The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-23
TURF NOTES.
Prospects of the State Spring
Running Campaign.
Entries and Possible Starters for the Rich
Burns stakes-Pet Superstitions Of
Leading Horsemen.

California's main racing interests for the
next two months or so will be most directly
with the Runners, and The trotters will have
to take back seat temporarily.
The running meeting advertised TO COM
mence at Los Angeles Tomorrow CIueSday)
has fallen through, none of the northern
stables deciding to enter, and the races were
cOnst ouently declared off. The trottlng
meeting for the same place, set for August
next by the Sixth District Agricultural Asso-
citation, has also proved failure, none Of
the events on the programme filing suffi-
GENTLY to warrant The Directors in giving
the meeting. There was not a single entry
from the northern horsemen. The Secre-
tary, however, was instructed to claim the
October dates for the annual blue ribbon
fair.
OPENING THE CAMPAIGN.
The State running campaign opens at
Fresno, under the present arrangements, on
Saturday next, the 2Sth. and continues to
April I'd. San Jose follows on April 4th.
closing on the 9th, and then comes the great
spring meeting of the Bood-horse Associa-
ton at the San Francisco Bay District
track. Never before have the blood-horse
Directors offered the public such an excel
lent racing bill of fare. If the coming meet
ing is not the best ever held on this Coast the
fault will be entirely with the public for not
attending the races.
THE DIFFERENT CLASSES.
The two-year-olds entered at The meeting
are as yet unknown quantities, though some
may be shown up at Fresno and San Jose.
Therefore only guesses even at their true
quality can be made at the present But
ba faUnrahta weather
south for the past three months, the Rose
ouLgsters, trained at Los Angeles, should
be the most forward. Palo Alto sold ITS best
yearlngs in 1890 to Rose. and will probably
not be as strong in the o-year-old events
as it has been in the past.
SALE OF NERO.
Its best threP-year. old, Nero, has been
sold TO T. II. Williams Of the Undine stable
for $1,000, though four years ago he could
have been bought for $500. Ten days after
Williams bought the colt d. T. Pulsifer, the
owner OF Tcnny. offered $4,000 for him. Ra-
cine, however will uphold the stables SUI
periority among the four-year-olds. The
most prominent three-year-olds entered in
the open events are-Sinfax, Nero, Peri,
II 0mer, Rinfax, Conrad, Duke of Milpitas
and Sir Walter; four-yeaT- Olds-RScine
Take Notice and Muta. All the wPll-known
five year-ulds and aged horses of the Coast
are also listed, including Geraldine, the
holder Of the half-miie record, 0:46
THE BURNS STAKES.
The richest and most interesting Of the
open events is, of course, the Burns stakes,
a handicap for all ages, one and three
quarter miles. $50 entrance, S25 forfeit
declarations SIS, with S1jO0 added, of which
500 goes to the second anu 500 to the third
1t will be run on the last day of the meet
ing, April 2Sih. The weights will be an
nounced on Thursday April 23d, and decla-
rations are due on the 9th. There have
been seventeen entries made for the event,
as follows: Tycoon g. Marigold 8. Novetta
las a, Sheridan q. H0tspur 8, Monster 8, Liv-
ingston 4. Terry 3, Naicho b 8, Hook Hook
ing Jr. 8, Mosby -, Duke OF Milpitas 8,
Blanca 5. The most probable starters are:
Tycoon, Marignld, Novetta, Sinfax. Dave
Douglas, Sheridan, Hotspur and Mosby. On
this supposition the stake will be worth
about $500 to the winner. a lot of the
three-ypar-olds omitted from the supposed
list of starters may, however, decide to try
their chances if the weights suit them, and
so increase the value to the winner.
sTAAIBoUL's HEIGHT
BY actual measurement the famous Cali
fornia trotter, STEAMBOAT, stands exa city
62A inches, or "a inches over Is hands.
ROSE WILL BREED RUNNERS,
L. J. Rose the well-krown owner and
breeder Of trOtters and runners, was inter
viewed recently IN New I 0rk and stated
that his main attention would be devoted TO
breeding runners. He has thTty-eight thor
ouehbred brood mares at his Rosemeade
Ranch, quite number being Australian
importatlons. Argyle Is at the head of the
stud Concerning the Guy Wilkes family
he said:
They have done wonders" said Mr. Rose.
:" but the greatest part OF their fame Is due
to John Goldsmith. He is one OF the great
est colt-handleTs in the world, and when he
goes at horse lie has to step orwell. stand
still. As speed-maker and rough-and-
tumble race-driyeT Goldsmith can stand
equal with the world"
lis he not the greatest in California;"
asked Shint.
Yes" said Mr.. Rose. "and Stamboul
learned more with him last year than he
did at any other time in his life. Somehow
he learned him more than Hickok could or
would. and his record shows for it. II
Goldsmith had had him when l made my
bet he would have driven him to as fast a
record as he has to-day, or possibly faster.
4 Remember, he can trot n2:lO, and L believe
he will"
d. T. Pulsifer, tho Eastern horseman,
said tie other day that if Gascon comes out
right in the spring he should win the Ken
lucky Derby. He believes him to be great
colt.
HoRsEMEN's FADs.
Most horsemen have their pet supersti-
lions, and an Eastern exchange thus gives
them publicity.
THE LUCKY EMBLEM
The famous Dwyer Bros, whose partner
ship was a memorable one, are perhaps as
shrewd matter-of-fgct business men as can
be met, even in this great city. And yet
they had during the greater part Of their
career ON the turf ore feature that some
would term superstition. Shortly alter
their debut. and just when their stable was
getting strong, they started West to capture
some OF The big stakes. Jimmy Mclaughlin,
then only stripping, was with them. Ga
one of the tracks they met an old-time Irish
Jockey. he took fancy to Jimmy, who
befTlended him, and on their parting, when
TIL stable came East again, the old man
took from his neck an Agnus Del and gave
it TO Jimmy, telling him that many years be-
fore ii had been given him with the promise
or the wish that so long as he wore it neither
himself nor his horse would ever fall in a
race
Jimmy took it, had it sewed in the colors,
and from that day The Agnus Del has been
religiously kept in every set OF cOlors ever
worn by their jockey. People who rPmen-
Der the race for the Lorillard stakes, at
Monmouth, which was won by their horse,
Sir Dixon, will recall that in it they had
another entry ridden by Daredevil Fitz-
patri k. They will also recall that, going
from the scales across the field to where the
stabla was, Mclaughlin and Fitzpatrick
walked together under an umbrella TO keep
the sun from beating too fiercely upon them.
When less than hall way over they
stopped. Mclaughlin felt his new silk
jacket, then felt Fiizpatrick's, and they
stopped and exchanged jackets. All no
ticed it, but thought nothing of it, Jimmy
had just discovered that the Aenus Del was
not n the suit he had on, and he insisted on
having it. lie rode Sir Dixon, and won
with him. In all races during the partner
ship the little souvenir given Mclaughlin
by the old Irish jockey was always in their
coiUrs. The general public talked of ''the
Dryer luck" until the saying became a
proverb. Their rivals attributed their sue
cess to sound. hard. business sense, but
probably if the old jockey were alive he
would modestly claim some part of it fol
the rrese mt he had made the now-famous
jockey, then only N Oldest little light
weight lad.
A DEAD HooDoo.
Captain Sam Brown, the Pittsburg coal
man, is the founder Of the superStiii0us sci
who believe that horse first out OF the pad
dock on the way to the post cannot win
Wouldn't bet dollar on horse that's
- he coid m lac foil ~