Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-11
DAGWORTH'S NOTES.
AN INTERESTING TALK WITH HON.
L. J. ROSE.
Probable Buys to Be Made by the Sage of
Rosemeade-The Santa Anita String.
Notes.

i managed TO get lew molnehVe ooh
yersation with L. ]. Rose before he left
for Brooklyn, the other day, where he
went to see the string taken east by
Billy Appleby perform. Several OF the
Los Angeles horses are well entered at
this meeting, and the fact that Fairy
will make her initial appearance as
three -year-old gives the meeting an ad-
ditional interest. During his recent
visit to San Francisco Mr.. Rose pur-
chased couple of yearlings at Palo
Alto. One is Paris, colt by Cheviot
out of Precious. Cheviot is full bro
ther of Sir Modred, the sire of Tourna-
ment. Precious is the dam of that great
race horse Peel. The other yearling
colt is imported Cyrus, out of Marcella
by Grimstead.
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Mr.. Rose intends to purchase num-
ber of yearlings while east. He is espe-
cially anxious to get couple OF year
lings by Eolus, which are to be sold at a
public sale in the near future. Mr..
Rose is also a great admirer OF st.
Blaise, the celebrated English sire i'm
ported to this country by the late
August Belmont. This crack stallion is
to be sold at auction, and the chances
are that Mr.. Rose will be bidder for
the sire of Potomac, the winner of last
years Futuritv.
Mr.. Rose priced several youngsters at
Palo Alto by Argyle, but they were held
at a prohibitive figure. The Sage of
Rosemeade, in conversation with the
sporting editor, said that he will not
consider that he has given the thorough
bred business a trial, until he starts
some of his own breeding. This will
not be until 1898, when several young
sters by the stallion Argyle, out OF the
imported Australian mares, will be cut
loose.
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The Santa Anita string this year con-
tains several 2-year-olds by Gano. They
are slashing looking youngsters, and
will doubtless make record for them
selves. There is only one Gano that has
ever appeared OH the turf, and that is
Pescador, who ran this year. Talking
about this Los Angeles youngster, the
Breeder and Sportsman says:
''That was capital race OF little Pes
cador on Thursday of last week. He
carried ITO pounds, conceding ten pounds
to Brownidle, twelve to Stella and twenty
to two others. He is little bit of q rat
barely fifteen hands high, but by the
way he carries his weight we should
Judge him likely to become second
Luke Blackburn-in his own class of
fai1 +1 l.
proud of his handsome old Gano, the
sire OF the game and steadfast little
Pescador."
The Corbett-Jackson battle is at
tracting considerable interest in pugilis-
tic circles all over the world. The winner
will be called upon to fight Frank Slavin
for the championship OF the world; now
that John L, Sullivan has publicly an
nounced his retirement, which, by the
way. was quite a judicious move and
contrary to many previous champions.
who kept on until they were compelled
to retire with their honors pretty much
shattered.
Jackson appears to be big favorite
in the coming fight. The betting men
are playing the better tried man. This
is a system l have followed in many a
memorable battle, and it generally wins.
There are exceptions, of course. The
average man ridicules Corbett's
pretensions to tackle man
of Jackson's calibre. They claim that
he has no record. think that Corbett is
most decidedly in the fight, and that it
is a toss up whether the white or black
triumphs.
1t is generally conceded that Corbett
is cleyer-eoual if not cleverer than his
opponent. 1t must also be admitted
that Corbett has wonderful powers of
endurance. Is he a fighter? His fight
with the game and clever Choynskl
demonstrated that fact to my thinking.
Here is little straw which has ten
dency to show that Corbett is not out
classed. In Australia several months
since Goddard was reported to have
bested Peter Jackson in a six or eight
round contest. The friends of Goddard
claim that he was not in condition for
the match. About two months ago
Goddard and Choynski battled in Sgd
ney. 1t was one of the hottest and most
remarkable battles on record. The men
proved to be wonderfully evenly
matched. Goddard won, but it did not
prove him to be the Californian's supe-
rior. So close was the match that it
was toss up which one would win in
the end. Yet Corbett bested Choynski
rather handily, and Goddard, who can
not be termed a better man than
Choy nski, made more than good show
ing in his fight against Jackson, and ac-
cording to the majority of the Australian
papers, bested him.
NOTES.
Bergen has been engaged to ride Sen
orita in the Brooklyn handicap. SEN
orita has been showing up so we'll that
her owner is to give Bergen $3.50 if the
mount is a losing one and $4,000 if he
wins.
Los Angeles left last week with the
rest OF the Santa Anita stable for Brook
lyn, where they will be joined by con-
tingent of over dozen from the west.
She was doing excellent work before she
left-mile and quarter in 2:20 and SO
on-and will be dangerous in any case,
but especially if the race is run in mud.
She is in both handicaps.- Sporting
World.
AS baseball is dead letter as far as
Los Angeles is concerned, | am COM
PEELED to gather the latest OF interest to
Los Angeles readers from other dia-
monds.
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