Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-18
GOSSIP FROM TURF AND TRACK,
The Enormous Increase Of the
2:l5 TrOtting List.
A Cursory Review of the State Fair
Races, This Week.
Adelaide McGregor's Victory at sscra-
mento - The Independence Two
Weeks MeetIngs-Lobasco,
the Hero.

the Hero.
Evangeline is the greatest 4-year-old
that ever stepped inside of harness.
She trotted at the Breeders meeting, at
Lexington, and beat Sallie B. and four
others in 2:l6-2:14T-2:17H. On top
of this she went up to Fort Wayne,
where she cut down the race record for
any age to 2:11 fat. She is by Director
PLY, out of Fanny H., by Red Wilkes,
who also produced Delegate, 2:27, by
Dictator, who was Directors sire. So it
is plainly to be seen that the son has
outbred the father.
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The black mare Nightingale is behind
Evangeline only by the time test, and
not by the number of races won or their
character. The test by which we judge
Nightingale is her winning of three OF
the largest stakes trotted for at the
east, Of which Director, Phallas and
Fanny Witherspoon could each win but
one, and the great Piedmont none at
all. She won first the Merchants stake
ct Detroit, worth $4,000, in 2:181s,
2:18A and 2:17H, from field of IL
contestants. This was in July. On the
9th of August, at Buffalo, che won the
$4,000 stake for the 2:27 class (entries
having closed in April), in 2:17A,
2:1814, 2:l71a. On the Goth of August,
at Hartford, she won the $4,000 Char
ter Oak stake for tine 2:2O class. Her
driver made no struggle for the first
heat, but dropped within his distance
and got good scrape out of her. He
then went out and won the next three
in 2:131a, 2:141s, 2:l414. She ia by
Osgood's Patchen, dam by Mambrino
Howard, from Contention. by Allie
West, son of Almont 33. Neither Mann
brino Howard nor Osgood's Patchen are
represented in the 2 80 list, except by
Nightingale.
Lobasco, by Egmont, dam by:General
Hatch, is now the holder of the stallion
race record of 2:llI, which is 2A Sec
onds better than that of the dead hero
Palo Alto. Lobasco is young horse
and got record of 2:l114 at Indepen-
dence, Iowa, in the previous week, but
was defeated in the race by the black
gelding. Lord Clinton, in 2:10I, 2:111s,
2:13A. Clinton is by Deming Allen,
grandson of Ethan Allen, and is owned
by George w. Leiby. of Chicago, who
drove Tommy Gates and Beautiful Bells
for Mr.. Rose in 1875.
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The 2:15 list this year has already
begun to swell into elephantine proper
tions, and if they keep ON for the next
month as they have been going for the
past six weeks, there will be more horses
dropping into the 2:15 list this year,
than went into the 2:20 list in 1891.
The horses have now got four or five
months work on them, and are thor
oughly seasoned, 30 that 2 IA now is no
better than 218 was IN July. On the
other hand there is the chance of
horse going lame through the continu-
alton of severe preparation, or becom-
ing stale and losing his speed through
incessant work. Yet all the chances
now look favorable for 2:15 list for
1892, containing q greater number of
horses than the 2 20 list of 1891. Among
them we note the Canadian stallion,
Alvin, 2:1314; the black mare. Night
ingale, 2:13% the chestnut mare, Ken
lucky Union, 2:14A; Muta Wilkes,
2:14L; Hazel Wilkes, 2:14A; and
Martha Wilkes, by Alcyone, 2:O8. The
sire of the last is also the sire of Nc
Kinney, 2:121s.
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Nancy Hanks, 2 :0514 has since gotten
a new regulation track record of 207,
and, despite the cavilings of Eastern
breeders at her Washington park per-
formance in 2:0714, che still remains the
lawful queen of the turf at the diagonal
gait. She leads the mares by three Sec
onds, the stations by three and one
half second. and the geldings by four
and three-fourth seconds, 20 that there
is no room for argument on this scdFe.
She is farther ahead of Sunol than Sunol
is ahead of Maud s., and Mr.. Bonner's
nose must be considerable dislocated by
her 2:074 at Chicago, 2:0514 at Inde-
pendence, and :07 on regulation track
at Detroit. There is chance yet left
for Mr.. Bonner. Let him purchase
Martha Wilkes, whose record is already
below that of Sunol and Maud S, al
though made on kite. If any horse
beats the record of Nancy Hanks this
year or next, it will be Martha Wilkes,
2:0S, and not Sunol, 2:OS14. This opin-
ion is not based upon the quarter second
difference between these mares, but
upon the ungovernable temper of Mr..
Bonner's great mare, who can trot faster
quarters than Nancy Hanks.
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That unlucky horse, Little Albert,
who was choused out OF the Charter Oak
stakes at Hartford last year, by the re-
fusal of the judges to accept an amateur
photograph of heat because it was not
official, is still in bad luck. The heat
referred to would have given him the
race in question, but he did not get
! better than second money. At Inde-
pendence, the shrewd Williams always
has an official photographer, and in the
great trot for the Ell class it came into
good use, for Lobasco only beat Little
Albert nose, in 2:111a, and then Lord
Clinton beat him the shortest of heads
in 2:1014, for the second heat. This
persistent way OF trying to kill off his
contestants wore Little Albert out, and
he did not get heat in the race.
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One great feature of the present cam
paign has been wholly overlooked by
the sporting press OF America. A
least, / have seen no mention OF it.
allude to the trot for the 2:30 class al
Independence, won by Muta Wilkes
daughter Of Guy Wilkes, whose owne
is splendid exemplifcation OF wha
the Almighty thinks of meney, judging