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Show TURF TOPICS. Pacebind, tho famous gelding, has fw'en turned oat in a paddock at (.raves-end (.raves-end tr.'u-k by M. F. Dwyer in consequence conse-quence of it bud leg, and will scarcely be se;n at the post before fall. Work on the new track at Nashville will 1ki rapidly pushed, and it will lo ready for the inaugural trotting meeting tu la-gin on Oct. 11), for which f.'O.OOO in stakes and purses will be hung up. New Yorkers are at ill agitating the question of a speed road for trotte.ru. President Kiley, of tho New York driving driv-ing club, guarantors that the road i tog will raise 1150,000 for the purpose. M. F. Dwyer is credited with sayin? that ha will not send his great colt Potomac Po-tomac to Chicago to run in tho rich American derby, as he has plenty of engagements en-gagements for him in the east, "You'll see Nelson in Boston this summer," sum-mer," said C. II. Nelson recently, "and you'll flee a better horso than you saw bust year. I will bet $100 that my horse trots on the American association tracks." Thomas II. Williams, of San Francisco, Francis-co, has purchased of Senator Stanford, for f ,0i HI, tho fast 3 year-old colt Uin-fax, Uin-fax, winner of tho Friendly stake at Wa.-hiii;,'to!i park la-t year. Since his purchase bo has won tho Tidal Ptake and Pacific Derby for his new owner. This experiment has bejn tried in Franco: Ttii horses were picked out at haphazard, their shoes taken off, and then thf-y were ridden lit different paces over all port of ijo and suow, doing about bixfy mih'8 for five days, at tho end of which time their feet were not in tho le.i.-.t damaged. The Tennessee senate has passed a bill that had originated iu thy house, providing, pro-viding, tinder severe penalties, that hereafter here-after betting on races in that stato shall lu conlmi'd strictly to the inclositre within which tho races aro run. This measure will serve to effectually wipe out tho pool rooms in Nashvillo aud Memphis. |