The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-07
TURF NOTES.
The Luckiest Colt Alive Is Hag.
gins Salvador.
Outlook for the Coming State Campaign-Rus'
sell Is Still the Crack-Tourna-
ments Little Speech.

One month from tom orroW, and tnose Oh
the trotting, pacing and Running horses that
instead of trying their luck in the East re-
manned in the State will commence the
summer and fall campaign and show what
the steady preparations given them by their
trainers will enable them to do in the way
Of coming first under the wire.
CIRCUIT DATES.
The opening dates are: lone. August
5th; Los Angeles, August 4th; San Jose.
August 18th; Napa. August 18th;
Red Bluff, August 18th; Glenbrook
Park, August 18th; Petaluma. August
TENDER 1st; NIarysville. September I'd;
Lakeport, September 23d; Sacramento
State Fair, September s; Stockton, Sep
TENDER 23d Fresno, September %; Visalia.
October 9TH. Then follows the Trotting-
horse Breeders meeting, though their date
may possibly be advanced, and to close up
with there Is the blo0d-hOrse fail meeting.
As will be seen there is clash OF dates as
the list is arranged at present, but quite
probably there may be concessions that Will
avoid the doubling up of meetings.
PLENTY OF HORSES LEFT.
Because the leading trotting and running
stables of the Coast have sent the pick Of
their lots to compete in the East, many peo-
pie think the racing this year will be unin-
| terestng through small fields and no COM
peting record breakers being entered. This
| idea is entirely erroneous. The very alb
| sence of the cracks has caused the owners
| of slower animals to en- ter most freely and
| the fields look as if they will in any event
| be as large. if they are not. larger. than last
| year. The contestants will be much more
| evenly matched this year, and while no
| records are in danger OF being lowered I'M
| til the fall, when the cracks return for the
| State Fair a Sacramento from the East, the
| races will be much more closely contested
| all round.
TURF LUNIINARIEs.
A new imported turf light has doomed up
on the local turf horizon and has kindly
| changed most OF the dates of the circuit this
| season to suit himself. When the different
| association secretaries notice this they will
| at once rearraDge their dates, of course.
| He and the genuises who persist in claim
| ing that siX-furlong records can be made
| over the Futurity distance; that Salvador is
| distinctly California horse, and allude in
| the same sentence to Tenny as him" and
''her," are electrifying the readers of turf
| reports.
A SHORT SIX FURLoNGs.
The Futurity distance, which is pulling
many local turf editors as to its exact
| length, is not a full six furlongs. 1t is
''about" six furlongs, and is so described IN
| the turf programmes issued-see the Wash
| ingtOn PARK (Chicago), book. Strathmeath's
not constitute the siX-furlong record.
RUSSELL ALL RIGHT AGAIN.
1t was generally supposed by the Eastern
| know-it-alls that the Morris crack two
| year-old, Russell, had gone stale through
| overwork. and they attributed his last de-
feats to that cause. That this theory was
| all wrong was fully proved last week by
! the colt securing the second running of the
! double event at Coney Island, giving his
| former conqueror, Strathmeath, five
| pounds, and carrying his 123 pounds to vic
tory by two lengths, over slow track, in
| trick for w. l.. Scott. and now Russell
| equals the performance. Russell will add
more victories yet TO his credit before
| the season closes.
| A CLEVER FILLY.
The Morris also scored during the week
with L'Intrisuant, her third appearance
and first win. They also started Key
| West, one of their new tw0-year-olds, but
though at first made favorite. he went back
| in the betting, and only succeeded in get
| ting fourth place. For general two-year-
| old racing the Morris still have the best
| string. Their lilly Reckon is very useful
! one.
| TOURNAMENT TALKS.
| "Say, Mr.. Allen! Oh Mat! Hurry up,
| I've something to tell you. Why, I've just
won the Realization stakes" said the
Hearst colt Tournament to Trainer Allen,
shall l do now? | never was so surprised
in nv life. Hadn't l better break down
now" Mr. Allen replied: did you really
and truly win? Why, Pm astonished. per-
fectly aStounded. That makes two races
| that my string has won this year. Well,
| papa Will be pleased. Do you want TO
| break down now, Tournament? Please do.
You might win another race and then
I'd die from heart failure sure"
sANTIAGo's TURN.
Baldwin's Santiago at the comfortable
odds of to l, defeated Uncle Bob, the
American Derby winner, for the Sheridan
stakes at Chicago last week, thus dupli-
| eating the first win and then lose running
of Spokane and Proctor Kuott for the same
events last year. Uncle Bob had up
| his regular jockey, Kiley and went to the
post / to 2. Barnes rode Santiago. This
| talented professor of the long pull, the
strong pull and the pull altogether can be
| safely trusted never to win when his mount
| is favorite. But when the odds are good
| enough he sometimes turns up on top.
THE BARNES SYSTEM.
This system is so well-known now that
local book-makers always lengthen the odds
| on fayorites when Barnes is up. though
| under preci sely the same conditions with
| another jockey in the saddle the odds are
| kept well down. Since the regular racing
| season opened how many times has Barnes
| won on a fayorite?
FRACTIONAL TIME.
AS taken by the officials, the fractional
| times of the Salvador Tenny match were:
| Quarter, % Sec; three-eghths, 1874 sec. :;
half, 4934 sec; five-eighths, ;O212; three
| quarters, :l4A; seven-eighths, l :27A one
mile, 800; one and an eighth miles,
l :52&. The time for the mile was made as
| COON as :39h by such competent persons
| as Messrs. NJ. Dwyer and Green Morris.
TAKING IT EASY.
Porter Ashes Geraldine aud Roses Fairy
| have not been out for some little time and
| are being kept back for trial at the rich
| prizes at Monmouth. Both were given lots
| of racing when the season opened and a
| little let-up now will do them heap of
| good.
| ALL DOING WELL.
| The Bay District track is in excellent con-
dition now, and lots of fast work is done
| daily by many trotters and PAGERS prepar-
| ing for the commencement of the campaign.
| All reports agree that the different strings
are doing very well and some hot battles
are assured when the word ''go" is given.
A SENSIBLE BooKMAKER.
Broad Church, in the New York Spirit of
| the Times recently had talk with p. A.
Brady, President OF the Association Of
Western Bookmakers. Referring to alleged
eroukedness and j0bbery at the ST. Louis
| meeting, Brady said:
DO you know that this sort of things tells
| against the bookmakers in every way. In the
first place II Is TO the interest Of men in my bust
| ness to have square and honest racing. and moth
| ing but that, for let 1t be rumored around and
believed that this or that horse is 'stf and pub.
lie confidence IN the sport is destroyed, and the
average SPECTATOR Will be chary OF investing III,
| money. Then, IL Jobs there are, the b0OkmakeTs
have ordinarily 10 incur the blame, because
somehow or other people have come 10 believe
tbat sharp practice is the result OF collision with
bookmakeTs. | admit that there may be book
makers who are after the best OF 1t in that
way, but they are the exceptions. Now, TO
show you what /, representative book
| maker Think 0bOut This WnOla DusiueSg
| | VIII, at our next annual meet
ing, endeavor to have rule adOpted looking to
formal cooperation with the jockey clubs IN sup
pressing fraud The plan / would suggest is to
engage and pay thoroughly competent man.
the compensation to come from the clubs and
book makers. said individual to 90 the whole cir
cult. and whose business it would be to take cog
niZance Of every suspicious feature in connec-
ton with the betting, or anything else, and re-