The morning call., 1891-08-03
TURF NOTES.
How to Make Trotting Popular
With the Public.
Cocaine Helped Lee to Win on Saturday Mar
vaez Riding Again-Cclonel h I.
Thornton's Bad Luck

Thornton's Bad Luck
Even when the conditions of unfavorable
weather and delayed transportation facili-
ties are considered MS factors against the
only average attendance last Saturday at
the Trotting Breeders opening day, with
the best programme of the meeting, only
one solution for this decrease in patronage
can be considered. This solution lies in the
single and incODtrovertible fact that the
public no longer take the same interest in
trotting races. The tedious scoring. the
many inside maneuyers of the drivers have
at last told their tale. What the public now
want is running races, with their quick and
decisive action. 1t is quite true that there is
any quantity of trickery practiced in running
races, but the agony is over quicker, and not
drawn out for any indefinite number of
heats to allow the sure-thing men 10 milk
the unwary. That was the lesson of last
Saturdays racing But there is 4 full rem
edy for this, and the first association that
will recognize the situation and meet it
properly Will reap rich harvest. The
remedy is as simple as 4 B C. Do away
with the three-in-five heat business. Make
all heats two in three and enforce the dis
lance rule. The now completely ignored
rule, that any driver laying up heat shall
he ruled off, should be elcctrocuted into full
vitality and vigorously observed. Mile
dashes Tor the faster classes should be intro
duced into the programme. The old-tme
monotony should be relocated TO the dark
ages and spice, spirit and novelty intro
duced
MONEY THE MAIN OBJECT.
1t is all very well to bloylate about the
main and ultimate object OF trottng asso-
cations being to Improve the breed of trOt-
ting horses. This only obtains in very
minor degree, otherwise this alleged object
Is all bosh. The main and ultimate object
oil every trottlng association is 10 make
money from the patronage of the pablo.
That Is the kind of breed OF horses each
association desires to improve. Take away
the public gate fees and how many meet
ingS will any association hold' Make the
admission throughout free and how many
trotting races will be held? The dear pub
hes money is what all associations need,
and If tie public won't buy umbrellas but
VIII purchase parasos at the same price,
only an insane man would persist in offer
Ing umbrellas for sale. The sooner the real
truth of the situation is grasped the better
1or the bank accounts Of the trotting men.
LEE HAD COCAINE.
Lees good race for the largest slice of
the $1,000 purse last Saturday was the sub
Ject of much discussion among the hOrsemen
Yesterday, ami the unanimous verdict was
tilhb h4IC tSSb HOlSC OH tlt UODbTS.
Mary Lou was the joker in the race and the
~ell-played choice 10 win of Eost of the
talent. But for Lees unexpected game
showing, the chances are that the mare
would have just about got there. The
owner of Wanda stated, after the race that
he had not backed his mare for a single do
lar, as ne never bets on a favorite Had
Mary Lou won he would perhaps have
cashed pool ticket or two. When Lee was
being hitched up for the big race he showed
M EFs gr loo, l.,
to make assurance douDly sure, generous
doses OF cocaine were applied to the tender
part, and the use of this drug probably
proved an important factor in his success
Not once during the race did he favor the
loot, and at its conclusion he was apparently
all right
NARYAEz RIDING AGAIN.
Wien the peculiar in and out running of
the Undine stable Mt Chicago aud the sus-
pension of NarvaeZ, the stables Jockey.
attracted so much attention only two weeks
ago, an evening paper published an inter-
view with Henry Walsh, the trainer of the
the Palo Alto stock farm, from whose
owner. Senator Stanford, the Undine stable
lie ased Racine, Rinfax and Nero, the best
California colts of the year. In this inter-
view Walsh is said to have stated that Tom
Williams, who owns the Undine stable, bad
written 10 him that lie mad at last grave
suspicious of Naryaez' honesty and that
'Narvaez should never ride one of his horses
again" This is as it may be, but the
Uudine stable is now at Saratoga aud
on July 18th NaryaeZ won race on
Homer. While Homer is not in the Undine
stable, he is next door 10 it, being owned by
Ira Ramsdell, who was Williams partner
last year. and this season went East with a
couple of colts bred at PalO Alto. Both
Williams aud Ramsdel! went East togethe
had the same trainer, and Naryaez rode for |
both of them. Under these circumstances
It is easy to put two and two together.
When Homer won on July 25th he had only |
Judge Morrow as competitor. The latter
was to favorite, but Homer Showed an
extraordinary burst of speed, and won by
two lengths" The time for the mile and |
three-sixteenths was 2:09. When the I'm |
dine horses run all that is necessary to look
at for description OF the race is: what |
were tie odds?" If hot odds on favorites
they always lose; If odds are against them
they win.
The DgstreetTenny race resulted as
any impartial judge OF racing would have
adjudged. Tenny'S temper beat him, and
always will make him most unreliable
horse to bet on, especially as long as Pulsi-
fer owns him.
THE CoLoNEL's BAD LUCK.
1t must be most annoying to Colonel H.
l. Thornton that when tired of the i'll
success of the thoroughbreds he sent East
to race this season. he sold them all out at
auction sale, to have them completely re-
versa tlitlT previous T0nulnB and earn
bracket after bracket for their new owners.
The Lizzie Dunbar FLY, now called LIZ
zetta, and Motto are instances in point
The climax was reached last Saturday,
when, ut Saratoga, that game mare Abb,
who was local shining turf light in 1890
and was sold for only 5000 when
the others were auctioned off, won at
the first time of asking. The mare
beat a good field, and on heavy track went
the mile and a quarter in 2:l5, the cracks
taking 30 to negotiate six furlongs in an
other race. Abb was at 100 TO /, and few
people who knew her value played her at
these ODDS, one Spectator putting on $50
at the odds and drawing down 5000. II is
just such luck, or rather ill-treatment as the
above instance, that every year drives re-
spectacle gentlemen who run their horses
honestly to win off the turf. Should
Colonel Thornton decide definitely to retire
from racing it will be a great blow to the
best interests OF racing in California. Still
should he do so only the sharpers and
swndleIS are to blame.
ROSE SWAPS HORSES.
l.. J. Rose las not sold Nomad outright
TO NJ. +. Dwyer; he only leased his racing
qualities, and when the colt is retired he will
be returned to Rose, who will use him in the
stud. This fact, coupled with the announce
ment that Rose has exchanged Rico for st.
Carlo, who is only fit for stud purposes,
would seem as if Rose would devote
his attention to breeding thoroughbreds and
not racing them.