The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-11
The Outlook for Future
Meetings.
STOCKTON FAIR PROGRAMME.
Improvements at the Bay District
and Oakland Tracks for the Big
Coming Events.


coming of noted strings to enter the fall
and winter meetings here. That these
meetings will be the best ever held in CAL
Ifornia is already assured. Great improve
ments are being made at the Bay District
track preparatory to the winter and spring
races to be held there.
The Blood-horse Association has called
the attention of all horsemen owning
steeplechase or hurdle race horses to the
fact that there will be- at least two of these
races every week. and if a sufficient num-
Der of jumpers are on hand TO justify IL
more events of this kind Will be added.
The stesplechase course at the Bay Dis
trict will be one of the finest in the coun-
try, and it is believed by the association
that the jumping races will be an exceed
lngly attractive feature.
The directors Of the Pacific Coast Trot-
ting-horse Breeders Association have
postponed their meeting at Sacramento
until next Thursday. As the programme
offered at the State Fair on that day will
be the best during the week, there will be
a greater number of representative horse
men present from all parts Of the State.
This Will be one of most important meet
ings held, as fiual arrangements will be
made for the fall meeting of the associ-
alton, which begins on the 9TH prox. at the
Oakland Driving Park.
Next on the grand racing circuit will be
the Stockton meeting which opens on the
18th inst. and closes on The 30th. The
Stockton association has secured a first
class entry list for It's annual fair, as the
following will show:
Trotting, fTee-for-all, j. f. Dustin's
Shylock, PalO Alto stock farms Truman,
Andrew McDowelPs Edenia, Heating &
Ottinger's Ottinger, j. L. Roses Rich
mond, Thomas RaymOnd's Klamath, e.
w. Woodward's Lucy B. c. A. Durfee's
Mckinney. C. E. Medham's Steve
Whipple.
Trotting. 2:2o class-C. A. Stockton &
Co.'S Doodle. Lee Spainer's Onway, w. W.
MarshalPs Stranger. j. l.. McCord's Mary
Lou. Heating d OttDger's Katie S. John
Walls Antioch. L. u. Shippee's Thorn
wood. Ella A. Murphy's Maud NJ, G. W.
Moodard's Mabel II, j. w. Jonathan S
Franklin. L. Funck's Lizzie +. Walter s.
Maben'S Gen. Miles, Bailey 81 Wilson's
Challenger Chief.
Trotting, 2:23 Glass;. n. Bailhache's
Anteeo Richmond, j. L. Berryman's Don
Marvin, Alex Connick's Wayland w, w.
Hendrickson's Langford, G. Peirano's
Flora ,, Los Cerltos stock farms Wood
thorpe, r. w. Loeber's Grandissimo. j. l..
Roses Viva.
Pacing, free for all-F G. Fay's EIec-
trio, Heating 81 Ottinger's Our Dick, Los
Ceritos stock farms Lady II. Oakwood
Park stock farms W. Wood, Robert s.
Browns Plunkett.
Pacing. 2:16 class added under condi-
tlons)-Myers & Myers's Cyrus and j. w.
Harper's Brilliantine.
Pacing. 2:2O class-Hugh Robinson's
Hanford Medium, DIR. A. Clark's Ger
aidine. A. B. Aitken's Bess H, johnson
& Hayes Monroe S, L. u. Shippse's
Major Lambert. Tllden & Smiths Kit
tlas Ranger, w. S. Maben's Jlngler.
Sam CANDLES scheme to construct q
modern racetrack near San Mateo at a cost
OF $4,000 has caused considerable dis
cusslOn among local turfmen. 1t is argued
that such an outlay of cash would hardly
serve as starter on the style of a course
that the future Of San Francisco demands.
Some say that 1t would require at least
100000 10 furnish this city with such a
track as The people expect who ara ac-
qralnted with the appointments at Coney
Island, Morris Park and Monmouth. The
owner OF the Oakland track is willing to
eXpend $250.000 in improving it if he can
get guarantee of leasing it for a reasOna-
bic term Of years after such improvements
are completed. The Blood horse Associa-
ton is seriously considering the PROPOSE
ton.
CsIifornia-bred horses are still keeping
uD their good records in the East Among
their latest victories was that of Jack
Fol ansbee's colt Armitage at Sheepshead
Bay last Wednesday. when he won the
Partridge stakes. This was Armitage's
third victory. and two of the events he
won were worth considera bic money!
The colt is. perhaps. one of the very best
twO-Year-Olds in America. In his race last
Wednesday he ran six furlongs in :16 4 3.
W. OBJ. MacdOnough says he will not
race extensively again until 1896, when is
English mares now in foal to Ormonde
will have colts and FLIES two years DID,
He expects to train only home breds, as
he finds little pleasure in winning with
purchased colts. Beginning with 1896 he
expects each year TO take a stable of Or
mondes to New York.
Drectum's three heats in 2:1O, 2:101b
2:09M at Fleetwood show that the cham.
plon three-year-old racing stallion of 1892
has not lost the speed and steadinass that
characterized his work last year. His per-
Torrance marks the best record ever
made by Il stallion in a race, aud makes
his chances for the stallion crown still
brighter.
The Jockeys who won the largest num-
Der of races during the forty-six DAYS of
Monmouth Parks meeting were: Simms
80. Hamilton SO, Mldgley 80, Taral 30
Lambley 26. Doggett 16, Sloane and Over
ton each IL. Bergen 10 and others from 8
all the way down TO a solitary /. This
latter number Is all that is credited to Gar
rlson. TaraPs 30 is the best showing of all.
because II dates only from August /, when
the meeting was nearly half over, TaraI
having been In Chicago previous to that
time.
Kingston. son of Spendthrift, is in many
respects the most remarkable racehorse
ever known. He has been running seven
years. started Ill times. and in all that
time has never been unplaced in but two
races. and he ran from half mile TO one
and half miles and won at both distances.
During his turf career. up to August l,
1893. he has captured no less than seventy
i've races. The most wonderful winner of
races England ever produced was Fisher
man, who died an old horse 10 Australia.
Fisherman started 40 times In England
and on seventy occasions won. Hickory
Jim (once known as Sorrel Mike) remained
on the turf longer than any horse of which
there Is any record, Foaled in 1865 tit is
declared on good authority he ran UP to
1891. when he was &c years of age, and
took part altogether in about 800 races,
The great trouble with racing is this.
said well-known racing man. 1.-THE rae
ing associations ali over this country have
catered altogether too much to the horse
owners and betting rings. What would
an audience at one of the leading theaters
do II such an actor as Henry Irving ap-
peared I'D play supported by company
selected from the dime museums? Ii
would be impossible to control a refined
audience. as their. disapprOba would
be decidedly emDhatic. On The turF ,ha