Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-06

horse to this state, his youthful owner is
to be congratulated on his pluck, enter
prise and patriotism.
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Mr.. Haggin bid old Rayon dor, bad
tempered horse and getter OF rogues
by the dozen, up to $31 900 and then let
go, the old horse falling to the nod OF
August Belmont, jr. If Rayon dor, 16
wears old, was worth $3l 600, certainly
Abercorn, the handsomest and best
horse ever foaled in Australia, was worth
at least $50 ,OO0, that is judging by the
price paid by Mr.. Macdonough for Or
monde. Mr.. White left an order in his
will that "Aby" never should be sold,
but $4,000 would have fetched him.
The widow never was fond of horses and
those who know her say that she is fond
of money. How Mr.. Haggin ever came
to pay SIS 900 for Maxium (who is
worth every dollar of it, by the way), is
a mystery to me. l never knew as rich
a man as he that was quite as fond of
getting things cheap.
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The Melbourne cup is the greatest
handicap in the world, distance two
miles. 1t was run on Tuesday last and
won by Glenloth, Ronda second and
Penance third. In September the odds
were so to l against Glenloth and as
Malvolio, Strathmore, Zalinski, Canoola
and Penance were the five leading ia
vorites two weeks before the race, his
starting price c. uld not have been more
than to l. Penance was bred by Mr..
John King Lee of Bathurst, and was
got by Kingsborough out of Penitent,
mare imported from England. The
bookmakers must have raked in an
awful pile of money on the race, for
Penance is the only one quoted in the
September betting at as good as 20 to l.
The money raked in on the Il tsvorites
will go long way towards paying all
the losses over Glenloth, who ran un-
placed in the Caul6eld cup and has been
kept back in the betting with the most
superb management. OF the Il hrst
iavorites only one (Penance) ran l-2-3.
And vet the bookmakers will declare
they didn't make shillln', mine
friend, s'help me crayshess!" Thirty
three horses ran.
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In the list OF winning owners at the
east. this past season, the name OF A. j.
Cassatt appears at the foot, he having won
about $ll0O in all. Five or six years
ago, when he was in luck, old Eurus won
more than five times that amount for
him in one race. He also had Tarragon,
Connemara and host of good ones and
stood over $50, 900 ahead of the game in
the Yeas 1SS6-S7-SS. Well, he has
plethoric bank account, and can stand
a bad year about as we'll as any man l
can name.
The Oregon papers used to have
fashion of Growing over occasional victo-
ries of horses owned in that state but
bred elsewhere. Among these were
Guido, Patsy Duffy and Twenty-one,
bred in California; Rifeman, Foster and
Repetta, bred in Kentucky and so on to
the end OF the chapter. At last the
ia broken, and an Oregon horse has
beaten field OF California horses at
San Francisco. This is mare called
Misty Morn, got by horse named St.
Paul, now dead. She unites in her
veins the blood lines of Longfellow,
Alarm, Monday and half dozen other
celebrities OF the past, and she is the
property of Judge Robert E. Bybee of
Portland II an early spring meeting at
this place could be got up, most Of the
1S2 horses now at this Bay District tack
would come here to winter, and Judge
Bybee's horse would he one of the num-
Der.
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Oh, wirra, wirra The trotting re-
porter of the Breeder and Sportsman
says that the hero OF the white hat, Mr.
Dan Mccarthy, is about to retire from
the turf. | shall believe it whenever l
read his obituary and hear that his
mortal remains have been duly encased
in coffin of cast iron and sent back fer
interment in the abbey of Burashool,
whence his ancestors sprang. A horse
race without the owner of Sorrento
would be like Hamlet with that melan-
choly Danish prince omitted.
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The greatest lowering OF records dur
ing the past year has been by the prog
eny OF developed sires," and the advo-
Gates of that theory are very jubilant,
although the same thing might not
occur again in the next ten years. The
lowest new record gained during the
year by horse not previously in the
220 list was the 2:06 of Martha
Wilkes, by Alcyone, 2:27. Then comes
Muta Wilkes 2:l414, with no record up
to the close of 1881; and she is by that
sterling race-trotter, Guy Wilkes, 2:1514
and own brother to William L., the sire
OF Axtell. Chimes, :3034, own brother
to Hinda Rose, 2:l9 is the sire of Mid
night Chimes, 2:l64 at 8 years, and
Merry Chimes (pacer), 2;143i, Evan
gelne (dead) was the fastest 4year-old
OF the campaign and she was by Direct
or, 2:l7. Going into the ranks of the
pacing sires, we find other instances of
this theory too numerous to mention.
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Waldstein, winner of the five-mile trot
at the Oakland meeting of the Breeders
association, is by Director, 2:17, out of a
sister to Albert w., 2:20. by Electioneer,
from a sister to Aurora, 2 :27, by John
Nelson. Aurora was the first Pacific
coast bred horse to enter the 2 80 list.
She is the dam of Arol, 2:24, and is the
property of Senator Stanford, at Menlo
park. The Breeder says Waldstein trot-
ted three miles of that race after losing
one of his boots.
The Breeder says that the little black
pacing yearling, Jakey Einstein, bred at
Santa Ana and purchased by Andy Nc
Dowell during fair week, ''paced quar-
ter in II seconds and the quarter in 81
seconds" What that paper probably
intended to say was that Jakey paced a
furlong in II seconds. The Los Angeles
boys all recollect little Jakey's victory
at Santa Ana, and how he beat a
OH turia hion o;1 Il 1no