The herald., 1893-10-16
DEXTER'S HORSE GOSSIP.

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annual meetings are pleasant once. They
bring the farmer in closer relationship
with his city neighbor, and from the
meeting something is learned by both.
The outlook for the meeting this year
has never been more fattering. The
array of horsefesh quartcred at the
track is the greatest ever seen here.
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The Santa Ana meeting Just closed
was in many respects very successful.
The management did it's work admir-
ably; there were but a few things per-
petrated on the track that we're open to
suspicion, end the racing was good. III
Silkwood had won the free-for all pace
on Wednesday, the placing of that race
on the programme for the second day
would have been wise one, but when
the horse met his Waterloo it threw o
cloud over the entire meeting, and the
main interest in the weeks sport was
over. The people who go to races in the
citrus belt. as a rule, wanted to see the
son OF Blackwood win, and his defeat
took away many of the good points of
the meeting.
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The defeat OF the black PAGER followed
as expected it would, only the son of
Steinway won his victory in q much
easier contest than l reckoned on. Only
in the second heat did the Orange coun-
ty horse show speed enough to take the
kink out of Woods back, My position
on this race has been severely criticized
by the press of Orange county, butSits
correctness cannot now be doubted.
Silkwood undoubtedly has the speed.
In the second heat OF the race he showed
this, when he went to the quarter in
2914 seconds and to the half in :l0l4
But here he quit. Where was tie
trouble7
Improper handling. Without doubt,
some horseman, who understands con-
ditioning and training, can take the
handsome sidewheeler and make him fit
TO win victories over horses like he is
going against. He will be seen at the
meeting here this week, and in the race
will make a much better showing than
he did Wednesday. He is better horse
now, since he had a race in him. l saw
him drove the third mile in workout
over the Santa Ana track Saturday in
2:1114 easily, hooked to q straight axle,
hundred-pound go-csrt made in Noah's
time. The horse will do to play money
on next season if he is wintered well.
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The free-for-all trot should be the
race OF the week. 1t will be great
struggle between Ottinger, Klamath
and Mckinney for first place. Ottinger
failed to do anything in the race at
Santa Ana, breaking 60 badly in the
first heat that he got shut out. and
leaving Klamath the race, to win as he
pleased. None of the other horses en-
tered cut much figure for first place,
unless they show up differently to what
they have been, but between the three
named the finish should be one worth
seeing. 1t will be betting race. Char
lie Duriee's horse will be backed by
Southern Californians, while plenty OF
Klamath money can be had. The son
of Morookus is the greatest fnisher
have ever seen. At the head of the
stretch in the third heat of the race in
Santa Ana he was four lengths to the
bad OF Edenis, and Raymond, with his
colors OF red and blue, squared off his
horse and came down the stretch with
speed enough to carry McDowell's mare
off her feet and allow him to take the
heat by two lengthe. The horse has a
get there way of going which means fret
money. Still, the race Will be a close
one between Mckinney and the Oregon
horse, but, with conditions, favorable,
Klamath will win the race. 55i
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The 2:20 pace will be one, sof the best
races of the week. There is field OF
fast horses very evenly matched. The
race at Santa Ana brought out many
surprises in this clssa. Fred Mason was
named a winner, Jingler second choice
and the field with Nutford, Pomona,
Andy and Rita, went begging. Those
who backed Mason to win got good
scare the first two heats and hedeed by
buying the field, while the daughter OF
Grandee cut no figure in the race. In
the contest Pomona took the first heat
in 2:15M and gave the favorite hard
race, while Nutford, horse that was
sneered at by many of the knowing
ones, took the second heat in 2:l5, and
second money in the race. OF course
the tavorite won. but the event learned
everyone something. 1t was the frat
speed contest Nutford had this year,
and he will be better horse in this
city. Pomona will do to watch, and il
one of these two horses do not win, a
mark of 2:13 or better will be the isst
mile in the race.
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TIE colors of the Chino stable did not
come out on top at the first meeting in
Orange county. That jolly little Irish
man, Ed. Connolly, who wears cap aa
green as the clover of his native land,
had too fact company to go with. Irene
Crocker is a coming horse and maydo
better in Los Angeles, but against such
q horse 40 Pasadena Belle, she has little
or no chance. When Belle won the sec
ond heat in 2:19M over the Santa Ana
track she could have went several sec-
onds better, while Crocker was laboring
hsro. The trott:ng events here in the
2:25. 2 80 and 1856 classes will be very
fine.
The 2 20 stallion trot today will be as
great race as any eeen this week. The
northern horse Challenger Chief is
named as a cure winner, but by what
right he is entitled to defeat Gossiper, |
am at loss to understand. While the
son of Simmons got defeated at Santa
Ana, the defeat was due in some meas
ure to Mr.. Durfee, who did not handle
the horse rightly iu the last heat. The
fight FOR this race will, in my mind, cen
ter between these two horses. Conn
can undoubtedly trot fast enough to
make it very interesting for either
horse, but the game son of Inca is too
unsteady to place apy reliance in and