The herald., 1895-10-28
SADDLE AND BRIDLE

What promises to be the greatest horse
meeting ever held in Los Angeles begins
today at Agricultural park. The fair is
conducted by the Pacific Coast Breeders
association, an organization whose mem
bersh1p roll contains the names of promi-
nent horse breeders from Washington to
Central America. The program of races is
unusually fine. and the purses, with one
exception, are all 500 or more in size.
There arc in ali nineteen races on the
card for the week, besides two match
games of polo, coming Wednesday and
Saturday. The program of today is as
follows:
First race. trotting, 900 class. nominal
ton, purse $1,000. The entries number
thirteen horses, and among them are
winship & Keating's Ethel Downs,
2:13R; Vendomi stables, John Bury,
2:l5A; b. o. Van Bokelens Thompson
2:l3, and tn 0mas Smiths Columbus s,
2:1515, This should be hard, fast race.
Second race. pacing. 2:l3 class purse
$1,000. This race has nine entries, among
them being Winship q Keating's Path
mont, 2:09A; Robert Browns Belle, 212,
and S. G. Tryon's Hanford Medium, who
ran a close third to Chehalls when the
latter made his record of 2:07L. eThis
field should make a fast race, and it is
hard to pick winner.
Third Iace-Stanford stakes, three year
olds, purse $1,000. Among the entries are
the names of Nord;ca, 2:19%, Cressida,
2:Z2A and ivan Alto, a son of the dead
king Palo Alto 2:0SL. This event is to
be one of the notable trotting events of
the coast, and all the horses named can
make much faster time than their records
show.
Fourth race-Pacilg, 2:25 class, all
ages, purse $1,000. There are seventeen
entries in this event, and among them
are Chehalis, 2:0715. one of the fastest
horses that ever stepped. Algregor, who
won in good time last Friday, and can
travel in any company. Dictatus, an an
anal bred i'll the purple, and Dan. N, a
game performer. Should Chehals be
beaten, records will hit the ground with
a pretty hard tn imp.
In all, the purses today amount to
$1,000, a sum that has never been put up
for any one days racing in this section
be fore. Today, Mr.. &. p. McNair will DO
the starting. Mr.. McNair is one of the
hnest OF tho few really good professional
starters in this country. A field never
Keeps him at the post, for he seldom
gives jockey more than three times to
start. After that the Jockeys salary
suffers. Spectators need not be afraid of
long toIlsome waits, for there won't be
any.
In connection with the picture of Zom-
bro that Is published, a sketch of his ca
"
is "a three-year old, by Mckinney, 2:11A.
out of Whisper, by Almont lightning,
who was a son of Almont AMI damned
by the great Thoroughbred lightning.
This is Zombro's first year on the track.
Mr.. Charles Durfee commenced his work
last April, and it is molly u fair statement
to ssy that under like conditions no
more illustrious campaign was ever
made than that Zombr is now closing.
He was shipped first to Oregon, a dis
lance of+120o miles, taken out OF the cars
and started against aged horses, winning
in straight heats. He also won a three
year-old event. At Sacramento he was
attacked by distemper and beaten, but
made a record of 2:19 in the second heat.
At Vallejo Doodle, an aged horse and
tough mpaigner, beat him out in 2:16.
Zombro won the 1924 trot in straight
heats, the fastest being 2:17M. At Napa
be started in the three year-old event
and won the lbest race for horses of that
age ever seen oil this coast. The time of
the five heats was, 2:19, 2:16, 2:16M.
2:l5ts, 2:1513, Zom bro winning the last
three. He went to Woodland and won
two races, leaving there with a new rec
ord of 2:l3. At the state fair in Sacra-
menuo lago, an aged horse prepared espe.
cially for this race, boat Zombro only by
an eyelash in 2:11. The following week
at Stockton Zombro turned up fresh and
easily beat lago who plainly showed the
effects of the bruising race at Saora-
mento. Taken all in all it is doubtful if
there is in-this country finer three
year-old than this splendid son of the
mighty Mckinney. He will start this
week at the breeders meet and is fit for
the race OF his life