St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-15
UNDER The HAMMER.
The Great Racing Stable OF
Senator Hearst to Be Sold
at Auction.
Possibly the Sale May Not
Occur Until the Enl of
the Season.
The Winnings Of the Flyer
Tournament the Past Year
Run Up to $4,000.
California Not to Be So Well
Represented East as in
Former Years.

VINO raced their horses Tor pleasure ana
not for profit. To him the delight of
seeing his orange and green jacket first
under the wire was boundleSS, and the
pOSSesSOr of near S20.OO0,O00 would
smile at the winning of a 500 purse and
show as much pleasure in the smile as
the most ordinary owner would in the
winning of $4,000 stake. He wanted
TO win and the value of the stakes was
small feature that he ofttimes
did not consider. He belonged to
that class of turfmen of which the Clays,
the BreckinrldgeS. Gen. Harding. Col.
jackson. Col. Peyton and Richard Ten
Brock were the shining stars in other
days, and which is now represented by
Withers, the MOrriseS. the CaSsatts,
Congressman Scott. and half Il dozen
others. TO them all that the Iurf of the
new world is is due. and all of its dearest
traditions hang around their names.
Senator Hearst himself did not know
how much his racing stable had cost
him in the building. He owned race
horses for ten years, and iii that time
some of the best horses of the land car
ned his handsome colorS. Last year he
owned the highest winner of the year in
The Colt Tournament.
That big brown fellow won In purses
and stakes something like sos, 0CO, the
greatest amount ever won by any indi-
Vidual horse in one season. His engage
ments for this year are rich. and if he is
allowed to run in them he will close his
racing career with probably the highest
amount ever won by any horse to his
credit. The senator had many misfort-
nnes on the turf. and ill-luck pursued
him for several seasons so persistently
that Hearst luck" became one of the
savings of the turf. The plungers
fought shy of his cOlOrS. One night in
New York the betting men were plung-
ing heavily upon the starters in the
Great Eastern handicap for two
year-olds. Senator HearSt's brown colt
was one of them, but the betlers forgot
him in their calculations. In the heat
of the gambling some one called out:
"What's the matter with Tournament
winning it?' Nothing" responded
bookmaker, except that he belongs to
Senator Hearst" The sally produceda
laugh, but next day the brown colt ran
away with the stake. He won but
twice in his twO-year-0ld form, but the
last season, as three-year- old, he began
by taking the rich Realization stakes,
the best three-year-old event of the
year, and then gallOped through long
series of
Rich and Sensational Victories.
The only time in the latter part of
the season that the great colt suffered Il
decided defeat was when he finished
third to Ed Corrigan's Riley in the Pei
ham Bay handicap. but in that race he
gave Riley eighteen pounds and Can
Can. which finished second. TWENTY-FIVE
pounds. The senator took great pride
i'll his runners, and it Was his ambition
TO establish in the West a gigantic
breeding farm that would rival the
noted thoroughbred establishments OF
the South. He bought last fall one
of the most picturesque farms i'll
it model training farm. where
his racers would pass their days
when not on the track. The farm
was to have been arranged with all of the
elegance and perfection in detail that
characteriZeS the places of the Duke of
Wellington and the Duke of Beaufort
III England. In San Luis Obispo, one
of the middle counties of California, the
senator owned the extensive San Simeon
ranch, aud there he expected to estab-
iiSh his breeding farm, with Tourna-
ment at its head. \ short time ago the
famous Australian thoroughbred sire
Zealand. and the senator was to have
been purchaser there also, but the i'll
ness that caused his death came upon
him while he was making his arrange
III rents to send commissioner to the
antipOdes, and the matter was dropped.
Stable 10 BE Broken up.
Had all Of the racing and breeding
schemes which the senator has con-
ceiVed been carried out. as be certainly
Intended TO carry them out, California
would have had one of the grandest es-
adjustments that this country ever
saw. The turf lost valuable sup
porter and the thoroughbred horse an
enthusiastic lover when he died. Dur
ing his racing career the senator col
iectcd half a hundred valuable mares
md tilies and dozen colts that are
worth considerable sum. Besides that
he had lot Of two-y ear-olds in training
here. and the racing stable in the East,
headed by Tournament, engaged in the
Brooklyn aud Suburban and many
other rich things. Recently. when the
senator knew that he must die, the en-
tries were all changed from the name
of George Hearst to Hearst Il
Co. That was done to save the engage
ments OF the horses in the event of
the death of the owner, for there is a
racing law that the death OF an owner,
where the horses are entered in the
name OF the owner alone, annuls the
engagements of the horses. A race
horse. however good he may be, is poor
property without stake engagements.
Hearsts partner in Hearst IL Co., is
his son, William r. Hearst, proprietor
Of the San Francisco Examiner. He
does not care for horses and would not
walk hundred yards 10 see the best
4 L: 1.
go under the hammer and be sold out
without reserve. The sale may not take
place at once, perhaps not until the
close OF the season of 1891, but it Will
occur some time this year, and all OF the
stations and brood mares will be sold
and the stud entirely dissolved. That
was quietly announced some time ago.
but is now made public for the first
time.
Future of the CoIors.
California will not be so well repre-
sented Oh the Eastern turf in the COM
ing seasons as it has been in the past.
j. b. Haggin has retired from active
participation, and from the eighty
horses which he had running four years
ago he has gradually cut down the
stable, until last season there were
practically but two horses racing under
AIi'' SbiDA - AJStletttOl anu lHOuSD
they were respectively the king and
queen. Now Salvador has retired to
the Rancho del Paso stud FirenZi was
to Aave had one more yeal upon the
turf, and is still in the hands of Matthew
Byrnes. the Haggin trainer, but the
death Of Ben Ali Haggin, a few DAYS
ago. will probably retire the little mare.
as he was the man who has kept the
stable going for the past three years,
Haggin Will, however. continue his ex-
tenSlve breeding operations.
1t has been said also that E. J. Bald
win would give up racing, as his pro-
verbal luck has not been 50 close to
him in the later seasons, hnt he is net
tired of an expensive sport yet. as is ey-
idenccd by the fact that he has now
twenty-four runners in training for this
years races. Race goero will see his