Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-27
H0OF-BEATS AND SULKY TRACKS
How Stamboul, for the Third
Time, Lowered His Record.
Prospects for High Glass Horse
Breeding in Southern California.
The Value of Good Two-Year-Old and
an Offer for Charmion-Rr. G.. 8.
Reed, the Steamboat Million
aires Importations.

If ever there was case in which th'
old saying "the king is dead, long liv'
the king" was applicable, it has beer
the championship for trotting stations
within the past 20 days. The manner
in which Stamboul and the Kentucky
bred Kremlin have been toying amor
ously with the quarters of seconds, ha:
been something marvellous. Each
horse has been three times champion
and three times dethroned within &c
days. Stamboul is now master Of the
situation and is likely to remain so for
the rest of the season, with the record
of 2:071a to his credit. The cold weather
has set in at the east, and the son OF
Lord Russell has but limited chances OF
dropping off the seconds as compared
with the hero of Hobart farm.
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His supremacy is due to Walter Ma.
ben's excellent handling, of course, but
there is large share of credit due to
Sam Gamble, superintendent of the Ho-
bart farm, who put Walter up behind
the horse, in the full belief that he
could drive him faster than any other
living man. / was always of the same
opinion, but never could bring poor Mr..
Hobart over to my way of thinking.
Mr.. Gamble said to me one day, 81 am
a good deal like you about the old brown
stud-he's as full of notions as 4 school
girl and Maben knows him lots better
than anyone else. But you must recol.
lect also that the horse does not belong
to either of us; and Mr.. Hobart has a
very peculiar way of indulging his own
notions. He breeds for pleasure and
pride more than anything else, and does
not always fancy suggestions; and az he
seems to feel very friendly toward you,
would not be too eager to suggest any
thing to him. He might not take it al
you intend" After that I kept my
mouth closed.
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| No sooner does Mr.. Gamble get him
self in such position that his word Is
the next thing to law, than he sees his
way clear to put Walter in the front
rank; and he has done it in most be-
coming and modest way, as will
be seen in his letter to the New
York Spirit of the Times of the
18th inst. He writes: II worked him
along in the elowest and easiest manner
till got him down from miles in :l5 to
miles in 2:26 and then sent for Maben,
the man whom l believe was born to
drive Stamboul. He likes Stamboul and
Stamboul likes Maben, so the attach
ment was mutual" think Mr.. Gam
ble's modesty in the foregoing letter
very commendable. 1t is as much as to
cay that when he had got the horse
| Il tn O.0G bn al ha haI
| beyond him; and there is no one who
the better for having written that letter.
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| And now, asks the average reader,
what does all this go to show Why
waste all this space upon one horse
Because he is Southern California
horse, born under our balmy skies and
mustered in our rich and succulent
pastures of alfalfa, which l believe to be
second to no herbsge plant in the
world. Southern California bred horses,
on the 9Th day of March, 1890, brought
the largest average prices in New York
of any sale ever known since the light
harness horse first became the useful
and intelligent servant of man. That
sale averaged somewhere in the neigh
borhood of $4,000 per head; and l.. j.
Rose of this city was the man who
sold them at auction. He began in the
right way as breeder and never bred
from sires or mares that did not have
| good legs and feet.
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And great as has been the showing
made by Mr.. Roses trotters and Mr.
Baldwin's gallopers, my belief is that
their triumphs are but foretaste o.
what is to come. One of the richest mer
among the millionaires of Oregon hat
come among us to locate permanently
and has spent all the past summer ir
the United Kingdom purchasing valua
BILE mares and stations for his farm neal
Pasadena. He has brought out Marten
hurst, horse that is just as we'll bret
as Ormonde, although he was never
such performer. At the same time b,
is "bred in the purple" and quite Al
desirable as any other untried sire il
the United States. Mr.. Reeds mares
outside OF those purchased in England
embrace the paternity of Sir Modred
Darebin and other Australian blood
grated on our very best American fami
lies.
Mr.. Reed is only one of large mum
Der of breeders that are bound to seel
the balmy air of Southern California
Judge Bybee's health is none of th'
best but he is a comparatively yount
man, and should he get over his presen
illness. it will not take much to get hin
down here, away from the cold ant
stormy winds and snows of the fn
north. Mr.. Bybee is not a millionair,
like Mr.. Reed, but he is ia good deal bet
ter versed in the theories and practice
of breeding; and therefore is liable tt
produce some great performers before h
ceases to care for the intelligent quadru
peds that have been his pets for A
years.
! r. N.Y.
Ten years hence the three counties o
Orange, San Diego and Los Angeles vii
be sending to the eastern sales 81 600. .00
worth OF horses annually. A 2-year-ol'
horse bred in this region is as thorough
ly developed as any horse in Oregon i
at 3, or as any Montana-bred horse at
The famous Deer Lodge colt known a
Montana Regent, the only horse tina
ever beat Lucky b. at two miles, was tn
only exception to this rule. Hence
look forward with confidence to the da
when Marcus DAILY, S. E. Larabi
and Kohrs & Bielenberg shall transfe
their breeding operations from Gontan