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Show I TALES OF THE 1 UKF. Green B. Morris has signed G. Covington Cov-ington to ride at 108 pounds from April 1 to Nov. 30, 1H91, for $1,500, and $25 foi winning and $10 for losing mounts. J. G. Miller, of Sionx City, la., has the largest standard trotting bred horse in America, or probably the world. He is 18 hands 1J inches high, and can, it is said, show a 2:40 gait. The death of Morrison McClelland, father of Bryon and John McClelland, at Lexington, Ky., on Dec. 6, removes another connecting link of the past and present generation of turfmen. For nearly fifty years "old man" McClelland had been a trainer of race horses, and was well known on all the southern, western and eastern courses. John A. Morris, of New York an k New Orleans, has in charming Metairie cemetery, in tho Crescent City, one of the most beautiful family burial placrs imaginable. Located near the head of the old homestretch, where Lexington ran his famous four miles in 7:19, the Morris tomb represents an ivy covered Vower surrounded by orange trees. California horses which spend their first winters east away from the sunny elopes that trend down to the mighty Pacific take no small risk of climatic nilmnnlc, pl T?ir, rnv'a nuovlir f. if.il ill- ing at Westchester a year since from lung troubles, and Sinaloa's death at the tame track recently, show that with many animals such an experiment is attended at-tended with more or less danger. Robert Bonner, speaking of straightaway straight-away trotting, says: "The public patronize patron-ize trotting races to seo the horse trot, and with a mile straightaway very little could be seen. A thoroughbred trot ter iu action is one of the most beautiful sights in the world, and a trotting race can only be enjoyed on the regulation oval track. A record made on a straightaway straight-away or kite shaped track is valueless, in my opinion." At the funeral of the deceased California Cali-fornia sire, Norfolk, more sentiment was shown than on any similar occasion of j late years. The grave at Rancho del Rio I (the river Ranche) was beneath a group of stately oaks, and a number of the friends of Theodore Winters were pros- , ent at the great horse's obsequies. Numerous floral testimonials were placed over Norfolk's last resting place, as befitted be-fitted an animal which has taken a most important part in tho tnrf and breeding interests of the Pacific coast. , |