The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-22
TURF DIFFICULTIES
Trouble in Equine Camps
East and West.
A MlLLIONAIRE'S ECONOMIES.
How the Use of Horse Boots and Bal
arce Weights Might Be Rem
dered Unnecessary.


world, outside of Messrs. Williams and
Schwartz, is heartily tired. just what Mr..
Williams hopes to gain in public esteem by
his attempt to keep The bookmakers from
Schwartz's meeting is hard to understand.
de has only succeeded in letting the public
see how far petty spite will carry man
when he yields to tan exhibition, by the
way, in which the public is little interested.
'Ruling off" has been favoIite weapon of
the Blood-horso Association under the VIII
liams regime, and the tactic seems to have
been carried over into the management oil
the Jockey Club. During that body's forty
days race meeting, which only lasted one
week, two newspaper men were ruled off
the track for writing about Jockey NarvaeZ
what probably two-thirds of this winters
race-goers believe to be true-that that
young man has the interests OF the book
makers closely at heart and possesses 100
strong an arm for his own good. There is
no SAYING things we're not all right, but the
fact remains that during the last fortnight
Of the Blood-horse meet the unintiated
bettor, who had only appearances to guide
MN. fought very shy of NaryaeZ'S mounts,
and apparently with good reason, for they
seldom got near the winning-pOst in time
10 take the money.
Despite unpropitiOus weather and the
handicappng of the Jockey Club there has
been four very good days rae ng at Oak
land. and next weeks programme promises
equally good. The wheels Of fortune and
various other games of chance that are a
usual feature of the track are absent from
Oakland. but there are plenty Of BOOB
makers to accommodate the very good
crowds that have been in attendance.
Senator Stanford has always had a high
opinion of the NutwoOd stock aud has re-
enforced the army of arStocratic brood
mares at Palo Alto by the recent purchase
from H. u. Shippee of seven Nutwood
mares, JOlyette. cut Of Maud. by MANI
brine Rather; Bailey Nutwood dam by
Cnleifain; Nettie Nutwood, out Of Zephyr,
by Wiiiamson's Belmont; Knoxwood, out
OF East End, by SCOTS HiatOga; Quaker
Maid; out OF Quaker Girl, by Henry Clay,
son OF Dave Hill; TrusswoOd, out of Trus-
tee. by son Of imported Trustee; Econ
wood. out of Nell Crockett. by Crockett.
Six yearlings have already been put I'M
der training at Palo Alto in the hope of
again bringing the yearling record to that
farm. They are Day Bell, black colt by
Palo Alto 2:06$4), cut of Beautiful Bells
Narida, bay, and an unnamed black filIy,
both by Pao Alto; Glabar. brown colt by
Electricity; Nordlca, gray hlIy. by Adver-
User. and Mlthra, chestnut fly also by
Advertiser. Nordica is out OF Salle Ben
ton, and is regarded very promising.
There is trouble in the Eastern grand
circuit and the ral-times-milonaife
horse-owner, &. j. Hamlin, is the cause
thereof. Mr.. HamliD, as is well known, is
addicted 10 those exhibitions Of Unfit that
often characterize and make millionaires
80 greatly has he aroused the ire OF rival
horse-owners tina. rumOr has even predicted
that the present trouble would result Ia
Buffalo being dropped from the grand cir
cult this year. Mr.. Hamlin is virtually the
owner OF the Buffalo Driving Park, and il is
said there has not been meeting of the d-
fnr nf.f in ton ~.
ing as Cicero j. SAYS. just now he has
arranged two weeks race meeting Oh the
dates already claimed by Rochester, and is
also reported at odds with Pittsburg and
Cleveland. MIR. Hamlln sent to Rochester
his entries for the races there. and asked
that the appearance of his fancy team
Justina and Belle Hamlin, be accepted in
lieu OF entrance fees for whatever horses
he saw fit 10 start This, IL is said, Is IA
y0rite way with the thrifty millionaire of
meeting his entrance fees. and Rochesler's
refusal to accept 1t has aroused his resent
ment.
Some of the things Eastern papers are
saying OF the esteem in which Mr.. Hamln
is held by bis compeers on the grand cir
cult remind ME of little incident wit
messed several years ago in the city where
Mr.. Hamlin lives. The great horseman
drove daShlng team up to the Office of the
American Glucose Company, of which he
is president. aighted and was about to tie
his horses when something distracted his
attention. Turning away, his team took
fright and started to run, whereupOn Ham
lin. who is old and gray headed, piuckily
ran 10 stop them. There vere a dozen
men in sight who all knew him. but
not one lifted a finger to help him
stop the runaway, and but that one of his
clerks finally saw bis predicament and ran
TO his aid as he chung 10 the horses bits, the
team would have been loose In q moment
fnn hay nd In
said one bystander. "Twould ha' done
Hamlin good 10 have to shell out the dam
ages" and the man who heard him nodded
assent Somehow stingy millionaire is an
anomaly few people can nave patience with.
Mr.. Robert Bonner, who still claims to
own the two fastest horses in the world ac-
cording TO records made before. the intro
duction Of the bicycle sulky. has offered to
pay $1,000 to the owner Of the first horse that
trots the Cleveland track to an old-fashl0ned
suky this season. just why the horse must
go in 2:05 to satisfy Mr.. Bonner that the
2:0SA of Maud 5 is beaten does not appear,
but II the great New York hOrseman is con-
WINGED that he still has the two fastest trot-
tiers in tile world, why not hitch Maud S and
Sunol to bicycle sulkies and send them over
the Cleveland track against time and let
them take modern recordss As well might
one claim Flora Temple as the fastest trot-
ter according to records made before i'm
proved tracks and sukies made it possible
for a horse 20 beat her record. Why not let
Maud S pull Flora Temples sulky over a
track conditioned In tho old style. and see
whether she can beat that game little mares
time?
A prudent horseman gives the following
advice in case of fire in stable: Keep
hanging conveniently near the door several
pieces of old blankets or old carpet about a
yard square. In a box made for that pur-
pose (near the bankets), keep an old case
kns a q 10 npn IN q tFn N
right in two. In case OF fire throw piece
OF blanket over the horses head. cut the
strap and lead out Never stop to unite a
horse-tme is too precious.
/ visited stock farm recently where
small breeder is raising some world-beaters,
and was shown royalty bred weanlng
trotting about a paddocksas though he al
ready saw tw0-minute mark to his credit.
The youngster was, OF course, unshod, and
one hind hoof had grown so long as to curl
up on the inner side. The outer side had
broken off. and was quits little
the colts foot out OF line and cause him to
travel unevenly, while Mt the same time his
young, growing legbone was taking de- /
cided outward curve. i called the owners
attention TO it, but he smiled patronizngly
and informed me that that would be all
right when the colt came TO be shod. One
could say but little after that, but il that
colt, when he comes to the blacksmlth's
hands. does not require to be balanced. and
trimmed. and booted. and hobbled to get
him to go without interfering. overreaching.
forging or sticking | shall be greatly sur
prsed. II is strange that horsemen pay so
little heed to this very important matter.
One scarcely sees horse on our streets
nowadays without boots on fore or hind
ankles. "He intfrieres" is always the ex-
PLANTATION. but a little attention to The foaPs
feet, to keep them trimmed and balanced so
that he treads evenly and bears his weight
equally on all his feet would almost entire
ly obviate the necessity for boots and bal
ancing appliances in after life, to say
nothing Of the great increase In the animals
comfort. Miss RUSSELL.