The herald., 1894-01-14
SOME HORSE NOTES.

The Blood Horse meeting at San Fran
cisco, which ended on the 30th of Decem-
Der, was great success, financially and
every other way and its successful ter
mination stamps President Tom" Will
liams as one of the foremost of American
amusement caterers. The largest win
ming owner at the meeting was Mr.. T..
ii. Williams, and the heaviest winning
2-year-old was the bay colt Lucky Dog,
by imported Darebin out OF Lou Larnier
by Lever. and therefore own brother to
that fast mare Kildeer, who holds the
race record for one mile in l 3716.
Lucky Dog is the property OF Mr.. S. u.
Reed OF Pasadena, formerly the associ-
ate OF the late Capt. j. @. Ainsworth in
steamboat enterprises in the Columbia
river and tributaries. He is big fell
low, about l6 hands high in his shoes,
and has stride that winds up ordinary
horses like your "grandfather's clock. !"
HIS winnings for the meeting are come
where In the vicinity OF $4,000, and while
his gains for the past year are hardly )
per cent OF the winnings OF the unbeaten
Domino, yet there is no certainty that
Domino can beat him at mile and
hall, which is Derby distance and just
twice as far as Domino has ever run in
public.
The great S-year-olds of the coming
year will be the following, and think
do not make any great mistake in the
way l have got them rated: First
place Dobbins, by Longfellow, owned
by Richard Croker OF Tammany; next
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Marcus DAILY of Montana; third, Lucky
Dog, of Pasadena fourth, Sir Excess, by
Sir Modred, owned by Brown & Rogers
fifth, Jack OF Spades, by Magnetizer, the
property OF August Belmont; and sixth,
Articus, by Argyle, a Los Angeles-bred
colt, now owned by George Van Garden.
In the Quickstep stakes, Articus, who
was a hot favorite, undertook to give
Lucky Dog four pounds weight, but the
fortunate canine gave him worse than
seven pounds beating. In the
Spreckels' handicap, iun IL days later,
Lucky Dog gave from to 26 pounds
weight to field of IL starters, and won
under double wrap. He carried l23
pounds and covered the elk furlongs in
1:1514. The other racers were all very
slow, there being two at five furlongs in
1:14s4 and :05; one at seven furlongs
in :36; and one at mile in :4612, all
with weights below ITO pounds and all
by horses of A years old and upwards.
Judging by their performances, Lucky
Dog would have done well to carry 1lS
pounds and run where he did. or to
carry 115 pounds and run in :171a on
that muddy track. His real quality can
be inferred from his actual weight and
time.
Hence l claim him rs first-class colt
and, what is far better, an improving
one. He will race no more till June,
and will. have nothing but moderate ex-
ercise TO the middle of May. | know it
is the fashion to sneer at the Darebins
as being gross and unwieldy youngsters
that do not mature quickly enough to
win valuable 2-year-old engagements,
but until some of the English stations
now in America-St. Blaise. Rayon
dor, Rotherhill or Charaxus-produce
horse that is equal to the Australian
Peer, who was by Darebin, out of the
English mare Stocdore by Macaroni. /
shall not be ready or willing to admit
the inferiority OF the old brown horse at
Del Paso. The Peer beat Abercorn
three times, and "Aby" beat him foui
times. but he never could beat him in
"truerun race" that is. where the pace
is strong from the fall of the flag. The
Australian Peer won the Sydney cup,
two miles, in :323., with 118 pounds
in the saddle a. 8 years old, a perform
anee never eqGalled except by Carbine,
New Zealand horse; and he defeated
in that race a field of % horses of all
ages, hon- OF which carried as low as 96
10 D.
colt to be another Australian Peer.
Domino may win races this year, and
many of them, but they will find that a
mile and quarter will be as far as he
wants to go and all the richest 3-year-
old events in the United States are
above that distance.
Senator Grady is engaged in the Derby
at Chicago, which is guaranteed to be
worth $4,000 to the winner, but Dob
bins and Jack OF Spades are not, go that
it looks as if the big bay colt from Pasa-
dena would have fairly good show for
il. He is being trained for his engage
ments by Harry Byrnes, brother OF
Matthew, who trains Senator Grady and
Tammany; and who spent two months
with us last winter, making earnest
friends on all sides by his modest and
gentlemanly behavior. Matt used to
ride Parole and Duke of Magenta for
Lorillard and was 'head lad'' in the
cherry and black stable when Iroquois
pulled off the double event in 1881 in
England. Nett is at the head of his
profession in America and l am con-
fdent he would not have recommended
his brother to Mr.. Reed had he not con-
sidered him in every way competent.
The American Derby has been three
times won by Los Angeles horse,
Volante in 1885, Silver Cloud in 1856
and Emperor of Norfolk in 1888; and
Los Angeles horses have twice run sec-
ond for it. Miss Ford in 1887 and San
tiago in 1890. The American Derby ia
Just 10 years old, and no other county
in America shows like number OF
winners of THE truly classical race.
That the good fortune of the Lucky Dog
of Pasadena may extend beyond his
name at Washington Park next summer
is my fond hope and sincere wish.
spent a morning at Oneonts last
week and saw the newly-arrived Eng
lieh stallion Duncombe, whose looks are
better than his breeding, were such a
thing possible. He is dark brown
horse with tan nose and fanks, and no
white save few gray hairs on the nigh
| fore ankle, which he inherits logically