The morning call., 1893-09-04
Ready for the Big State
Fair Races.
ARRIVAL OF GREAT ORMONDE
California Horses Keeping Up Their
Reputation for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Death of the Garrison of India.

trict fairs. Most interesting and exciting
of all the meetings on the circuit will be
the State Fair at Sacramento, which opens
to-day and continues until the 10th inst.
The prospects are that the Sacramento
meeting will be memorable one. as there
will be many fleet animals there to contest
for the rich purses offered. Among the
contestants will be material from Oregon,
Montana. points further east. and the
principal stables Of the State. A feature
of the meeting will be the running races,
in which will enter all the good thorough
breds now in the State. Good ones from
the strings of Holly, Appleby, Hanger
Jones and William Murray will DE among
the contestants.
The troItlng stables of Harry Rose and
Senator Cultivate have arrived IN the
State capital from Los Angeles. In Rose s
string are Vera, taika, COmrade, Orllnda
and Kiou. Outhwaile's string consists Of
Daghestan. Mary Caldwell, Pasadena,
Bell anu Lady Claire. These trOtlers are
all In excellent form and ready Tor good
work in The coming races.
An Eastern turf journal says: 1.-The
fastest IrottIDg mare. Nancy Hanks, 2:04,
was bred in Kentucky; the fastest Irot-
ting stallion, PaiO Alto, 2:0S%, was bred in
Guy, 2:09, was bred IN New YORK; the
fastest pacing stallion, Direct 2:051s, was
bred in California; the fastest pacing
mare. Vinette, 2:09A, was bred in KEN
lucky; tine fastest pacing geldng, Mascot.
1904, was bred in New York. The three
States are about even up so far"
To this record should be added the
little performance of the chestnut stallion
Diabl0 al Woodland last Thursday, when
he lowered the worlds tour-yeaT-oId
pacing record from 2:09A 10 2:0gA
Diablo is owned by Richards Il Murray,
and is by Charles Derby, dam Bertha, by
AlcantaTa.
w. OBJ. Macdonough's great stallion
Ormonde and The nine English mares and
weaullngs. which started from Eliza beth,
n. j., on the 9th ult. IN special train oil
palace hOrsecars. are now in this State.
(. The animals were shipped by the Adams
Express Company, which compelled MI.
MacdOnough To waive the value of Or
monde. For tile present Ormonde will lie
Kept at MenlO Park STOCK farm, TO which
point he was shipped by the way of Red
wood City. Later he Will be sent 10 the
owners new ranch near PleasanIon. Since
he was bought in BuenOs Ayrrs the stall
lion has cost Mr.. MacdOnough $4,000 In
travelling expenses, swelling his total cost
10 about SOU, 600
The Stockton fair opens on the 18th and
closes on the Both inst. There will be six
days of racing and stock exhibition and a
twelve days display aud entertainment in
The large pavilion.
There will DO meeting of the directors
OF the Pacific Coast TrOtIing-hoTse Breed
ers' Association next Saturday at SacTa-
mento, TO make preparations for the TALL
meeting, arranging programmes, fixing
amounts of purses to be given aud other
details. President Simpson Will review
the WORK so far accomplished toward haY-
lug the great pacing race. and II all Of the
great "slde-whselers" from tile East that
are expected should come it will prove one
of the greatest attractions ever offered tile
public on this cuast, With Diauln, w.
Wood. Our Dick, Plunkett, the mighty
SIikwoOd and few other good ones here,
the Eastern horses Will meet with CON-
petitors that will class we'll with them.
A local turf paper says: Bookmakers.
We understand, will not be allowed to
become members Of the new racing aSSo-
citation which will build its tracks. etc,
near San Mateo. Some of the wealthiest
and most influential men in the State will
Ia Ike stock in the Taeetraek company. As
$50 acres Of ground have been secured and
there Is plenty of money in sight, IL is more
than likely that the finest race courses,
grand stands and stables west of Chicago
Will be built, and at an early date, too.
l.. l., Campbell and Winfield Sect have
purchased from |. de Turk the standard
trotting stallion Uklah. 1t is their inten-
ton to stand him next season and to cam
pagn him in California IN 1894. Ukiat is
by Anteeo, 2:16A, admittedly one of the
best of EieclioueeI's sons, and sire of
James Madison, Myrtle, Alfred g. Maud
Fowler and many in the list. Ukiah's
dam Is Miss Brown, by Volunteer.
Managers heat in 2:07A at Buffalo
makes him the champion fve-year-old
pacing stallion, his mile displaciug Onto
mans 2:O9A, which stood as The taste ST
paced by five-yeaT-nld this season till
Managers reduction. The latter has now
held the champion record at TWO, three,
four and five years.
The show Of trOtters at the Worlds Fair
has probably been saved from being an
utter failure by the decision of the mar
ayers to postpone the show of troIters and
tboroughbreds until October 16. from
which date it will continue until October
%. This change of date makes it posi- BILE
Tor the breeders who are campaigning
their horses 10 arrange to exhibit them at
tho Worlds Fair, something they could
not have done had the old dates been
held to.
Harry C. Lee, late of Penang, Strait
Settlements, died at Pleasant Grove on the
4th ult. The deceased was born in Sacra-
mento April IL, 1852 and was the son OF
Charles Lee. Que of the proprIetors of the
California Pioneer Circus. In 1879 he
went TO Australia and later to India.
where he obtained fame as jockey and
trainer. De became styled the Garrison
of India"
Eastern writer's declare that the cham
plon race stallion OF she world is Direetun,
the little black son of Director and Stem.
wlnder by Venture. He was the champio
three-year-old last year, and closed that
campaign with a record of 2:l1X made
at third heat at Nashville. This record
he has reduced to 2:09% in the fifth beat
Of the first race he has started 10, aud the
season has only fairly commenced. BY
this performance he has the honor of win
ming tie fastest tive-heat race on record,
the fastest fifth heat ever trotted in a race,
the fastest mile ever trotted by four
year-old and the fastest mile ever trutted
by a stallion in a race. This is glory
enough tor one day surely. The heats OF
this race were trotted in Pill, 2:1215. 2:10,
2:10h and 2:O9A. The contestants were
DIectum. Waller E, Lord Clinton, Martha
Wilkes, Ryland T aud Greenleaf.