Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-20

trotting sires of California looks to be &c
close as to require an official photograph
| to decide the matter. As trotting car
be carried on in this state long aftel
everything has been smut down for the
winter at the east, there is no telling
but one of our California stations may
head the list. Guy Wilkes has IA new
| ones to his credit, which brings his tota
up to Electioneer, who has IA also, but
three Of these are kite records against
the watch. Dexter Prince, who is third
on the list up to date, is young sire
| and has nine new trotters in the list
varying from 2:17 to 2 :291s and two new
PAGERS with records of :l21a and 2:2214
Dexter Prince is by Kentucky Prince
(son OF Clark Chief) out Of Lady Dexter
one sister to Dexter 2:17. Nutwood has
| l3 but as all his get are at the east, amid
the frost and snow, his list is not likely
&c &c ba increased this year without being
sent to California.
~.
G. w. johnson, own brother to the
outlaw horse Huron, sold for $30, 900 at
the distribution of j. M. Browns horses.
Brown was the man who fought the DO.
licemen at Garfield park, last August,
and got shot for it. g. W. johnson
won both the Hyde park and Kenwood
stakes at the Washington park meeting,
and is probably as we'll thought of for
the $50, 600 Derby as any horse in Amer
jca at this time. Young August Bel
mont offered $27. 900 for him before the
sale, but DR.. Knapp stayed longer than
he did and got the colt. Mr.. Belmont
may now regret that step as his forfeits
in the race now amount to $575, with
possibility of having those forfeits
amount to s4500 on the day of the race,
without having horse in the stable
that is capable Of driving G. w. John
son out of common canter. All the
same look for some of those English
colts to win the race.
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One trotting sire that must not be
overlooked by the admirers of the
Wilkes blood is Palmetto, by Red
Wilkes. His get appeared this year for
the first time, and one of them, Pat
Murphy, got record of 2 20 as PAGER,
while two others, Ali and Happiness,
got fractions over 29, thus rendering
them eligible to the 2:3O list of next
year. But the story goes that the own.
ers of this horse have colt called Car
mine that can trot all over the other
two although year younger. He is
full brother to Ali, and he trottcd in
2:38 the first mile he was ever driven.
He kept going faster and faster till, at
the end of ten weeks work, showed
mile in 2:24. from which he pulled up
lame. Lock out for Carmine in the
4-year-old events of next year.
xxx
Silkwood, the phenomenal PAGER, took
his departure for Stockton last Monday,
and will put in his time in trotting
against the watch for the balance of his
life. No fear OF his ever again meeting
W. Wood or Our Dick in a bona fide
race. The old gentleman Who owns him
is pretty shrewd and knows thing or
two himself. Right in Orange county
he has fortune for the balance of his
life, and he is too smart to rick the pres
tige already gained by ever starting him
into another race against horses. The
old man with the scythe and hour-glass
will be bis mutton hereafter.
#*%
The Breeder and Turfman certainly
made mistake in bringing out its edi-
torial columns full of stuff for Harrison
just before election. Its owners are very
silly to attempt such thing in solidly
Democratic state like Tennessee, espe-
cially when all the more prominent
horse breeders are equally prominent as
Democratic politicians. Horsemen can
get all the political news they want from
the daily papers, and when they pay
money to keep up class journal, they
want to read about something that af-
fects their pockets. A horse journal
should not talk professional patriotism,
but should talk twenty dollar pieces.
You h'ar me.
The Western HOrseman says: "Stam-
boul was 2 years old when bought by
the late W. s. Hobart for an enormous
price. Wrong again, old man. He was
6 years and months old when he
changed hands.
Red Wilkes seems to be sire of sires,
quite as much as any other son of the
great "duck- paddler, who beat Ethan
Allen. His son, Wayne Wilkes, 2:l6, is
the sire of the 2-year-old PAGER Nidia,
who won the pacing stake for that age
at Nashville, and closed the race up
with a third heat in 2:20 She was
bred by the Centlivre brothers at Fort
Wayne, and her dam is by Almont Pilot,
q son of the great Almont 33. Frank
Bogart has driven her in all her races.
KS
Kremlin, the horse that held the stal.
lion record of 2:O7A up to the hour of
this paper going to press, is by Lord
Russell 1917, own brother to Maud s.,
2:083 on regulation track. His dam
is Eventide by Woodford Mambrino,
2:2l%, and she has no record. Kremlin
is only years old and went out of the
campaign of 1891 with record of 2 :22%
made at Chicago in 1890. As he is a
young horse the chances are good for his
trotting in 2:06 before he dies.
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The poolseller Carlisle, known as book
maker on the California circuit, this
year, turns out to be Sam Clay, the alb
sconding clerk of Tom Shannon, the
New York bookmaker. He got away
with $500 of his employers cash, and
is believed to have sailed for Australia.
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