The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-23

teen three-year-olds, eighteen four-year-
olds, twenty five-year- Odds. ten slx-year-
ODDS, and fourteen were aged; thlrty-one
were entire horses, thirty-four geldlngs ana
twenty-five mares and illieS.
MORE HONOR FOR CALIFORNIA.
The California three-year-old colt Guido,
by Double Cross-AuTOra, bred by Colonel
Harry 1. Thornton of Berkeley, leads the
list with twenty-five wins out OF thlrty-one
starts, four seconds, two thirds and three
not placed. Ethel S is technically first in
the two-year-olds, with fourteen wins out
of forty-two starts, but the honor Is really
due to SinfaX with twelve wins out ofSlN-
teen starts. Eon leads the four-year-olds,
with nineteen trsts and fourteen seconds
cut of fOrty-one starts. FOrdham leads the
five-year=olds with eighteen out of twenty
two. Bradford is fist among the siX-year-
Odds, with nineteen wins. Creole leads the
alleged division with twenty wins.
TENNY Is IN 1T.
That which Was hut the faintest whisper
a week ago cOnceI ming TennyS chances for
either of the big handieaps has developed
INFO very much Of a certainty. 1t is this:
Mr.. Pulsifer is far more anxious for the
sway-back 10 win the Brooklyn than the
Suburban. There may not be as much
glory in this thought but there is consider
able more money, and, as was recently said,
MIR. Pull sifer is out for the dust" Last
year he was out for the glory and got left,
and now he wants monetary recompenSe
in the way IF iull pockets.
Frank McCabe has got Fred Gebhard's
horses at the. Brooklyn track. Volunteer
II heads the string. The others are two
year-olds- Blizzard, Courant d'Air and La
Biche McCabe says the old sprinter is as
sound as dollar.
California breeders lead in the list of nomi-
nations TO the great stakes TO be trOtted at
Hartford in 1898 and 1894. San Mateo Stock
Farm names twenty in each by Guy Wilkes,
2:15A, and twenty in each by Sable wilkes,
21S; Nalensin Stock Farm names seventeen
in each; PalO Alto ten in each; La Slesta
Ranch, Cal, names twelve in each, all by
Eros, son of Electioneer; Prospect Hill
Farm nine by st. Bel, 2:24B; Colonel Rus
sell eight in each, by Edgemark; Henry c.
Jewett eight in each. Nearly oDe-tenth OF
the nominations came from Massachusetts.
Vermont sends but three. and New Hamp-
SHIRE only one.
Reports from Lexington, KY, state that
COrrigan's string of horses are-in a precari-
Gus condition. The yearling by L0ngfellow-
Encore, who 1t is said was worth $4,000,
died on the 1st inst. Another yearling by
ngfellow-Belle Knight, died three days
later. The horses belonging TO Mr. Corri-
gan, which are now at Mobile, are also suf
fering from the same malady and will prob
ably not recover.
There are fifteen thoroughbreds in train
ing for the campaign of 1891 al Palo Alto.
Entries for the Pacific Coast BOOd-horSe
-hHoSNitNtlOAAo SAJi AAi5 i4itCAlh3 N4OSO II
1Qth.
The noted English spring handicaps hold
their own in the way Of entries this spring.
Tie Lincoln has 70 nominations the City
and Suburban 81 and the Great MetropOli-
tan IL. the latter alone showing a decline in
numbers.
A VALUABLE PRIVILEGE.
W. E.. Apologize, Treasurer of the Asso-
citation of Western BoOk-makers, states that
his association has secured the betting priv
ileges at LatOnia for the spring and fall meet
ings this year, lasting Iorty-three days in
all. The sum to be paid is sos, 400. figure
which shows the great popularity of Lat0nia
as Il racing roint
There are thirty-two trotters who have
records of 2:15 or better. OF This number
twenty-fOur are from what are called trot-
tne bred mares, whose average time is
21Sls. There are seven from mares who
were out Of thoroughbred mares and one
whose dam is thoroughbred. The average
time Of these eight i 2:l2, which makes the
latter move some 535 feet faster in each
mile.
FLAAIBEAU WAS BEST.
Henry Walsh, the Superintendent of the
running division of the Palo Alto Stock
Farm, says that fl3mbeau was always Ra-
cine's superior at any distance. Flambeau
was kept IN reserve TO meet FL Rio Rey at
the fall meeting Of the Blood-horse Asso-
citation Of 1889. when they were confident
that they could have defeated Winters
crack.