The herald., 1893-10-02
DEXTER'S HORSE TALK.


appear to be improving with each race
meeting. BY the time they reach Santa
Ana and Los Angeles many OF them will
be able to put fast marks by their
names in the records. Gossiper, 2:174,
Gen. Wiles, 2:191a, Dick Richmond,
2:20, all have respectable records and
each can go faster. In the 2:20 stallion
races they will meet Challenger Chief,
2:16, and several others nearly or quite
as fast, and the winner will not have
time to Craze by the wayside. Notwith-
standing his bad luck Mckinney has
not only reduced his record to 2:11I,
but did it in the fastest and hardest
race ever trotted on this coast. Edenia
won a race Thursday in which 2:131a
was made. Adelaide McGregor
has won several good races and
gained a mark of about 2:17 and
Richmond, jr., 2:15, has made q hard
campaign. These in the tree.for-alls
will have Ottinger, 2:11 q, and Klamath,
2:13L, to contest against, and new
trotting race record is probable. OF the
PAGERS from the sunny south which
started in the slow classes Nellie |. has
a record of 2:15, Jingler, 2:1634. Fred
Mason, 219, and Andy, 2:201a. Each
of these is likely to go in 2;14 on a
good track next month, and Thera,
Humming, Rita, Pomona, 2:20, and
others have shown that they can stay
with them. These are in tae 2:30 or
2:20 classes, where are also entered
Nutford, 2:2434; Colonia, 2:241s; Ar
genta, the fast 2-year-old Steinway filly,
and AlmoJ Although the great horses
in the free-for-alls, pacing and trotting
classes, will be the main drawing cards
for the general public, yet horsemen
realize that equally good racing will
be furnished in the 2:20 stallion trot,
2:30 and 2:20 pace, and 2:17, 2:25 and
2 ;27 trots.
The younger division, 2 and 3.years-
old, contains greater number of fast
colts and fillies than has ever before
been seen in Southern California in any
two or three seasons together.
The Chino ranch's filly, Irene Crocker,
played with her fields at Santa Barbara
and Hueneme, and ia likely to close the
year with record close to 2:20. III. M.
Stanley, 3-yesr-old from the bean
country, is another good one and will
make quite an argument with Irene in
the races where they will meet.
Mary Calwell. 2:20, was of great
promise and her death is serious loss.
Although fast trotters and PAGERS are
increasing rapidly all over the country
Southern California is keeping up with
the procession.
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I got glimpse of copy OF the Daily
Evening Blade, Santa Ana publication
q few days ago, and in four
called jealousy" | found that / have
drawn down the ire of the able pen.
pusher OF that sheet by my remark or
Silkwood. Bless my soul most es
teemed sir, the black side-wheeler o.
Orange county has warm place in my
esteem. Nevertheless, what [ have
written of him is true. every word of it.
The people of Santa Ana haye right
to feel proud Of the horse; so has every
horse lover in Southern California, even
if the fast son of Black wood did first see
the light of day in Bleeding Kansas.
The horee is not to be blamed because
he was born there, and it is safe to say
that if he had been reared in that state
he would not have been as fast as he il
now. / saw him in his yearling form
and worse looking youngster l never
want 20 look npnn. But the genial eli
mate OF Orange county, not to say any
thing of its pumpkins and alfalfa ant
the prayers of the multitude and the at
tention bestowed upon the black whirl.
wind by his owner, have aided in ma
turing a really great horse.
A. great horse, mark you, dear sir
that ie what | have always said Silk.
wood was. What l did cay is that be
has not proven that he is race horse.
Has he?sifs
believe he will. in the coming free
for-all pace, set mark lower than any
yet hung up on California track. Say
2:06. believe he will pace the fastest
heat in the race in which he starts, but
1 do not believe he can come back and
win the event. If he can, 1 shall be
happy to proclaim that the Orange
county horse is not only the fastest
horse west of the big mountains, but q
racer OF tried qualities.
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Durfee must have been happy man
Saturday night, as he lay abed in the
Slough city fighting mosquitoes and con-
templating in his mind how pleasant il
was to live in a city like Los Angeles,
where mosquitoes never come, and from
whence came the great, the only Nc.
Kinney. can imagine Mr.. Durfee, and
venture the assertion that he felt
much easier than he did Immediately
after the Morris-Quirk footrace which
came off in Santa Ana last fall, When
remember how the genial Charles
twirled his ivory cane and tried to tell a
hundred Orange county sports that
they would get their money after Morris
had run the race out on the Canadian.
and large part Of the stake money
which Durfee held had been rebet on
the sure winner, am convinced that he
was an unhappy mortal. who wished he
had left footraces with their wiley WAYS
severely alone.
But he had satisfaction in the city of
big mills in knowing that Mckinney
had placed 2:111 q as a new record for
trotters in this sunset land. If Durfee
had the same nerve to back his horse
which he exhibited in tackling the
sprinter in Albuquerque, he made nice
little 'clean up' Be that as it NAV.
one and all horsemen in Southern
California congratulate Mr.. Durfee on
the wonderful performance of his horse.
and attribute it largely to the skillfui