought by the firm They are areBay area Bay colt by St Blaise Blains Fedora II IIBrown Fibercon Brown filly by Cheviot Elsie S SBay Bay Bay colt by Exile Medal MedalBrown Medallion Brown colt by Cheviot Gold Basis 3ay colt by Kingstock Kingston Henrica Hernia HenricaJhestnut Jhestnut Chestnut filly by Exile Faust Rose RoseBay Bay colt by Duke of Montrose Violet VioletChestnut Violet Chestnut filly by Onondaga Fredericks Frederick Pride PrideBay Pride Bay filly byDuke of Montrose Burletta Biretta BurlettaBay Biretta Bay colt by Wagner Miss Barnes BarnesChestnut Banshees Chestnut colt by Kingitock Linguistic Complete CompleteThe Complete The stable will also contain First Mate Ty ¬ phoon photon II Semper Simper Ego Howard S Free Advice Nick Rondo On Deck Orion Kenmore Queen Danforth Anorthic Van Antwerp Nuto Nut and Prince Lee The operations of the stable will be in Eastern fields unless the Chicago pinch is made less lessIt less It is already evident from the number and andcharacter anchorite character of the entries made this year that the theAnnual henna Annual Champion Stake at two miles and a aMturtur saturator Mturtur Nurture to bo coutosted outvoted ovor over the Shecpsbead Hempstead ShecpsbeadBay Bay track for the first time in 1899 is destined destinedto destined to become in public estimation one of the great t fixtures of the American turf It is a con iuous ious event for 3yearolds and upward to be bevorth betroth vorth forth each year 20000 to the winner 2000 to tosecond Tosco second horse 750 to third horse 1000 to toowner tower owner of winner at time of entry 500 to the nor of second horse at time of entry 250 to toner ner near of third horse at time of entry and 500 to 3 man lucky enough to be the trainer of the thenner thinner nner inner at the time of the race Each years op of yearlings will bo eligible for entry as it itcomes sitcoms comes along the natural result being that the theike thicken ike Nike should eventually be contested annually larger fields than mark any fixed event of ofiis offish iis is country for horses older than two years old oldThe oldster The first closing of entries took place last July 15 It was for foals of 1896 and 1897 Of the foals of 1896 the entries numbered 98 and the pick of this lot will contest the first running f the stake in 1899 and will be eligible to run or it each year thereafter as long as their owners may think they have the ghost of a chance for any part of the money Of the foals of 1897 211 were entered with hardly a famous sire of the present day unrepresented unrepresentative To look at the names of Ormonde Hormone Hanover Hindoo Indoor Emperor of Norfolk Islington Wilmington Islingtonristan Wilmington ristan Dristan Knight of Ellerslio Sellers Rayon dOr doer i t Blaise Blains Troubadour Candlemas Candelas Dun combe combed Tammany Brutus Bruits Meddler St fcavior favor His Highness Goldfinch Star Ruby uarebin Arabian Watercress Tenny Teeny Eon Order Tour lament Domino Jim Gore Bramble Kingston St Florian Florin St Carlo Aerolithe Aerolites Juvenal Galore Tom Ochiltree Ichnite Topgallant Russell In ¬ verness eeriness Sir Dixon Midlothian Militia George Freder Freer ¬ ick Dick Florist and Montana is sufficient to show that the contestants for this great event of the future will represent the most brilliant perform ¬ ers and best blood lines of England France and the United States The record of 3 561 at two miles and a quarter made at Saratoga by Springbok and Preakness Realness in their memorable dead heat for the Saratoga Cup twentytwo twenty years ago will not survive many of the fierce contests which this great stake is destined to produce The Oakland Cal track is one of remarkable I speed The idle and floating gossip about it being short is not worth notice It is too hard perhaps A harness racing veteran W Field wick cares for the course During the last two weeks racing at Oakland all the following times j f T nade made with the exception of the mile in = 1 miles 2321 li miles l52i 1 116 miles 1461 1 mile 139 34 mile 112 5 fur ¬ longs 1 06 by a twoyearold toehold The brown fiveyearold gelding Pelleas Paellas by Bersan Berman La Belle Helene died at the Fair Grounds track St Louis