Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1880-10-13

10Y AuS thoV VIC pciioi huGCCo VI
Sweetheart have made Los Ange-
les county the most promising turf
center In the United States. We
said so because Sweetheart is a
Los Angeles colt and her blood re-
lations are scattered over this
county, and her sire is still here.
The NetOs received our answer to
its inquiry with sneer. We will
therefore let the Turf, Field and
Farm, of Oct. 1st, give its views of
the matter. We quote, and we
commend its statements and opin.
ions to our ill-natured contempt.
rary:
Thursday, Oct. II, 1877, the
brown fiIly, So-So, two years old,
by George Wilkes, dam Little Ida,
by Alexander's Edwin Forrest, as
tonished the world by trotting at
Lexington, KY, second heat In
2:313 aud third heat In 2:3l. In both
of these heats $3.50 walked under
the wire. 1t is the opinion OF in.
telligent horsemen who witnessed
the performance that che could.
have trotted in 2.29, had she been
pushed for time. The same year,
and at the same place, the year
ling FLY, Memento, by Admins
TRAITOR, was timed a mile to sulky
10 1864. On the 8th Of October,
1878, Memento, then two years old,
started in Il race at Lexington
against Steinway and others. She
was pulled almost to stand-still
in the fret heat, to keep from shut
ting her competitors ont. The
time was 1891. In the second heat
Memento logged under the wire
eight lengths ahead OF Steinway in
2:30, but the judges were unusually
severe, and they took the heat
from her for skipni,ig and an al.
legged foul. Stein @ay's time was
1921. In the ti.ir,i heat Steinway
had warmed to his work, and al.
though Memer'o beat him to the
wire, the judges decided in his
favor; time 2:3l2 These were two
remarkable ia. -, aud it was felt
that it would be extremely diff.
cult for a colt bred outside of Ken.
lucky to beat tho 2:3t of $3.50.
| Wednesday, Sept. %, the public
was startled by the announcement
that at San Francisco on the day
previous q twO.year-old FLY called
Sweetheart hat trotted against
Fred Croker at San Francisco,
and beaten him ia 2:3I4, 2:32s. Be.
fore we had fairly recovered from
this surprise, the telegraph flashed
the news over the land that Sweet
heart had trOtted mile in 2:26A.
We were inclined to doubt the cor
rectness of the Associate Press dis
patch, when q private m essage came
to us. 1t was written by Mr.. Joseph
Cairn Simpson,, well known au
thority, and it reads as follows:
"Sweetheaft, two-year.old filly,
trotted yesterday Sept. 25), at State
Fair, Sacramento, in 2:26&. She
was bred by L. j. Rose, Los Ange-
les. First quarter, 81 seconds; half
In 1:143. Nimrod, the PAGER, &C.
companied Sweetheart to the last
quarter, when she trotted away
from him In 35 seconds. This drew
forth great and prolonged applause
from the thousands witnessing the
exhibition, 1t being apparent she
could easily have reduced the rec
ord several seconds. Yet the track
was very slow, as shown by Santa
Claus and Nutwood. Sweetheart
belongs to Edward s. Stokes, OF
New York City, and 1t is rumored
he made her present to John w.
Mackey. Her equal does not exist,
Book her for the trotting wonder of
1881" This dispatch graphically
tells the story. The FLY is what
the trainers call good.rater. She
trotted the first quarter in :37, the
second in :37}, the third in :37, and
the fourth in :35, 1920 gait, and
1t almost takes away our breath to
hear that she could have beaten
2:264 "several seconds.u Sweet
heart is remarkably bred. She is
q brown and was got by Sultan,
out of Minnehaha. Sultan was BY
The Moor, out of Sultana, by Del
monico, by Guy Miller, by Rvs.
dyk's Hambletonian; Cd dam by
MambrinO Chief; Sd dam Big
Norah, by Downing's Bay Messsn.
ger, and 4th dam Mrs. Caudle, the
dam of Ericsson. The Moor was
got by Clay Pilot, dam Belle of
Wabash, and she by Bassinger, by
Lieut.. Bassinger, by imp. FyIde,
out Of a mare by imp. William w.
son Of imp. Tranby. Clay Pilot
was sired by Nesves's Cassius M.
Clay, dam by Pilot, Jr., son of Pilot
and Mary Pope, by Havoc, claimed
to be thoroughbred. Minnehaha,
dam of Sweetheart, was by Bald
Chief out of Nettie Clay, by Cas-
sius M. Clay, Jr. Bald Chief Tor
Mambrino Boston), was by Alex
ander's Bay Chief, dam by Red
mans Boston, son of imp. Valen.
tine. Bay Chief was by Mambrino
Chief, dam by Keokuk, by imp.
I'd dam by Arabian Stam-
bouI. Cassius M. Clay, Jr., now
owned at FairlawD, was by CASH us
". Clay, by Henry Clay, by An
rev Jackson, by young Bashaw,
~ imp. Grand Bashaw 10 Barb;
lam by Abdallah, (sire
II Rysdyk's Hambletonian);
ID dam by Lawrence's Eclipse, by
A merican Eclipse; Sd dam by imp.
Messenger. All Of the famous trot-
Ing strains, such as HANDLE.
oman, Mambrino Chief, Pilot, Jr.,
md Clay, are nicely sandwiched
~ running blood. Bred as she is.
t would be difficult for Swesth cart
rot to trot fast. Los Angeles is In
he southern part Of California,
where the trade winds do not rack
me to pieces. The climate IL soft.
nd the colts can enjoy . run In
ha imam AIR aIavan rn0Iths a. IN.