The herald., 1893-05-07
spring handicap. The last mile was
covered in :461s.


Americans pretend to be the smartest
people on the globe, yet they are still
grcvelling in the dark ages on the road
question. We make wagons with tires
that cut up the roads and drag the
horses to death to pull them through
the ruts. In France they do things differ
emily. The French law requires the
tires Of all wagons shall be six inches
wide, and in four-wheeled wagons the
front axle Is six inches shorter than the
rear axle, thus making a roller two feet
wide out of every wagon. Such wagons
do almost as mnch toward improving
the roads as the graders themselves, and
are much easier on the teams. In that
country horse is expected to pull from
two to three tons, at least twice as much
as he could haul on our roads.
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Senator Stanford and General Miles
are working on special feature for the
agricultural department of the worlds
fair, which, if it goes through, will be
of especial interest to trotting men.
The scheme which was sugges ed to
Mr.. Stanford by General Miles, is to in
stitute what in horse parlance, is termed
a kindergarten, where baby trotters
OF all ages below yearlings will be shown
in an amphitheater, which will set 5000
spectators. Mr.. Stanford proposes to
bring on SO colts from Palo Alto and put
them in the hands of his best trainers,
who will give the public an insight to
the primary evolution of trotting
horse. Chief Buchanan has rendered
building in which the show may be
held, and is anxious to have it take
place.
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Morris J. Jones measured the stride OF
Alix 2 10, last fall, and when going at
speed her stride measured twenty two
feet. This was not single MEASURE
ment but was almost exactly the same
all the way up the stretch. Alix went
a half last year in exactly one minute,
and Ed Upton says if there is any horse
that can beat Nancy Hanks it is this
sweet-gaited daughter of Patronage
Mr.. Jones, himself, is conservative, but
he admits that he believes Alix will
hold the five-year-old championship
when 1898 draws to an end.-Western
Resources.
The same paper is evidently looking
| for "trubble among de kullered race'
from Santa Anita, to judge by the fol-
lowing:
Lucky Baldwin's scheme of having
two strings under the charge OF different
trainers seems likely to have some bad
results. The two trainers are colored
men, Dow Williams, who has been with
| Mr.. Baldwin some time, and Emmanuel
Harding, who used to be Mr.. j. w.
Rogers foreman. When it came to
selecting the two strings from the team
at the home farm, green-eyed Jealousy
came stalking to the fore. Harding had
the best OF the deal, getting the pick Of
the horses and shipping them on Mr..
Baldwin's private palace horse cars.
Williama had to put up with Harding g
leavingB and freight cars, and tits limited
that there will be trouble when next the
rivals meet.
Concerning the prominent jockeys al
the east, the same paper has this to say
Snapper Garrison put in an appear
ance at Elizabeth Tuesday with 0
fringe OF stubble only remaining Of bis
good shape and says that HE training
operations have already been SO success
full that he can do 119 pounds. He has,
by the by, made an arrangement by
which Mr.. O. L. Fair OF San Francisco
will have second call on his services.
Hugh Penny and Smoky Taylor have
been reinstated at Hawthorne Park.
Penny seems to have made a clean
breast OF it, and promised to stick to the
paths of rectitude in the future, avoid
ing the insidious bowl.
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Mr.. John A. Morris said, in speaking
OF Britannia, whose 2 year old, Aleppo,
has shown such phenomenal bursts OF
speed at Elizabeth: "Owing to the fact
that my father owned Britannic's ancee.
tors 1 would take the greatest amount
of pride in the success of any OF his
progeny. Indeed, would be willing to
give q small fortune to have Britannia
prove great sire, simply as a matter of
pride, and believe that he will. Alep-
po was the worst of the Brtannics we
had and the only one saved from the
stable which caught fire and burned to
death number OF my horses not long
ago. Britannia had tremendous speed
and was thoroughly game. His bleeding
at the nose was the only thing that
could stop him, and believe that he
will prove a grand stallion"
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The French trotting turf lie still dis
cussing the Buford or Bufford incident,
which took place at the March meeting
of the Trottlng Club de Paris. At that
meeting Horace Brown Grove bay stal-
lion called Buford or Bufford, imported
from America short time previously by
Messrs. Abel & Loudvitch. He com
peted in two races in one day. In the
first race Of two miles the driving wac so
suspicious that it caused great diasatis-
faction, and Buff trd was easily beaten by
the gray horse. ZArese, in 05. Bnfford's e
time was 5 :09, or at the rate of 2:341s
/ In the next race. dash of two mil
and half, he defeated the bay stallion
Kepi, one OF the best n France, in 6 20,
or at the rate OF 2 80 % The Spirlt's
Paris correspondent in his report of the
race gives the horse as by Princeton,
dam by Hambrino. No such horse ap-
pears in the Register There are two
Bufords. one by Gambetta Wilkes and
one by Commodore Belmont. Here is a
case which shows the necessity of the
National Trotting associations certifi-
Gates OF identity. AS the horse could
not be identified the owner of K pi pro-
tested him and the purse was not paid
over, but the owner of Buford doubt
less reaped harvest in the pari-mutu-
els. Who sold this horse to the French
owners is the question. If he ie a
ringer the sooner he is exposed the
better.
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Somebody has been giving the St.
Louis club whack, which calls forth a
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