Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-22
AMONG THE FLYERS.
DAGWORTH'S DISSERTATION ON
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TOPICS.
Baldwin Taught a Lesson by Sinaloa's
Death-Another Large Breeding Farm
to Be Established Here.

| am told that L. J. Baldwin will
never again winter his stable in the
east, but will bring his horses back to
Santa Anita after the seasons cam
paign. This is exactly the prognostica-
tion made in the HERALD when the
news reached here of Sinaloa's death.
The clever writer of the Post and Pad
dock column in the New York Spirit OF
the Times handles the question of win
tering California-bred horses in the east
in his usual candid style. He writes
"Only last week we were expatiating
on the genuine merits of that good race
mare, Sinaloa IL, and this week we have
to chronicle her death. Mr. Baldwin
has tried the hazardous experiment of
wintering his California bred horses in
the rigorous eastern climate, and like
Mr.. Theodore Winters last year, he has
good cause to deplore having attempted
it. Wednesday in last week the FLY be-
gan to 60 amiss, and the foreman of the
stable, the trainer, d. Williams, being
absent on visit to the west, called in
veterinary advice. Pleurisy was found
to be the trouble, and though every pre-
caution was taken and the best advice
called in, she died Saturday morning.
We have SO lately dwelt upon Sinaloa's
racing qualities that there is no neces-
sty to further enumerate them. That
she was mare OF great value and likely
to have trained on into a high-class
four-year-old, no one can doubt. The
loss to the Santa Anita stables is very
heavy one. That western owners will
begin to take alarm at the effects pro-
duced by the eastern climate seems in
evitable, and sorry as we shall be to see
the experiment of wintering western
horses in this vicinity pronounced an
indubitable failure, it certainly seems
that animals bred in and accustomed to
the warmth OF the California climate
cannot stand the temperature of the east
without damage"
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The starting of big breeding farm at
Burbank was recently published in the
HERALD. The Chicago Horseman thus
refers to the new venture:
80. II. Kieslich, superintendent for
Carhart, Hacker q Co., White Plains,
n. Y, called at the Horseman office this
week. He was en- route to Burbank,
Los Angeles county, California, in charge
of two stations, to which point his EN-
ployers are about to remove their breed
ing establishment, when they will en-
gage in the business on more extensive
scale, keeping at least a hundred choice
brood Mares"
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1t is not often an entire breeding farm
is removed 5000 miles, but the fact is
beginning to be appreciated that South
20 lifnrnto iu tho fov
in the world for breeding horses. BY
the way, another big farm is to be estab-
lished within six miles of Los Angeles.
This times it is Tennessee breeder who
will hereafter make his home in this
county. He intends to bring out several
star drivers, and will also conduct pub
lie training stable. A kite-shaped track
will be constructed at this farm
l am under promise not to give the
name of the newcomer until the COM
plete details are arranged. The gentle
man in question owns several fashiona-
bly-bred stations.
On the 9th OF this month the cee-
brated imported stallion st. Blaise will
be sold to the highest bidder. st.
Blaise won the English Derby Of his
year. His sire is the great Hermit. who
was also Derby winner. st. Blaise
was imported to this country by the late
August Belmont. His success in the
stud has been phenomenal In 1889 his
progeny won $4,000, while last year
sons and daughters of ST. Blaise won
$3.50 st. Blaise is the sire of
Potomac, the winner of the great
futurity, the most important 2-year-old
stake in the world, and Z. j. Baldwin
should not miss the chance of securing
such stallion for Santa Anita. He
should nick we'll with the brood mares
at Santa Anita. The majority of
stations now at Santa Anita trace back
to Lexington, as do nearly all the
mares. An outcross is certainly needed
at Santa Anita, and Mr.. Baldwin can
not do better than secure St. Blaise.
The Australian horse Nordenfeld is an
other great horse that will be sold at
public auction in the near future. Mated
to American mares of choice breeding,
Nordenfeld could certainly be expected
to produce high class racehorses, that
would be able to pack weight and stay
the route.
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A running meeting begins at Coronado
on Christmas day. Quite number OF
horses owned in Southern California are
entered. Sprint racing has been made
the feature of the meeting. 1t is ex-
pected that the running meeting will be
more successful than the trotting meet
ing recently held at Coronado. The
attendance will certainly be better. The
California public, as rule, are partial
to running races.
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The breeding OF Ashland. the trotting
stallion purchased by o. H. Lockhart
for the head Of his stock farm at Bur-
bank, to take the place of Cannon Ball,
is as follows: By Nutwood (218M),
dam Flora Abdallah (dam of Katie Mid
dleton, 2 :33), by Abdallah; second dam
Betty Brooks, by Edward, son of Bells
Copperbottom. Ashland is a four-year.
old chestnut stallion.
DAGWORTH.