The herald., 1893-02-12
lIIlEE Hit HIiEER|IAALDlP R|IAAlPS HORSSEE GUSS|||P ,
The StambOul Scandal Closely
Held in Review.
A Case That Will Disrupt All the
Trotting Associations.
The Holy Alliance Between a New York
Millionaire and n Stockton Hay
Bunker-Should Interested
Persons Be Censors?

StamDoul, the morse that has done NOR
to advertise Southern California than
dozen Volantes or Santiagos, is to b,
deprived OF his laurels, together with 81
odd records made at the same meeting
nearly all of them by California bret
horses. If the rank injustice of this pro
cedure halts here it would then be quite
bad enough, but it does not. These ex
ploits of our California horses, while
they are rejected by the eastern boarc
of censors on the himsiest of technical
tiles, are held to constitute ''bar" ir
all the future trotting races. That is tc
say horse that trotted in 2:2S at the
Stockton record meeting, having no pre-
vious record better than 2:30, is now
effectually barred from starting in any
race above the 2 :27 class, although not
accredited under his sire's roll of honor
with any record whatever at that Stock.
ton meeting. This seems like down.
right unfairness. A man should not be
allowed to lose where he has no chance
to win and it is in this spirit of equity
that claim horse should not receive a
bar" when he cannot be given record.
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In all this invidions discrimination
against California in general and South
ern California in particular, there is but
one underlying cause, and that cause is
jealousy. California is producing too
many trotters to please the eastern ma
bobs, who have more money than
brains, and who have thrown vast sums
of money into breeding farm projects
without the slightest prospect of recoup-
ing single dollar of profit. Nestled
away out on the bleak and sterile Berk-
shire hills of Massachusetts is farm
owned by man who is the posseesor of
a Kentucky-bred stallion called by the
Muscovite cognomen of Kremlin, who
got his record of 2:074 day or two
before Stamboul made his 2:07% at
Stockton. This Kremlin is young
horse but five years old, and destined to
trot in 2:06 or better before the apples
get ripe. Hence the total want of mag
nanimity on the part of his owner. Big
men often have little sides.
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All this procedure would not look go
bad if Mr.. Allen, owner of the aforesaid
horse Kremlin, was not stockholder in
the company which publishes the Wal
lace Trotting Register, and a member of
the board Of censors. Now there is not
tbs slightest impropriety in this mans
holding stock in the Register company.
He can do what he likes with his own
money, for l have not helped him to
earn any OF it. But when it comes down
to the question of one quarter of a sec.
ond between his horse and one bred
within eight miles of where l am writ
ing, do object TO his sitting as a mem
ber of the board OF censors. The man
nle uuib5 o.fJoiv.. ih .sAUG..v4 ''..a...-
name, fill his pockets with pool-tickets
and then go up in the stand to judge
the race and defend his own money in
the event of a close finish. 1t was do
ings of that kind, on the part of Col.
Oden Bowie, that killed off the beauti-
full Pimlico track at Baltimore.
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The fact ia that while you can breed
horses in every state in the union, there
are only half dozen states where you
can breed those that are worthy to be
placed in the first row. New York led
in the production of trotters for nearly
40 years, but now she is fifth or sixth on
the list. 1t is chiefly to climatic condi-
tions that these differences between
horses and horses are ascribable. The
New England horses growth is virtually
suspended between November and April,
while the California colts growth is per-
petual, and that of the Kentucky colt
nearly go, though he does not expand as
perennially as his congener in California.
Oregon is about equal to Kentucky in
this respect, although the muddy soil of
the great Willamette valley interferes
materially with good feet and hard legs.
Candidly, Misty Morn is the first really
high-class horse that Oregon has pro-
duced, but as she is from the male line
OF Orlando one hardly knows where to
look for her superior in speed.
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It is as a resident, therefore, OF South
ern California that resent this unjust
and lopsided decision for the reason
that it not only throws out record
made by Stamboul but also Inequalities
three of his sons-Daghestan, Harry
Winchester and Redondo-three hand
somer colts than ever came from the
loins of any other trotting horse or
earth. Stamboul is just as far ahead o.
tioneer was ahead OF everything else or
earth, when he lay down to die. Oul
great young stock have done as much tt
advertise US as our golden fruits anG
pure wines. They are equal to horses
of other localities in speed and a lont
way ahead of them in substance an6
quality. Hence my undisguised DISCUS
at such manifestly unfair discrimination
against the stock of our fair young state
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There is only one thing about this dis
allowance of the Stockton kite-shapet
track records that pleases met ma,
result in the aboliehment of all the 30
called "tin cup records" and the re
etriction of time records to perform
ances achieved in races against othe
horses. Should that be done, we shoul'
soon see certain families OF horses tina
are now prominent through these race
against the watch fall into "innocuou
desuetude," while other good and gam
horses dixie the Directors, for instance,
will advance into the niche of fam
where they properly belong.
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Not the least pitiable portion of thi
transaction is the way in which thi
man Allen (who is millionaire an
ought to be above keeping low company
has been tele aphing every day in tn
week at an expense of hundreds OF do
lars, to a journeyman chair-bottomer i
the lowest dives about Stockton for in
formation(?) about Stamboul's rae
against time. And it is equally pitiabl
that the board of censors has put itse