Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11

won with 1872 pounds in the saddle
and in fast time, too. Nomad has won
$4,000 since Mr.. Rose sold him. The
Esston- Larabie stable of Montana il
another of the same class. If Poet
Scout had been in the hands of Matt
Byrnes, Ken Alcock or Wyndham Wal.
den, be probably would have shown his
heels to dozen horses that beat him.
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Danton, by Linden, out of old blind
Agnes, dam of Robespierre, is said to be
the finest looking yearling in Kentucky
He is seal brown in color and filled
out as well as most 2-year-olds. He be-
longs to George V. Hankins, the Chicago
gambler, and will be very prominent
figure in the worlds fair stakes, guaran.
teed at 500 900, next year.
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The San Francisco Examiner is au.
thority for the statement that Mr.. Dan
iel Miller, owner of the flying filly Char.
mion, has purchased of Mr.. S. &. Reed
of Pasadena his handsome brown filly
by Darebin, out OF Iris, on private terms.
AS she won race on Tuesday last in
Miller's colors the statement is probably
true. Mr.. Reed must have something
in the stable OF which he thinks better.
or he would not have sold so good a
filIy.
Speaking OF fine yearlings, the Santa
Anita farm of e. J. Baldwin, near this
city, is not very lar behind any of the
eastern stud farms in that respect.
There are seven colts and five tillies that
would be called handsome on any stud
farm in England or Australia. Five OF
this Juvenile dozen are by the New Zea-
land sire Cheviot, whose get are gener-
ally regarded as being ehort and fisshy.
But it must not be forgotten that Chew
lot got Little Bernie, who won the Great
Metropolitan at Sydney in 1890, two
miles in 3:3114, q featunequalled by any
American horse in race against other
horses, except tine unlucky McWhirter.
Mr.. Baldwin has good chance of win
ming the rich worlds fair stakes (for
2.year-olds) at Chicago next year, with
one of these. One of the fillies is called
Helen McGregor and shows some of the
great propelling power which made such
fame for the noted Australian mare,
Mitrailleuse. l
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The eastern tracks are full OF coming
wonders, two of which are owned by the
Chicago gambler, Ned Jaynes. Both of
these are by Hi nyar. sire OF that great
mare Correction. Himyaris bred in the
male line of Orlando, who got more ex-
treme speed than any other son of
Touchetone. Orlando got three winners
of the Two Thousand Guineas, one mile,
while neither Newminster, Surplice or
selves. got any at all. Stockwell got elk
winners OF the St. Leger and four of the
Derby, but he fell behind Touchstone
when it came down to races outside of
the classical events. The Orlando line,
as exemplified through Himyar and his
sire, Eclipse, must therefore be regarded
as the best line of Touchstone blood in
America, after that of St. Blaise, being
quite equal to that of Rayon dor, whose
get are generally bad-tempered horses.
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Speaking of the Orlando line of Touch
etone blood brings one to horse now
almost forgotten. l refer to Scythian,
winner of the Chester cup, two and FIVE.
eighths miles. OF 1854. He, too, was by
Orlando, who was the highest priced
stallion in England at the time Mr..
Alexander purchased Scythian to mate
with the Lexington mares. Never was
there worse failure for 80 highly bred
a horse, for he was just as much better
bred horse on the dams side than
Eclipse as one could possibly imagine.
Himself great slayer over distance
of ground, Scythian never got a first
class horse at any distance. The best OF
his get were two sisters-Sympsthy and
Lizzie W.-the former of which beat
John Morgan, Thunder and Ansel, while
the latter beat Captain Moore and Aide
barran twice and Lodi once. They were
both from a Glencoe mare. Scythian
never got horse from Lexington
mare that could earn his oats. He
could have beaten Eclipse anywhere
above mile and half, and was in
fnitely better bred. But Eclipse laid
the foundation OF great racing family,
while Scythian's name is not to be found
in one tabulation out of hundred. And
such is what my dear old Melbourne
friend Chapman was wont to term "the
glorious uncertainty OF racing"
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Nor could Mr.. Alexander be blamed
for selecting stallion with mare by
Hetman Platoff for his dam, even in
spite of the anathemas that the English
doctrinaires were then hurling against
"the accursed Blackjack blood" In the
same year that Scythian won the Ches-
ter cup, the st. Leger had been won by
Knight of st. George; and the Derby OF
two years previously by Daniel
O'Rourke. Both of these horses were
out of mares got by Hetman Platoff, who
also was the sire of The Cossack, winner
of the Derby of 1S45. Again Hetman
Platof was the sire of that good mare
Wriasma, who could carry weight like
an elephant. Had l been possessed OF
Mr.. Alexander's money. should have
fallen into the same trap. And as for "the
accursed Blackjack blood" how it has
since been avenged by the ''inexorable
logic of events" Voltaire, Voltigeur,
Vedette, Qui Vive, King Cole, Taraban,
st. Simon, Donovan, Galopin, Galliard,
Memoir, Semolina and La Fleche are
very queer horses to come from bad
line Of blood. HIDALao.
TheBoy Knew Tennyson.
A Freshwater boy was once asked if
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