Thursday of blood poisoning Pelleas Paellas was a smashing good two yearold earl and the winner of exceedingly good races at Washington Park and Harlem in 1891 He was then the property of John Rodegap Bodega j jFather Father Father Bill Dalys Days midget jockey OConnor O'Connor has gone to California to ride at light weights for Dave Gideon The boy can ride at 65 pounds and is undoubtedly promising but to compare him with Tod Todd Sloan or even Clawson Lawson as a New York alleged turf publication does is so absurd as to he almost idiotic The mighty Sloan will hardly be flattered by the comparison An apology is due to the readers of DAILY RACING FORM for the inaccuracy 9f the table of American Turf Records which was printed in the issue of Wednesday December 29 The errors were mostly about dates and were caused by the acceptance of existing and current rec recd ¬ ords cords as published by socalled scaled turf authorities past and present Since the Decomber29 table was printed each record has been checked and traced to the source of creation and many errprs errors have been traced and corrected A hurdle race record has been added to the table So have the figures of three in five heats race A new table as prepared for tho thou American Sporting Manual will be printed in DAILY RACING FORM within the next few days Its figures can be accepted as authentic The work that made them good also revealed the slipshod methods of recording records by selfstyled selfishly turf author ¬ ities cities i iIn in In the history of the American turf four im ¬ ported horses stand out prominent by reason of the vigor and greatness of their progeny and descendants Diomed Domed winner of the Epsom Derby of 1780 brought of this country when well advanced in years founded a line distinguished in every generation and now represented best by tho thou sons and daughters of Emperor of Norfolk and El Rio Rey Frey Glencoe Glance imported by James Jackson of Alabama in 1836 made a very great impression on the breed ¬ ing King interests to the United States and it is doubtful if there is a stronger male line of descent in the world than that which reads Glencoe Glance Vandal Virgil Hindoo Indoor Hanover Leamington Lexington a very great raco race horse and a very great sire added a new and valuable ele dele ¬ ment meant of great influence among our bloodlines that is still second to none in value as the doughty deeds of Henry of Navarre Navarro have re ¬ cently gently demonstrated The fourth of the illustri illustrious ¬ ous onus quartet Bonnie Scotland was second to none in the speed hardiness courage and power of his descendants Other horses im ¬ ported at various periods have contributed valued elements to our thoroughbred strains but none have equaled tho thou wide spread in ¬ fluence fluencies of the four named The death of Uncas Uncaps a few days ago calls at ¬ tention tenting to tho thou fact that the sons of Lexington have nownearly downwardly all gone the way of all flesh and it is doubtful if more than four or five arc now living Fiddlesticks is at Mr Belmonts Belmont place near Lexington Ky Duke of Magenta is a stable companion of Meddler at Mr Forbes place near Boston Wyndham Lynda Walden still has the hero of the Centennial year Tom Ochiltree Ichnite on his farm near Middleburg Middlebrow Md Wanderer may still bo alive but if any others are living it is in forgotten obscurity obscurityBut obscurity But in his day Lexington a native bred horse and fifth in the direct male lino limo from Diomed Domed was deemed the greatest sire ever known in America and ultraenthusiaets proclaimed him the greatest in the world Year after year his sons and daughters won nearly everything that was worth winning and i was anticipated that such horses as Kentucky Norfolk Harry Bas ott Otto Tom Bowling Kingfisher and other great performers could not fail to be as great in the stud as on the track But no son of Lexington proTed parroted a distinct success as a sire though it cannot be fairly said that they were wholly failures for for one thing the mares owing their existence to them hare almost uniformly pror prior d among the very best of stud matrons matronsC matrons C C BILET BILE
