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Show j TURF TOPICS. I The noted Australian racehorse Melos I has broken down. He ran third to Bravo I and Carbine for the Melbourne cup in j James Dustin, the well known trotting j horse driver, has been apjiointed snper- iutendent of the Bay District track, San Francisco, during the Blood Horse meet-j meet-j ing. j It is stated that the New Hampshire ! stallion Viking, 2:19i, will be placed in training this year and handled by James Golden. He is expected to reduce his record materially. A Norman mare owned by H. H. Stoddard, Stod-dard, of Lyons township, Cook county, Ills., gave birth recently to three foaLs, all perfectly formed. One of the triplets is alive and doing well. Tho shrewdest bettors at Guttenburg are reported to nave oeen neavy losers I of late. Pittsburg Phil is credited with j having dropped jji'iO.OOO; Fred Eshner, j f.0,(J(Xi and Pat Irish, .$30,000. A dark horse that is mentioned as a j possible winner of the Kentucky Derby is Lorenzo, by Ten Broeck, out of Vera L. lie started only three times as a two-j two-j year-old and won two brackets at Nash-! Nash-! ville in November j A drove of fifty mules passed through ! the streets of Allentown. Pa., recently, j They were led by a man who went j ahead on horseback, and by the constant i ringing of a cow bell lie managed to keep the mules in line without the use j of a halter. The colored trainer Drown Dick will j have quite a strong string of nineteen j head this year. Of the eh veil 2-year-j olds A.-traliban. a Imlf-sisU-r to .in net and Dulse oi Mom rose, and Future, a ! hitii-brother to Successor, are said to h! ! tile most prnmismj; ,. Alien will uuui j r.de lor Si-own Un it this season. |