Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-06
S|LNWOOD BADLY OUT OF Il,
The Great Black Stallion Is AL
lowed to Withdraw.
The Pacific Coast Pacing Record Is
Twice Broken Consecutively.
Our Dick Wins the Fastest Race Yet
Paced west of the Rockies-vera
Romps for the 3-Year-Old
Stake, and Dona Lila
Upsets Pot

''More power to you," Captain Bar
rett. You we're always in favor OF big
purses and large fields of horses, and
yesterday you had your most sanguine
hopes verified. You have always eaid
that fast horses followed the big money ;
and that sport-lov;ng men followed the
fast horses. Your economical associ-
ates in the board, who argue that horse
can go as fast for $500 as for $1,000, ought
to accord the vast crowd that surged
about the track yesterday as an irrefut-
able proof OF your sagacity.
Well, it was great race-the greatest
thing outside of running race that the
writer's eyes ever were permitted to be-
hold. Forty years ago he saw horse
pace in 2:20ta at New Orleans; and
Yesterday he saw 2:11 beaten twice in
one race, as easily as it had been done
inside OF 2 :21 at the Crescent City. Are
horses faster now than then, did you
say? No, but training is progressive,
and bicycle sulkies have detracted three
seconds Of friction, at least; and the va
rious boots and other appliances that
have been devised to keep horses from
striking themselves when going at the
top OF their speed, have given encour-
agement to many timid horse that
would have failed without them. So it
was that at least three horses yesterday
took spin in 2:11 or better around the
Los Angeles track.
Did the best horse win? OF course.
Why rob gallant victor of his reward ?
He was the contendipg horse in every
heat of the race that he did not win
himself, and that is the reporters rea-
son for calling him the best horse. At
the same time he inclines to the belief
that the Santa Ana stallion was long
way the fastest horse he ever saw in his
life, and with competent driver up be-
hind him, ought to have won in not to
exceed four heats. He has seen q great
many races lost by bad driving, and in
no case was it more glaringly apparent
than in the manner in which Silkwood
was trashed away yesterday. All the
horse needed in the event of bad start
was to trail through the first heat and
either lay ur altogether or put the re-
suit upon waiting race to the head OF
the stretch, from which point home
no horse could live with him. He was
driven with still worse lack of,
judgment in the second heat, going off
go far ahead of his horses at the half
mile in 041a after having paced at
leased 40 yards over mile in a first
heat which he had lost by throatlatch
in 2:10L. Mr.. Willetts bad evid emily
never heard of the old motto, swat
and VIM" To the best OF the reporters
belief, his horses performance in the
first heat was equal to mile in 2 :0S.
If he paced an inch over a mile in that
heat, he paced 30 yards. So without
any furthesenlargement of the subject
matter, it becomes duty to drop into
bald-headed narration OF stubborn facts.
DoNA LILA IN A RoMP.
The great crowd surged and roared
about the pool stand as they did year
ago when Mckinney proved himself the
greatest of all stayers. There were
couple of galloping events to come off
before "the giant wiggle," as Mr.. Rose
called it, and the first of these was a
mile dash, for which David Bridges
mare Dona Lila was pronounced
favorite in the betting, although the
Santa Barbara contingent stuck to their
big chestnut with unstinted fidelity.
The race was simply romp for the
daughter of Gano, who won, hands
down, in 1:45, with Princes First a
fairly good second and Moonfower
third. Sd, who had light weight on
him, got off four lengths in front and
led until the filly wanted him and then
she bowled him over as easily as if he
had Gardiner shackle on each hind
leg. There are few that now begin to
talk about her outclassing Lady Gwen at
any distance. Certainly each of these
mares have won easily and bruising
race can be looked for when they meet.
MIDNIGHT CRY OF ALARM.
The second surge about the box came
when cry was heard for the half-miie
event, for which the little black grand
son of Monday was the general choice,
although he was carrying a good deal
the biggest weight. Still there was a
cartload of money went in the box on
Waif and Ben H. as well as Pescador,
although most of the 'cognocenti thought
the race too short for the little giant.
The horses got off badly and Waits
chances were wholly destroyed by it.
She ran on gamely, however, and was
Uodtcu . bnOIb iOuBbus bWAtCnluk u0I tdll
in the face of Pescador, who came very
fast in the last 200 yards. Time, 40 Sec
onds. The general belief is that Wait
would have won had she gotten off on
even terms; and the owners of Ben H.
and PeHcador were equally dissatisfied
with the way that their horses were let
off. 1t does seem as if money ought to
be able to hira some competent person
for such task. And now, with mutuels
cashed for the sprint and great deal of
wrangling over how handicap was up
set, the crowd turned around and got
ready for the big race.
THE GREAT EVENT OF THE DAY
Now came, and the atmosphere;was al
most sitting under the polished, for
men jostled against one another in their
angry rush to get money into the pool
box. The great favoritism for Silkweod
on the previous night, when he brought
$130 against $l35 for all the rest now
began to abate, for Cur Dick commenced
to sell nearly equal to the second choice.
For twenty minutes there was an aver
age like this: &
Our pict. .......... ....2s 50 s.
And about the tine those figures be-
gan to abate, the auctioneer punched
the three northern horses and there
came contingent from Orange county
that bid off the handsome black stallion
at $50 to $28 for the field as fast aa the