The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-10-14
At Last the Golden Gate Has
a Fit Race Course
AN APPETlZING PROGRAMME
The Australian Starting Gate to Be 9
Feature
Long Races to Be Popular-The Pacific st.
Leger and a Two-fliIe Handicap.
Corrigan's Stable

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 11.-At last
San Francisco has a first-class race
course and it will be thrown open to the
public on the I'd day Of November. 1t
has the largest grand stand in America,
except those at Monmouth and
Morris Park, capable of seating 5000 peo-
pie comforta bly,. The stables have stalls
for 600 horses, of which over 800 are al
ready on the ground. Applications for
stabling are coming IN at the rate OF
thirty-fvs per day from the owners of
eastern horses; and while the horses
owned by August BELMONT. Pierre Loril-
lard and the Morris brothers will not be
on the ground, yet there will be enough
eastern horses here to make good meet
ing, even if there were not a single local
stable to start against them.
Edward Corrigans stable leaves Chi
cago on the 18th with Despot. Senator
Irby, Mohalaska, Lady Alice, Tyro, Bed
ford and The lrunmaster as chief factors
in their respective classes. W. j. Spiers
will bring out O'Cunnell, Lizetta, Liselg
and twelve lesser lights. E. ]. Baldwin,
the lucky man, will have twenty-five, in
GLIDING Rey del Carreres, Arapahoe, Rey
and Hamlin & Johnston will rrIng along
dozen, headed by the redoubtable g.
year-old Diggs. But there will be racing
IN Louisiana and Arkansas all through
the months of Novem per and December,
and horses will be fiVcking in here until
after New Years day. The large and
liberal offers in the stakes make II GER
tain that the fields will be larger than
were ever known before.
The new track Will have many features
not hitherto seen in American racing.
One of these will be the new Australian
starting machine, which is gate maze
of rubber webbing which flies up in the
air and let's the horses break Off in great
style. In the race for the great Metro
politan stakes run at Sydney on the 18th
day of Septem Der, this gate was used and
thu horses were kept at the post just four
minutes. There were twenty-one starters.
So general has peen the adoption of this
gate in Australia that the Jockeys char
itable fund, maintained chiefly by the
fines imposed by the starter. is almost en-
tlrey depleted. Still the Australians
start their horses from a standstili. and
while the gate works weil enough there,
it may not answer for the flying start
so universal in America. However, it
will not be allowed to fail for the want
of fair trial.
The long races at three and four miles
are destined to become very popular. BE-
cause they attract class of old time race
eoers who despiss the present fashion of
six and seven.furlong races. There are
two stake races at four miles AID one at
three, the entries for which have already
closed, and there will be a race at two
and one-nalf or three miles for purse
every other week during the meeting:
s. 90 d. nf
people and as the added money Is liberal
there is certain TO be an immense degree
Of interest manifested in the events:
The management nave in contemplation
two great races for 1886, one OF which will
be called the Pacific st. Leger, and will
be commended fer by all the great three
year-olds that are now running. as two
year-olds. The entrance fee will be $40.
with 500 additional for starters and $4,000
added by the club if the race is run. but
no added money given for walk-over.
This race will probably be from nine to
twelve turlongs and ought to catch at
least fifty nominations if closed by De-
CEN Der 30th. With such two-year-olds
as Requital, Crescendo, Margrave, Hand
spring. Hazlet, Hastings, Axiom and q
dozen other good ones already known.
and many others that are fairly good, but
liable TO improve with q winters rest,
this race ought to fill we'll.
The other idea is something on the
style of the Melbourne cup, being two
mile handicap for Ill ages, the nomina-
tions to close July 3lst and the race to
be run in Move mber. Nominating fee
$780, with $lOO additional for starter. The
club will add $4,000, of which $4,000 goes
third and $500 to the fourth. The sweep
stake money is to be apportio ed at
the rate of 60 per cent to the winner, 25
per cent to the second and Is per cent to
the third. The winner of any race val
ued at 5000 after the weights are an
any two races worth $4,000 or vt one race
worth $4,000, five POUNDS extra; OF any
race worth over $4,000. or of thres races
worth $4,000 and less than $4,000. seven
pounds extra.
1t is not extravagant to suppose that
such race, to be run al season when
racing would be- ended at the far east.
would draw at least eighty nominations.
If it did and twenty of them should
start, it would maks $4,000 added money
and $500 in sweepstakes money, total
of $4,000. Of this $3.50 would be the
winners share, $2l00 would go to the
second horse. $l040 to the third and
$500 to the fourth. With certainty that
he would quit $3.50 to the good, even if
he ran no better than fourth, almost any
man would be willing to take a shy at
this race. and therefore / do not deem
eighty nom nations anything eAtrava-
CANT.
+ That has been the trouble in America,
that all our cups we're weight for age
races like the Ascot. Chester, Doncaster
and Brighton cups In England. The cups
in Australia are all handicaps, and that
is why they receive from $50 to 240 nomi-
nations every year, land also explains why
they have from twenty to thirty
five starters. l saw tweuty-eight starters
when Dunlop won the Melbourne cup
IN 1887; twenty-nine in Mentors year
and thirty-nine in Canbrine's. There
we're .hirty-fivs when Malarto won it in
1891. And if the club will increase the
added money 500 each year till they get
it up to 200 they will have the finest
annual race in America. Had the WASH
ington park people at Chicago made their
cup d handicap instead OF weight tor
age race it would be the most popular
race in America today.
Our great trouble has been that we put
too much money into our juvenile events
and not enough into races for the all ages
division. We must go back TO first prin-
ciples. We srall have 10 horses capable
of staying a mile by 1900. The number
of great 2-year-olds that have won over
$50, 600 as debutants and could not win
$40, 900 at three years old Is something
frightful for breeder to contemplate.
hope the new club will treat the 2-year-
old question moderately and keep we'll
bred Youngsters from being raced to
death in the insatiate thirst for money.
When YOU look at Sensation. fremont,
King Fox, Dagonet and the other great g
wear. Odds that were knocked to pieces
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