Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-24
LOCAL BREEDING FARMS.
An Eastern HOrSeman Writes
About Them.
What He Saw at the Various
Farms.
In San Diego-At Los Angeles-ROse
meade and its Equine Treasures.
Other Farms and Their
Features

An eastern horseman who recently
visited Southern California sends the
New York Spirit of the Times the fol-
lowing article about the breeding farms
in this section:
Los ANGELES, CAL, April I'm COM
pliance with my promise 1 send you a
few notes about Southern California.
My first stop was at San Bernardino.
where found several gentlemen inter"
ested in horses. Prominent among them
was Mr.. A. j. Cole, who has splendid
ranch with several standard bred mares
and the bay stallion Raymon, 4-year-old
record 2274, by Simmons, 2 :28. He is
very handsome fellow and capable of a
faster record, and will probably be cam
paigned by Walter Maben this year.
SAN DIEGO
is provided with two frst-class mile
tracks, either OF which would be splen-
did place to winter horses, and / wonder
that some of the eastern stables going
to California have not gone there. The
climate at this place is certainly the
most delightful in the state, and there
would not be half dozen days during
the winter that a horse could not be
driven on the track. Mr.. E. B. Clifford
has one of the tracks leased, where l
saw the good racehorse Alto Rex, 2 :21A4 ,
and several promising colts by him.
Mr.. G. G. Seaman has shipped most OF
his horses to Kentucky, but still keeps
one stallion here-the 4year-old colt
Acquaintance, by Stranger. had the
pleasure of several rides after this fell
low and predict that he will make fast
horse.
AT LOS ANGELES
found the horse business hourishing.
Our first visit was, of couree, to the
stable of G. A. Duriee, to get look at
the champion four-year-old stallion
Mckinney, record 2:121s. The per-
formances of this great colt are well
known to the public; how he met and
defeated the best horses in California,
winning eleven straight races, after
which he was shipped to Stockton and
trotted in Play in his first start against
the gentleman with the hour glass. He
is solid bay horse, 1913, and weighs
1,105 lbs, is stoutly built, with short
back, a wide, deep breast, and very
strong across the loins. He gives one
the impression of being very fat, but
l am told he carries his flesh all
through his races. l found that the
talk about his curby hooks was very
much exaggerated. Naturally he has a
good hook, the left one being as clean
and OF as good shape as could be de.
sired. The right one is the one that
was injured, and there is still thicken-
ing of the skin where it has been blis-
tered, but it is not liable to trouble him
much, as when it was at its worst he
trotted two races in one week, nine
heats along about 40, winning both of
them.
Durfee was very much disappointed
that the $4,000 stallion race at Grand
Rapids failed to fill, but says he will en-
ter in the 1000 race they have opened.
He says while Williams was inviting
Budd Doble and Senator Stanford to his
little stallion matinee, he don't see why
he didn't extend the invitation to him.
The other prominent one in Durfee's
stable is Gossiper, by Simmons, one of
the handsomest finished horses l ever
saw, and from what I am told was one
OF the fastest horses on the coast at 8
years old, having shown eighths of a
mile in IA seconds and very fast quar-
ters and halves, but since that time he
has never been quite right. The veter-
mary finally decided that his trouble
was weakness of the stihe, as it slipped
out several times. They blistered it
this winter and will again prepare him
for campaign. If he stands prepara-
tions he will undoubtedly trot very
fast mile. Durfee has just sold to H. H.
Field, Victoria, B. c., the 4-year-old
colt Primero, by Gossiper, dam by Del
Sur.
J. w. Gardner has lot of colts at the
track. Among them was a Stamboul
colt out of Ida E., 2:26; one by McKin-
ney out of Ida E., and four fillies by
Count Simmons, son of Simmons,
2:2S.
ROSEMEADE,
the famous farm that has contributed
its share to the history of the trotting
horse, is twelve miles from Los Angeles
in the beautiful San Gabriel valley. I
am pleased to find that Mr.. Rose, "the
sage of Rosemeade," has no immediate
intention of retiring from the ranks OF
trotting- horse breeders, as he still has
about twelve brood mares and number
of colts and fllies, having recently pur-
chased several head in the northern part
of the state. The stallion he is now
doing service with is the handsome bay
3-year-old Comrade, by Stamboul, dam
by Electioneer.
found Minnehaha a much better
looking mare than 1 had been led to be-
lieve her from the cuts seen in several
newspapers of late. She is fat and looks
as though she might produce several
colts yet. She is due to foal in short
time by Comrade, after which she and
her daughter Alma, by Sultan, will be
bred to Mckinney, 2:121s. Minnehaha
is the largest little mare I ever saw.
She is but 142 hands high, is long.
bodied, very broad, remarkably strong
across the loins and stiles. Mr.. Rose
tells me she was fast when he got her,
but her training was stopped through
an accident, very lucky accident fol
Mr.. Rose and Senator Stanford, as it was
the cause of his breeding her, her pro
duce and that of her daughter, Beauti'
ful Bells, making a fortune for each
of her owners.
Rosemeade is we'll equipped for breed.
ing and developing trotters. They have
q three-quarter mile track and good
stabling which is now presided over by
Mr.. Harry Rose.
Mr.. Rose's stables of runners left to-
day Tor San Francisco, by express, to
to take part in the Blood Horse associ'
ton meeting, beginning April 8. They