. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. January 7, 19C5j ©He gvee&ev tml> §tj?0trt5rmcm SXD Notes and News, m Neva Simmons 2:11}, the big winner of 1901, has been bred to The Bondsman, sire of Grace Bond 2:09}. Mr. Frank G. Jones, president of the Memphis Association, has quite a string of good ones wintering in charge of that wizard of the reins, Ed Geers, which he will campaign the coming season. Among others he has the great young trotter, Tom Axworthy 2:085, and Baron Grattan 2:04}. Lou Dillon and Major Delmar will have one of their match races next year over the two-minute track at Readvi
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. January 7, 19C5j ©He gvee&ev tml> §tj?0trt5rmcm SXD Notes and News, m Neva Simmons 2:11}, the big winner of 1901, has been bred to The Bondsman, sire of Grace Bond 2:09}. Mr. Frank G. Jones, president of the Memphis Association, has quite a string of good ones wintering in charge of that wizard of the reins, Ed Geers, which he will campaign the coming season. Among others he has the great young trotter, Tom Axworthy 2:085, and Baron Grattan 2:04}. Lou Dillon and Major Delmar will have one of their match races next year over the two-minute track at Readville. An offer of $3500 was lately refused for a yearling colt by Moko, dam Silicon II. 2:15|, owned by Clem Beachey, Jr. As to Billy Buch to 2:07}, he turns out to be the greatest snow horse in PittsDurg, and Mr. Callery got him for a song. Geers won three more races than any other Grand Circuit driver this past season. Snow and Spear were his nearest competitors with fifteen each. The State Fair Grounds at Sacramento are rapidly being dismantled and there will not be one of the old buildings left standing by the last of this month. There were more new 2:10 trotters produced in 1904 than ever before, but the number of new 2:15 trotters was smaller than in a number of previous seasODS. A syndicate is said to have been formed in a Kansas town for the purpose of buying Direct Hal 2:04}, when the Hamlin horses are disposed of this winter. President McDoel, of the Monon Route, who owns among other horses Allerson 2:081 and Irish 2:08}, has leased the Idle Hour Farm, near Macon, Ga., for winter Two-Year-Old Brother to Sweet Marie Owned by J. C. Adams, Phcenlx, Arizona It is now reported that Lon McDonald's new employer is R. L. Williams, a wealthy Boston sports- man, and that Lon has signed for three years at a salary of $7000 per year. Charles Marvin, instead of wintering as usual at Lexington, Ky., will this winter try Selma, Ala. He has two or three Futurity candidates
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