The herald., 1894-04-08
HORSE NOTES.

! ol IL. mat was STAN bouts record at
the time OF which l write, and he was
then regarded as the fastest etali IN in
America at the diagonal gait, although
PSlo Alto was considered the more rsli-
aole campsigner of the two. The day
mas come, however. when such prices
a e the best obtains Bile, and the horse of
which write is Goasiper. 2:l415, now
stabled at the Los Angeles track.
certainly never expected to see such a
horses fee below 500, but it only goes
TO show the results of overproduction.
The bicycle sulky and the kites haped
track have made 2:14 horses more
numerous than 9 80 horses were when
| landed in San Diego on the 10th OF
January. 1858
A saw fine lot OF newly -foaled colts
and tillies out at Oneonta farm, MIR. S
&. Reeds new place, last Tuesday.
David Higgins (Ratsplan), of the Cali
fornia Turf, accom- panied me, and Mr..
Q. Bruce Lowe, OF Sydney, N. s. W.,
was also a guest OF Mr. Reeds that day.
The first shown was Msximilian, blood
bay colt eight weeks old. got by the
Australian stallion Maxim, who won
the Canterbury cup OF 1883 by forty
lengths, pulling up in the fastest race
(24 mllas) ever run south of the Equa-
tor, except Dreadnaughts phenomenal
defeat OF Melos and Sir William at Mel
borne in 1890. The dam of this young
ster is The Squaw by Uncas, one of the
best sons OF Stockwell, so that the
youngeter is inbred TO 1.-The Emperor of
! Stalhons." Another that greatly took
my eye was Martenhurst FLY out OF
imported Eyesweet by Galopin, and one
by Midlothian out of imported Scotch
Fir by Scottish Chief. Mr.. Reed is
something like the lamented Hobart,
who was trying to breed two minute
trotter. Mr.. Reed wants to win an
EPSON Derby with a California bred
horse, and it's meself that Gays: "More
power to yer elbow."
The Breeder and Sportsman publishes
a very readable article on Billy Nc
Cracken, a roadster stallion at one time
owned near Msrysville. l saw several
OF his get trained and they were always
both speedy and stylisn. | rem en- Der O
desperately contested race between q
con, Friday McCracken, and thorough
bred horse called III 'n'y BsImcn, own
brother to Venture, 2:2716. Friday won
the first two heats in something like
2 IA with a dead heat following it.
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then went on and won the next three
heats 10 2:46 or thereabouts. Harry
Barnett and myself sold pools on the
race, on which E NJ. Sksggs lost over
$1,000, whilo Sam Poorman and Capt.
Bill Shallcross each dropped a neat
little wsd. Creed Raymond won over
$1,000 on the race, which was not con.
cluded till nearly dark. The most re-
msrkable feature of the race was that
the owners drove, all professional driv-
ers being barred and not one of the six
starters had been worked over two
weeks prior to the race. 1t was entirely
a granger affair and enjoyed it hugely,
considering it was not fast race by any
means.
At that time the fastest horse in the
state, Of native parsntage, was Regula-
tor bay Qslding owned by Capt. Ben
Harris Of San Francisco, and 2 :32 was
the Dest mark he could get under the
tkillful pilotage of Sam Whitehead, who
is now a very rich man. Charley
Moulthrop brought down horse from
Indian valley, big gray called Pacific,
and he and Regulator trotted the sensa
tional race of the year at the Sacramen-
to fair.
At the Marysville fair the Siskiyou
horse. Kirby Smith, won a mile heat
race in :46. The timers were Creed
Raymond, James barley and Sam Dan
iels but this was the fastest mile yet
run in the state. l made it l :451@, and
showed my watch to A. s. Smith, then
editor of the Marysville Appeal. The
Sacramento Union copied the statement
and then sought to cast discredit upon
it by attacking Creed Raymond and
myself personally. Meeting one of the
publishers of that paper on the street, |
threatened to publish his connection
with the suicide of my friend Alexander
Hayden if he did not retract publicly
what he had said about me; and about
five minutes later along came Creed and
threatened him with cowhidinR if he
did not take back what he said about
him.
Before any retracton appeared, the
horse Vindicated himself, for he came
out at the state fair and won in ASH.
The Union then acknowledged that 1t
had been mistaken about the Maryeville
race, but made no attempt to apologize
either to Mr.. Raymond or myself. Meet
ing old Paul Morrill, at the track that
day, he and l reviewed the whole pro-
ceedings, and he apologized like gem
tleman, but his partner never had that
much decency. About six months after
that, he spoke to. Raymond, who took
the cigar out of his mouth and knocked
the ashes into his face. The row went
no further. Those were great old days
when old Tom Atchison owned Blooms
burg and Doc Williams of UkIah had
Compromise. DR.. Sam Brewster of La
Porte was my running mate in those
days; and there were never two fellows
who had more Fourth of July to the
square inch tban the doct0E and
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