The morning call., 1890-08-18
TURF NOTES.
The Past Weeks Racing on the
Coasts Circuit.
All Public Form Upset at the Eastern Tracks.
Charley Marvin's Comments on Cali
fornia Climate.

The second weeks racing of the regular
Coast circuit was concluded last Saturday
at San Jose. There was good attendance.
but the racing was not Of a very high class
and no particularly fast time was made.
The fields as a rule were small. One thing,
however, was apparent 1t was that in the
harness contests the absence i'll the East OF
the big stables with their cracks the favor
ties did not have it all their own way. The
results were much more open, and the favor
ties were defeated oftener than they won.
All the dead sure things did not go
through, and the talent had very bad
week of it.
NAPAs MEETING.
From San Jose the horses go to Napa,
which commences its weeks racing to-
day. AS quite number of horsemen, in
both the harness and running divisions, did
not enter at the San Jose meeting, larger
fields will be out The Napa track is known
as one of the very fastest i'll the State, and
is reported to be now in tip-top order. Oak
land opens next Monday, September 1st,
and promises to have one of the best meet
ings in Coast racing annals. Many Of the
big stables will be back from the East, es-
pecally the Rose string of runners There
some excellent contests are assured.
REvERsALs OF FORM
More bewildering than ever has been the
in and ont all round running OF D0th the
tWc-year-old and elder horses in the East
during the past week. II is simply lmpos-
sible to keep track II horses form SO con-
Trajectory it is. Fayorite after favOrlte has
been bowled over in rapid succession and
the book-makers have never before won so
heavily from the public. Locally the entire
season has been the most disastrous TO the
public ever known. What with the daily
changes oil form and the robs and jobs the
outside has been skinned from head to tail
ana the local public Is utterly bankrupt.
STRAIGHT TRACKS.
At Monmouth the straight away course is
held responsible for the decentralization, as
it is impossible to detect the jobs in pulling
and not trying, the authorities there declin-
ing to take the proper precautions to pro-
tect the public. In this connection the New
\ ork Sportsman says:
The man who might dare to advocate straight
away tIacks as furnishing public amusement IS
scarce. just at present sentiment is altogether
against stretches where nothing but the nnish
can be seen. The race oer would fam eturn to
the unpietenIious oval Of hygone days and never
see again the huge wastes Of ground which lie
has come TO believe furnish crooked sport Win
an opportunity TO exist AT least, that Is what
many ueIsons think and say. During the past
week there can be no doubt that public feeling
has undergone a very radical conversion 10 harsh
criticism of lie most modern style OF race track
1t Is not surprising. though, because the past
week has been a most unfortunate one III this
respect, that II has piled up excuses Tor rational
or eXcusable condemnation Of racing over
strsightaway course. Once this ball gets fdlrly
rolling the stIaghtaway course Will be doomed,
and so IL would be well 10 defend IL before it Is
too late to do so. But who Is going 10 DO II?
The owners? Well, hardly, because the owners
have nothing In common with the public and the
public doesn't care rap whether owners choose
10 race over a sITaightaway or up 10 The moon.
The public and owners entertain reciprocal re.
gard Tor each other; IL Is perfectly immateflal
10 lhe hrSt what the second prefer, and matter
OF no earthly importance 10 the second II The hrst
should rage and imagine vain things"
The New York Turf, Field and Farm eel
ebrated its twenty-hfth anniversary ON Au-
gust Sth last by issuing JUL resume OF It's
rise and progress during the past twenty-five
years, in its edition of that date. 1t also pub
lished with that issue handsome Autograph
of all the members of its present able staff.
WILL MEET ALL CoMERS.
The owner of Elphin, about the best
cross-country horse now on the turf, but
which has been slngularly unfortunate III
all its recent races. has MADE an offer 10
match EIphin against all corners, Elphln to
carry 10 pounds and his opponent 100 The
race to come off on the Brighton Beach full
steeple-chaSe course for from $3.50 To 500
side. Ii The match is made and more than
two horses accept the challenge the Associ-
alton viii add $50.
MARVIN ON CLIMATE.
