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Show TALES OF THE TURF. j ThpAmerican trotting mare Polly won l.l'oO in English money in European trotting races last season. In a trotting race in England lately between be-tween Bonny Boy and Gray Tommy, the rider of Gray Tommy fell and was killed. Anteeo. ono of Elect ioneer's sons, recently re-cently sold for lro.-,000, the highest price ever paid at auction for a horse. Several days later Anteeo was resold for i.VHH). j Michael Dwyer has purchased the great I Kingston from bis brother Philip, who j secured him for 10,000 at the sale of the ! Dwyers' stable. Tho consideration was ( f'.'O.OOO worth of Brooklyn Jockey club stock. I Osninn'a death and burial at sea was a source of general regret. Tratisporta-i Tratisporta-i turn by sea nowadays is none of the best I for valuable horses, and Ossinn met tho same fate as did Blue Gown and other great horses before him. A turf authority says: "Make your Stables as pleasant and comfortable as you can for your horses, and you will never regret having done so. Your horses will bust longer and be more serviceable serv-iceable for having good quarters and good care." A mare mule in the corral of Timothy Dwyer, of Wyoming, is said to have a ; piebald- colt by a gray broncho stallion. It was foaled last June, and has tho short hair and dark brown bide of its dam. A similar case occurred at 8an Jose, Cal., in 1800. The dam of Little Drown Jug, 2:11 1, had in all nineteen foals, of which two died and four were mules. Of the re-! re-! maiuing thirteen only six were trained, j They are Little Drown Jug, 2:11J; Drown j Hal, 2:K'J; Cooper's Jug, trial, 2:JS; SU-i SU-i ver Jug, 3:!J0, trotting; Director's Jug, trial, :ol, and a gelding, name unknown. |