Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-30

A. F. Van Ness, the latter Of whom won
nearly all his money with his 2-year-old
Morello. In the $4,000 division are
Foxhall Keene and Walcott and Camp
bell. The $4,000 class consists Of
Brown and Rogers, G. B. Morris and the
Oneck stable. The $40, 900 division in
cludes 18 stables, the highest OF which,
W. II. Landeman, won $40, ,255. and the
lowest, Henry Warnecke, $40, ,205.
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Frank Ehret, who heads the list of the
running owners for the year. is said to be
contemplating a retirement from the
turf. There can be no doubt that
his expenses are less than those
of any Pacific owner and far less
than those incurred in the past
two seasons by E. j. Baldwin and
L. ]. Rose, of this city, whose railroad
bills must have embodied lite fortunes
in themselves. With $156, ,948 to his
credit. we must deduct $35, 900 for ex-
penses as an outside estimate and then
that would leave him $12l ,948 to the
good, which is more than all the horse
owners in America, put together. won
prior to 1865. 1t may be good idea to
''leave while your shoes are good" and
perhaps that is what young Ehret's rich
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men who are fond of money would
think it was just beginning to be good,
but the old brewer probably thinks it
better to quit winner than loser
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Simmons, the sire of Semicolon and
Coralloid, is proving to be all that his
owner, the late w. II. Wilson of Gym
thiana, KY, claimed for him. He is
sire of three horses that have gone into
the 2:l5 list this year without records of
better than 2:20 last year. These are
New York Central 2:131a, Greenleaf
2:13I and Coralloid 2:1434, great trio
to come from so young horse as Sim
mons. At the same time, when you
come to remember that Simmons is
full brother to Rosa Wilkes, 2:18L, and
that he has record of 2:28 himself,
there is nothing 30 sensational about it.
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Mr.. Shippee's sale of Jhoroughbreds
will take place at the Oakland track
Nov. 10Th, and choice lot will be Of
fered. Mr.. Shippee is doing right to
retire from the breeding of thoroughbred
horses for the reason that their returns
have never been equal to his outlay.
He has bred and owned some of the
best horses that ever saw this state and
they have, on more than one occasion,
lost races that they should have won.
Mr.. Shippee will hereafter confine him
self to the breeding of trotters, busi-
ness with which he is thoroughly famil-
lar and from which he may expect to
reap fortune. HIDAtGo.
Ones Age.
The unwillingness of women who have
rto;v, ~ fov
that matter-to avow frankly the number
of birthdays they have had is proverbia,
the world over. In France, which is re
puted the most courteous country in the
world, the sensitiveness of persons who are
no longer young is almost universally re-
spected. Even in the courts of justice a
way is sometimes found to escapethe neces-
sity of a frank avowal.
A lady whose appearance indicated that
she had left her fortieth year behind her
was not long ago ordered by the president
or judge of court where she was wit
ness to tell how old she was.
"'Ty-two years, monsieur le president"
she murmured.
The Judge merely smiled at this very in
definite reply and pressed her no further.
A witty lady not long ago remarked in
company when the delicate question of
age was under discussion:
"Oh, you know l have way of making
myself out younger than am without
telling lie at ALL"
"Indeed How do you do it?"
"Well, put the sin all upon the ques-
tioner. You see, when one of my female
friends asks me how old am, I answer,
oh, Pm older than you are, you know, my
dear-as much as year. By the way, how
old are your And then she always knocks
off more from my age than should ever
dare to myself "-Youth's Companion.