Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-15
LOS ANGELES FLYERS;
SANTIAGO REPORTED TO BE Ro-
BUST 4-YEAR-OLD.
Splendid Fettle-Esperanza in First
Glass Fix.

Los Angeles county will be repre-
sented on the eastern turf by some
grandly-bred racehorses the coming
season. About forty, mostly 2-year-
olds, are being prepared at the Agricul-
tural park and Santa Anita. Part OF
the Santa Anita string is being prepared
at New York track.
Captain Absolute" writes as follows
about the Los Angeles flyers in the cur
rent number of the Chicago Horseman
Mr. Baldwin's celebrated Santa Anita
Stable did not return to sunny Los An
geles last autumn, as is it's wont at the
conclusion OF each seasons campaign.
Dow Williams, its trainer, wishes it had,
as hard luck has followed it. Mr.. Bald
win was moved to leave his horses east
for the reason that it is the theater of
his racing operations, and he has found
that the long railway journey from
California to New York in the spring
rather unsettles his horses, rendering
it difficult to get them in condition un-
til late. 1t is said by a great
many trainers that Caiifornia-bred
horses do not stand the climate of the
North Atlantic states. However this
may be, certainly Mr.. Baldwin's have
not done so well, but we fancy bad man.
agement had more to do with it than
climate. Williams, the trainer, went to
California in November. The man in
charge let things run themselves and
finally disappeared. The fine mare
Sinaloa II died and half the horses were
complaining when Williams returned in
February.
Santiago, the colt in Mr.. Baldwin's lot
which last year won the Sheridan stakes
at Chicago, has developed into most
robust four-year-old, not unlike Volante
at the same age. Like all of us, he has
his troubles, however. 1t seems he was
taken out some time ago. and being full
of play slipped in the mud, and bursal
enlargement behind is the result. 1t is
quite plain to the eye, but Williams
says he does not think it will affect him
beyond keeping his condition backward,
as they will be compelled to 60 slowly
with him, and his first race will probably
be the Metropolitan handicap at Morris
park, in which he has LOG pounds. The
stable has an enormous colt called Clio,
a 4-year-old, which Williams says he is
going to try at the short welter-weight
races, as, while the colt is not able to
go far, he is one of the kind that can
handle weight with ease, and his trainer
fondly hopes that he has in him "a
second Volunteer
never saw the famous mare Los
Angeles looking better than she does.
Mr.. Williams can talk of the California
climate as he likes, but the great mare
seems to flourish amid the northern
SHOWS. But then some one will say,
"She isn't California-bred, but Ken
tuckian." However, the mare seems to
thrive. She has been clipped, and her
coat is beautiful cream color, showing
the fine skin, as delicate as that of a
mole, with its beautiful network Of veins
branching and ridging "the glossy
lean." Her eye is full and round,
and, despite the fact that, she
has run races in four seasons,
and travelled over 15, 900 miles by rail,
are as clean as when, as 2-year-old,
she first bore the black and red jacket
of Santa Anita. Her sire, Glenelg, has
become famous through his daughters
Louisette, ELLA, Ferida. Start, Idalia,
Firenzi and Los Angeles, but the latter
is not only the only chestnut in color,
but is of different style. The Glenelg
mares are plain and bay; she blood-like
and chestnut. She is the "mud horse"
par excellence, and Mr.. Williams said
she carried more flesh last year than
ever before, good evidence of consti-
tuition under such hard racing.
Esperanza, the brown FLY who won
the Holly handicap last year, has grown
and filed out, and will be dangerous
tilly in the stakes of her own sex, as she
showed herself quite near the best OF
the colts toward the ''back end" OF last
seasons racing. She has never had
a sick or sorry day, and that
is a great point in her favor.
Cleopatra. her stable companion, is a
tall and stately miss without the finish
of Esperanza. Although she won most
of her stakes at Saratoga, yet it was
said at the time Mr.. Baldwin won with
her in preference to Esperanza for nc
other reason than to keep penalties of
the latter in the autumn stakes at Brook
lyn and Morris Park, which it did.
The 2-year-old division Of the Santa
Anita stable is still in California. Mr.
Baldwin will ship them to Morris Park
early in April, or earlier if the weather
permits.
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