The herald., 1893-06-02
POST AND PADDOCK TALK
DOings Of the Thoroughbreds
All Over America.
The Blood-Horse Meeting Next Week
at San Francisco.
The Highnysrg of the Effete East and
How They Are Standing Their
Derby Preparations = Dnly's
Horses at Long Branch.

The blood horse meeting is supposed
to convene on Saturday at San Francis
co, and as 1t is All Fools day (for this
article is written on Thursday there
may be surprises for the talent on that
day. Certainly, from what can be
cleaned by the perusal of private letters
from the metropolis, the cracks Of last
year are ell short OF work. An ex-
jockey, writing to this Office, says that
David Bridges horses are in the best
condition of any at the track, and while
they do not class with many others that
could be named. If those others were in
condition, he likes the chances of Wait,
Dona Lila and Typesetter very well.
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The Electricity stock are said to be
the best lockers OF all the colts at Palo
Alto. They are gluttons for work, and
are intelligent and courageous. A year
ling filly by Advertiser, 2:16, dam Sallie
Benton, 2:1734, is much thought OF st
Senator Stanford's farm. She is little
under size. but goes at her trotting les
sons as though she had made up her
mind to take shy at the record this
year.
Among the colts purchased by Monroe
Salisbury at the Napa sale was Spring
Mountain, brown gelding by Mountain
Boy, dam Eva Steinway, by Steinway,
second dam by lodi. The gelding is
two years old, and large, fne-looking
colt. Mr.. Salisbury has been working
him at Pleasanton since the sale, when
the weather would permit. He has al
in lie
Spring Mountain is natural PAGER.
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Marian, the dam of Emperor of Nor
folk,.E Rio Rey, Rey del Reyes and Yo
Tambien. now heads the list of all win.
ming American brood mares, her prog
eny having won 1927 ,056 in the past 18
years. She was bred by Joseph Cairn
Simpson, and sold by him to her pres
ent owner, Theodore Winters OF Nevada
for $500. 1t pays to breed from we'll
bred eires and mares, and yet both Nor
folk and Charmer (Marian's second dam)
had strains of blood that could not be
traced. In Norfolk the fault lay in
Dandridge's Fearnaught, while in
Cbarmer the fault lay in Potomac.
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Old Gilpatrick, the jockey, was more
tention to his attire than anything else
in the world. To those of the present
generation who saw him at Jerome Park,
he displayed little of the ability which.
in the days of Lexington and Lecompte,
had made him the most famous OF Amer
ican Jockeys. He was past his prime,
rather timid and lacked dash and finish.
Yet there are times when men say witty
things without the least intent OF wit.
Glenleg was clearly the best 3-year-old
of 1869, and the following spring the
late Mr.. Belmont was anxious to win the
WincRsAteS @agt Chr With hiR ptGil tGlsnlegs M egs
race he died away in the last quarter
and was badly beaten by Helmbold, who
was st that time was quite unbeatable.
But Mr. Belmont could not believe it.
"Why didn't you come away with him
at the three-quarter post2p demanded
Mr. Belmont as Gilpatrick dismouhtedi )
Gilpatrick looked moment at Gien-h
legs humping fanks, and then said
quietly: t8 a
"Why don't you ask the horse2' IA
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A visit to the English horsee, the
property OF Colonel North, now quar-.
tered at the Sheepshead Bay racecourse,
shows them to be further advanced than
any stable in this vicinity. These
horses arrived here in excellent shape in
the first place, for the English never
let their horses up as much as do
American trainers during the winter,
but their fine condition is largely due to
Trainer Hadfield's care and Judgment
High Commissioner, Rough and Ready,
Sir Frederick Roberts and Iddesleigh
seem in particularly fine fettle, while
the entire string ie now in remarkably
good shape for the season OF the year.
Some Of the English stable boys, when
shown Tournament, White Rose and
several of the Keene string, said:
"These are fine JACKS, you know, but
now show us your race-horses." How
ever, it must be said that Tournament
was always more or less course horse
in appearance, and English raee-horees
are as carefully blanketed and groomed
in the winter as during the racing sea-
son.
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The interest in the thoroughbred con-
tingent quartered at Monmouth park
has been greatly heightened by the ar
rival OF Mr.. Marcus Dalv's string There
are IA in the lot. The older horses are
Tammany, Montana, Silver Fox. Sir
Matthew, The Pepper, Steve Estes,
Duke of Hamilton, Deury and Lillian
Russell, the remaining five being 2
year-olds as follows: Tenacious, bay
colt, by quois-Tassel; DR.. Garrett,
bay colt, by imp. The Ill Used-Feu
Follet; imp. Matt Byrnes, brown colt,
by Hampton-Cherry Sam Lucas, bay
colt, by The Ill-Used--M -Mehallah; and
Senator Grady, chestnut colt, by Iro-
quois-Satiuet. They are high-priced
lot of youngsters. Tenacious cost
$4,000; Senator Grady, $1,000, as year.
lings: while Sam Lucas and DIR. Garrett
brought $1,000 and $4,000 as weanlings at
the Nursery Stud sale in 1891.
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Augur of the New York Spirit cf the
Times is responsible for this good one
Racine, the celebrated California horse,
has curious wart or wen the sizs of a
hens egg on his nose or juet above the
left nostril, If / remember rightly. When
he was east in 1890 his groom said he
had been told the colt was born with it.
At any rate, it is 30 conspicuous that
the most casual observer would notice
it, and / never shall forget one rainy
afternoon at the Morris Park autumn
meeting of 1890, when the appearance
of very stout elderly gentleman with
mole on his nose caused quite eomrno-
tion among the stable lads in the pad
dock, and one OF their number called out
in stage whisper: "Here comes Rg-