The morning call., 1893-01-30
HORSE GOSSIP.
Californian Stations in the
East.
HAL POINTER AND DIRECT.
How the Two Great PAGERS Met by
Chance and Each Recognized
the Other.

The captous turf-writer who, some
months ago in the Horse World, sncered at
Cailfornla's claim to being one Of the great
est horse producing sections in the world,
rldlcullng such preiensi0ns on the ground
that all CALIFORNIA; greatest stations
came from the East" must be wishing now
adays that he had never said his little say.
1t really begins to look as though the best
stations of the East are being brought there
from California. The Fasteners have had
Axtell, Direct. Anteeo and half dozen others
for some time, and now they have Stamba ul,
Will probably secure Sidney. andlnow Regal
Wilkes, young son of Guy Wilkes. out OF
mare by Sultan, has just been sold in New
York for $4,000. Californian horsemen
will all remember this big fellow from the
Corbett farm. He is possibly the least hand
some son Of the great old horse ever foaled
there-a huge. overgrowG, rather clumsy
looking fellow, but be has plenty of speed,
having mark of 2:11A TO his credit. The
man who bought him at the Corbett sale last
week. j. ii. Shuts, bought also Lillian
Wilkes l2:17A). by Guy Wilkes, dam by i'm
ported Langi0rd, for $4,000. and five other
colts and fiIlies. paying $32, 325 for the lot.
California. and good many OF them Will
probably go East too ere long. Certainly
no one will be ready TO believe that the bot
tom has fallen out of the h0rse-breediug
business who pOnders the results OF the hrst
two days sale Of the Corbett farm consign-
ment in New York. when sxtv-eight head
OF Wilkes stock sold for S105, 125.
The wonderful performance Of the phe-
nomenal pacing gelding Flying Jib has sent
Algona stock up, and that heretofore little
thought Of horse has been Installed as premier
at Rancho del Paso.
Il. f. Geers. the first man to train the
great PAGER Hal Pointer, tells good story
illustrating the intelligence of these highly
and keenly endowed horses He had taken
Hal Pointer to Detroit, where the geldlng
bad an engagement to meet again his CalifOr-
MAN rival Direct. They were TO go an exhIbi-
ton together. the arrangement being that
they would keep together, at q slow pace,
to the half and then brush home. Hal
Pointer had not seen Direct since their great
race at Columbia the year before, and be-
fore and up to that afternoon bad been taxi
Ing ms work very quietly and SLOWLY. ms
time, however, in warming him up coming
the wrong way of the track, he met Direct
on the homestretch, and at once picked up
his ears, took hold of the bit as he had never
done before in his life and attempted to
bolt. Direct, whom George Starr was driy-
Ing. did much the same thing. and II was
plain to be seen that the rivals had reeog-
nized each other. When they turned
around it was all that Geers could do to
keep Pointer from rushing away to the
front, and only by constantly talking to him
until they reached the half could he get his
excited charge to obey him at all. ~ bile the
instant the horses began TO brush Hal was
full Of fight and showed how pleased ne was
to have his head and get another chance at
his old enemy.
A complete cyclOpedia of horse lore for
1892 is the New Years number OF ClArk's
Horse Review of Chicago, large and hand
some issue in handsome colored covers.
Accompanying the review are four large
cOlored Autographs. representing Anteeo,
Kremlin. Red Wilkes and Jay Eye See, the
latter in harness TO bicycle sulky and
looking a very picture of the game cam
paigner that he is. There are also a great
many single and double page portraits OF
leading lights in the trotting world. The
contents of the number consists Of interest
ing articles and comments by well-known
turf writer's. and number OF carefully pre-
pared biographies, statistical tables, ETC.,
and the whole issue fairly bris.es with in-
teresting and valuable information concern
ing The horse. A good feature Of the num-
Der Is very complete index, that renders
the useful collection of information between
its covers readily available. IL is work
that every horseman ought 10 have.
r. port has IL that Wanda, 2:174. by
Eros, dam Accident. by Elmo, is to be- bred
to Guy Wilkes and then eampaigned.
The $4,000 King Thomas, who during his
entire career upon the turf succeeded in
winning one race (and that a race for
maidens), has been brought TO California
for stud service at the San Simeon ranch.
He is fine looking bay horse By imported
King Ban, out of Maud Hampton and is 6
years old. According to Turf, Field and
Farm his utter failure as a racehorse Is
generally attributed to his lack of courage,
(which, however. he may not transmit to
bis progeny" a truly philosophical utter
ance this. King Thomas may not transmit
lack of courage" To his progeny, lack
hardly being transmissible. but il il pretty
certain that neither Will he transmit to
them the courage which he himself does
not possess.
Several instances of extreme longevity
in horses have recently been given, but the
following is unusual. After the war with
France, In the early part of this century,
among number Of thoroughbred English
horses sent to the Hanoverian Cavalry was
one which bad served In the Third Regi-
ment of Dragons since 1893 Ia 1876 it was
transferred TO the hussars Of the guard, in
which regiment it WAS made a pensioner,
dying in 1850, aged 60.
The two weeks race meeting at Oak
land is to be heightened by five weeks
more. and there is probably not single
horseman, who. in his heart is not glad
that Messrs Schwartz and Wright are meet
ing with such encouraging success. So far
as the spectators are concerned, Facing, al
the Oakland Park, is far pleasanter than at
Bay District track. the climate across the
bay being much more equable and mild than
onsthis side.
This weeks heavy rains have reduced the
track to pudding-like consistency, but
few bright days will remedy that, and with
the good horses gathered there and ample
betting facilities il looks as though 1.-THE
talent" had twenty days of agreeable sport
before them.
Whether or not CHAMBERS Is with us to any
noticeable degree is a question regarding
which the veteinaries no not differ very
much. Nearly all say the alarm is false
one. This is matter regarding which the
city veterinary and Health Officers should
exercise the most striugen; vigilance In
yestigation should be made and prompt
condemnation should be pronounced ION
every case discovered. and the investigation
and condemnation should be begun with the
ambitious young veterinary who, under
glowing scare headlines, advertises that he
has case OF CHAMBERS III his hospital. IL
this Is true the doctor should be quaran-
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