The herald., 1893-01-22
HORSE TALK OF THE NEW YEAR.
Notes and ,Rnmors from the
Foaling Paddocks.
The Recent San Francisco Racing
and It. Moneyed Results.
Two Great Performers With Broken
Shoulders at rIslbourne-rhe
Weights for the Brooklyn
and Suburban.

have had 2l horses with records Of 2 80
or better made in 1892, of which three
were pacers. OF these, three trotted in
2:30 fat; eight trotted between 2:25 and
2:30, and two more in 2 :25 without
fraction; four between 2:20 and 2 :25,
and four between 2:15 and 220, OF
which two were PAGERS. 1t is not every
farm which can m Ike such showing
as this. Of the 2l horses above referred
to ten are by Red Wilkes, four by Will
ton, three by Jay Bird, two by Lumps
and one each by Endymion and Alb
bottsford. With the exception Of the
latter this is all Wilkes blood.
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1t is claimed that over 100 thorough
bred colts and fllies have been imported
from England in the past year, as con-
signmente to the New York Tattersalls,
of which William Easton is manager.
OF course, where there are 30 many
head, there is bound to be more or less
punk, for John Bull is good Judge of
horse and does not believe much in let.
ting good horse get away. But again,
the English breeders get pgheaded no.
tions of their own and, in that way, oc-
casionally let great horses slip awav
from them. They got their heads so full
of the snsthemas of DR.. Shorthouse
against "the accufsed Blackjack blood"
that they could see no real merit in any
horse, however stout and speedy, that
contained even one-sixteenth of that
very strain of hot Eclipse blood.
1t was for this reason that they al
lowed bennington to be sold to come to
the United States and Musket to go to
Austrsiia bennington had the Black
lock blood through Laurel and Musket
through Brutandorf, each one-eighth,
and they were both condemned by the
doctrinaires on breeding in England
The result was that bennington came
to Am RIGA, where he got Longfeilow,
Lyttleton and Enquirer in one season,
in addition to get ing, few years later,
Iroquois, that went over to England and
won the Derby and ST. Leger. and who
would have won the Two Thousand
Guineas of the came year if he had been
properly ridden. bennington was by
long odds the best horse ,ver impor s
into America. OF 81 APO, 900 hung up at
the five leading tracks at the east, over
$460 600 was won bv the get Of Iroqrois.
LongielIow. Onondaga, Eolus and En-
quirer, five sons OF the aforesaid Lean
ington.
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just so with Musket whom they al
lowed to be exiled to New y aland He
had barely left the chalk cliffs OF Albion
astern when Petronel won the 1000
guineas and then they wished they had
Musket back again. Such was the sue
cess of Musket at the antipo6es that, in
1889, his get won in purses and stakee
the sum al el9,6l3. as against f796l for
the Drummer. e6l51 for Martini Henry
(who was also nv Musket) G5902 for
Goldsbrough, e5863 for Chester, e5666
for Swiveler and e542l for Grandmaster.
Add together the proceeds Of Musket
and his son, Martini Henry, and you
have total of e25 764 for the sire and
the son, as against $22 1852 for the four
stations next to them. So it serves to
show you hat While the English know
great deal about breeding they don't
know everything, or they never would
have allowed bennington and Musket to
leave England.
NJ
Still these errors in Judgment are
comparatively few on the part of our
English cousins. They understand
horses, because they live in the saddle
from day to day and from year to year.
They never buy buggy till they De-
come too old and inirm for the saddle.
They are nation of cavalry, to. judge
by what the gifted Coz don wrote:
"Did they quail, those steeds of the squadron
light,
Did tn, y fiirch st the cauuon's roar.
When they burst on the gnns of III Muscovite,
BY the snlleil Blacs s as shore?
Where ronud shots scream and Shrapnels whiz
And sa bres were flash ng harel
God send me an ending a. fair as his
Who died in his stirrdps there"
Unhappy man! No such heroic death
awaited the gallant "poet of the dawn"
but bullet from his own rifle on the
gloomy and somber glades of the
Murray. lle sw
But he wrote very manly verse and
all through it runs healthy q " that
tells of the dignity of honest labor
There was nothing of the snob about
poor Gordon and certainly no man has
ever lived whose verse equals How We
Beat the Favorite when it comes down
10 descriptive writing A magnificent
monument, erected at cost of nearly
$4,000, commentaries the lofty genius
man who shot himself because he
could not raise e10 to pay his grocery
hill.
Breathe for his wand arng soul passing sigh,
oh, -ppier Christian, as thine eye grows
In all the mansions of the house on high.
Say not that M rcs has not one Tor him.
The Englishman is the grandest of
cayalrymen but what would he be with
out the English horse?
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The blood horse meeting at San Fran
cisco, extending over a period OF more
than 40 days as it did, was hardly q sue
cess, after all The association dis
bursed Sill $50 in purses in 46 DAYS,
which is at the rate of s2420 per day.
Now, suppose they had given Is days
races and given just twice that amount
daily, say $4,000 per day, they would
have drawn al least 200 horses from the
east and there would have been none Of
the many Jug handled races that pre-
vailed after the first 10 day'e races were
over. By that time the true form of
every horse on the ground was known,
and the only way for the bookmakers
to make any money on these races was
to have the hest horse pulled and let
some leather fapper win.
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I regret that the new club did not
last longer, for it was organized upon
the proper plan-that book makers