The San Francisco call., 1898-02-26
RECORD HOLDERS
 NOT ALWAYS WONDERS.

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 The way records have come down with a crash it looks very much as though the EmeryvilIe track could hold most or the American records if the management saw fit. Nearly all of the best horses this country has produced have been sent the Derby distance-one mile and a hau-put the 2:33A of Lamplighter withstood the assaults for a number of years. It re- mained for Buckwa to gallop 1t or Tn 2:S21k fin 8 race decided at the track across the bay on December 24, 1897. So easily did the bay geldng accomplish the feat that it looked as though he could nave travelled the route a second faster. The grand mare, Fleur de Lis, later covered one mile and sixteenth in 1:46ha so easily that the American record looks at her mercy. Judge Denny next comes out and shatters the long standing two-mile rec ord of Ten Broeck and Newton. The teat of Lucretia Borgia, the game little daugh- fer of Imp. Brutus, when she lowered the record for four miles over this same track nearly a year ago, is still too fresh in the minds of race goers to be recalled.
 But record-holders are not always top notchers Lucretia Borgia couldn't find time to win an ordinary purse event ex- cept at long intervals. Mamie Scott, which mare figures in turf history as the holder of the seven and halt furlong record. is a most infrequent winner. How ard, the chestnut son of Tyrant though by no means wonder, has to his credit the mark for five and half furlongs- l:O6-made at Los Angeles on October 26, 1885 He has been behind the coin on sev- eraI different occasions during the present season. Old timers will tell you tune goes for nothing.-and so It would seem seem
 When. asked his opinion as to prob able winner of the Brooklyn handicap, portly Bill Murry, the Sacramento train CT, said that he thought Ii Alb StemlerS great mare Fleur de Lis could be landed in the far East in her present condition she would be a hard one to beat. Bill is very keen judge of horseiiesh, and his opinion goes for something. The future books are laying % to l against the daughter of the dead Maxim. The event has never been captured by a mare, which has much to do with the price laid. Murry thinks the colt Michael III, which he sold to Charley Dwyer, is destined to become the crack three-ye2r-old of the year He has finished into slashing looking horse and is capable of shoulder ing all kinds Of weight.
 Elmwood stock farm is indeed fortunate. Charles Boots, one of the proprietors, foals at the farm by Imp. Brutus, of which number seven were colts.
 Ed Purser whose extensive betting op- eratlons has made his tall figure a prom lnent one on all Of the big race courses mas taken a vacation in the country Thinking that he had gone stale" Ed decided rest would enable him the bet ter to unravel the knotty dope" prob lems so numerous and bewildering. to be encountered the present season
 After Thursdays tight finish between IraVerser and Trolley Tod Sloan who rode the former colt. said rhaT conIev on Trolley was altogether too lovable and dHecuonate, squeezing him against the inner raj almost from the start to the neao or the stretch. If Conley persists Tn calling these sort of tactics into re quISlllon to land his mounts in front at the wire, he will rapidly lose his popu- IdIlly ana should be given long rest on the ground. The public admire an hon est and persevering rider but only inc parasites who love gold better than their own existence applaud a jockey who re sorts to questionable tactics The nraS ent siege Of racing has been replete with ,ulrIy riding and the participants have llGulseo m It simply because they inn aglned themselves in possession of a
 pull IL will be discarded when they ClosS the mountains, for they well know llat on the other side it will not go
 IL cannot be said that Ed Garland was not backed when he won inc hand leap the other day. Perhaps Owner Dan Honlg dld not have the tip, as he ad- mlts himself he is not the gambIer he was once. When people on a race trsclr intend opening bottle, they hand inc cork to the dead one'' and drink the contents themselves
 The old-time smile is graduaIlv- re+,,rn ing 10 the eOuntenance Of Barney Schrei- ogT. per Dan Alter continued spell of reverses oIa Dame Fortune is again a resident Of Barney's domicile, it is said and everybody is pleased to hear that the
 genlal German is getting back much ot his feeting gold. <, Traverser along with the balance of the get of Imp. Rossington has been ac- cused or being quitter." After his same nnlsh with Trolley his name will nave to be stricken from the list of faint. aeal,ed aearted ones; m Very fast horses are often accused or being ''quitters" when thev have reached the limit of endure I1ies 1na They were not designed by nature to Tha T4n long distance. And so with man, Ihe gamest hundred-yard runner on tho cinder path would quit like dop 'ii iS PPit1ed against a rider the stamp of a cummings innings or George. Yet the stigma pL peihS quitter" would never he hurled at him. People would simply sav, the distance was too far for him. if aidiS his+o poor dumb animal could write pnyslclans its for fresh supply of the gray AA1"1lei' r. G. MULHOLLAND-