Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-10

"that's my idea, but ''my dut,
is very plain one. He is al
amateur driver, and it does not lool
we'll for open complaints against tina
class Of men. But reckon it would no
do any hurt to have him cautioned
about cutting in ahead too short, for th'
future"
Accordingly Heating went up to the
stand, and Mr.. Willets was shortly
afterward called up and cautioned
against heading off other horses with.
out allowing sufficient room. In that
heat, instead of waiting to let horses
come up alongside OF him and wear
themselves out, Mr.. Willets kept from
40 to go yards in 'front.' and as natural
consequence, Dick caught him dead
tired, and was only beaten neck at the
finish.
Had there been any collusion between
the three northern horses, the contend
ing horse in the second heat would have
been either w. Wood or Ryder, and
Dick would have been given chance to
rest up after breaking the coast record
in the first heat. As Silkwood was be-
ing led away after the second heat, DIR.
Wise said to me- "He's done-he'll
never come back"
HE is certainly a very tired horse,
but what's your reason for thinking he
won't scratch ?" l asked.
Because he has not had the requisite
amount of work. He has been worked
about six weeks, or seven at the best.
These horses have had four or five
months Of gradual seasoning. When /
went over to Salt Lake in June I found
them there, and they have averaged a
race once week ever since, till they are
as hard as whalebone. There's not one
of them that can't beat him single
handed He has the most speed, to be
sure. He would win the first two heats,
and then the other horse would 60 on
and win the race.
In the third heat Mr.. Willets started
to do what he should have done in the
first-wait and win. Tom Ryder got off
with Our Dick, and swung him to the
quarter go fast that he left his feet.
Ryder then got the lead, which he held
till passing tie half-mile pole, where
Silkwood came up and got the lead from
him fairly. He broke before reaching
the head of the stretch, and again just
after Strengthening for home; and Dick,
the best and gamest horse of the quar-
tette, won the heat nearly four seconds
slower than either of its predecessors !!
What falling off was there, my coun-
trymen! Then Mr.. Willets made COM
plant against Tom Ryder, whose driver
is as much of "hayseed' as any man
who drove in the 'road cart race" of
Friday. Finding that the judges ex-
tended the same leniency to Newton in
the third heat as they had done to him
self in the second, Mr.. Willets withdrew
his stallion from the race and placed
Silnwood upon par with a distanced
horse.
The rest of the story is briefly told.
Wood took the fourth heat and Our
Dick the fifth and the race. In every
heat he was either the winner or the
contending horse, a fact that knocks all
prate of collusion as high as Beecher's
Life of Christ or the late Mr.. Gilderoy's
kite. Now for the sequel. On Friday
the 9TH Mr.. Ed. Ryan offered to hang
up purse of $500, entrance free, for
Silkwood and Our Dick. to be paced for
under similar conditions to the race of
the 9th inst. Kenting at once accepted,
but Mr.. Willets did not, and why?
Because he knew that he could not win
but one end of it, and that the hinder
one. He could 60 off and win two heats,
and then the tougher, harder-seasoned
Dick, indurated by his five months
campaign, that extends from the Wah-
satch to the Sierra Msdre, would 90 on
and win the race. That is and always
will be the difference between race
horses and exhibition horses. But if
anybody wants to know how fast Silk
wood can pace mile, should say
2:0S, or better, judging him by his first
heat in that race.
1 have written this, not to disparage
Silkwood or his owner. With the latter
[ have no acquaintance, and of the
former I have just the same opinion that
Charles Durfee had when he entered
against him-that any horse that is fact
enough to beat him a heat, can beat
him a race. Mckinney lacked the
speed. have written this to defend
personal friend, to whom owe debt
of gratitude that money cannot repay.
Hon. L. J.. Rose sent me across the
ocean to buy horses fer him, at
a time when was nearly
dead from an attack of la grippe,
and it is probably to that "a days. sea
voyage that / owe my life. He placed
$4,000 to my credit by cablegram
that cost him something over $500, and
placed upon me no check or restriction
whatever. l could have drawn the
money out of the bank in 48 hours, and
ran off to India or the Transvaal with
every dollar of it, had I been 80 dis
posed, and no extradition treaty on
earth would have touched me. 1 do
not like to hear men of that stamp
abused, or their integrity called in
question, by irresponsible scribblers
like the author of the above paragraph.
x*x
With the other two judges of that
race-Captain Barrett and Mr.. Brown
/ have had less to do. They have been
uniformly polite to me, and that is my
only way of judging them. But 1 can
not let the occasion pass without review
ing the writer's expression of ''surrepti-
tiously informed, with reference to Mr..
Beckett The choiceness of his English
"bangs Banagher" entirely. His breed
ing is unknown to me, but if were told
that he was by Sut Lovengood, ,out of Mrs.
Malaprop, should not seek to negative
the information. Col. Jack Gambill,
the redoubtsble, who once stated that
his brother Bill s'was wounded at the
battle of Molasses Gap and carried
home to Tennessee, 300 miles, in an
avalanche" would feel heartbroken at
the loss of his reputation, if he should
ever get hold of the "surreptitious in