Los Angeles herald., 1893-01-15

bu6 OuUuTDdu VI 1901, WIFI ITO pOuuuB
up, he could get no better than eighth
place with the moderate impost of 116
pounds in the saddle.
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And yet this third.class horse De
Muth (for that is all he ever was) goes
out at the old scale of weights such as
were in vogue in Lexington's time and
with nine or 10 pounds more weight up
than Lexington (of the same age) had
carried, ran within quarter OF second
of the sightless hero's time. Now we
will not take long to run over the last
years calendar and find at least 20
horses that cou d be sold for two
objects first, to beat De
Muth, at any distance fiom one
mile to four, and second, to beat his
time or Lexington's either. All our
American talk about fast time in the
era of such horses as Lexington, Reel.
Fashion and George Martin [whom l
place at seven pounds better than Miss
Foote, Brown Dick and Jim Bell, and a
stone better than Rodolph, Ariel, Lady
Lightfoot and Ball's Florizel) falls to
the winds when we look at the weights
they carried-86 pounds on year-old
like Brown Dick and 101 pounds on a
big and well ripened 5-year. old like Lex
ington.
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Go to England and Australia if you
want examples of weight carrying. Now
L am aware that 1 shall be met with the
old story that "there is no reliance to be
placed in the timing of English races
because the horses do not pass the same
y,rs,,E at ako korko % G,., oh ho4
was one of the late George Wilkes argu
ments and had about as much sense as
most of his other writings on horses.
How many races in Australia have we
nowadays where horses pass the came
point to finish as to start? Not one in
eight; and yet who has the etfrontery
to contend that American timing is not
authentic? My idea is that English
timing must be reliable, for Australia
takes her racing methods from England
and know her timing to be reliable.
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When Kingston beat Stockwell he
covered the distance Of ~ miles in
1928, which was at the rate of 1875 Sec
onds to the forlong, while Lexington's
time for four miles was 1874 seconds to
the furlong Lexington, 8 years old,
carried in his race 101 pounds, while
Kingston, year younger, carried 1876
pounds, and Stockwell 1879; and when
West Australian defeated Kingston at
Ascot he carried 12S pounds to Kings
toms 1872 ard covered the distance at
the rate Of 1872 seconds to the furlong
In that race Lexington would have been
left in the head of the stretch if COM
PEELED to carry the same weights.
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From 1859 to 1852 the aforementioned
George Wilkes paid man steady sal
ary to write up the doings of the late
Richard Ten Broeck's American horses
in England. That gentleman won the
Cesarewitch of 1857 with Prioress, the
Goodwood stakes of 1859 with Starke,
and the Goodwood cup of the following
year with the same horse. In the latter
race were Thormanhy and The Wizai d, ,
the first and second horses in the derby
of that year, both carrying oyer 100
pounds while but years old, while
Starke, who was 6, had the light impost
OF l22 upon him. Starke won the race,
and in conversation about it 80 years
afterwards Mr.. Ten Brock said: "He
would have died had it not been for Mr..
Pryor's care. He was the worst dis
tressed horse ever saw"
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Going over to Australia we find three
mile races at every meeting. Melbourne
gives her Royal Park plate in the spring
andbher Champion race in the fall and
the latter has been won by 3-year-old
Is times out of 20, the weight for that
age being l1S pounds. In the Royal
Park plate, run four months earlier, the
weights are years, 116 pounds; 4years,
1925; years, 1872; 6 and upwards, 1856.
We find the following authentic record
of performances at Pennington and Rand
wick:
1873 King. years, Pennington,
s-commotion, years, Pennington,
80 1876 lbs: ......... =. ;...,... =. 5:2eh
.,. lbs. -; .........; 60. 5:25A
lbs. .................. 5:261i
Against these we have the following
oo. ios ns '.....:....'.. 80. 5;a5A
1Sss-Drske carter, = years, : ms -. .5:24
Who will deny that the Australian
performances are the best when the
weights are considereds
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At % milea the American record
stands at 1864 for the dead heat at
Saratoga, between Springbok and Freak
ness, each carrying us pounds, the
former being and the latter Z. In the
Australian cup of 1890 Dreadnaught by
Chester, out of Trafalgar by Blair Athol
beat Melos, Sir William and Eve others,
in 3:5oX, three seconds slower
than the Saratoga event. He was
carried 1l8 pounds, just three pounds
more than our American dead-heaters.
I tried for three years to get ]. B. Hag-
gin and W. H. jackson to buy him at
$4,000, believing him the superior OF
either George Kinney or Luke Blackburn
at that age. which is saying great deal.
Outside of Iroquos and Foxhall, doub
if America has ever produced his equal.
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1t will not do, therefore, to say that
all the imported horses are trash, or
that the long distance horse has deteri-
Grated because those races are less fire.
quent than in former years. The De
Muth race proved conclusively that
any good third-cla horse of today
can equal Lexington's time with the
scale of weights that prevailed in
Lexington'a day. l contend we have
never had year old to surpass Dread
naught or Ormonde. unless it were
Iroquois or Foxhall; that we have never
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