Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-09-30
THE WONDERFUL FlLLY.
The Record Of a Sunny Slope Filly-Tho Best
Ever Known-Mr. L. J. Rose Leads the
California Turf as Well as ths California
Vignerons.

rences, rarely chronicled, has taken
place for the renown of Los Auge-
les county, about which little has
been said, because but little Is un-
derstood. Yet it is stranger than
anything that has happened 80 far
in turf annals. When it Is rem en-.
bered that there are thousands and
Thousands OF colts being trained
every year, all over the United
States, and that this has been the
case for years, with the object OF
producing the fastest two-year-old
of them all, that Los Angeles has
made the rifle, and that, too, by
no small fraction, but by Al sec.
onds, it is n thing stranger than for
lightning to strike twice In one
place.
Sweetheart is a brown lilly, two
years old, bred aud developed by
l.. ]. Rose, Esq, of Sunny Slope,
San Gabriel. She was sired by
Sultan "a son OF the Moor), dam
Minuehaha, by Bald Chief. That
there ia some accident about the
matter, is true; yet such results
could only be looked for from some.
thug bred as finely AS are both sire
and dam. Suit tIn hss as fine u ped
| igree as can he found in the covers
of Wsllace's Trotting Register, and
| Miunehaha il bred nearly as well.
Sweetheart tIotted against Gov.
Leland Stanford's colt at the State
Fair and won easily i'll 2:3l3 and
2:324 This not being az good as
the best record made by $50 So"
u Kentucky Hlly, made two years
ago, Mr.. L.. j. Rose, in order to
show what his filly could do, start
ed her against time for the Soci-
ety's gold medal, She came up for
the word, Donithan, her driver and
trainer,nodding that he was ready.
Nimrod, the PAGER, accompanied
her, to prompt her. Sweetheart
male little ski ip as the word was
given, but Immediately caught and
squared away to her easy, long and
frictiOnless mOtion-a motion SO
deceptive that no one believed she
was performing the wonderful feat.
She passed along like q moving
shadow, without u wobble or break;
and, wheu she entered in the home
stretch, Donithan called on her for
her best effort, and called on MIN
RODS driver to come on. Gamely
did she respond and she fairly flew
down the stretch, even leaving the
PAGER behind some lengths.
When Donithan turned her
around and brought her before the
Judges stand, the thousands were
breathlessly still, not whisper
was heard. Those who had watch
es, and had timed her, would not
say what the time was, for it could
not be that their watches were cor
rect. There was something wrong
with them; or, by the excitement
of the moment, they had stopped
too soon. But, when the President
announced the time, 2:226i
there was no mistake, and
that the greatest performance OF
the age, or even of any age, had
been chronicled, a shout went up
which was loud and long and made
the welkin ring. The ladies Joined
in with the waving of haudker-
chiefs. This performance, together
with the performances of other
horses from Los Angeles county,
like Del Sur, Sir Guy, Len Rose
Annie Laurie, Belle Echo, Echora
and others, makes Los Angeles the
great horse county of the State. Il
Is to the balance OF the State what
: WOodford county is to Kentucky
and the performance of Sweetheart
Is worth to Los Angeles county al
r east 500, 900, for it will attract
horsemen here to buy horses ant
colts.
Mr.. Rose sold Sweetheart before
she trotted against time, but after
her trot against Fred Crocker, fo
Sl2, 900 to E. s. Stokes, Esq, who
presented her to j. w. Mackey
, Esq. After the time trot Sweet
= heart was worth at least $4,000
Maud S. was bought by Vanderbilt
for S21 600 as four-year-old, hav-
ing made 2:l7a trial. Sweetheart'l
:, two-year.old time of 2:26l Is a NOR
: remarkable performance, and sht
0 will be a study and an object of in
, terest to all horsemen. 1t is to b,
hoped that nothing ill will befal
( her. Mr.. Mackey has left her II
: the hands of Mr.. Rose, to be caret
r for and have her handled for tn
coming year, aud Sunny Slop
8 will become the Mecca for al
!. h0rsemen that come to this State
The sire Of Sweetheart will largel,
share In the curiosity of all comerr
Firstly, because of his fine for m
!. nnish and high breedingi and, sec