. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Pbincees Zeika is undoubtedly the best two-year old at the track. Hcghey Jones arrived during the week, acd will prob- ably be seen on the block next Monday. ^ A cakload of horses belonging to Barney Schreiber will; be shipped from New York Sunday en route to the Coast. Jockey Johhny Woods, who went to Eogland under contract to "Aleck" CovioglOD, is expected to arrive here next week. John Porter, the great Eoglish trainer being asked, "Is Fifing Fox the best horse you ever trained?" answered: "There was only oce ; Atkins &a
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Pbincees Zeika is undoubtedly the best two-year old at the track. Hcghey Jones arrived during the week, acd will prob- ably be seen on the block next Monday. ^ A cakload of horses belonging to Barney Schreiber will; be shipped from New York Sunday en route to the Coast. Jockey Johhny Woods, who went to Eogland under contract to "Aleck" CovioglOD, is expected to arrive here next week. John Porter, the great Eoglish trainer being asked, "Is Fifing Fox the best horse you ever trained?" answered: "There was only oce ; Atkins & Lottridge have twenty-two horses in training this season. Among them is old Scarborough, who both looks and works better than ever before. Bill Mujubay brought fourteen horse down from his ranch on Tuesday last. He has several maidens among the bunch, on one of which he is "very ; Mb. W. C. Whitney's racing*colors have been registered with the the Jockey Club as "Eton blue, brown cap,'* with second colors of ' Eton blue, brown belt and ; Capt. Ben E. Harris of this city has invented and sug- gested many devices in the way of annunciators, jnckey boards, Btarting gates, etc, for use on race tracks, and now has a new one-in the way of an annunciator made especially to show the winning numbers as soon as the horses have been placed by the judges. It can be worked by electricity or otherwise, and the" numbers can be read from any angle of the track, a feature no other machine possesses. Charley Thobpe's perseverance won a race for Burns & Waterhouse last Wednesday. Thorpe had the mount on Panamint, who,v,as a heavily played favorite. At the half mile pole Panamint was badlv cut off, and lost fully ten lengths, falling back to last position and looktog to be hope- lessly beaten, but Thorpe sat d *wn and by hard riding grad^ ual!v caught tne field again, and going to the front, under the bat, when half way through the stretch, won all out. T
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