The morning call., 1892-03-31
TALK or THE TURF.
Successful Sale Of Tr0tters ut
Napa Yesterday.
Madonna Realizes &1675-T horoughbreds at
San Joss-Father OFlynn Wins the
Grand National

A big crowd Of horsemen journeyed up TO
Napa yesterday to attend the sale Of Fred
w. Loeber's stock. The bidding was unex-
peetedly spirited. and the fairly good aver.
age Of $3.50 for 46 head was realized.
The lots bringing the highest figures were
as follows: Woodline. 4 years. a chestnut
mare by Woodruff (2:16Ia) out Of Maud by
Whippleton. $685.. Oakland stock farm
Jessie Z. years, steel-gray marc by
Whippleton out of Jessie Fremont. $3.50, E.
+. Head: Munro, b years, . bay mare by
Milton Medium, 47S2 2:26h), out of a Jack
Hawkins mare, S345, II. Pierce; Directress,
8 years. a brown FLY by Director can out
Of Whisp by Whippleton, $1,000. H. Pierce;
and Venus. years. chestnut flly by
Woodruff out of Lucy by John Nelson, 500.
III. Pierce.
The leading attraction Of the day to most
of the horsemen was the sale Of Mrs. S.
SINNERS celebrated bay mare Madonna,
dam of Del Rey e :20 and Altoona Jr. q :24.
sire OF Silas Skinner can. This grand indi-
vidual was fOaled in 1877 by Cassfus M. Clay
Jr t22). out Of dam by Joe Downing f710,
and her appearance in the sale ring evoked
the keenest competition of the day. She
finally fell to the bid of Henry Pierce for
S1675 Mrs. Skinner also obtained $3.50 for
a two-year-old colt by MONDAY. out Of
farm secured a yearling FLY by Mountain
Boy, out of Madonna, for SS75.
THOSE WHO ATTENDED.
Among the horsemen present were :
Charles Scott. Barney Murphy, Zeke Will
son, Nat COMBS. NJ. Kemper, W. Page,
Gilbert Tompklns, Lee James. J. Evans.
Ira Pierce. ii. Pierce. j. l.. Mcdonald. r.
b. Milroy. John McCOrd, Professor Head,
George Wiley. J. +. Boyd, G. w. Monteith,
Homer Norton. J. w. Williams, L. II.
Trainer. X. Ii. Allen, Dennis McVicker,
Thomas jackson. w. "A Macinder. T.
Brown. IL. c. Holly, DR.. 4. Il. Hennessey
and }. b. Childs.
Joe McCarty has just returned from San
Jose and brings the news that his fathers
and most OF the other strings in training
for the biood-horse meeting will not be
year old down there seems to be Orville,
AppIeby's chestnut colt, by Duke of Nor
folk, out of Mary ID. he is own brother to
Esperanza. and worked out half mile In
40 seconds on Sunday morning. Charles
Trevsthan's Castro. by Sohrante, out Of
Clytie, by Wheatley. and w Appieby's colt
by John Happy. out of Joe Hooker mare,
are also a dandy pair of two-year-olds.
They worked half yesterday morning
neck and neck in 50la seconds, as also did
McCarty's two youngsters, Bridal Veil and
Adolph.
A NICE EASY MILE.
OF the older horses w. Appleby's San
Pedro. by Wax!lght from Judith, and old
Applause are in the best fix, working nice
easy mile yesterday in 1:46h. All the
horses are looking we'll, and, wnen the sig
nal bell rings out over the Bay District
track next week, will doubtless give good
account of themselves.
w. Niogit Is in town, and says that
Wanda. Daylight and the rest Of his stable
are settled down to hard work. and he ex-
pects Wanda will show even greater form
in the fall than in 1891
Matt Storm and w. hurry have finally
decided not to race here, and Denver will
be their first starting point on the way
East. They both have some cracksjacks
and their absence this spring will be re-
GREETED, although IL will take load off the
anxious minds of some of the smaller own
ers and give them better chance of snap
ping some of the purses hung up.
Colonel II. l. Thornton has bought the
little gray Hungarian stallion Darby from
Dan McCarty, and will breed him to sew
eral Shetland mares.
Clarence, who won the Lincolnshire ham
dicap in England last week. gained half
length victory. He is by Saraband out of
Princess Arena, and was at % to ia the
betting week before the race. He started
hrst favorite. however, at 6 TO 1.
The Irish contingent sprang another of
their surprises in the Grand National
steeple-chase in Father O'Flynn on the
Englishmen. He started al % to / against
and won by eight lengths.