Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-12
A MORNING At THE RACE TRACK,
With in Sound Of Hoofbeats Of
Levelheaded Yrotters.
The Descendants of the Moor and
Echo in Light Harness.
The Ysarlings Undergoing Their Prelim
mary Education at the Diagonal
Gait--Premonitions Of Fast
Time at the Fair.

Gaft--Promonftfons OF Fast
Time at the Fair.
The air is yet warm, although tn,
sultry days OF July and August are lef
astern in the voyage of the year. Al
yet there is no tinge OF frost tt
warn us of the near approach Of au
tumn, but the nights are cool, and
"tired natures sweet restorer, balmy
Sleep" comes to the drowsy eyelids more
readily than it did in the earlier sum.
mer days. Still September in South.
ern California is summer month, legit'
imately enough, just as much so az
March is winter month in Washington
or Idaho. And as the year is slowly
approaching the days when it shall be
gathered into the sheaf and stored in
the garner of the centuries, SO the har-
vest moon has begun to wane, and the
corn goes into the barn. The harvest
has been bounteous one, and the year
one of signal prosperity for the smiling
south. The season Of our annual fair,
too, is but four weeks off, and the trot-
ters have begun to Cock into the stables
at Agricultural park pretty freely. The
victorious blood OF Sultan and Echo is
now being commingled with that Of
numerous descendants of Electioneer,
George Wilkes and Strathmore, aud
generally to good advantage. Over sixty
horses are now domiciled at the track,
most of them being new candidates for
the popular favor. The largest number
of horses, in any one mans charge, is
the stable of Maj. Thomas H. Griffin,
who has twenty-seven head, owned by
half dozen other gentlemen beside
himself.
AN EARLY MORNING RIDE.
The journey to the work on the street
cars these perfect mornings, ii one is
not rich enough to own his horse and
buggy, is one of the pleasures of the
season. for the electric line whisks you
down there at rapid pace. But the
electric line should leave you at the
gate of the track, in compliance with its
charter, or it should paint out the words
Agricultural park, /" which now embel-
lish all its cars. AS it is, you are landed
in the deep dust at University station
on the Southern Pacific road, whence
you have to foot it over to the track.
But once there at or O'Clock in the
morning, you are the willing witness of
busy and exciting scene. A couple OF
dozen trotters are out on the track at
once, some "going around with the sum-"
while others are driving the reverse
way OF the track. Let US get a seat up
in the grand stand, from which we have
so often witnessed the victories of Siam
boul, Alcazar, Ruby, John Treat, Ell
Rayo and Mckinney, and watch the
passing show. Tom Story's ine Caliph
colt is the first to attract my attention.
He combines our two strongest strains
of blood, the Sultan and the Echo, with
the former on the side OF the sire. In
the outlines of his form he leans decid-
edly toward the Moors, but is more
soggy horse than the most of them.
VERY PROMISING THREE-YEAR-OLD.
This strapping youngster is full of
promise, and Mr.. Story is reported to
have refused very good offer for him,
last week. made by San Franciscan
through Tom Griffin. The colt goes
with great swinging stride and yet has
no dwell in his gait. Very few horses
have much prettier action than this fell
low. Close behind him comes John
Vance with the beauty, Riceta, lovely
bay mare with most expressive counte-
nance and a decidedly rapid way Of
skimming over the ground with her low,
and insidious gait. She is going to be a
hard mare to beat in her class at this
fair. Behind her comes Griffin with
lordly, big black stallion, called Laguna,
whose gait seems to improve from day
to day while, for courage, coupled with
an excellent temper, he is not to be sur
passed by any horse on the ground. He
is by Del Sur, an expatriated sire, whose
stock has been generally condemned as
soft horses, but who is the sire OF Don
Tomas, the horse who beat Bay Rose in
2:20, and of San Pedro, "the hearse
horse" that got below 2:11 in his first
season on the tracks. Surely there
-canrot be much that is soft about horses
which perform like that. Alongside of
Griffin is the emaciated Mr.. Lockhart,
Of Burbank, with good-looking son of
Anteeo, called Anteeo Button. This fell
low favors his sire "the Little Tiger"
very much in his conformation.
AvETERAN HORSE LOVER.
An elderly gentleman, with side
whikers, makes his appearance with a
brown stallion, as Lockhart and Griffin
drive their foaming steeds to their re-
spective stables. This gentleman is Mr..
Edward Dupee, who is rapidly nearing
to lee shore of 70. He is great lover
of good trotting horses, however, and
enjoys his morning ride in the sulky as
we'll as the younger votaries of the di-
agonal gait. Vance, who has just
been jogging Riceta slowly this morn
ing, now goes to the stable with her,
and turns her over to his senior "swipe"
for her toilet. He now mounts another
sulky, to which is harnessed low and
lengthy dapple gray stallion of the
famous Richmond blood. which is now
beginning to be regarded with much
favor aB an outcross upon the Hamble-
tonian blood. This strain OF blood is
full of native excellence, as exemplifed
through the male line in Richmond Jr.,
2:15, Leon, 2:2214, Romero, 2:19H, and
Arrow (pacer), 2:1314. In the female
line we find this blood equally stable and
meritorious, its exponents being Anteeo,
2:16A, Antevolo (four years.. 2:l91a,
and Rory O'Moore (pacer), 2:l9M. In
all, the Richmond blood shows ten per-
formers in 2 80 or better, and the dams
of.eight more. If Mr.. Joseph G. Simp.
son had done nothing more than bring
sold APP to California, our people would
still owe him debt Of unceasing graft
tude.
A NEW BATCH OF FLYERS.
A fvocb lot of troktorc -