The morning call., 1893-08-14
TURF AND TRACK.
Good Racing Arranged
for Napa.
BIG EVENTS FOR THE FALL.
The Great Ormonde Being Brought
Westward Sales and Pensions
of PaIo Alto Stock.

During the meeting at Vallejo last week
the most interesting event was the per-
fnrmance of the Oakwood Park stock
farms gelding William Wood. On Thurs
day Wood paced mile in Pill is, and did
it so easily that the horsemen are WON
dering just how fast he can 60 when he is
driven out.
Next on the circuit is the meeting of the
Napa Agricultural Society. which opens
to-day and closes Saturday. There will be
large fields in most of the events, and as
the horses have been trottiDg and pacing
at the previous meetings. the contests
should be intere sting and puzzling to the
talent. Appended are the events for to-
day:
Yeaillns stakes-Free-for all. closed with II
entries.
TrotIing. 2:4O district purse S4OO-Ant-
arees, Norwood. Emma Abbott Ny Worth,
Logan, Dan Brown, Secret
Pacing. 2:1S class, purse S50O-Ashton Ger
adine. Creole. Cyrus, Hazel ii, Belle Button
and Tom RYDER.
all tFot and should be the event of the
season. Edena. Prince Dexter, Steve
Whinpie and Palo Alto's Thurman are
entered. Thurman. ~, will be the favor
tie, but if he wins three heats time better
than ia will be recorded.
Ben Wrghts project to hold little race
meeting Of his own at oakland was
checked by q clause put in the lease Of the
track by the Pacific Coast TIottinC- horse
Breeders Association. The fall meeting
of the association will be held there and
Wright had to agree not to hold any races
OIL the track in the meantime.
This fall meeting. which by the way, is
the last on the grand State circuit, prom
lSes to be a bIg affair. Ii is said that at
least $50 horses will be brought here from
the East to participate. Many believe that
the California horses will be able to hold
their own with the Eastern cracks. Be
this as it may. the presence of the East
erners lnsures grand success for the
meeting. L. should be the best meeting
ever held in California and the best aggre-
CATION of trotters and PAGERS ever seen on
Il Pacific Coast track should be there.
No more or less than 100 of the 100
horses at Palo Alto farm are to be sold. The
first sale will be held at Sacramento dur
ing tile State Fair next month, and among
the stock offered Will be forty brood mares
A large assignment will be seat to New
York during the late fall or winter months.
A price will be put on the ajority OF the
horses, mares and colts IN the Pal0 Alto
catalogue and these will be disposed of t
private sale. After all the sales are con-
cluded there VIII be 800 or 400 horses left
on the farm, and with these the breeding
Quite Il large number of horses, consisting
of superanuuatrd brood mares, carriage
horses. stations and work horses that have
outlivad their usefulness will be sent to
the VIVA Ranch. where they will be ten
DERBY cared for until death.
OrmOnda, the great stallion for which
W. OBJ. Marlborough of this city paid
$50, 900, has recovered from the ocean vow
g. e. aud is now on the way to his owners
ranch at Menl0 Park. With Otmonde
comes nine thoroughbred mares. and the
lot Is insured for 100000. The mares and
foals which arrived with Ormonde are
Cottage Girl, by Isonomv; Mirage. By
Spectrum, with iiily by Beau Brnmmel;
Windflnwer, by Peter; Sapientia. by Wis
dom. with chestnut colt by Enterprise;
Kissing Crust, Dy Swpetbread. with a bay
FLY by Enterprise; Maiden Bell. by Beau
Count tess Of Langdeu, by Kingcraft: China
Rose. By st. HOnorat. with a bay FLY by
Enterprise. and Miranda. by Jolly Friar
These, with Ormonde, form the nucleus Of
a great racing stud.
The entering of the Orl off trotte
Wzmakh into The American $50 list re
Gently calls to mind the fact that there
have been received from the khrenovsky
stock farm. Russia. through the kindness
of Consul Atrim0yitch, the two Orloff
stations, Verbovstchik and Onridnik and
the brood mares NeZaboudka and lima.
These are very fine specimens of their
kind, and will be given at Palo Alto an
opportunity to exert beneficial in fuen ce
upon American trOttlng stock, il they pos
seSs anv such possibilities. Presumably
the horses were shipped In charge of
Ign0ragmero enthusiastically, |
W no is a well-known Russian breeder and |
who visits the United States in the inter
ests of improved American nomenclature.
In his corlespondenre to the New York |
Sporting World Sierra" makes the fol-
lowing pointed comments on racing in
this State: California suffers more from
the lack Of good racing than any other
State in the union for the very good
reason that she cuts such an important
figure in the production of the racing stock
Of the country. The people here know
tenseiy interested in tire races in which
cracks from the Corbitt farm at San Mateo
and the stars from Palo Alto, Pleasanton,
Sacramento and other localities distin-
guish themselves In the East
ut is somewhat disgusting after re ading
Of grand racing in the East 10 go to local
track and witness the string OF contests
between a lot of horses which, in these
days of progressive breeding are hardly
fast enough to draw hearses.
cit is all very we'll to talk of lack of
public interest and attribute the poor sup
port extended to harness racing to that
cause, when the truth of the matter is that
there is really more bona fide enthusiasm
here in such sports than anywhere else in
America compared to the population. The
people arc, however, by education good
judges of good sport and will not 60 wild
over such poor programmes as those fur
nished by the Trotting-hOrse Breeders
Association"