Charley Marvin, in his book on Training
the Irottef," says:
First let me declare briefly that the climatic
advantages of California are much exaggerated
by MANY. We can gIOw coils more rapidly than
any other section, Tor Ihey are never chilled
never feel the stunning Influence OF wlntry sales
but 1--we III a land OF Warmth aud sunshine. The
usual tine OF foaling In California Is about the
most favorable OF the year, when the grasses are
at their best, aud the yOuugster gets start in
fe which sends him right along. nevertheless,
| believe | can go 10 hentucNy and have better
results in the end, In spite OF he TACT that many
OF The Eastern people attribute all OF our success
to climate. My hoIses have generally been bet
Ter IN the East III summer imam al home our
winters aIe superb, barring the rainy season, Tor
Ir.inlug; but the drawback comes IN the dry,
parching summer, when the grass IN great part
of the Stale is dried up. Ii Is then difficult 10
keep The system of the horse IN training right
The blood becomes heated and tile whole organ
lzaiIon in condition in which SO slight
Thing as "hip or brush may cause
breakdown The feet become dried, and though
some theorists believe that horses feet should
be allowed 10 dry up and contract, have found
my horses 20 lame whenever they were allowed
TO drift INTO that condition. L nave known Soou
trainers TO start out in the spring In California
with large stables OF horses tit and well. and have
them all 20 wrong. our Tracks are haid aud hlnty.
aud this, IN addition to The natural ana obvious
truth that when the system is feverish Il nd dis.
ordered 1t IS unable to throw of even slight
troubles, accounts for the fact that la yer per
centage OF horses go wrong IN California III
summer than anywhere else. Our greatest ad-
vantage here is that we can Work longer, and
work at any season-but Tor tnat very reason
many horses are oyeTwoiked. / have no desire
TO under estimate the natural advantages OF this
beautiful State, but object to all the credlt Tor
what we have done-whlcn Is mainly due TO Tie
blood we have and our methods OF trainlng-De-
Ing given 10 climate" With tile same material
| could do al least as well in The East; and IL
owned Eleclioueer and thirty or forty selected
brood mares, and wished 10 breed anu Train
horses 10 break all records, would locate III
Kentucky or Tennessee in preference TO Califor-
MIA for that purpose.
The recent disappointments caused by
Palo Alto to defeat Jack and SunoPs last
poor exhibition mile have caused the be-
levers in other strains to assert that Elec-
tiOneer has received serious setback as
sire.
Flambeau is being worked at Palo Alto,
and despite all the talk about his not being
injured, etc. he still has an unmiS taxable
leg, the tendon being much enlarged, but 1t
is hoped he will stand up long enough to
win few of the valuable stakes he is en-
tered in, and which are really gilt even If
he has to 20 on three legs.
ROYAL PAIR.
Salvador, by his last emphatic defeat of
Tenny, is now empha tically entitled to the
title of king of the turf and Firenzl equally
is its queen.
PROVED DIsAPPoINTMENTs.
The California two year old cracks,
Homer and Rey del Rey. that it was thought
would lower the cUlOrs Of the Eastern
cracks, have proved unable TO do so, and
seem, after all, to be only of mediocre
quality.
The fastest new 2:3O trotter is Leopold
Rose, 2:15A; the fastest new 2:30 PAGER.
Cricket, 2:l4R.
Jim Goater, the veteran English jockey,
completed his fifty-secOnd birthday last
June. Thirty-eght years ago he won the
Chester Cup on Joe Miller, riding at stone,
10 pounds (66 pounds in a field of forty
three. the largest OF record. Two of Goat
er's daughters are married to Fred Barrett
and James Wo0dbuTn, the jockeys.
Palo Alto will have string Of runners at
Oakland and Sacramento.
COMMENTS ON NARVAEZ.
whoever is responsible" says the turf
writer of great daily, ''for the introduce
ton of Narvaez into this section of the
country owes it to the public to carefully
chloroform him and carry him back to Mex
leo, where he is said to belong. lie is
worse than Anderson at his sleepiest and
Mccarthy at his stupidest. Lttlefield is an
Archer beside him. He lacks everything
INDIGNANT narye dash energy skill He