Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-16
TURF AND TRACK GOSSIP
The Surprise Parties That Took
Place at "San BerdO0n."
Proposals for q Match With McKin-
ney Against Beaury Mac.
Tho Coming B1ood-H Horse Meeting at
San Franoisco-Starter Ferguson
Already on the Way-Dave
Laid Up in Lavender.

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a series of surprise parties for "the tai
ent" that follows the circuit. To begin
with, little Pescador, who was little or
no good at this place, got out and ran all
over Prince of Norfolk, who started in
the race an oddson favorite. Hardly
had they recovered from that shock be-
fore Bob Mason, who did not win heat
either at this place or Santa Ana,
got up on his ear and walked
off with the 2:3O class purse,
beating horses that had distanced him
only few days before. Then came
the hardest "facer" they had got for the
entire season. Alec, the despised horse
of all the 3-minute class, got into the
race at 50 in pools of $40 and won it,
beating old Conn and half dozen 9TH
ers. Next came Santa Fe and Case's
Hook Hooking jr. at nine furlongs, with
the 4-year.old, hot favorite at $40 to
$25; and then the Ventura colt went
out and broke him in two after they
had gone fve-eighths of 9 mile. The
pacing race was not finished on that
day, the victorious Our Dick having two
heats to W. Wood e one.s "A heavy autumn
nal wind prevailed at the time and 2:l5
was about the best the horses could do.
They will 60 long while before they see
as good day and as fast track as when
they met old Silkwood at Los Angeles,
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The Blood Horse meeting at San
Francisco is to commence on the 10Th
inst. and continue all through the next
two months, ending on the 31st day of
December. All the events for the first
six days are purse races, with entrance
fixed at very moderate figures; and
while this leads up to very large lot of
horses in attendance and goodly num-
ber Of starters in each race, still it
seldom brings out many horses OF really
high quality. And for that matter, the
really high-class horses are either not
for races at Chicago and Coney Island
tionallytbig stake events to be contested.
One of these is Mr.. @. L. Fairs Dare, by
Darebin, which has engagements worth
win all of them, which is hardly proba.
BILE, although fremont and Sensation
both did that very thing at tFo years
old, and Luke Blackburn won R2 out Of
% starts as . three.year-old.
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The Los Angeles Fair association
should begin opening sweepstakes, for
spring meetings of 1893, '94 and '95, to
close in each case while the colts are
yearlings. AS an exception, we can get
up Futurity or Produce stake which
would get from 40 to so nominations.
There are IL Australian stations in this
state, of which only two are tried as
sires. Both of these are owned by J. B.
Haggin, who never names q horse for
any race in this state, bus always enters
them at Coney Island, Brooklyn and
Long Branch. Hence the fifteen others,
all Of them as yet untried, would have
no danger of competition from that
source. A Futurity stake to include all
the mares bred to these horses in 1892
ought to receive at least 100 nomina-
tions at graduated payments; and that
would make big race and historical
one. VIM. o. B. Macdonough would
start it with seven if dozen more
could be got; and let the association
proportion the added money to the
number of nominations. Call it the
Antipodean stake, and make it grand
success.
The legitimate racing season at the
east has now come to an end, and win
ter meetings will soon be under way at
New Orleans, Savannah, Washington
and Gloucester, at which job races will
be the rule and honest ones the excep-
tion. Winter racing was tried once
here and proved signal failure. Had
tho q opnnnnt nf hoov1 kwsaI
upon spring meeting it would have
kept the same lot Of horses here all win
ter and then have given successful
meeting for them to 60 awav upon in the
last Of April. The sum of $45OO in purses
for a spring meeting OF eight
days, to include two Saturdays in that
month, will bring horses here in JAN
uary or February from ali parts of the
state. The track is as near perfect as
money and labor can make it; and a
brilliant spring meeting can be assured,
If the money is forthcoming. The large
attendance here on the third and sixth
days of the fair, is abundant proof of
that assertion.
They are beginning to find out that
something besides fast horses is needed
to make racecourses pleasant places of
resort for the idle and the wealthy.
Since Mr.. Ben Wright took hold of the
Oakland racecourse he has spent $40 600
in improvements to the track. To NV
idea, the Oakland track was in such
dilapidated condition when Mr.. Wright
took possession of it, that man MIGHT
spend SIC, 900 and then not have much
to show for it.
1t is not likely the great Kingston will
ever face the starter again. In his great
races with Doctor Hasbrouck, in which
the 4year.old beat him with even
weights, the time was 80 fast that we
could hardly doubt he was the old King
ston. But his defeat by Lamplighter, a
3-year-old, in comparatively slow time.
leaves no doubt that the great brown
horse has lost his speed. He goes
to Belle Meade in January, to enter the
list of stations at that famous farm.
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Captain Jennings looks as young and
active as ever, not day older than
when met him in Melbourne, nearly
five years ago. He has great way OF
using the rapier, and is a long way over
the average be xer. Captain Jennings
was the first man to bring to Sydney the
terrible news Of the Samoan cyclone in
which the two American war ships,
Vandalia and Trenton, were wrecked ct