The herald., 1894-08-19
SOME HORSE NOTES.

tOga In large numbers, ana on w Wednee
day the Futurity race for 2-year-olds, th'
richest event for horses OF that age or
either continent will be contended fol
by probably the largest field of horses
that ever started for that event. This
is owing to the fact that this is a one
horse year SO far as 2-year ods are CON
csrned. the only colt in anywise above
mediocrity being the western colt Lis
SAX by the English horse Loyalist, now
owned by General jackson, of Belle
Meade. And much to his owners re-
gret, Liesak was not entered in the big
race or he would win it in "a cake
walk" OF the other tried colts OF the
season, | place Gotham, Connoisseur,
Cesarion, Waltzer and Utica in the
order named. The fret two horses have
been laid up in lavendar for several
weeks and should be able to run good
race. But the fact that there ia not q
first-class 2-year-old in America unless
it be Lissak. has impressed itself upon
me ever since the Washington park
meeting at Chicago. Those l have
named above are simply good colts with
no pretension to greatness whatever.
The Futurity course lacks 5S yards OF
being six furlongs. but 1t is the severest
course in America of its distance. No
cocktail-bred horse has any business in
it, even with the very lightest OF
weights, and | have no idea that either
Connoisseur or Walter. or any other
Del Psso bred horse for that matter, can
do better than second for it, until they
get some better mares at that mammoth
establishment than they have at pres
ent. They have five mares tracing to
Minerva Anderson, who wss but half
bred one or two that trace to Picsyune.
whose breeding was dime novel, and
Susie Craig (better known as Premium,
whose pedigree runs into the ground at
the third cross. The Del Paso stud is
too large. 1t has six stallions that could
stand, in Kentucky, for barrel
OF corn. OF these four are brothers and
worthless ones, to great racehorses. An
establishment like Del Paso is bound to
accumulate more or less rubbish. II it
could be reduced to 125 msres and six
sires, there might be some show for it to
take the lead in stake horses, which is
not the case. The Del Paso colts run
like stake horses at two years old, but
st three.they are onlylselling platers and
at four they sink to the level of Gutten-
berg goats.
The fact that no California bred colt
has been able to run better than third
in the Futurity. which place was filed
by Mr.. Baldwin's great flly Sinsloa in
1889, when st. Carlo was pulled up by
that rascal Garrison to let c aos win in
the interest of the bookmakers, is some-
thing worthy OF consideration. This,
too, in the face of the stubborn fact that
California colts have won four Der g,
three Sheridans, three DrexCls, two
Boulevards, three Oakwoods, four Hyde
Parks and two Qulcksteps at Chicago,
beating the very best horses west of the
Alleghanies. Sinaloa was great flly,
and has to her credit the fastest nine
furlongs ever run on circular track,
but | certainly cannot believe her to
have been the superior of either Fallen
Leaf or Yo Tambien. And hence l pre-
dict Gotham will win the race, with
Connoisseur in second place and either
Walter or some dark horse in the
third.
These years of of.colored horses are
OF frequent occurrence. The only de.
cent 3-year-old in England in 1879 was
the French colt RAyon d. Or, now owned
by young Augustus Belmont. Sir Berys,
the Derby winner of that year, WAS q
rotten brute. The test of horses in Eng
land is that the Derby and st. Leger
winners OF this year mnst be able, in the
Dorchester, Ascot and Brighton cups OF
next year, to beat the 3-year-olds at
weight for age. II they cannot do that
they are of no good. Little Wonder,
Bloomsbury and AmRto all won the
Derby, but never won anything else
and the last named horse was never
saddled for any other rece before nor
afterwards. Such sterling sportsman
as Sir Gilbert Heathcote certainly would
not have retired the horse had he not
been thoroughly satisfied that his vic
tory was t1uke. Andover, in 1854, was
another rotten Derby winner, and st.
BIalse, in 1883, was very little better.
There are many great racehorses that
are not heard from on Derby day.
So say there are off years for 2-year.
olds, and this is one of them, as was
1889 also. the only two good 2-year .olds
of that season being st. Carlo and Ill
Rio Rey. The big and homely Tourna-
ment. owned by Senator Hearst at that
time, won s2S,000 that year, but it was
only in penalized races in. which he had
the best of the weights. In 1891 there
were six or seven cracks, His High
ness, Dagonst, Yorkshire Belle, Huron,
Curt Gum, Tammany and Sir Mat
thew ranking in the order named. They
were all first class except the last two.
but the Tammany Of the following year
was one of the greatest 3-year-olds. |
rate him along with Luke Black burn.
Longstreet, Hindoo and Salvador, and
ahead of all such flyers as Rey el Santa
Anita, Volante, Hidalgo, Blue Wing,
and even Henry of Navarro, who is
nearly ten pounds the best of this sea-
sons 3-year.oldH.
The best horse of the old-aged division
is undoubtedly Yo Jambien, bred by
bluff old Theodore Winters at sacra-
mento. Here is man whose methods
are exactly the reverse of those at Del |
Paso. He has never had moro than two |
stations and dezen mares, but he has |
bred no end OF brilliant horses, while |
the enormous earnings OF the Del Paso |
colts are largely made up of second and |
third moneys won at races under a mile.
By the way. speaking of Del Paso horses, |
| see that Superintendent John Mackey
has bought two really good young sires
in England Wateroress and Goldfnch, |
The latter was condemned as 'roarer" |
in his native country. but / don't think |
that will make difference here. In |
April last Mr.. +. s. Gardner of Ten |
neesee aekad NV nnipion On ~ tba .alo. |