Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-04
EQUINE GOSSIP.
sUNoL AND BELLE HAMLIN TO SHOW
UP NEXT THURSDAY.
Was Raveloe's Performance as Good as
Racine's?-El Rio Rey Not
Yet Sent to Grass.

Hamlin will make an attempt to beat 2:lOI
So the two fast mares will be able to show
to the world what they can do. In reply
to the offer made to match Sunol against
Belle Hamlin for $4,000 a side and the
gate receipts, Mr.. Hamin wrote as follows:
:" respectfully decline to accept, as, in my
judgment, the chances are in favor OF
Sunol's beating Belle Hamlin. Besides,
would not put up forfeit of 5000 and
run the risk of the mare going wrong. /
will however. match Belle Hamlin against
Sunol for S., 900 a side, $500 forfeit, over
any track mutually agreed upon, the win.
ner to take go per cent. of the earnings and
the loser 40 per cent"
Referring to this matter the New York
Spirit says: This reply lacks the genuine
ring of the true sportsman. Mr.. Hamlin
has been for some time stating his anxiety
to match Belle Hamlin against Sunol and
has expressed repeatedly bis confidence in
his great mares speed. When he is met
with a fair, square sporting offer to trot for
the money and gate receipts he backs down
and offers to trot for S., 600 a side the loser
to take 40 per cent. of the gate money. 1t
be taken at the gate in such race. so that
if Belle Hamlin lost her owner would be
more than reimbursed by his share of the
gate money. This may be business but 1t
is not sport, and should be beneath a many
times millionaire. The question may be
pertinently asked, did Mr.. Hamlin ever
really want a race. or was not his real OBJ.
ject in these bluffs to get in his usual
amount of free advertisine?p
RAvELoE's RECORD BREAKING.
A few days ago Racine's mile record of
1891 was broken at Monmouth Park by
Raveloe, Sacram ento bred colt, who made
the distance in 1:394-one quarter of Sec
ond faster than the time made by Racine
on June 2Sth last at Chicago. The mile
record breaker.is by Joe Hooker dam Il
fusion, by Alarm. He is bay in color,
three years old, and his previous perform.
ances would lead one to think that there
had been any number of colts superior to
Raveloe bred on Theodore Winters place.
The record of Ten Broeck-l:3 1893 stood
for thirteen years before the Californian,
Racine, cut therefrom quarter of Sec
oDd. Raveloe and Racine carried Just
10Y pounds each, but turfmen gener.
ally regard Racine as the faster horse of the
two. He made his time on a circular track
while Raveloe ran over straight course.
Well-posted turfmen expect to see Racine
go mile over the straightaway course at
Monmouth, when he is fit, in something
like 1877, with weight for age up (107
pounds.
THE WINTERS STRING.
The Chicago correspondent of an East
ern turf journal writes:
"The veteran trainer, John Davis, has
had charge of the Winters string for few
weeks. and managed to pull off three races
during that time, one each with Noretta,
San Juan and Joe Courtney. The latter is
mild sort of roarer, and but for that he
would make very servicea BILE breadwinner.
Rey Del Rey is by no means as good as his
famous brother at the same time last year,
and l have serious doubts about his being
ever such colt as the River King.
speaking about Ell Rio Rev, q month or
so ago it was the intention of bis owner to
turn him out for the season, since his wind
trouble was apparently OF the serious kind.
He was, in fact, pronounced whistler, but
since then there has been improvement in
his condition, and his new trainer has kept
the colt pretty steadily at work of late. 1t
remains to be seen what he will do on the
Eastern tracks. There he will probably
have better show to win than he would
out this way, as the sprinting races you
have in the East are not permitted on the
associated Western tracks"
THE SIRE OF THE MARE WANDA.
The mistake in Wallace's Year Book, by
which Falls instead of Eros receives the
credit of being the sire of Wanda 2:24 has
been explained: when +. T. Lowell, of
Sacramento, took Falls to Kentucky, two
years ago, he represented him to be the sire
do ~ l..
the production of such d mare greatly en-
HANGED the value of the horse as q sire. and
helped to sell him at a long price to Ken
lucky breeders. An investigation settled
beyond all doubt that to Eros belonged the
credit, and when the proofs were presented
to the Wallace Trotting Register Company,
they acknowledged their error"
Wanda was sold at Seals sale when she
was two-year- old for $105. She was cata-
logued by mistake, and before Mr.. Burke
took her off the ranch, Killip, the auction
eer, offered the purchaser an advance oil
$3.50 if he would cancel the sale. Subse,
quently Mr.. Seals raised the amount tc
$500, but Mr.. Burke had become convinced
he had prize and refused to do business
THE CHICAGO MEETING.
The more notable performers of the
Washington Park meeting were Racine
Rinfax and Teuton. The last named low.
cred the mile and furlong record in the
lakewood handicap, and in the Wheeler
handicap he lowered the Western mile ano
a quarter record, and actually galloped un
der the string at that. Unlike Rinfax anG
Racine, however, his record was not con
sistent one.
The Chicago Stable heads the list of win
ming owners at the meeting Just closed
trit tf ito 70 A ia
Stable comes next with $11 900, followed
by the Undipe Stable and G. L. Holloway
with about 50 600 each. Theodore Win
tiers only won $1,000.
DAN M'cARrY's NEW VENTURE
White Hat McCarty has determined Il
have permanent abiding place in the vi
cinity of New York, and has purchased {
half interest in the Alton Wood Farm
Westminster. The farm contains 7l6 acres
is well fitted up for stock farm, aud ha,
already on it 100 box stalls. He will hav,
two palace horse cars specially built fo
transferring stock from California to New
York, and all his thoroughbreds and trot
| ting bred mares will be taken there. Th
idea is to make it a great stock and sal
| farm, with a special view to export bust
ness.
vALENsIN's FAST TRoTTERs.
One of the best young stations which thu
present season has brought to the front i
the chestnut stallion Simmocolon, fiv
years old, by Simmons, dam Colon, b,
Strathmore, second dam by Clark Chief
He was bred by w. H. Wilson, of Gym
| thiana, KY, tine owner of Simmons. ant
| began the season with record of 2:29l
| Under the skill!ul handling of Goldsmith
he has reduced his record to 2:19 Simmo
colon bids fair to land in the free for al
| before the season is over, and he is certainly
a great feather in the cap of his sire, Sim
mons, one of the handsomest, and, for tn
time he has been in the stud, one of tn,
greatest speed-producing sons of the onl,
| George Wilkes.
GENERAL TRACK GOSSIP.
Spokane has ended his career on III,
turf, being completely broken down.
Princess Alice, the Stockton PAGER, il
said to have worked mile last wesk il
2:l6i.
Dan Dennison is back from the north
and will take his stable to lone this week
Captain Ned Hacket of Oakland, drov,
his Anteeo colt q few days ago on the Oak
land track full mile in 2:3i.
The Pleassnion horses will not return in
time for the Oakland meeting, but will
most surely be seen at the State Fair
Stamboul has been turned over TO Johr
Goldsni who will handle the stallion
and try 10 reduce his present record Of
2:l2l.
l.. NJ. Morse has at the Lodi track 6
stallion colt by Director. dam by SAINTS
Claus, that is showing a high rate of speed
Ii is stated on authority that the cause oil