The herald., 1893-02-19
GOSSIP OF TURF AND TRACK,
The Spring Meeting at the
Fair Grounds.
The Weights in the Big Coming
Handicaps Eastward.
5alvator and How He Got His Name-Old
Echora Sold to Philadeiphia-The
Showing of Iroquois' Stock.
Late Importations.

Late lnpOrtaClOns.
The few lingering veterans that are
stopping the mud OF Oakland from
under their hoofs will be here early next
week, and Mr.. Ryan will have the track
in splendid order for gathering o.
the clans" 1t is quite probable that
there will be more two-year-olds on the
track here than have been seen at any
previous meeting held within the state.
The large and valuable stakes offered at
Chicago in June. in addition to those OF
the tracks at Morris Park, Gravesend,
Coney Island and Long Branch, have led
to the taking up and training of many
youngsters that would have otherwise
been neglected. The Baldwin stable
hasseome good material of this age got
by simp. Cheviot and the Emperor of
Norfolk which will give the visiting
stables q lively tussle for the dollars if
Mr. B. decides to start them.
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It must be borne in mind that the
programme of the Agricultural society's
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does not contain all the races to be run.
there being two overnight purses added
to each days programme, making five
races each day. 1t is a new departure,
clean and clear, in the history of the
Los Angeles track, and will afford our
eastern visitors foretaste of what they
may expect at Washington Park, Coney
Island and Long Branch. 1t is safe
bet that over 200 eastern horses will
spend the winter OF 1893-94 in CAlifor-
mia and will put in February and March
at Los Angeles. Bakersfield is our only
competitor as wintering ground, and
as trainers do not like a kite track for
work we will "holdsthe sge."
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San Rafael, by Gano out of Glenita by
imp. Glenelg, 4-year-old, died at the
training stables on the Santa Anita
ranch on Saturday, the 10th instant,
after brief attack of collie. He was
rather good-looking colt but had never
won race, yet high hopes were formed
Of him as he had never been right till
this spring. He died before anybody
knew anything about him.
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The foals are coming very thickly OF
the Santa Anita farm and the matrons
are looking splendidly. There are five
already by The Hook, four by Emperor
of Norfolk, three by Gano and two by
Verano. Ogarita, the handsome daugh-
ter of Longfellow, has been mated with
Emperor OF Norfolk. The pick OF the
foals to my eye is the one by The Hook
out of Miss Ford. The one out of
Glenita, by the same sire, is 43 inches
high at one week old, but there is too
much daylight under him.
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The top-weight in the great eastern
handicsps of the ensuing spring meet
ings has been assigned to M. F. Dwyer's
great horse, Longstreet, who has to
carry 130 in the Suburban and 127 In
the Brooklyn, while Lamplighter has
125 in the latter and 127 in the former.
Tammany, who is weighted even with
Lamplighter in the Suburban, is not en-
tered in the Brooklyn. Naturally one
looks upon a top-weight victory
like that of The Band in 1883
or Salvador in 1890. as an excep-
tional performance and therefore feel
like searching for the winner among the
middle-weight division, ranging from
ITO to 120 pounds. Of these find in
the Brooklyn seven weighted at 116-
Victory, La Tosca, Yorkville Belle,
Locohatchie, Judge Morrow, Raceland
and Strathmeath. Next come Mars and
Parvenu at ia, and Demuth, Russell
and Diablo at liz. The California colt
Nomad is weighted at ITO, at which l
have great fancy for him. Wildwood
is weighted at 105, and some of the San
Francisco boys are very sweet on him,
! am not.
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My reasons for preferfng Nomad at
ITO to Wildwood OF the same age at 105,
are that Wildwood has never met q
really first-class colt of his own age. In
the past decade there has been on year
in which there were as many inferior 8.
year-olds in California as last year.
That wildwood was the best Of the lot
is beyond cavil, but what did he have
to beat? A lot Angora goats, nothing
better. It is not every colt that runs in
good shape In California that can 10 on
east and do likewise. Recollect what a
Tartar little Nero was, and how soft he
cut up when he struck the eastern
tracks. My liking for Nomad grows out
of the fact that he has already run we'll
on the eastern tracks, on which the
loose earth has always been kept two
inches deeper than here. This bothers
some of our California horses very
badly, but it never bothered Nomad.
He may be defeated, but it will be by
some horse with ia or 116 pounds on
him, and not by any one OF the top
weights.
II 1t were not the spring of the
year, my fancy would be York
vile Belle, with her impost of
liz, but as mares are frequently
troubled with the unrequited longings
of nature at that season of the year, 1
prefer to pin my faith to the masculine
sex of horses. 1t is too early to predict
any place work or name any horses that
will run 1-2--3 in either of these races.
When people tell me that Tammany ran
q mile in 40 at years old, with 122
pounds, in the Withers of last year,
also remind them that there were other
horses in that race that carried 122 as
we'll. II is different thing to run in a
race with elder horses and concede 12