Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-06
HOOF BEATS AND SULKY TRACKS
Gossip Of the Race Courses and
Talk of the Stables.
The San Francisco Fall Meeting OF
the Blood Horse Association.
stamboul Now King of the Trotting Stall
Iions-Mr. s. G. Reeds New Pur-
chase for Pasadena-Great
Attendance at Races.

eyes VI It's I6dOCI5 lbC pib6AS
race at Santa Ana will be thing OF the
past. The supplement to the HERALD,
in which the racing articles are printed,
goes to press at IL O'Clock on SATURDAY
morning and the race does not come OH
till 2 D. M, go that it is impossible to
get in anything after the race save what
comes along here by telegraph. But my
preference in the race would be SILK
wood. for several reasons, the first OF
which is that he has been at home for
month, while Our Dick has been travel
ing all over the country on railroad
trains. Again, Mr.. Willetts has kept
the stallion pretty steadily at work since
his defeat at this place, and the horse is
much harder and better seasoned for
bruising race. OF course L regard
him oOly as an exhibition horse,
and believe that any horse which beats
him heat can beat him race, bat he
may come out with cyclone OF speed in
him and then the game and honest Dick
might not be able to catch him. They
tell OF his pacing trial mile there the
other day in 2:O9. Either the Santa
Ana track is slow or it was one of the
morse Z udyE, lOI uc CClbniAis PoSSo q
second better than that in the first heat
of the race at Agricultural park, when
he was beaten the shortest of heads in
2:lOI, after having gone at least 80
wards over mile in the heat. Again, L
say, look for Silkwood to win the race,
and don't believe there will be heat
paced under 210. But if Dick gets a
heat, that will be the end Of it, for Silk
wood is not game horse to my notion
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The fall meeting of the San Francisco
Blood Horse ASSOCIATION goes to show
that, however popular the sweepstake
system OF racing is at the east, in Eng
land or in Australia, it is not go in Cali
fornia. The overnight purse system
has made dollars for the San Francisco
concern where the sweepstake system
ever made them dimes. They are Civ
2S days. racing with five races per day,
on purses graduated as follows: Half
mile and five furlongs, $400; over five
furlongs and up to one mile, $500; over
one mile and up to one and a quarter
miles, $780, over one and quarter
miles and up to one and three-quarters,
500; and all above one and three-quar-
ter miles, $500 This gives very liberal
dUlDublS, DIS bIC uldh WIZ Wins uiiiiN
gets Just Is per cent of the purse, which
more than clears his entrance. The
fields have so far been very large, the
average being over 10 starters ia each
race. There were 1872 horses on the
ground when the meeting opened, with
prospect OF at least 40 more from the
eastern states before the meeting is
ended. OF course some horses will get
lame and others prove worthless, but il
is an even bet that the meeting will
close on an average OF SIX starters.
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The little Australian horse, San Pedro,
broke down in one of his forelegs at San
Francisco last week, and will be here
after kept for breeding purposes. He
was good horse over a distance OF
ground. and ran several good races for
bis new owner, Billy Appleby, a brother
of the banjo king Mr.. Appleby trained
for Mr.. Rose in 1890 and took fancy to
the little brown colt, which has grown
into very shapely horse, though not
big one. Appleby's paddocks contain
about a dozen or fifteen mares of
Wildidle blood, reinforced with Norfolk
and Rifeman blood in the background,
hence | would not be surprised to see
APpitDy CUlDTs III tuo lIUuO III IH' NEAR
future. San Pedro is bred in the purple,
having two crosses each of Fisherman,
the Flying Dutchman and Touchstone,
together with two crosses OF Marpessa,
dam of Pocahontas, the pearl OF the en-
tire Britsh stud.
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Breeders stakes are good things for
stockraisers, who get little enough re-
turn, anyhow, for the care they bestow
upon their pets. The Matron stakes at
Morris park were won by Sir Francis,
by Mr.. Pickwick out of Thora, bred by
Charles Reed of Gallatin, Tenn. who
gets $1,000 out of the stakes as breeder of
the winner. Milton Young OF Lexipg-
ton, KY, bred the second one, Miss
Maude by Duke of Montrose, and his
share ia $500. This is what we want in
this country. Most of the horses in the
state are owned by men who bet but do
not breed. Once inaugurate system
by which the breeder of horse gets a
portion OF the stake, after having sold
his horse, and you will encourage breed
ers to purchase higher class o. stations
and mares. AS there are now 16 Aus
tralian bred stations in the state, l sug-
gest Matron stake free for all mares
bred to those horses in 1892, to close
December 31st. Such stake ought to
meet with at least rs nominations.
XIV
Simultaneous with Mr.. Reeds pur-
chase of Marlenhurst, comes the an
nouncement that Mr.. William
O'Brien Macdonough has purchased the
most famous horse of the century, Or
monde, who has won more money than
any horse on the turf. He won Is
races, while the famous Hungarian
mare, Kincsem, by Cambuscan. won So
without single defeat, but she never
carried any such weights or beat any
such horses as Ormonde has done.
Charles Reed, the old Mokelumne Hill
gambler, now residing at Gallatin,
Tenn, went out to Buenos Ayres to buy
the horse; and when he got there found
that young Macdonough had bought
him for $l5O,000. Ormonde won the
Derby, st. Leger and 1000 guineas of 1856
and the Eclipse stakes of the following
year with 140 pounds up. He is by
Bend dor, winner of the Derby of 1880,
out OF Lilly Agnes by Macaroni, who
won the Derby OF 1878. Bend dor was
by Doncaster, winner OF the Derby of
1873. out OF Rouge Rose by Thormanby,
the Derby winner of 1860; and Doncas.
ter was by Stockwell, winner of the
St. Leger of 1852, out of Mar
gold by Teddington, the Derby
winner of 1851. Stockwell was
by the Baron, who won the st. Leger of
1S45; and Teddington was by Orlando,
l. h..