The San Francisco call., 1898-07-26
California Bred Cracka- jacks in Other Chimes.
FINE FOREIGN PERFORMANCES
PRICES PAID IN ENGLAND FOR
 GOOD FILLIES.
Three Thousand Two Hundred Gui- meas Paid for Simonswood, a Brother to Simonside,
 by St. Simon.

J. W. Brooks handicapper. clerk of the scales and third judge for the California Jockey Club. is back after making a trip to his home at Crab Orchard. Ky, to Louisville and St. Louis. He reports "the game" in a very prosperous condition In the Missouri metropolis, owing to open competition in bookmaking circles. Bar ney Schreiber has recently added 100 acres to his breeding establishment at Bridge ton, Mo, and now has all the room he desires for the breeding of blue-blooded race horses. Mir Brooks says it does not require much horse knowledge to be able to pick out every foul shot on the place, so thoroughly does the New Zealand horse stamp his individuality upon his progeny. In Miss Marion, the genial Ger man has the best two-year-old lilly run ming around St. Louis.
 The majority of our horses of the gall loping persuasion are participating in the Butte Mont, meeting and incidentally they are carrying off close to four-fift of all the purses hung up. The most i'm proved animal is Lucky Star, which from low-class selling platter has developed Into stake horse and a record breaker The veteran Hollys training may have worked the wondrous change, or 1t may be that the pure mountain air of Colo rado and Montana Is responsible for it.
 Miss Rowena, leased of Burns & Water house, has won perhaps the largest mum Der of races, while Ostler Joe, Lady Hurst, La Mascota, Key Hooker and Vik- ing quite often finish in front of their fields The attendance has been good and the meetings at Butte and Anaconda running fifty-eight days in all bid fair to be financially very successful. In the past they have been of the mixed" descrip- ton, but this season the experiment of doing away with trotting and pacing was made.
 At Sacramento the strings of "Ab." StemleT, w. NJ. Murry, Atkin &S Lottridge, Dan DennisOn and several other we'll known turfmen are taking 1t easy, but will soon be hard at work preparing for the State Fair meeting, which begins early in September.
 Racing on the other side of the Rockies has progressed far enough this season to give one a good line" on the merits of the various contestants. This much has year-old lilly thus far shown in the Mid ale West is Touca, Los Angeles product by Nomad; the best three-year-old Ally in the country over any distance of ground from five furlongs to a mile and a fur long is Briar Sweet, the sister to Dr. Has brouck, bred near Sacramento. and by imp. Sir Modred from Sweetbriar; while Mary Black (by imp. Islington, returned to England. out of Songstress), bred In this State and owned by the well-known Montana racing firm, Easton & Larabie, has tied the worlds record at six fur longs Q:12l4) and beaten the best sprlnters holding forth around Washington Park Chicago. Toluca and five others were sold to Charles Kerr of Bakersfield for a sum not far in excess of $200 when they were yearlings. TOluca fetched $500 when brought to the sales ring as a yearling, w. M. Murry of Sacramento, a very good judge of a baby racer, being her pur- chaser After winning several races with the lilly Sam Hildreth made an offer re- ported to be $Z750, and the Ally has been running in that astute turfmans colors was in the Hyde Park stakes at Washing ton Park, where she defeated among others the supposed tnyincible W: Over ton and the very fair Formero For the latter W. B. Sink Jr. refused an offer of 12500 from Charley DwYer over a month ago, since which time the Conveth colt has trained off and gallops very oIten in the "also ran'' brigade. As young Mir. Sink gave but s300 for Formero he, in all likelihood, has rued the refusal of such a royal sum as S12,500 real often during the past four weeks.
 The July sales of yearlings in England are over, and the hghest-priced young ster disposed of was Simonswood brother to Simonside, by St. Simon from Daisy Chain. The sum paid was 32O0 guineas and the purchaser was J. w. Larnach, owner of Jeddah, winner of this years for the Ally Winifreda, also by St. simon young Ornes are doing exceedingly well in England and will be in great demand next season, no doubt. Orme Is by the Macdonough gave $l50,000), rom Angelica (dam of imp. Order and sister to the un- beaten St. Simon). Imp. Order Is the sire of the American champion, Ornament; winner of several Derbies last year and the Brooklyn and Brighton Handicaps this season.
 mining man and the most extensive horse breeder in America. will, it is reported, shortly send over 100 thoroughbred year lings to England to be sold, the majority being Allies for which there is a very poor market in this country. He will be the first to try the experiment and the result will be watched with interest For more than ten years past the average for yearlings In England has exceeded 300 guineas. while in this country the aver age is perhaps $500, or about one-fifth. The alleged methods pursued of keeping or bidding in certain of the yearlings supposed to have been tried and then let ting trainers have their running qualities, the latter bringing them to the post and beating out the flyers of other turfmen who have paid fancy sums for yearlings may have had something to do with the determination to try the English market. At any rate. 1t looks as If MT. Haggin was not satisfied with the $50s which the last crop of yearlings averaged when sold
 Record-making has been quite common over the Washington Park track this sea- son. Goodrich reduced the mile and a half record made by Buckwa at Oakland (2:325D to 2:30A. while two horses ran a mile and a quarter in 2:041a. the former record on a circular track being 2:05 made by Morelo, who died in California, Mary Black tied the six furlong circular track record of 1:12M, held jointly by OConnell and Flora Louise, and the five and q half furlong record was also tied
 The Woodland boy Dick Clawson, Is now considered to have no superior in the ranks of the lightweight Jockeys It Is no uncommon thing for this lad to pilot four winners in an afternoon Last Wednesday at Washington Park he put his first four mounts in front at the fin ishing line. H. Martin of Santa Clara has not been covering himself with much glory of late. and the same can hn said of McNichols and little Johnny Woods. Thorpe and w. Martin are often seen in front at the wind-up of a race.