Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-22
SPORTING MATTERS.
Racing Here and at Other
Places.
TURF AND ATHLETIC MATTERS.
The Cinder Path Cricket The
Spring Mecting-The Pug
ilistic Arena.

marked success. There is no better
criterion of good racing than the fact
OF favorite being now and then de.
fsated and this happened rather toe
often during the week to please the
talent. When the fancier candidates
fail to win it may be accepted as q
general rule that most Of the horses
engaged are, to use a racing express
sion, "out for the stuff" and this fact
goes further with making the sport
popular with the public than dozen
hippodromes wherein those On the in.
side only get in on the good thing. All
honor then to the Turf Club and its
energetic and able directors who gave
us good purses, good sport and
straightforward management. Mr..
Samuels' Ed McGinnis was IN
doubtedly the best three-yesr-old
that ran during the meeting.
but so prejudiced am in favor of that
handsome son of Hockhock, Type
setter, that verify believe he would
prove more than a match for the
Grimstead colt at anything up to six
furlongs. Count Valensin's magnif-
cent black horse, Shamrock, undoubt-
edlv proved himself the champion
trotter OF the meeting, and there is
many victory in store for him under
the guidance of that prince of drivers,
"Knapsack" MCCARTHY, in their forth
coming Eastern tour. The attend
ance during the week was smaller
than the excellence OF the racing pro-
vided deserved. But one OF the fea-
lures of the meeting was the heavy
betting on the different contests. A
gentleman who came from San Fran
cisco to attend these races informed
me that more money went into the
pool box on the first day than was bet
at the Bay District during the preced-
ing week. This is an excellent sign in
asmuch as it proves that with straight
races the Los Angeles puhlicwill free
ly back their fancies, and, after all,
speculation is the life of racing, as of
every other sport. Speculation on the
coming big bandicaps grows more ex-
tended every day and the betting,
after wildly fuctuating, is beginning
to assume tangible form.
The fancy of the week seems to
have been the California mare, Miss
Ford, and whether stabbed money, as
reported, Or not, she has been backed
in goodly amounts with all bookmak-
ers doing business on the spring
handicaps: so much that one book is
reported ''full" on her. Why the
public should back her to any extent
it is hard to imagine, for though un-
questionably possessed Of speed in the
highest degree, and we'll able to COM
pass the distance, she will be remem-
bered as one of the most tickle jades
of last season, one Of the kin1 that is
never safe to back or to bet against.
Kaloolah. Terra Gotta and Linden are
also stated to have been backed, and
in this lies the proof of how unwise it
is to back horses very far ahead un-
less on some reliable ground. Terra
Gotta will not, according to an inter-
view with his owner, at Nashville, a
few days ago, ever be starter in the
Suburban; in fact, will not be in
New Yo k until after the Saratoga
meeting.
Other Suburban wagers reported
during the week are as follows: Lie
Logos, 1000 to 20; Hidalgo, 1000 to
400 6. H. Todd, 1900 to 20; Eolo,
$500 TO l5a; Eurus, $500 to 80
Aurelia, 1, 800 TO 30 Rightaway, 1900
to 50; Come nara, 1900 to 40; The
Bard, / 900 to 20; Firenzi, 1900 to 60
Dry Monopole, 800 to 20; Colonel
Cowan, 10000 to 20.
The different stables that winter on
private farms are already beginning
to congregate at the big tracks, and
last week witnessed the arrival OF Mr..
GRATIS string at Sheepshead Bay.
Elkwood and Dry Monopole head the
lot, and both are said to be locking
we'll, albeit the winner OF last years
Brooklyn Handicap had been slightly
off after getting in New York.
The stakes for "green" jumpers al
Rockaway have filed remarkably
we'll, all things considered, and from
present prospects the Cedarhurst
meeting should be successful one.
That is, providing the club can get in
its days without clashing with any
one else. And it would seem that the
big clubs ought to give the cross
country meeting some consideration
The Rockaway people were among the
hardest workers for the Ives pool bill
and they followed in the lead Of the
"bar" law, much to their own detri.
ment, and very unnecessarily, in the
opinion OF most people. For these
; reasons alone it is decidedly unfair te
crowd them, and it is all the more sc
when the benefit to the turf as an in
stitution of a well conducted steeple
chase meeting is considered. 1t il
probable that the racing days of the
club this spring will be Mondays AND
Fridays. What date it will open has
not, I believe, been decided as yet.
Just what the recent winter leeis
lation against all winter racing il
New Jersey, is a question that man,
have asked during the past week, bu
which no one that have met coult
satisfactorily answer. AS the bill
passed the Senate, racing in Decem
ber, January, February, March ant
April i5 prohibited. but it is said tha
in the Assembly it did not includ,
April in its provisions. The Cover
nor had not, up to the time OF writing
acted upon the measure in an.
manner. even were it in shape to de
pend upon his approval or disaE
proval. So the future of racing al
wear round is now very unsettled.
Should the rumo1 which is curren
that the Guttenbeg & Clifton horse
horses are to spent the next winter il
Southern California prove correct, W
may confidently expect boom i
sport such as the oldest inhabitar
had, even in his widest dreams
fondly imagined, and the race trac
will indeed become one of the MOI
important factors in the prosperity
this city.
The Prize Ring.