The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-18
SOME HORSE NOTES.

Well, the Brooklyn is over, and DIR.
Rice, cast-off from the Gideon & DAILY
stable OF last year, has won the second
biggest of the eastern handicsps, and
the tirnt really grand race of the season.
/ regard him a good horse without any
material pretensions to greatness. He
won toe Withers stakes, one mile, last
year. and was call ont" at the finish.
In the Belmont. at Ia miles, he was
completely pumped out, aud Comanche
won cleverly. The latter colt was fifth
In the Brooklyn OF Tuesday, and was
evidently very short OF work from the
way that he tired when the first mile OF
the $2500 journey was accomplished.
As he has pound less weight in the
suburban and nearly three weeks to sea
son upon. 1t would not eurprss me to
hear that he had run better than third
in that race. My disappointment was
in the imported colt Bassettan, who
should have been at least second, &C
cording to his running of last year.
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The Kentucky derby is rapidly falling
into an insignificant race. One has only
to contrast Tuesdays race for that event
with the heroic struggle Of 1880 between
Luke Blackburn and Fonso, in which
the former ran second by q scant length,
alter falling to his knees alter the flag
went down, to show the differences be-
tween the horses OF that day aud this
era of fash sprlnters OF the Domino
persuasion. In the race Of Tuesday that
good second-clsss colt, Chant. won by
10 lengths. pulling up; and coul have
won by 40 lengths II desired. The $685.
600 derby of the Washington Park club,
at Chicago, is rapidly dwarfng the Ken
lucky derby by comparison.
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The blood horse meeting at San Fran
cisco, in which nothing but the rankest
goats" have participated for the past
six weeks, will come to q close on Sat-
urday next, and the Bay city will have
a respite from it's gambling craze OF the
past Six months. All these long-drawn-
out meetings are hurtful.
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Barring accidents, the Kentucky colt
Clifford. with l22 pounds in the saddle,
should win the suburban easier than
Salvador won it with 1873 in 1890. His
defeat in the Brooklyn means nothing.
l do not believe him the equal OF Saliva
since Sslyator's day and cannot help
thinking that Marcus DAILY showed ad-
mirabls judgment in retiring rammany
to the stud ON the strength OF his VIC
tory over Lamplighter at the Gutten-
berg track. II he had stayed in the
fight till this spring his impost for the
suburban would not have been less than
1913 pounds, and at that difference OF
weight Clifford would have roasted him.
do not consider the Yarnalton colt q
Salvador, but l do consider him good
enough to win the suburban.
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The grand old stallion Wildidle, now
In his twenty sixth year, is looking we'll
and hearty at MIR. Judeon's place, near
Santa Clara. With the single excep-
ton of imp. Glenelg, owned in Ken
horse OF his age that is not now impo-
tent. Grinstesd has been so for three
years and he is q year younger horse
than Wildidle. If there were more races
run above a mile than under it, tho
Wildidle Gotta would be oftener bracket
I'D as winners.
From present appearances IL would
ton is not far from its final fulfilment.
When at Elton he said he had three
amb,tions-win the derby, marry the
richest heiress in England and become
prime minister. The last two OF these
he has already gained, as a simple mat
tar OF history; and from the easy way in
which his great colt Ludas won the 1000
guinness at Newmarket, last week. it
looks as il the derby was already within
mis- covetous grasp. Should Ludss win
the Derby. it will place Hampton at the
head If the winning sires OF 1894, q po-
ston be has never before occupied, al
though he has been twice second and
four times third. Hampton 10 q wonder
ful little horse, and while he was, for
years, eneered at as being trifle above
q sellng platter, he has ONLY to get an
other derby winner to place himself
alongside Stockwell and Touchstone and
ahead OF all other sires since 1926.
Merry Hampton won it in 1885 and
Ayrshire in 1888, 30 that Hampton is
right up among the best sires of the
age.
If the decision OF the court OF common
pleas in the state of New York that q
bookmaker is a dealer in lotteries is to
hold good az principle OF law, every
race track in America might az we'll
close up al one time as another. The
principle has never been considered so
in England, nor in America up to the
present writing. Betting on races
through the agency of bookmakers has
been allowed in Australia for go years
and in "the mother country" for upward
OF century, and this decision, il al
lowed to stand, will upset what has gone
on peacefully for over 20 years in the
United States. II the wseacre who per-
petrated the above decision, 40 called,
would attend Sheepshead Bay and wit
ness suburban or two he might become
less contracted in his opinions OF horses
and men, more particularly the latter
class OF animate beings.
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Barney Schreiber, who put in all of
last winter at the San Francisco meet
Ing, has opened the season fairly we'll at
tho east, his mare Dolly McCone (bred
by Theodore Winters at Sacramento),
winning good race on the opening day
at st. LOUIS. As Mr.. Schneider is inter-
Gated in three books doing business at
the st. Louis track and held out Dolly
McCone on the race referred to, he must
have made big cleanup on the race to
W which | refer, won by the Winters FLY.
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Porter Ashe is at st. Louis with his
old mare Geraldine, the last prop to a
tottering house. Whether the old mare