The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-15
TOO MUCH RACING.
The Public and the Horses
Need a Rest.
WHAT WILL SIDNEY BRING !?
California Mares Who Have Produced
Performers in the ago
List.

Out at the Oakland Trotting Park, last
Friday, the dainty head, with its familiar
bIaZed face, of the famous mare Geraldine
was thrust over the half door of box stall
as / rode through Inc lanes OF stables where
the horses wL0 are to run during the coming
two weeks of racing at the track are now
domiciled. Tie last time | saw Geraldine
vas on the stage at StOckwelPs Theater,
when she appeared in the leading
role in Aubrey BOucicault's entertaining
melodrama, "The Favorite." There the
mare acted as though she had been reared
behind the footlights, and her beauty and
graceful carriage called forth many conf
ments from tbeater-g0ers, horsey and other
wise. recall one of these. even yet
The flly's beauty" said one man near
me. eyes," replied his companion, but
I'd like him better if he was a bay"
Besides Geraldine Porter Asbe has seven
other runners at the track who will enter
the contests for some of the purses Henry
Schwartz intends offering.
The slim attendance at the Jockey Clubs
race meeting last week goes to prove the
truth Of the prediction of majority of the
wise ones IN matters equine, that San Fran
cisco has had enough of horseracing pro tenn.
The winter meeting OF the BlOOd-horSe
Association was a success and proved that
under proper management running meet
ings can be made popular IN Califor-
MA, but the Jockey Clubs course
10 erowding another meeting into the win
ter is simply suicidal to racing interests.
Horses, owners and the public all need a
rest. The public will take theirs very
shortly, and then owners can turn their
tired-out runners out for the summer, and
sit down in the shade to talk about the long
winters meetings. There is limit even to
CALIFORNIA; liberation OF too much OF good
thing
"How much do you think Sidney will
bTingf" 10 an interesting question among
horsemen. The answers are various. De-
spite all tbs newspaper talk on the subject
there are few horsemen on this coast who
were particularly surprised that the bidding
on Stamboul stopped at the figure that took
the king of the turf. There are plenty of
we'll posted men who think the great king
of the trottiDg track hasn't 1t In him TO
make lower mark than the one already
standing to his credit and it is well known
that the great horses get have turned out
by no means as well as his own phe-
n0menal achievements led his admirers t.
expect they would. With Sidney IL is
different; his sons and daughters speak for
themselves and for him, too. He is a won
derful sire. and had it not been for MIR.
Valensln's untimely death, which put an
end to the developing Of Sidney youngsters
for this year, the tr0ttiDg world would
doubtless have seen some more Infant
phenOmenons from the Valensin ranch.
Had Mr.. Valensin lived, the great horse
would never have left the ranch. His love
for Sidney was proverbial. In the
house that was built expressly for
the horse Mr.. Valensin had his
Office, and there is a little window
the desk where, during his lifetime, the
owner sat at work. The horse used to stand
there by the hour watching his master. and
the two were great chums. Sidney is the
best TREND | ever had" said Mr.. Val
ensin to me, the last time l ever saw him,
sand it would be hard to make any one
understand how / love the old horse" He
went East week or two later. and never
saw his fOur-fOoted eomrade again. Dur
ing his lifetime, as is we'll known, he re-
fused S100 600 for Sidney.
The Western HOrseman has published
list Of the great brood mares in which ap-
pear the names OF tweniy-eight California
mares who have produced three or more
performers In 2:30 or better. Among these
are Beautiful Bells, famous as the dam of
nine standard performers, four going better
than 2:20; Dame Winnie, the thoroughbred
mare, dam OF Palo Alto and three others
who trotted better than 2:25, and one with
q mark of 2:2SA; Gretchen, by Mambrino
Pilot. with five to her credit, one of them
the dam of that coming sire. Sable Wilkes !;
MinDehaha, the dam OF Beautiful Bells and
Of seven other fast ones; Sontag Mohawk,
dam of Sallie Benton, Eros. Sport and four
more with good records: Sprite, Fernleaf;
Midnight, the dam # Jay-Eye-See, Flee
trieity, Noontlde and MONDAY; Colum bine,
dam of Anteeo and AntevOlo, aud good
many other famous ones, the deeds of whose
offspring are written in the books of the
chronicles of the trotting turf.
In all probability Mckinney, the tough
and speedy cam aigner of the season just
past, has trOtted his last race. He was
found by groom in his stall at Los Ange-
les, recently, unable to lift his off mind foot
from the ground. An examination showed
that the cap OF that stlfie was dislodged and
shifted froR It's natural position. Tie