The herald., 1895-04-12
A.GREAI DAY OF RACING
Famous Horses Will Start at
Agricultural Park
THE NEWTON HANDICAP
People Visit the Track to See the
Exercise Races
S1me Splendid Work Done in Outside Cities.
.fayorites Win IT the Bay District,
l1emphis and Nashville

Tomorrow afternoon will be IL memora
blcsone In the racing history OF the Paci-
fic coast. That great event, the Newton
handicap. will be decided at Agricultural
Park. People are trying hard to guess the
winner since Trainer Mulkey announced
that .Cadmus. would not be started, and
every, morning there are scores of men
out ut the race track watching the gallops
and tryouts of the horses in the hope that
they will ascertain the winner.
It seems certain that dozen horses,
famous East and West, will face Starter
II. D.; Brown when the event is called on
Saturday. the opening day. Three can
didates for. the big stake arrived from San
Francisco yesterday afterpoop-White-
stone, Blizzard and Captain Coster. Gennet
Edwards, the Kentucky tilly. and one or
two other horses entered in the race, are
expected to arrive today. Candid. Duke
Stevens. Red Head, Bridal Veil. Garcia.
Little Cripple and few others W no are
expected to start have been galoping g
every morning at the track.
Two carloads of horses arrived at the
track yesterday. In one car were the
seven steeds Of Arthur White and Stony
Clark. They are all craclerjacks, and
hard ones to beat III any company. The
star OF the string is probably Wnltestone.
who, will, carry the top weight in the
Newton Hi has been defeating the best
o. them in his recent races at San Frau
for anything in the big handicap. The
roam sIrinter, Tim Murphy, is known all
over, the continent. He is fleet of foot
and as game as cock. Ohyesa is an
other clever sprinter. She is by Tyrant,
and has won some very fast races.
ffln
widely known to need any comment.
Moryen,is u SORT Of an ali around horse.
Hsis n handy horse on the fiat. and quite
a asgood performer over the sticks. Iom
Clark and Clara White complete White d
Clark s. string. SS
White s. Clark are st. Louis boys
and haye been very successful on the
turf, both East and West. On the car
following White & Clark were the horses
ofsthe Pleayaiiton stables, owned by Joe
Mccarthy. the son of Dan Mccarthy, he
Of therwitite hat. Blizzard, Captain Co.'S
ter. Bernfrdo. Talbot Clifton and Mutt
neer complete his lot. Besides these
horses he brought to this city the steeple-
chaser, The LARK. The Lark won great
race few days ago over the jumps. and
Lords Talbot Clifton purchased him for
$l05Q. As there are to be few jumping
races down here, the English sports
man i and presiding genius of the Bur
! to capture the trophies with him. Mr..
Clifton is expected to arrive here today,
as he has fully recovered from the
nervous prostration which overcame him
the other might in the Palace Hotel,
when heacuffeu Carlisle Norwood, Jr., a
New York swell.
The horses Harry Lewis and Macfar-
lane, which Jockey Hendricks purchased
aifew days ago also arrived. The Jockey
witLarFiye, today. and with him comes
Jockeys Eel Carr, Willie Flynn. Nate
Hill and fCbevaIier. Gennet Edwards
Koadrunner, Crawford ana a lot of other
horses will reach the track today.
Quite q galaxy Of sports, business men
and lovers Of racing arrived yesterday by
both rail an sea- Herman Hoffman, the
truf White, Story Clark, Henry Schwartz,
tue manager of the races, Secretary and
8. Handicapper Ben Benjamin, J. Ross
jackson, William Carnes, william, Lang
don. Jimmy Boyd. Billy Kennedy, Bob
Davenport and host OF others made
their appearance on the streets.
Secretary. Benjamin. whose home
is,.- in this city but who has
been serving the San Francisco Examiner
for couple Of years as its turf editor.
predicts great and very successful meet
ing.eat> Agricultural Park during Fiesta
races.
II. d. Brown, who will act as starter,
will arrive ihthe city today He is one
otsthe most capable starters that ever
dropped a flag.
Whitehead & Co. have secured the pool
ing privilege, and will sell pools on the
Fiesta races every morning and evening,
at Durkee's pool room, as we'll as at the