The morning call., 1893-09-18
A Novel Race Meeting to
Aid the Fair.
DIRECTUrrS GREAT TROTTING
Increased Interest in the Grand State
Circuit and the Coming Fall
and Winter Events.

Saturday. 1t is styled 'trottIng matt
nee," and is being arranged by the liquor
men OF this city for The benefit of the Mid
winter Fair. In the three-minute class
there will be five entries. The same num-
ber will start in the . 40 class. The free
for-all pace is still open for entries. and in
the two-mile dash three horses have been
entered and two more are expected.
Among those who will enter PAGERS are
Jim Orndorff. Frank McManus. A. j.
Martin, w. W. AckersOn and Edward
Lamb.
For an Indian pony race Joe Parker,
Rome Harris, Harry Collins and Frank
Dietz will be repre- sented.
There will be bicycle race in which
eight OF the best riders on the coast will
compete.
Six riders from the Presid 10 will give an
interesting exhibition of mounting and
dismounting while The horses are going a
full speed. Entries will close Thursday
night with d. j. Tobin. 210 Post street
The Stockton meeting opens to-day and
closes on the 30th inst. Entries for this
meeting, which promises to be the best
ever held by the Stockton association.
were published in The CALL last Mon
day.
Great preparation has been made for the
San Jose meeting, which extends from the
25th to the 30th inst. Big purses, fast
course and excellent accommodate tiOns are
the principal attractions offered at the
track. All of the trottiDg and pacing
purses are $1,000 each, and purses of $500
are held up for the runners. with not
cent charged for entrance. In the free
for-all pacing Diablo will meet Our Dick,
who has returned from victorious career
over the Montana circuit. Lady Ii, who
has also returned from the Montana cir
cult, is in the same race. as are also Will
liam Wood and Electric.
All the other races have been filed be-
yond expectation, and for the running
purses there are from eight to twenty-three
entries in each event.
Secretary Briggs OF the Santa Ana Asso-
citation takes exception to a statement
made IN weekly paper that the 2:O9K
performance OF Dablo at Woodland was
the pacing record of the Pacific Coast. The
secretary is correct, for the Santa Ana
track holds the record. 2:0S34, made in the
race last November between Silkwo ood and
Our Dick. Both of these horses, Diablo,
w. Wood and Lady Fl will meet at Santa
Ana on the 11th prOx., when a new record
should be established. At this meeting
there will also be many other interesting
events.
The big fall, winter and spring meetings
to be held here have caused c0nsidera bic
comment among turfmPn beyond the
rockies. Every one argues that the COM
ing meetings. particularly that of the Pa
cihc Coast Blood-horse Association, which
begins on the Goth proX.. will be the most
successful ever held in California. Fol-
lowing the associations meeting will be
that OF the California Jockey Club.
DiTectum, the stallion race king who
clipped half second of his own record.
lowering ii 10 2:06R, at Washington Park
last Friday, is conceded to be the most re-
markabie trotter of the age. Before this
wonderful performance at Chicago he did
many Things in the way of record breaking
to astonish horsemeu. He made the fastest
stallion record and the bes: four-year-old
record. He made the best stallion record
in race and the same as to fOur.vear-olds.
lie trotted the best three heats ever made
In race and won the fastest five-heat race
on record. More than this, he trOtted the
fastest half mile ever shown in public.
Alter the Fleetwood meeting an Eastern
paper had the following TO say in reference
to the great stallion: "SiDce nthe day,
nearly thirty five years ago, when Ethan
Allen, the ideal Morgan horse. defeated
the famous George NJ. Patchen o"er the
Union course, sixteen stations have won
and worn the title OF 'the trotting king"
though the honor of the fastest record has
always been held by a mare or gelding.
Starting with Ethan Aliens modest per
formance IN 2:2S il has taken more than q
third of century of careful breeding and
2:28 to the 2:07 which was hung out at
Fleetwood Park last week when Directum
flashed past the wire. Further reductions
may be expected, but with the present
record so nearly approaching what must
be considered as the ultimate speed possi-
blllty OF the trotter they are likely to be
by fractions of seconds and at long inter-
walls, unless, indeed, as many people ex-
peel, the present champion lowers his
mark of 2:07 In one grand effort to a figure
that threatens the supremacy of Nancy
Hanks.
"Dlrectum. the young aspirant to the
highest trotting honor, was seen and criti-
cally judged by many thousands of New
Workers last week. What he did at Fleet
wood fully justified the claims made on his
behalf earlier in the present season. What
he may yetdo Is uncertain. but everything
points to him as the greatest rival Nancy
Hanks has ever known, and there are few
well posted hOrsemen who doubt that be
would beat the queen in race"
1t Is no wonder then that Monroe Sails
bury now offers to trot Directum against
any horse in the world, three heats in five.
for from $1,000 to $4,000.
Superintendent Cy Mulkev of Palo Alto
farms thoroughbred department will have
good string to race here next fall Flam-
beau and Charm and several tWo-vear-uIds
are now being trained by the veteran.
Charm is by imp. CheviOt. dam imp. Fairy
Rose, dam of Racine and Fairy.
A. Oulnger has had to change his plans
and Will n OF go East, as originally intended.
to return with Wildwood, but he has for
warded instructions 10 Matt Allen as to
date of shipping Wildwood and his other
horses back here.
or course there will be the usual winter
meeting at New Orleans. 1t is a cold day
Qn New Orleans) when they don't have
winter racing down there-and The truth
is, so far as Wirelight's knowledge ex-
tends. IL is the only fit place in the world
for such sport. Mexico, a little further
south, promises, however, to become
formidable rival of the Crescent City in
this respect, and if the American thor
oughbred doesn't run bull and cock fight
ing out of that country Wirelight declares
he will be very much surprised man.
1t is officially announced that skillful
piece of ringing was perpelrated on the
Ihree-mile trotiing Derby on July A. at
Minneapolis, Minn. A horse called Major
Eddy was second in the race and won
$50. 1t is now stated that the real Major
Eddy, .2:34A, by Jerome Eddy, did not
start. bnt mat under his name Stanton
Chief, 2:2TA. was started aud won the
second money. Secretary j. II. Steiner of
the American Trottng Association has
been for some time at work on the case