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Show TURF "NOTES. A mule colt at Carrolton, Ala., has no eyes and no place for them. The place where its eyes should be is as smooth as its jaws. Egotist has a record of 8:29, but Mr. John E. Green says it will be 3:19 before long. Ho is by Electioneer, out of Sprite, the daughter of Waterwitch. Air. Carll S. Burr has driven Elina a mile in 2:80 8-5. This looks as if she would surely add one more to the Green Mountain Maid group of performers. . Rosobery jumped 7 feet and 1 inch at the exhibition grounds, Toronto, Ont., on Sept. 18, 1890, thus beating his previous best jump at Elmira, N, Y three-eighths three-eighths of an inch, He is conceded to be the champion high jumper. Mr. John EL Smith, who once owned Trustee, who trotted twenty miles within with-in the hour, is dead at the age of 80. He was a resident of Cincinnati, and fifteen years ago his face was very familiar at ! Saratoga, Jerome park and Monmouth park. ! Ed Corrigan, of the Chicago West ( Side track, hae purchased a tract of land some two miles west of his present i track, and may at a future day lay out a race course there. He paid $354,000 for the land, aud the construction of a first class track and buildings will involve a further outlay of about $100,000. Few breeders can boast of having produced pro-duced both the English Derby and St Leger in one year with two horses. Queen Victoria.in 1890,niade that enviable record. With Sainfoin.sold as a yearling to Mr. Porter, she won the Derby, while with Memoir, sold at the same age to the Duke of Portland for 1,600 guineas, she cftptured the St. Leger. |