The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-07-04
SOME HORSE NOTES.

day, after which the scene OF strife will
probably be shifted to jerome park be-
cause tine Momonth track is closed snd
Long Branch will seem to be, this gum
mer st least, very stupid affair.
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One OF the beat 2year-olds out this
year 10 Walter. owned by Gideon &
Daily. of New York. He is BY the Aus
trelian horse Daubin. out of Sly Dance
by War Dance and his four crosses OF
Glencoe who won the Two Thousand
Guinea and Goodwood Cup Of 1884. He
was bred by Mr.. J. B. Hagein at Sacra-
mento, and has won over $4,000 in
purses and stakes already this season.
He is large colt and it is to be hoped
that his owners will not make
too much use OF him in his
2-year old form, as he is Of the type of
horses that trains on and runs beet at
and 5. The junior Champion race lie to
be run in July, the Futurity in August
and the Matron stakes in September, 30
! that the horse which wins one of these
three, together with one or two of the
larger spring stakes, will be the big colt
OF the year. Connoisseur (brother to
| Sir Exeess) has 30 far shown
the hest in public OF any OF the 2.yesr
old division and as he is by Mr..
Higgins New England horse, Sir Mo-
dred, look Tor that stallion to head the
list oil winning Stree for 1894. He would
have headed the list last year, had they
counted by the number of races actually
won and not by their value in money.
Apropos OF the copper millionaire and
his fine horses, Mr.. Hsggin met with
very serious LOGS last week in the person
OF his New Y aland horss Maxim, for
which he paid about $4,000 in Decem
Der, 1891 Maxim was bred by George
q. Stead Of Canterbury Plain. and won
8 races out OF IL, being second in the
other two. Maxim gave Abercorn the
race OF his Lille at two years old, and at
three years he was mated against the
famous cup horse Nelson at two
miles and quarter for the Canter-
bury cup. He won the race by
forty lengths, pulling up in the second
fastest race ever run south of the
equator. At Mr.. Haggins last sale in
New York, his Maxim yearlings brought
an average OF over $500 apiece. There
are also supposed to be some Is mares
on the ranch in foal to him, so that wb at
they drop In 1895 will more
than reimburse Mr.. Haggin for his loss.
At the same time, it 10 not pleasant to
have horse like that die at nine years,
while lot of old jackscrews like Miner,
John Happy aud Warwick live away up
into the twenties. :.
1 am told that Mr.. Hsggin has pur-
chased the famous Tenny for his farm
at Del Psso, having failed to secure his
sire Rayon d'Or, at the Scott esle OF
| 1892. This l do not believe. My i'm
preston is that Tenny has only been
leased and may stand alongside his old
rival, Salvador, for two or three years at
the most. He was leased last season to
Mr.. Henry P. Hesdley, of Lexington,
KY, who is also the owner of imp.
Order and Cavalier. My advice to Mr.
Hsggin would be to replace Maxim with
either a son of st. Simon or II horse bred
in the Oxford line OF Irish Blrdcatcher,
as do not know of any other Musket
horse that can be strictly called q sue
cess, except Trenton, who has been re-
Gently purchased for shipment to Eng
land.
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Mr.. Baldwin's recent victory in the
Chicago Derby should awaken that gen.
tleinan to the necessity of getting him
self new sire for the farm at Santa
Anita Certainly he has no horse there,
not even Gano, the baet of the lot, that |
is fit to mate with euch matrons as La |
| Cienega, Miss Ford and Aloha. Emperor
| OF Norfolk was a great racehorse, but
wholly unfit for any mares that can bs
bad except in Eng and and Australia.
No horse can hope to be a successful sire
if he be not bred from a maternal line
tina. has already produced sires, and the
family OF the big and beautiful Marian
ls blank in this respect. Had the
Emperor been an English horse his
owner would have sold him for the first
price offered as soon as ne broke down.
but in this country there are but few
intelligent breeders. Men who have |
made no study Of this proposition 90
into the business of breeding and think |
1T is like poker game, where they win !
by force of capital. They find out TO |
the contrary, generally speaking, but
it is when their money is all gone and
they have become disguised with the
business.
II you take up Goodman q Guide. com.
piled up to date. you will find that Cali
fornia horses have won considerably
more than their share of the big faces OF |
thia season. Dir. Haggin leads off in
money valnes with Mr.. Baldwin next
and Palo Alto next. The same condi-
ton prevails at Palo Alto as at Santa
Anita-the mares are good but old and
the stations are not in any wise equal to
them. Indeed. it would not surprise me
to see everything sold out. lock, stock
and barrel, at Matadoro this coming
winter. Mrs. Stanford is ehrewd and |
far seeing woman. She has been told
by friends, whose fidelity she
cannot doubt. that the running
horse department of her farm cannot
last much longer in it's present share;
and that it will require at least SIS 900
for new imported stallion to bring
that farm up to an equality with Santa
Anita, Ranch del Paso and other run
ming horse farms. This che cannot
afford to do. Her husband died, leaving
her an immense amount OF property,
but he also lett her such backload of
debts as no other woman has ever been
asked to shoulder since the good Lord
fret began to make little green apples.
And that is shy l predict dispersal
of the Palo Alto etud-at least, the thor
oughbred portion OF it-before the snow
hies. HIDALGo.