Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-30

Ehret, the New York. brewer; Ell Rio
Rey, owned by Mr.. Theodore Winters
Duke of Norfolk, owned by P. J. Dopa-
hue, Of Santa Clara; and Prince
of Norfolk, owned by. L. H.
Todhunter, of Sacramento. would
prefer Ell Rio Rey to any Of them
and next to him my choice would be
the Prince. He looks too much like
Abercorn (though much smaller horse)
not to have some element of greatness
in him. All of his progeny that I have
seen, can gallop, and gallop fast at that.
Norfolk was one of Americas neglected
sires and his real value was never known
until he had became impotent.
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The 2:30 list keeps on growing, not
withstanding the approach of the cold
weather, and the southerly flight of the
wild geese. Red Wilkes is ahead of the
lot with 10 performers to his credit, but
Electioneer and Guy Wilkes are so close
behind him that two good days at a
record meeting are liable to throw him
back into third place. The most re-
markable advance of any sire is that
of Dexter Prince, and when the year
book comes out in March, the contrast
between his showing for 1892 against
that for 1891, will be the most egregious
one OF the year, unless miss my guess
very badly.
In recent letter to the Breeder and
Sportsman, Judge W. M. Williamson
spoke of his great old stallion Belmont,
that died on the 4th of July, 1865, and
alluded to his beautiful trotting action.
Belmont got Venture, 2:27113, the only
thoroughbred that ever got into the 2 80
list. A daughter OF Venture was bred
to Director, 2:17, and the result is the
great colt Directum, which holds the race
record of 2:13I for 3-year-old stations.
The reason California has such superior
horses at 80 young period in her exist
ence is becsuee' her foundation was OF
the right kind of stock in the first place.
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The great trotting stallion James Mad
ison 2:17M is expected back here in
day or two from his season of dolce lar
niente at the east. He will be brought
out in company with Mr.. Monroe Sails
bury's pacing horses, Direct and Flying
Jib. During his stay in the Bluegrass
state, Madison served some very choicely-
bred mares, and if his foals of 1893 are
anything like that he has left behind
him here, it would not be surprising if
he were sold to 60 to Kentucky at
long price, his great size and rangy
form furnishing vivid contrast to the
little sires one sees in journey through
that state.
The Breeder says that Mascot, bred at
Sunny Slope in this county, and sold by
L. J. Rose of this city to Marcus Daily
for $26, 900, recently sold for 500 to an
other person named DAILY, living at
Mount Kisco, N. Y. The similarity in
the names Of seller and purchaser leads
up to belief that Relationship had
something to do with the low price, as
$2500 for the colt, to 60 to Australia
early in 1891. The offer, which was re-
fused, came from Mr.. ]. w. Sullivan of
Bathurst, N. 8. w.
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In 1860 the world Of trotters was
startled by the story that 4-year-old
colt called Ericsson, by Mambrino
Chief, out of Mrs. Caudle, had trotted
in 2:30%, beating 3-year-old called
Kentucky Chief, who got the second
heat in 2:32L. The colt was bred by
A. H. Brand of Lexington, who sold
him to the "bucket tobacco" man, X.
@. Barker of Detroit. He never got any
thing with records below 2:25, and was
under something of a cloud when he
died. This year his blood crops out in
the sensational performers, Belle Vera,
2:OSA. and Moquette, 2:lO. In addi-
tion to these, he got the dams of Bell
,,,av C.1z1/ QhoIA C.1O1/ ard
Godelia, 2:l91a. The breeding Of Mrs.
Caudle, dam Of Ericsson, could never be
traced to any authentic source.
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The latest of the get of the dead hero
Electioneer to enter the list is the bay
colt Advance, who got record OF 2 :22%
on the kite at Stockton the other day.
His dam was the well known running
mare Lady Amada, whose mile in :431ss
with 113 pounds in the saddle, was the
record of the coast for several years
after the old mare had retired from the
turf. She is now the property of Sena-
tor Stanford, at Palo Alto.
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1t was great calamity that Nutwood
was ever allowed to leave this state. Had
he been purchased as q successor to
Electioneer, the Palo Alto farm would
have had twice as many trotters to it's
credit as now. My foundation for this
belief is the fact that 30 many sons of
Electioneer have ''nicked" we'll on the
daughters of Nutwood; and why, there
fore, should not as great sire as Nut
wood has proven himself to be, do well
upon the Electioneer mares? It is a
poor rule that does not work both ways.
although 1 know of two very forcible ex-
ceptionB, one in America and the other
in Australia. In this country Lexington
got all his best racehorses from daugh-
ters of Glencoe. but no son of Glencoe
could get good performers from daugh.
ters of the Peerless Lexington, although
they mated well with nearly everything
else. Indeed the Lexington mares may
be said to have made the regulations oil
bennington, Bonnie Scotland, Billet and
| Phaeton. In Australia the Colds.
brough and Yattendon families afford
a similar example that the rule
| does not necessarily work both
ways. The Goldsbrough mares. bred te
Yattendon horses, produced such bril-.
! liant performers as Abercorn (by long
odds the best horse yet foaled there)
Newmaster, Churchill and Spice, while
the Yattendon mares that have beer
bred to Goldsbrough horses have pro
duced just nothing.
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