The herald., 1894-01-01
THE HOME OF THE HORSE,
WHAT Los Angeles Has Con-
tributed in 20 Years,
Towards the Brilliant Achievements
on the American Race Course.
The Santa Anita Farm and It's Great Gal
Iopers-stsmboul and the Horses
of Rosemeade l. Echo asa
Trotting Foundation.
Tsa production of fast horses is every,

lionaire rodo his ''cayuse" saddle horse,
as did the vsgrant Mexican gambler and
horse thief. With the incoming of civ
ilization, the buggies began to make
their appearance, and with them came
O demand for o larger class of horses,
better able to pull weight. The first
stallion imported to this state from the
east, with anything of record, was the
little gray horse General Taylor, brought
hither by s. B. Eyclesheimer early In
1858. He is to be found in the pedigrees
.i many excellent performers, having
got the dams of Lady Blanchard, 2:261a;
Stella, $780, Bickford, 2:2914: Wells
Fargo, 2:1S3z; Neris, 2:23ls Lee, 220;
and Sargent, 2:2S. He is also credited
with the paternity of the 20 mile horse
Controller, but am inclined to doubt it.
May Boy, by John Nelson, would come
good deal nearer fitting it correctly to
my notion.
Just what horse might be properly
called the first trotting sire brought to
Los Angeles county, it is hard to say.
People here in the early days had
greater prediction for gallopers than
for trotaers, as moet all the early white
settlers here were of Southern parentage
and the trotting horse idea had not at
that time invaded Kentucky. In the
best Of my belief the first stallion ever
owned here that could beat three min
I, utes was large bay horse called Nor
mcn Chief, owned by Col. Thomas d.
Mott, Net. wwhc yes then county clerk. This
horse Mr.. Mott sent up to San Francisco
to Col. Jack Gambill, who placed him
in charge of John M. Daniels, then in
tbs neighth of his prosperity, as dri-
1er of trotters. l drove him several
times while Mr.. Daniels had him at the
Willows park, but the best l could ever
get out of him was 2:52. After | went
to Boise river in 1868 | heard that Dan
iels had won heat with him in 2:46,
but had no means of substantlating any
of his public per formances.
Every once in awhile, between
1860 and 1903 horse would crop
up that could trot tolerable race. One
of these was Don Elipha, who got rec
ord Of 2:30 and afterwsrd won big
match at two-mile heats in Salt Lake.
Another was horse called Vaughn, who
trotted close to 2:30, and went all
through the circuits of 1S73-'74, in
charge OF George w. Leiby. But no def
mite attempt at breeding trotters was
made till about 1868, when Leonard J.
Rose went east and brought out horee
called The Moor, from George G. Stevens
of Milwaukee, Wis. With HIM came
the RpTv EREld amsgs yss %frs sse bs6E Mjpns
horse called Overland to mate with
the daughters of The Moor, but he died
long ago. The Moor had no bubble rec
ord better than 2 :37, but was separately
timed at Sacramento in 2:3i. being
fourth in heat won by Prince Allen
In 29. From this union OF Minnie haha
ana Inc MOOR came Beautiful Bells,
dam OF six with records nf2 80 or better.
Minnehaha was afterward bred to Sui
tan (son of The Moor, and produced
Alcszar, 2:2O1a; Eva, 2:23%; Sweet
heart, 2:221a, and San Gabriel, 2:29A.
The Sultans are, as q rule, rather light
bodied, but have excellent legs and feet:
and the old saying of mo foot no horse'''
is Just aa true as ever it was.
Almost contemporary with Mr.. Roses
importation Of the Moor, Munchaba and
Sultana (dem OF Sultan) Mr. l.. H. Titus
OF San Gabriel made a pilgrimage to
"ths white settlements" Returning to
the sunset slope he brought back with
him small but beautifully shaped bay
stallion bred by jesse Seeley OF Warwick,
N. Z. This horse was called Echo and
got record of 2:371l6 At all events he
was horse not to be surpassed for
quality and he got IA trotters and two
PAGERS besides four or five sires, of W hich
Bob Mason and Gibraltar were the best.
The blood of Echo 1 regard as very
good thing to have in horse.
The advocates of thoroughbred blood
IN the trotter will find some food for re-
fiection in the fact that Echo got out
OF his l5 trotters from mares got by
f thoroughbred aires, while Sultan got but
out oil "a from the same style of mares.
have no positive authority for such
statement but fully believe that the
same mares were bred to him that have
been bred successfully to Echo and that
Sultan failed on them. This, however.
argues nothing, for Sultan vastly sur
passes Echo as sire OF extreme speed.
i But coupling Echo's success on running
bred mares with that OF his distin-
guished relative, Eleetioneer, it will
demonstrate that the cons of Hambls-
tonian, 10, were naturally constituted to
control action in mares OF that breed
Ing. The same was true of old Man,
brino Chief, but in a lesser degree.
The amount of money that these two
horses, Echo and The Moor, and their
descendants, have added to the taxable
property of Los Angeles county can
hardly be contemplated just now. Mr..
Rose sold one lot OF horaes in New York
for S2O6 900 in 1890, nearly all OF which
were descendants of The Moor. Mr..
Titus sold Echo to Mr.. j. B. Haggin, but
not before the old horse had lett his
mark indelibly upon the stock OF the
southern counties. The blood of Echo
is regarded by intelligent breeders as a
very good thing to have in horse.
Of Sultan, the best son Of The Moor,
it must be said that be wac a reliable
producer OF extreme speed, together
with good legs and feet. His horses
were, however, erratic in temper, but
for which they wauld have more gem
orally come into fashion. The great
charm of the Echos was their good tenn
per, while they did not like distance
of ground as well as the Moors and Sui
tans. The union of the two strains has
resulted generally in very high class
pf gentlemen's road horses; and that
tpeaks great deal for any stallion
whose progeny are pleasant horses to
the surrey and the buggy.
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