The herald., 1893-09-11
SOME GOSSIP ABOUT HORSES,
What Is Necessary for Further
Trotting Record Making.
Some Sensational Racing Expected
Hereabouts This Season.
The improvement in Horse Fiesh-An
Enth husiast on Santa Ana's
Pride, the PAGER
silkwood.

nnh hA 0aAichhins N heAA AAAese 49,
l :0Ll About two minute clip! And
the "black whirlwind" is a California
production. But the pace taken by the
horse was evidently too fast, for he
winded down the stretch and came
under the wire we'll done up. One
thing, take it, was clearly proven, and
that is that many horses that can show
O quarter or half in such remarkable
time cannot yet keep the pace up. If
this were true, it would not be inn
probable to suppose. nay, we might
even expect, to see the circuit made in
two minutes, and perhaps before the
racing season of '93 is over.
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Before Q record, even q few seconds
lower, is made we must expect improve
ments in track, In vehicles and in
Had Dexter had the tracks
crack flyers travel over now, with the
bike and other Improvements which
years OF study and invention has broupht
about, would he not have left a mark
much lower than he did? use Dexter
merely as one Of q score Of horses in his
time of which the same might be true.
This question would lead to another,
and that one: Are our racers improv-
ing? Undoubtedly I believe they are.
But with the improvement in the horse,
some thought must also be given as to
the improvement in the way they are
the improved vehicles, and our
superior tracks. Tbs day of "cayuses"
is over. The sale OF third.rate horses is
over, and forever. That fact is proven
by the meetings In California this year.
Buyers who In former years were satis-
fed with ordinary fair lockers and
about whose pedigree no attention WAS
paid, are now keeping their weather
eye open, and purchasing horses which
get their merits on blood lines and not
by chance. Driving horses must be able
to 60 along faster than three. minute
gait now, If their owners can dust 9TH
ers In our parks and on our roadways,
for three minute horses are as plenty as
flowers in spring time" Today vast
numbers of men who hold positions
socially and educationally-
that are unassailable, are engaged in
the breeding, rearing and development
OF the horne. It has been the popular
fad for years past, for the successful
merchant, the eminent lawyer, the for
tunate speculator, in fact all classes of
men who by brains or luck, have &C.
quired q competency to buy a good
horse and have q try at the best on rec
ord. So great number of wealthy men
are at present engaged in this business,
and the strife to possess the best has
been 20 great, that prices OF good horses
have risen from $4,000 (once considered
fabulous psice) to $3.50 900. Today
SIC, 900, SIS, 900 or $40, 600 is only an or.
dinary price for q stallion of the right
sort. The right sort means fine looking
young, sound, highly-bred, fast and 8
member Of . family known to possess
race-horse characteristics.
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The farmer wants q good horse now
He is not satisfied to bring his eggs anC
butter to town in the afternoon behine
q horse which has worked on the plov
all morning. He has his driving horse
or perhaps two, and they are good ones
And more than two.thirds of the 30
called racers of today will be on the roa,
next season. That is where they belong
Horsemen will realize by the end OF th
racing season of '93 that every horB
sired by q racer. has no legal right to b.
@ race horse, merely from that fact alone
Their pocketbooks will tell this stor,
plainly enough. That is one Of the rea
sons why believe the horse interest
are improving.
And what glorious record Californi
Is gettingl High above all the grea
stables of the east stand the string
taken from the sunset shore. Surely
we have reason to feel encouraged. Wit
Queen Hulda, Directum and eevera
other goers In the east. the Golden stat
will get her full mead of credit thi
season. California is destined to be tn
horse center OF the world. God intende,
1t go, for here is the climate, the soil, tn
rich native grasses, the pure water, tn
rolling hills to develop the muscles, an
man is doing the rest. She is new state
and the many racers already sent fort
give us reason to expect many NOR
great things.
Southern California will be the seen
OF some sensational racing this season
The free-for-all pace at Santa Ana an
Los Angeles will bring together the crac
sidewheelers of the coast. True it
that we OF Los Angeles will not be pei
mitted to sec Silkwood in the race, bu
the five entered will make race full {
interest from start to finish. A glanC
at the entry list shows that, aside fror
the free-for-alls, some notable herses ar
entered, and every days racing has on
or more events which will prove inter
esting.
x#x
was at the Santa Ana track the oths
day, and, by the way, the enterprisin
people OF that little city take gres
pride in their race course, too. SAINT
Ana ia q pretty little city. 1t has wild
awake, "get there" air about it that in
presses the visitor; and l always enjo
q visit there. True it is that the peopl
in that place believe the sun rises. sinh
and shines on no other horse than Sill
wood, and the man who says Keatin
pulled Our Dick last year to win barre
| of money in San Francisco has no frient
in that place.
But, be that as it may, Santa An
may well take pride in Silkwood, eve
if he is curried with Q broom and fe
with pumpkins. He is great hors
l saw him driven half mile in / :01 J.
and he went the last quarter in 80 se
onds, with the wind whistling throug
his drivers whiskers. And Willis ht
several worthy young horses in his st
bles. He knows it, too, and says th
only reason he didn't 90 to the races j
Santa Barbara and Huenems was b,
cause the freight rate was too higl
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