Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-12
HORSE talk.
ARRIVAL OF SOME FINE STOCK FOR
SEIPPEES STABLE.
Unprecedented Interest in Horse-Breed-
ing-The East the Place to Sell
Theodore Winters Success.

'Ab." Stemler, the well-known turfman,
and manager of the stable of L. U. Ship
pee, of Stockton, arrived from the East yes
terday with carload of valuable horses,
purchase at recent Kentucky sales for that
gentleman. They were all thoroughbreds
but one, and the list is as follows:
Thoroughbreds-The Teal b. m. (5), by
Hlndoo, dam Mundane, dam of Blue
Wing, by Lexington, with a foal by her
side by Leonatus; Decoy Duck, b. M, 49,.
by Longfellow, dam Call Duck, dam of
Grinstead) by Gilroy The Drake, b. c.,
(yearlingJ, by Leonatus, dam The Teal; bay
lilly, (yearling}. by Falsetto, dam Glenluine,
dam of Trobadour by Glenelg; bay FLY,
(yearling), sister to Jennie Tracy, by Fal-
setto, dam Queen Victoria, by Lexington;
bay colt, (yearling), by Longfellow, dam
Carrie Phillips by Pat Malloy.
Trotting bred-Castelar b. C (yearling),
got by Dictator; first dam, Malona by
George Wilkes; second dam, Lizzie Brinker,
dam of Blu Crook, 2:1Si; Adjutant. 2:274;
Lucy Fleming, 2:24; Odd Fellow, 2:31, and
the Karr FLY, TWO years old, 2:46); by
Drinkers Drennon; third dam by Millions
Copperbottom; fourth, fifth and sixth dams
thoroughbred bred by H. c. Mcdowell &
Son, Lexington, KY.
The mare Decoy Duck was purchased for
breeding purposes, She is grandly bred,
and when but two years old Pierre Loril-
lard offered $4,000 for her. The colts are
all of the best racing families, and each
cost pot OF money. Stemler expects great
things OF them when they get upon the
turf
THE BOOM IN HoRsEFLEsH.
Is 1t true" the veteran turfman was
asked by RECORD UNION reporter, that
there is really such boom in the matter of
horse. breeding and racing in the East as is
stated by the press ?"
g Boom" be replied, why people out
this way have no idea of the extent to
which the interest in turf matters and
the breeding of fine horses is spreading
beyond the Rocky Mountains. Look at
the case of William Murray of Sacramento.
When he went East this last spring, he
took with him the colt Robinhood, three
years old, bred at the Palo Alto farm of
Senator Stanford. The colt is by Shannon,
dam Robin Girl. He couldn't get thousand
dollars Tor the youngster here and only gave
few hundred for him. but l was in
Chicago not long after Murray's arrival
and saw Robinhood sold by him TO the
Scroggin Bros. for $1,000, and they got a
bargain at that Then, again, look at
Another of Your Sacramento men, but a
breeder. You know Winters had been off
the turf for several years and confined his
efforts to breeding from few yery good
sires and brood mares. Well, he became
interested again last year by the wonderful
success OF Baldwin's Emperor of Norfolk,
bred by himself, and having some young
sters OF the same stock and also some good
ones by Joe Hooker, he thought he would
shy his castor into the turf-ring once more
as sort OF flyer and, by the way, his
youngsters are flyers from Flytown. Well,
he put them into training and sent them
East, but his real intention was to sell
them if they made a good showing. He
wasn't long in changing his plans, how
ever, when he saw what value there was in
the breeding ana running of good horses,
and not only gave up the idea Of selling,
but sent orders to his trainers to 60 to work
on his yearlings and fit them for the track
GOOD STOCK COMES HIGH
81 had an order from Sacramento gen.
teman, who takes great interest in turf
matters, to try and purchase him promis-
ing three-vear- old in the East for few
hundred dollars, but, bless you, the kind of
colt that he hoped to get couldn't be had
for as many thousands. l am glad to see
that spring meetings on q large and liberal
scale have been inaugurated here in Sacra-
meBto under the management of the State
Agricultural Society, for it will give great
stimulus to the breeding of frst-class
horses. That will cause the establishment
of more breeding farms, by providing op-
portunities for colts to win money for their
owners, AID it will also tend TO benefit the
State"
CALIFORNIA AS A BREEDING PLACE.
"Mr. Stemler, does California hold the
high place in the estimation of turfmen in
the East, that she is reported to hold, as
breeding State?'
Undoubtedly she does. Look at the
success that has attended all the great sales
in the East of California-bred colts, both
runners and trotters. Rose, Valensin,
Stanford Haggin-all that have sent the
produce of their breeding farms to New
York for sale have been munihcently re-
warded therefor. No such yearlings, for
size, bone, muscle and general strength of
constitution have ever been seen in the
East, and these things are opening the
eyes of turfmen back there to the won
derful climatic advantages possessed
by this State. But the people
herein general, mean-are slow to com
prehend and appreciate their advantages,
and it is to be hoped that these spring
meetings may have the effect of creating a
revolution in this particular on the Pacific
coast. But you must excuse me now, as
have to get these colts of for Stockton.
Good-day."
WHITES SCORES ANOTHER VICTORY.
Jim Coffroth it was who once remarked
in a speech on Fourth street-a great many
moons ago-that, if be couldn't be Presi-
dent he would like to be one of j
is sons. The winning of another
race in Chicago yesterday by the colt Ell
Rio Rey warrants one in saying that if he
couldn't be CIusus, he would like to be
Theodore Winters. If the latter rakes
down Eastern purses as regularly and per
sistently as he has those in the West, be
will require vault on his River Ranch"
to hold it. 1t is a notable fact that his