Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-23
TURF TOPICS.
WHAT AN EASTERN THURMAN SAYS OF
PkLo ALTO FARM.
Uncle ALI. Estell the Biggest" Man in
Turf Circles-What is Going
on at the Tracks.

J.C. Sibley writes from Franklin, Pa
to the New York Spirit Of the Times The
following interesting account of what BIZ
saw at Palo Alto during recent visit tt
this Coast. He says:
For a fellow visitor l had gentleman
who less than one year ago was much pre-
| JUDGED against the Electioneers as 3 family
but was frank enough to state that his
! opinions were formed rather from heresay
and stable gossip than from a close inves-
tigation of performances or personal obser.
walton. To show in brief the change in
opinion which took place in this gentle.
man, will state that while on the farm
he telegraphed an offer of 81 500 for year
ling tilly, $4,000 for a three-year-old stall
lion, and offered 81 500 each for either OF
two other fllies. As none of the animals
above mentioned have any public records.
| ii would seem that his views had been
greatly modified by close personal inves-
| tlgatlon, or, perhaps, it was the climate
1t is now fashionable to give California eli
| mate credit for most of the successes of the
great young horses OF that State. Mr.. Mar.
vim tells me, however, that he never had q
good one at home that, barring accident or
sickness, was not a better enc when he
went East
THE present plans at Palo Alto are that
Mr.. Marvin will come East this season
with stable of trotters, about twelve head
| in all. Whether or not the great colt Palo
Alto will come over will depend upon Mr..
| Marvin's being able to persuade Governor
Stanford to not allow him to make TOO
great season in the stud. If SC. he saws
he can drive Palo Alto a mile in 2:l01 or
better. Ii seems to me that if l were his
owner and breeder one years stud duty
could well be sacrificed for the chance of a
2:103 stallion record. Another member of
the string, OF course, will be the great
Sunol. She is getting strong Jog work
every day the weather permits, and has
improved more in form in the last wear
than any other animal the writer has ever
seen. She is now q stout, well developed
mare, and, barring accidents, predict that
the record of 2:0S4 will be reduced, not
| tractionally, but one or more seconds
Sunol was out OF form all last season until
late, and except for the UMPIRE cedented rains
Mr.. Marvin thinks, would have come very
close to egualizing the present record of
Maud s. What an attraction through the
Grand Circuit this summer ii will be. if
both Axtell and Sunol stay right TO see
them struggle for the supremacy With
Doble behind Axtell and Marvin behind
SunOl, and gentlemen of the high charac-
ter of the owners looking on, 1t seems to
me hat no one could go away and call it a
'hippodrome race" 1t would be all tine
men and money east of the continental d.
vide against eli the men and money west
OF It, ana whichever may win, the winner
will think he or she has been 10 a horse
race.
The other members of Mr.. Marvin's
stable will probably be the bay gelding
Cubic, 2:2Sl; Arol, 2:244; Pedlar, 2:274;;
Amigo, no record, brown horse, five years
old, by Electioreer, dam BY Wildidle
| (thoroughbred); Carlisle. 2:264; E.eneer,
bay FLY, two years old, by E!ectioneer,
dam by Cars Mambrino; Colma. gray
| flly, four years old. BY Eiectioneer dam
by Mohawk Chief; Wildmont, roam FLY,
| three years Old, by Piedmont, dam Wild
flower; Vicenzo, bay horse, five years old,
! by Elect'oneer. dam by Don Victor; Idle
| may, bay mare, five years, by Eiectioneer,
dam by Wildidle; and possibly Lorita,
2:224, by Piedmont, and Sport, 2:224, by
the same horse. The stable will be a strong
| one, Bnd, excepting the stable destroyed by
| fire, probably will be the strongest ever
sent East. To say how strong, would be-
| perhaps, giving some stable secrets; but l
| do know that Marvin is satisfied TO take
his chauc of getting little slice of race
| here ard there.
There are some good youngsters on the
| farm, and ole out of the old PAGER, Lucy,
| is looked upon as especially promising
| She Is brown filly, two years old, and by
| Electioneer. Sue is said to be not for sale,
and Suuol was not more highly thought
| OF at the same age. She trots with light
shoes and no weights, and though not vet
| as fast as some of the rest, the hopes of
Palo Alto boys all center on this one.''
RANCHO DEL PAsos LATEST PRIZE.
The horse transportation car Alta, No. .,
| arriVed here from the East yesterday morn
ing with ten horses. Seven of them were
| taken TO the Pleasanton Stock Farm, Liver
more valley, and three were taken off here
| for Haggin's ranch. John Mackey was in
charge of the lot
One of the three head brought BY Mr.
| Mackey is a half-sister to Theodore Win
| ters' famous mare Marion, the dam of EN-
peror of Norfolk, FL Rio Rey ard other
| celebrated racers bred by Mr.. Winters.
Mr.. Mackey had 10 journey into Canada to
| get her.
| Another of the trio is the trotting stallion
Florida, of the Rysdyk Handkerchief
strain. Mr.. Mackey expressed himself as
| well pleased with the result of the Rancho
| del Paso sale in New York. The Albert
| w. colts brought an average of 5000 each
| which speaks well for their vouEg sire the
son of Eiectioneer. Considering the fact that
none OF Albert WIS colts are as yet suffi-
GENTLY developed to make records on The
track, the showing is an excellent one.
| The entire consignment of ninety-twc
head went through to New York without
| an accident and without delay.
wrNTERR' STRING AT NASHVILLE
A correspondent at Nashville has this tc
say about Theodore Winters stable there
This Sacramento stable now constitutes
| the grandest gathering of thoroughbreCs
in the South or West, if not in the United
States. The California division, which ar
rived first, embraces the following: No
retta, three years; Florence, three years
Rey del Rey, two years; San Juan, two
years; Una Grande, two years: Average
two years; Hattie HUMPHREYS, TWO years
Johanna, two years; Belle Sanger, two
years; Otelis. two years. and Judge Post
two years The FLY Ncretta is an OWE
sister to Alta.
When Ell Rio Rey was taken off The
cars at West Side Park he went to flying a.
soon as his heels struck terra firma HI
locks as sound as any horse here, and thai
is saying no little. He is chestnut, ovel
sixteen hands high, and seems 10 be within
a month of a race. Ii he is as sound in
wardly as he seems 10 be outward.y there
can be no question as to his career thi.
year; but as l have said before, the tru,
test will come when be is given hard work
Mr.. Estell evidently thinks the horse is al
right"
Another correspondent. writing from tn,
same place to the New York Spirit, says:
major Estill sits at my elbow as write
and sends kind regards. He is feelin,
happy this morning. as be has just come il
from the track, where he found e. Rio Re,
in splendid form and looking every inch
; king. Major Estill says that his entir
4 fau + sixteen are in perfect health, an,
says fou must run fast at Nashville if you
beat him.
THE BENTON FAMILY.
Melrose is three miles from Nashville
Team, OF the Franklin pike. 1t is til,
home OF Benton and Esmond, two richly