The morning call., 1892-08-15
GOSSIP ABOUT THE TURF.
Opening Of the Golden Gate Fair
Races To-Day.
The Oakland Track in Good shape-selections
for To-Day's Trotting and Pacing
Evsnts-Racing Gossip.

over to Oakland, where the Golden Gate
Fair opens to-day with every prospect Of
unprecedented success.
The entry list, which has already been
published in THE CALL in full, speaks for
itself. New blood In the management of
any institution occasionally does good. and
its operation this year has already borne
fruit in the board of directors of Agri-
cultural District No. /. Since the lamented
death of the late Richard Carroll, who was
one Of the mainstays of the fair. San Fran
cisco has needed an additional representa-
tive in the board. She has now got one in
the person of that old experienced horse
man and turf journalist, Alec p. Waugh.
1t may safely be said that he has done
more for making the fair racing programme
attractive to residents of this city than any
Of his predecessors.
AN IMPROVED TRACK.
Then Ben Wright has made such I'M
prOyements at the Oakland track that it is
far and away ahead of our own Bay Dis
trict The trotters and sidewheelers will
be in order to-day. Wednesday and Friday.
while tomorrow. Thursday and Sa urday
tile baDgtails will hold sway. In addition
to the racing the valuable premiums offered
for horses, thorOughbreds, standard trOr-
ters, Toadsters. Cleveland bays, Normans
aud PercheTons, Ciydesdales, carriage
horses, gentlemen's roadSters, farm horses,
saddle horses, jacks and mules have drawn
a large entry, and the exhibits sHill prove
great attraction.
In the cattle classes premiums are offered
for Heref0rds, Durhams, Galloways, Polled
Angus, Devons. Ayreshlres, Jerseys, Alder
neys. Heisteins and Guernseys. Special
prizes will be awarded to the various classes
OF sheep, swine aud goats. The exhibit OF
agricultural implements and machinery
will also be on a very extensive scale.
To return to the racing. To-day's pro-
gramme consists of $1,000 purse for the
2:17-clsss trotters. Wanda, Flora NJ. Rich
mond Jr., Myrtle and George Washington
are entered. A large number will compete
for the 2:30-class trot, for which purse of
$1,000 is hung up. The 2:25- class purse of
$500 will complete the programme.
CHANCES OF WINNING.
Many OF the competitors have been en-
gagged in the races at the Bay District
Track during the past week, aud the fol-
lowing horses may be looked upon as pos
sessIng undeniable chances of winning the
respective purses:
2:71-class trot, Richmond Jr.
2:30-class trot, Z. w. 5.
2;25-class pace, Diabio.
An excellent band has been engaged for
the week. Trains will be run every half
hour TO Shell Mound station, and fine
weather is only necessary TO make the en-
tire meeting huge success.
Next week the Napa fair will commence
on Monday. There is a splendid entry list,
as. Indeed, there is to every fair on this
years circuit Secretary d. l.. Hackett and
Director G. W. Smith were at the races on
Saturday furtherlng the interests of their
fair. The Paio Alto stable will commence
the fall campaign at Napa. aud some record
breaking Is expected.
Secretary Edwin +. Smith Of Sacramento
has forwarded copy of the State fair racing
entries. They are unprecedented in num-
ber and quality. More especially have the
trottinp races filled we'll
Gilbert Tompklns will hold a cOmbina-
tl0n sale OF tTOttlDg and running stock at
the S0uther farm on November %.
His past records as sale manager are un-
riyalled In this State, and no doubt large
number Of the managers of our leading
stock farms will avail themselves of the op-
poItunity of sending Mr.. Tompkins their
saleable stock.
THE DIFFERENCE.
A prominent Chicago major says: "The
only difference between tTotting race and
the she'll game Is that the latter is prohibited
by statute" Ii is hardly necessary To state
that the major objects to the closing of Gar
field Park for even q week
The Garfield Park Club of Chicago has
made arrangements 10 build a racetrack at
Roby station, Ind, in the event of the case
now pending In court being decided against
II. The site OF the proposed track is about
l5 miles from the city and just across the
Illinois border.
Barnum " Baily Show, Is found OF telling
OF his experience among the Londoners.
The Englishmen could never understand
our light sulkies and would look at them
and say: The bloomin' things are made
of steel; they cawn't be wood, You know"
One day when the groom was driving a
green PAGER into the ring the horse was so
badly scared by an elephant that he fell in
dead faint, rolling over in box. Two Of
the suiky spokes were broken and men
n n m IN mn h0 Cnli t.fn a
out what sulkies were made Of
DOCKING HORSES TAILS
Racing authorities in Australia will not
allow any horse TO start for a stake or a
purse alter his tail has been banged or
docked. They claim that this rule is in the
interest oil common humanity OF account of
flies and mosquitoes.
Senator James Fair has removed his string
of trOtters from his Sonoma trotting stables
to the Petaluma racetrack, where they are
under the careful supervision of his trainer,
X ID. CTawforth. Princess, q four-year-old
filly, has shown great speed since her ar
rival. She is by Woosey. full brother of
Sunol by Eiectioneer, out of Oakland Maid,
2:22. Black Point, a handsome black stall
lion with a trial of 2:17A, is the pride OF the
stable. He is son of Piedmont, dam Queen
by Garibaldi, son of Ham pletonlan TO- He
is seven years old, and is a noble looking
animal Alameda Maid, a two-year-old flly,
is of dark iron-Sray color AID is the pet of
Maid, 2:22. She will be entered probably in
some OF the fall races. Anna klrkwood Is
four -year-0ld chestnut mare by Salmwood
son of Nutwood, dam Miss Kirsley by
Strathmore. re.-Petaluma Imprint
oLD-TIME STAKE.
Secretary Fellows of the Conev Island
Jockey Club, says that already some of the
best horses in the country have been in
formally entered for this "old-time stake"
The added money 5000. increased to $500,
IL the winner runs the four miles in %
and to $4,000. If LeXingtOn's time q 1891
is equaled. will be a strong inducement to
owners and trainers, let alone the increased
value Attaching to a horse that wins such
an event Such horses as Poet Scout. Race
land. Demuth, Banquet, Montana, Tourna-
ment, Judge Morrow, ana quite a number
of three-year-olds. including Mars, Lamp
lighter and Locohatchee, will be prepared
for this race. Some of the Western horses
now al Saratoga, Including Santiago and
the great Riley, will also be entered in all
probability, and the race prove next TO the
Suburban. the event of the present racing
season. That Z % will be beaten will look
almost certainty to those who remember
Ferida's z :23R on this same track some 10
years ago. and not few owners and
trainers believe that 7;2O will be relegated
to II back seat in this race.
L. L. keatiDg OF Sacramento. well known
as driver all over this coast. was suspended
for one year at Butte, Mont. last Wednes-
uhy' "a epcSihi rum that ciSy says, among
other things: "Jobbery on the part of own
ers, drivers aud jockeys in two events caused
the suspension of Il. +. Keatug of Calfor-
MIA. the driver of Extravagant and Our
Dick, from the American Association tracks
for one year" Heating is a partner of B.
{. Holly in trotting and pacing horse
venture, and has he retofore kept out of the
clutches of the expounders of turf law
A Policeman Hurt.
Policeman l.. III. Harrison, attached to
the Seventeenth street station met with a