. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Like all good things, Jackson's Napa Soda has a izen counterfeits. Watch out! Read the advertisement of tlie $6000 Breeders Futurity this issue. A report was telegraphed last week from Hartford and published in all the Eastern turf papers that Mr. Frank Rosell, of Boston, had purchased Dolly Dillon 2:07 from Millard Sanders, representing the Santa Rosa Stock Farm, for $13,000, and that the mare had been turned over to Scott McCoy, who would train and drive her in the future. Mr. Henry Pierce, one of the proprietors of the Santa Rosa farm, denies the report and
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Like all good things, Jackson's Napa Soda has a izen counterfeits. Watch out! Read the advertisement of tlie $6000 Breeders Futurity this issue. A report was telegraphed last week from Hartford and published in all the Eastern turf papers that Mr. Frank Rosell, of Boston, had purchased Dolly Dillon 2:07 from Millard Sanders, representing the Santa Rosa Stock Farm, for $13,000, and that the mare had been turned over to Scott McCoy, who would train and drive her in the future. Mr. Henry Pierce, one of the proprietors of the Santa Rosa farm, denies the report and says that the farm still owns the mare. When at tbe Hartford meeting Mr. Sanders telegraphed Pierce Bros, that he had an offer of $12,000 for Dolly and asked for instructions as to whether he should sell her. The reply was sent that if the $12,000 was deposited in the Laidlaw Bank at New York on the following day it would be accepted There was some hitch in regard to the check having been made out on a Boston bank and when Sanders telegraphed saying that another day's time was wanted, he received a reply to the effect that the sale was off, and to start her at Readville on Wednesday of this week. A telegram received Irom him Wednesday evening stated that Dolly Dillon had won the first heat of the race in 2:11}, after which rain caused tbe race to be postponed. Mr. Pierce tells us that it will take much more than $13,000 to buy this mare, as he con- siders her as fast as any mare in America when right, and he believes she is worth about as much to the Santa Rosa Stock Farm as to anybody. Piace your foals of 1W:1 in the way of earning money by naming your mares bred this year in tlie Breeders Futurity. The free for all trot in which Lord Derby and Boralma met attracted more attention than the famous $10,000 Charter Oak Stake. It was the first race this year in which the public could see even a chance for Mr. Law- son's unbeaten gelding to meet defeat, and even after the wonderful
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