Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-17

VI Iudb AOi rbolilOun, anu oNOH III buht
case the record-maker (Athadon) is
ords now stand as follows:
Frou Frou, by Sidney, trotting, 2 :251
| Fausta, by Sidney, pacing, 2 :22A.
Athadon, by Matadon, stallion, 2 :27.
In addition to this we must not over
look the fact that the yearling explorer
of the twenties was Mr.. Corbitt's b. C..
Freedom, by Sable Wilkes. This colt
was laid up all last year, and is now
said to be going as fast as a bullet. 1t
will therefore be seen that the yearling
record has been made by California
bred colt in three times out of four, and
that the fourth one is Kentucky-bred
colt now owned in the county of Fresno.
IN REHABILITATION, THEREFORE,
we find that in the forty-three years
that have intervened since Lady Suffolk
first got into the charmed circle, the
greatest reduction in one season was
that of Jay Eye See, who went out of
the season of 1882 with 4.year-old
record of 2:19. This colt in 1889 went
out as a 5.year-old and got record of
2 :16 on the Sd of August. Just one
month from that day he lowered it to
2:10A at Providence r. I. The other
5-year-old records are Sunol 2:08I,
Nancy Hanks 2 100, and Allerton :09L.
When Ethan Allen (who was the first
4-year old to beat 2 :40) got his record Of
2 2:36 over the old Union course, people
deemed him the wonder of the world.
At the same age Palo Alto trotted in
2:20 in no less than four different races
and that against the oldest and best
seasoned campaigners eligible to the
2:20 list. Everything now looks to
LOWERING THE STANDARD,
As the 2 80 horse is nothing but rich
mans roadster. A mark of 2 :25 to sulky
and 2:29 to wagon, would be nearer the
proper mark. AS it is, our horses are
"e'nc driven off their feet as yearlings
and z-year-olds. in order to break the
records for those ages and the great,
well-seasoned and sturdy campaigners
in the alleged class seem to be fading
out entirely. All things now look to
deterioration of our long distance trot-
ters. We have no more such horses as
Fillmore, whose five miles to wagon in
SIG, is still unbeaten, though the per-
formance took place twenty-nine years
ago. Controller, a California produc-
tion, trotted ten miles in 81 231 FOUR
teen years ago; and at that distance
Captain MCGOWAN and Gipsy Queen
made dead heat as long beck as 1860,
in the excellent time OF rs 80. Con-
troller is also the only horse that ever
pulled wagon twenty miles ina de the
hour. But those are relics VI his
tory.
LOS ANGELES SHARE
OF the glory consists largely of the per-
formances of horses bred by Hon. III.
Rose. That gentleman came here about
1869 with five head of trotting- bred
horses, one stallion and four mares, from
which start be has sold about million
dollars worth of horses.
The following table shows what his
stations have done in the 2 80 list:
The Moor, by Clay Pilot =. Q
Sultan, tby The Moor. 70
Stamboul. by Sultan an.......,-...,..-...... -.
Alcazar, by same .................-......
40
go of these were foaled Mr.. Roses property.
There is no parallel to this in the his
tory of horse breeding OF course, SEN
ator Stanford has beaten this, butif
Mr.. Rose had been given the governors
money with which to operate, it is gen.
orally believed he would have been the
foremost breeder of light-harness horses
in America. M.