The herald., 1895-07-14

heed brood mares and is still breeding,
1hough ct present he owns no stallion.
Of. ]. II. Garner has been q breeder oi
4 tr0ttfng and road stock for several years.
He owns Oscar Steinway and his son.
Bill Nye, promising young PAGER. j.
che county about the same time. 1856 OF
1887. Mr.. Willis is widely known as the
owner of Silkwood 2:07. also has his sire
Blackwood Mambri and band of some
forty brood mares. Mr.. sylvester owns
Nutford. 2:15, and has good selection
of maref.
G. W. Bixby of Orange has large
f0othill ranch and raises road and gen.
eral purpose stock Mr.. p. Il. Clark OF
Fraiview raises ten or twelve colts year.
bred in trotting and pacing lines. In
Anaheim Mr.. Hill and Mr.. Fierce are
breeders of draft stock, and scattered
through the county are many good slres
of draft, coach, general purpose and road
horses. The excellence of the stock
raised here has become very widely
known and frequent visits are made to
Orange county by horse buyers from all
ever the southern part Of the state.
The Orange County Fair association
was organized and gave its first race
meeting in 1890. Since then its acquaint-
ance and patronage has steadily grown
and it now has one of the fastest tracks
an the United States, with stables for $50
horses, three good artesian wells and all
acilities for giving successful race meet,
tngs The class of sport it has furnished
and its reputation for fair dealing at
tract attendance from all of California.
and its star day of each year brings peo-
pie by the trainload from San Diego,
Riverside, San Bernardino and Los An
geles counties. The programme for the
October races has been made out and the
entries closed June ID with over $50 nomi-
nations for the trotting and pacing races
alone. The great attraction, which will
probably come on Friday, October 18th,
is the free-for-all pace, in which are en-
tered Silkwood. 2:07; Diablo. 2:09h !;
Waldo J.. 2:l3H; W, Wood. 2;o7. and
ern champion. Waldo J. the pride of
Ventura county and the others are from
the north. Waldo J. has beaten :09 in
public; DiabIo was the four-year-old race
champion two years ago. since which
time he has not started; w. Wood has APP
peared on nearly every track IN the state,
and is said to be better than ever this
year; Laura M. is much faster than her
record indicates, and if all are in condi-
tion the race will be the fastest and most
closely contested of any ever witnessed
on the Pacific coast. All other races have
filled well, with horses entered from
Nevada, Montana, Idaho, Washington,
Oregon and all of California.
The following horses with records are
owned in Orange county and may be seen
on the Santa Ana track almost any MORN
ing: Silkwood, 2:07; Nutford, 2:l5;
ketchum (3 years.. 2:17; Alinda Rich
mond. 2:17; Birdroe, 2;26% Jennie June.
2:19N Grey Cloud. 2:25; Daisy Wood.
2:27, besides many youngsters as fast as
some of those mentioned, but which have
not started yet in public ana are now in
training for the summer campaign. Not
withstandins the low prices of horses in
general the really choice roadster COM
mands as high price as ever, and Orange
county breeders do not feel discouraged
about the future. e. S. Holcomb was
seen at the track, where he has string
of horses in training. many of them hav-
ing already made a record which is sur
prising. Mr.. Holcomb is one of the best
known horsemen in the county. standing
high in the minds OF all who know him.
Among his string the following horses
were. specially noted: Grey Cloud. Il
dapple gray sired by Revillie; Peronto by
Dexter Prince, a three -year-old owned ny
J. L. Lane of Rincon; Ketchum. a fine
dark bay. four years old, owned by Eel
ton & Robinson of Santa Ana. Mr.. Hol-
comb is.a conscientious trainer getting all
out of a horse possible by careful study of
and ability. His string of
horses are credit to California as well as
to himself.