The herald., 1896-07-27
THE HOR Sc

Patchen's bike weighs only twenty
pounds.
Imp. Rayon d. Or died on July 14th at
August Belmont's Nursery STUD farm
near Lexington, Ken, where ne was
taken about a year ago. The cause OF
his death was old age and complica-
ton of diseases. Rayon d. Or was 20
years old and was bred by c. j. Lefevre
of the Dangu stud, France. He was
foaled in 1876. He was by Flageolet,
SON of Plutus, dam Araucaria, dam OF
Claimant, Camelia, etc, by Ambrose,
son of Touchstone, out of Pocahontas,
dam of Stockwell, Rataplan, King Tom,
etc, by imp. Glencoe.
Peter McGivney, the oldest race horse
man that ever lived, died in st. Louis
June I'd. aged 113 years. He was born
in Ireland in 1888. He settled in st. Lou
Is over half a century ago. and was the
oldest harness trainer and driver in the
west. His first work was on the old Abb
bey track now Eastern avenue, St Lou
is, and he was a prominent figure on
western tracks when the trotting horse
business was in it's infancy.
Ophir, the 2S-year-old chestnut stall
lion by Maelstrom (son of Lapidst-Par-
achute) and Miss Lightfoot, by imp.
Trustee, now doing service at r. +.
Rithers farm near Victoria, 3. c., has
| quite a history. Monroe Miller traded
| him to Lawyer Taylor for calf not long
| ago, then Taylor presented him to man
| named McKeon, who in turn sold the old
| horse to Mr. Rithet for something like
| $50. There are number of Ophir's colts
| in British Columbia-Rural Spirit.
1.-The popular idea that the age of
| horse can always be told by looking at
his teeth" says veterinary surgeon, lis
not always correct. After the eighth
year the horse has no new teeth, so that
| thetooth method is useless for telling the
| age of a horse which Is more than eight
| years old. AS soon as the set of teeth is
| complete, however, a wrinkle begins to
! appear on the upper edge of the lower
| eyelid, and new wrinkle is added each
year, so that to get at the age of a horse
more than eight years old you must fig
ure the teeth, plus the wrinkles"
The greatest confidence is expressed
| on all sides that the coming winter race
meetings will excel anything ever seen
in the west and will compare very ia
vorably with the best meetings given
| this summer in the east. Both the Cal
ifornia and Pacific Coast Jockey clubs
will offer number of big stakes sure to
attract a fine class of horses. Then
again the California stables will be more
- 49, t.Ilu Irvudfe racng 'on
an extensive scale, the game is sure to
continue good, especially as it is only in
tenoed TO race six months in the wear.
FROM the present outlook the Califor-
ma circuit racing, which really opens a t
Petaluma August 3d. will result in some
great contests between trotters, PAGERS
anu runners. Nhe associations in all the
! interior towns are for the first time in
| years offering liberal inducements to
| owners or runners. and in most of the
| towns they will be given two or three
| days.
At the close of the Petaluma meeting
the horses will go to Willows, where a
| weeks racing will be given. w. v
Freeman fbn of+ NY:
association, has been most successful
with his program Out of all the events
he advertised only one 2: 80 class trot-
ting event, did not fill. There is stabling
on the track for $50 horses.
Chlco Is arranging for a meeting to
follow willows. This is pleasing infor-
nation to horSemen, for it closes I'D the
gap in the circuit between Willows and
woodland The meeting will be under
the auspices of the Chico association
composed of Joseph Sproule, Park Hem
shaw and other we'll known citizens of
that town.
After the Sacramento fair, which
opens September 1st and closes the 10Th.
Stockton will hold it's thirty-sixth an
nual fair. The association, of which F.
II. Cobb is president and c. E. Doan sec
retary, has announced the following pro-
gram providing for the disbursement of
500 in purses: Monday, September
-ISt, iuiiiIlS races, events TO be H.
nounced later; Tuesday, running races;
Wednesday, trotting, 2:4O class, purse
500; 2:27 pacing, purse $500; 2:19 trot-
ting, purse $500; Thursday, 2:24 trotting.
purse 5000; Friday, 2:14 trotting, purse
$500; district pace for horses with no
records, purse $3.50; 2:35 trotting, purse
5000; Saturday, 2:10 pacing, purse $500; |
2:22 trotting, purse $780,
San Jose will follow Stockton with a |
mixed meeting, and then Salinas, Fres- |
no and Los Angeles.-Examiner
The layers of the odds were cheered
when they heard that Riley Grammar,
the young Kentucky plunger who has
recently won close to 100000 from the
members of the Turf association, will
sail for Europe today with his friend,
Roy Carruthers, the pair to remain
abroad until the opening of the autumn
at Sheepshead Bay. There was
also a story, which Grammar himself set
afoat, to the effect that he had got
betting, and would never again
appear as plunger.-New York Times,
July Sth.
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