The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-13
TURF AND TRACK.
The Breeders Meeting Concludes To-
Day-Selections for Each Event

The Breeders Meeting Concludes To-
Day-Selections for Each Event.
This afternoon the summer meeting Of
the clearinghouse Breeders Association
VIII be brought TO a close. The racing will
commence at l O'clock. as there are four
events to be decided. The free-for-all
iTotting purse OF $500 and the free-for-aIl
pacing purse of $1,000 will be the chief at
fractions. out there are also trots for the
2:2S class and green horses, with large
fields. If started the following are likely
10 eatture the first money in the various
events:
Free-foT-all trot. Balkan.
Ffee-for-all pace. Alaunah.
2:2S class trOt, FItZsimm0ns.
Green horse iIOt, Charles James.
There is no mistaking tine fact that the
new rule adopted by the local. association.
making il imperative for a horse Ia 90 to
TIE stable unless ne wins one heat in the
first three. Is vastly unpopular with horse
men President Cox and Directors Chase
and Green Of the State Agricultural Society
were seen in town Yesterday and all agreed
that National Trotting rules were good
enough for them, and these rules wil
govern all iratIing and pacing contests at
the coming State Fair
Owing 10 the new rule there are several
owners who Will not start their horses to-
day, and the associations entry-list will
ouiSi WHY materially LOT the Ialt meeting
unless the obnoxious rule be withdrawn IL
owners and horses keep away il is pretty
certain that the already ScanIy attendance
OF the pubic at trotting races in San Fran
cisco viii he reduced b. a mere handful.
ne Oldest warhorse living In this country
Is Mrs Gaines" who was captured by a
scouting party belonging to the Fourth
Michigan Volunteers, at Gaines Mills, Va,
IN June. 1862. Some months later she be-
came the property Of her present owner,
Colonel Richard I. Auchmuty of Lenox
Mass. Mrs. Gaines" witnessed the seven
day. battles around Richmond. ana was at
Charlottesville, Getty sburg and BrIstoe
Station. She WAS in Fort Stevens during
Early's attack on Washington, in 1864. and
the following spring followed Lncoln's body
from the White House to the Capitol. being
in the escort detailed TO guard President
Johnson's carriage.
After the war she was taken 10 New
DIX ana then spent year at Hyde Park,
on the Hudson. In 1867 she was taken TO
LPnoX. where she has since remained hav-
ing been ridden by her owner until two
years ago. when her appearance of age.
rather than her lack If activity. prevented
her use. The mare has never been in hRr-
ness. She occupies a SPACIOUS box-stall.
from which, after consuming rail of milk
mixed with oatmeal and bran, she is let ont
every morning. She then walks to a brook
which crosses the highway about half a mile
distant, and after taking a drink returns to
her owners farm, over hich she is allowed
to roam. picking out clover patches or nib
bling at the young oats and corn, but doing
no serious damage. Toward evening, or
when the weather is threatening, she re-
turns to her box-stall, aud at night has
an other pail of milk for supper
Mrs Gaines" was years old when she
was captured and Is now IN her thirty-sixth
year. There are probably few, If any,
horses now living who were with the Army
OF the Potomac In 1862