The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-14
TR0TrBRS AT THE TRACK.
All the Fast Harness Racers
Over in Oakland.
The Track in Perfect Condition and the Stalls
Filled With Crackpjaeks for the
Breeders Meeting

Any visitor who follow the races last
fall in this State, and has returned to wit
ness the coming campaign, would, if he has
visited the two local tracks during the past
few DAYS, say that racing was having big
boom in San Francisco. The Improvements
at the Bay District have already been fully
described in THE CALL, and Ben Wright
the enterprisiBg proprietor OF the Oakland
track, has E.ade such startling changes and
alterations for the better in and around his
racecourse that the returning 'Ostler would
hardly recognize it.
The stands, stalls and buildings have been
renovated and added to. The press box,
with desks arranged at an angle. gives the
best view of any stand in the State. The
whole surroundings look spiek and span,
and all in readiness for the great trot;ing
meeting which opens tomorrow.
AS for the track Itself, Ben Wright drove a
CALL reporter over it yesterday at a jog, so
that every part of it could DO thoroughly in
spected 1t is the perfection of what tr0t-
ting track should be- Smooth as a billiard
table. nice and soft on the surface. ana firm
as a rock below it, it will be a wonder if
some of the craekajacks don't lower their
records a peg or two during the next lew
days.
The Pacific Coast Trotting horse Breed
erS' Association never had more suspicious
and favorable circumstances surrounding
the eve OF its star meeting OF the year.
Nearly all the fastest harness racers OF the
State have arrived and are entered for one
or more of the rich purses hung up. The
stalls are nearly all filed. and every m orn-
ing the track is fairly alive with the horses
working out
Part Of the Palo Alto string has arrived
under the care of James Nolan, and the re-
mainder are expected tomorrow. The
stable includes the two-year-oids Avena,
Donchka and Rowena, the three-vear-o lds
Peko, Eden and Monaco, and The four
year-old Truman. All are in great eondi-
tion, aud make up a formidable band
The 0aKwo0d Park stock farm have a
splendid stable of ten horses at the track.
I'd Lafferty Is the capable trainer and
driver, and expects TO carry off several OF
the purses. The craekajack of the lot is. of
course, ". Wood, the Stelnway pacing
gelding (2:11Al, who will give Our Dick a
hard race when they meet.
The stable of Heating 81 Ottinger is a
great center of attraction TO the hOrsemen.
Here is that great campaigner Frank NJ.
the veteran PAGER Turk franklin, and the
champ ion sidewheeler of the coast Our
Dick, will arrive to-day from down south.
In Tom KeatiDg's absence, Al Smith is
experimenting the care and work of the
horses. They all look fine as silk, and will
give some Of the crowd hard game before
the meeting Is over.
That great driver, Andy Mcdowell, ar
rived from Los Angeles yesterday. The
pick of bis string is Edenia, the chestnut
mare by Endymion; Cora c, and a new
conner in the yearling PAGER jake. which
Andy paid $1,000 for last week. He is by
full brother TO Contractor, and his owner
says that he is The fastest yearling he has
ever seen. He drove him an eighth in ia
seconds the other morning. Andy's serv-
ices will be In great request during the
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deep. Mcdowell is a great supporter of
THE CALL. Il have been astoDished," he
said Yesterday. ION this circuit at the rapid
strides THE CALLS circulation has made
among the h0rsemen during the past year.
II is really the only paper that gets the
horse news correct, and we all read IL"
The string Of A. L. Hatch numbers four.
Ed Berryman relies on the bay stallion
Lenmar by Adina as his cham pion. while
Guide, the handsome son OF Director, will
make the best of them hustle in the vaiu-
able 2:15 class stallion purse. George l..
Swan has no less than twenty grandly bred
horses in training Lee Shaner occupies
fifteen stalls Ii. Hogoboom has the game
little Waldstep, and Billy Jonathan, who is
very busy with his thoroughbreds just now,
has entered the General Reno gelding
Franklin in the 2:20 class trot Billy will
be seen in the sulky in majority Of the
races. One of his game and determined
finishes is worth going good many miles
to see,
Always to the front Dan McCarty is right
in the racing business in every branch Tor
all he is worth, He Of the white hat" is
scarcely better known than his popular old
driver and trainer "Uncle John" Williams.
Johns age is hard to determine, some say
he is 90, others put him down ms twenty
years younger. Be this as 1t may, he is,
without doubt, the oldest trainer and driver
in America III active work. He has got
n IA hon
and he is a great conditioner. There are
twenty-five OF them, and all racers. The
Sidney stallion Cupld, who furnished such
a surprise at the Bay District last fall,
looks to be in great shape; be will make
strong bid for the rich stallion purses. 1t
would be difficult TO fnd three fner-looking
race mares than Flora Nj, Maggie and
Jessie. Their speed is an unknown guam
tity, and far better than they have ever
been forced out in race.
The temperance of Irwin Ayres' brown
stallion, Balkan by Mambrino Wilkes,
will be locked forward to with great interest,
and when he, Cupid and Mckinney meet
in the fTee-for-all stallion purse next Thurs
day there will be somewhat OF big crowd.
Among the other horses who will start are
such celebrated performers as Aster, Lucy
Il. Col May. Bay Rum, Doodle. Lottery
Ticket, LYDIA c, Chancellor. Almonition and
Tippoo lib. All these and some $50 others
are over at Oakland and President Smp-
son and his fellow directors are confident
that the coming meeting will eclipse any
other harness race meeting ever held this
side of the Rockies.
Among the most attractive events Of the
meeting will be the loDg-dstauce races. In
the two-mie heat race and the e-mle
dash great deal of the public interest will
be conferred For the longer race Charlie
Baab's brown gelding Sunrise by Abbots-
ford stands great chance. lie was look
ing in the pink of condition yesterday and
is right at himself.
The Champion stakes and the free-for-sll
races are the backbone OF the meeting,
however, and the pacing race of the year
Will be brought off when Our Dick, w.
Wood, DR.. Swift, PluLkett and Turk Frank
| lin come together.
All the trotting horsemen are in town
| and the principal horsemen's resorts are
nightly crowded with the best known own
ers. trainers and drivers on The California
| harness turf.