St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-16
UNDER The HAMMER.
The Great Racing Stable OF
Senator Hearst to Be Sold
at Auction.
Possibly the Sale May Not
Occur Until the End 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.

moves lIOiH the arena Cl lIt AIHSI iCdIi
turf one of the most conspicuous fig
ureS that has adorned it in many years,
SAYS a San Francisco correspondent.
He was Of that class of horse owners
who raced their horses for pleasure and
not for profit. To him the delight Of
seeing his orange and green jacket first
nnder the wire WAS boundleSS, and the
possesSor of near S2O.OJ0,000 would
smile at the winning of Il 500 purse and
SHOW as much pleasure in the smile as
The most ordinary owner would in the
winning OF a $4,000 stake. lie wanted
20 win and the value OF the stakes was
small feature that he ofttimes
aid not consider. he belonged to
that class OF turf,hen of which the Clays,
the BreckinrIdgeS. Gen. Harding. Col.
Jackson. Col. Peyton and Richard Ten
Brock were the shining stars in other
days. and which is now represented by
WiJherS. the MorriseS. the CaSsatts,
Congressman Scott. and half a dozen
others. To them all that the turf 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 Jhes building. He owned race
horses for ten years. and iii that time
some of tie best horses of the land car
red his handsome cniors. 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 $4,000, the
greatest amount ever won by any indi-
Vldual horse iii 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-
unes 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 betters forgot
him in their calculations. In the heat
OF the gambling some one called out:
whats the matter with Tournament
winning it?'' Nothing" responded IL
bCokmakeT. except that he belongs TO
Senator Hearst" The sally produced a
laugh. but next day the brown colt ran
twice in his tWO-year-oid form. but the
last season, as three-vear- old. he began
by taking the rich Realization stakes,
the best three-year-old event of the
year, and then ga!lOped through a long
series OF
Rich and Sensational Victories.
The only time in tine latter part of
the season that the great colt suffered a
decided defeat was when he finished
third 10 Ed Corrigan's Riley in the Pei
Lam 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
in his runners, and it was his ambition
TO establish in the West gigantic
breeding farm that would rival the
noted thoroughbred establishments OF
the South. He bought last fall one
nj the most picturesque farms in
California and intended TO make
IT model training farm, where
his racers would pass their days
when not Oh the track. The farm
was to have been arranged with all of the
elegance and perfection in detail that
charaeteriZeS 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-
llSh his breeding farm, with TOurna-
Inent at its head. \ snort time ago the
famous Australian thoroughbred sire
Nordenfeldt was sold at Auckland. New
Zealand. and The senator was TO have
been purchaser there also, buC the i'll
ness that caused his death came upon
him while he was making his arrange
70 Il IL
Rnupodes, and the matter was dropped.
Stable TO he Broken Up.
Had all of the racing and breeding
schemes which the senator has con-
:eiYed 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 a valuable sup
porter and the thoroughbred horse an
enthusiastic lover when lie died Dur
ING his racing career the senator col
lected half hundred valuable mares
and FLIES and dozen colts that are
worth considerable sum. Besides that
he had lot of tWO-year in training
mere. and the racing stable in the East,
headed by Tournament, engaged in the
Brooklyn aud Suburban and many
other rich things. Recently. when the
tries were all changed from the name
Of George Hearst to Hearst &
20. 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 rot care for horses and would not
walk hundred yards TO see the best
race ever run, SO the establishment will
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 1t 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 tine ago.
but Is now made public for the first
time.
Future OF the CoIOrs.
California will not be so well repre-
Sented on the Eastern turf in the com
ing seasons as it has been in the past.
" ~ ti"SN'i 4dS lGtIIeu from dcllVe
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
his cOlorS. Salvador and EirrnZi. though
they were respectively the king and
queen. Now Salvador has retired to
the Rancho del Pasn stud. Firenzi was
to have had oi,e more Veal upnn the
turf, and is still in the hands of Matthew
Byrnes, the Haggin trainer, but the
death of Ben Ali Iiaggin. 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.
Iiaggin WIZ, however. continue his eX-
tenSve breeding operations.
1t has been said also that Il. J. Bald
win would give up racing. a. h pro