The San Francisco call., 1898-08-01
Half a Million for an UndeVeloped Mine.
HIS LAND AND HIS FLYERS
UNPARALLELED DISQUALIFICA- TON CASE AT HARLEM.
Crack Horses and Riders at the Butte Meeting-Tod Sloan's Depart ure and Other Turf
 News.

"One must go away from home to get the news" is an old and true saying. According to Lucky Baldwin's partner in mining ventures, Animal Painter Cross, now in Chicago, the old turfman, has recently sold an unworked gold mine he has owned for years to an English syndicate for s500 900, and another syn dicate of our cousins of the tight lit tie isle" are negotiating for a large tract of his land in Los Angeles County, which means $2,000,0 if the deal Is consum- mated.
 They have beet sugar making designs. This is the first season since lSS0 that Baldwin's horses have not faced a star ter on tracks east of the Rockies, and there have been numerous reports Of the retirement of the veteran from the turf. However, Baldwin on the turf makes one think of English Government officials who seldom die and never resign, for res ports from Los Angeles are to the effect that the aged man of millions has the largest string in training at Santa Anita that has ever graced the beautiful San Gabriel Valley place. With this string, which is two divisions, in charge of Big Jim" Garland and his nephew, George Baldwin, Lucky will try to win every thing in sight at the Oakland and 1ngie- side tracks next fall and winter.
 The crack Australian three-year-old. Aurum, which MT Jersey (AIrs. Langtry) recently purchased from w. R. Wilson, has reached Newmarket, England, where the son of Trenton will be trained py Fred Webb. The colt arrived in the Da- InaScuS which also conveyed two other Australian colts, Coronatton and Borg1a, both the property or MT. Ii. Webp. C0ro- nation is said to have been the pest two-year-old that has been raised Tn Queensland. Amiable1 Resolute and Fat bp former the Newmarket handicap, and the others are considered very high-class In Australia gins at Santa Rosa August 20 and ends on the 27th (seven days) bids fair to De the best held in that vicinity t9r many t{ the City of Roses are aroused 10 q nlgn pitch of enthusiasm: All the gooa ca cam paigners left in California are entereds T!ye1vn Byrd, twice a winner at St. Iouis within a week, Is by Rowland (bred at Palo Alto) from Evelyn .,-. .
 Notwithstanding the caltber or the con +estants at Brighton Beach this season has been very mediocre, the attendance was never better. Strange to reiate, iSi the pencilers are reported ito the pad lilSt'l-
 Oscillation, a winner in MQntana; this season is wel-named, being by SalVator from Yum Yum. She is under lease to Henry Byrnes, who used to train for the late Simeon c. Reed Himera (py Imp; lease by Byrnes, and has proven winner.
 Scottish Chieftain, about the best handl, cap horse in Montana this season-gooo enough to give Ostler Joe ten pounas m weight and year and beat him-is by Imp. Inverness out of Miss Darebln lie was bred by Marcus Daily, who owns hlm, while the dam of the colt is a Sacramento product. Imp. Black Cap, ea frequent winner for MT. Daly, is by Royal Hamp7 ton out of Imp. Oriole, dam of Futurity- winner ogden. riding for By Holly four or fiye I've; years az ago ridge, is piloting most Of the winners at Butte, Mont, being under. contract 10 Marcus Daly. Joe Piggott is holding his own pretty well. while the former idolaof San Francisco race-goers, Joe NarYaez, not long ago put two winners over the
 The latest anent the "only Tod is that the midget man will leave for Englan this fall and we shall know him not here after-at least only through reports by ca ble. It began to look as if Sloan were go- ing to affiX his signature to a contract tor Messrs. w. c. Whitney and Sydney Pa-7 get. but the whimsical Kokomo youth has apparently changed his mind again. The chances are Ted accepted the S25.- GOO retaining fee offered by MT. SimonS the South African millionaire. Sloan is perhaps the best rider for his inches ever 1nirers and the packers of his mounts will heaVe many genuine signs or regret when he departs for the land of John Bull
 It is doubtful if Judge M. Lewis Clark s action last Saturday at Harlem in the third race was ever paralleled. This was the dsqualifc;atio9a & for f9gliRg of the
  the animal that wound up third (Espion- aee) giving the first money to the second noney none t to 0!lh Ghevai 0ii dor and Andes, who finished fourth and fifth respectively. Colonel Clark Is rated very high as a judge and has the happy faculty of foiling the robber barons of the turf nearly every time they attempt "hold up" of the public.
 is a full brother of George Palmer form- erly of A. B. Spreckels' stable), to The Sculptor and to a two-year-old that won around Chicago this season.
 Walter Vevell and Walter Weaver have Tulare and others racing at St. Louis.
 When Briar Sweet ran a mile and an eighth in 1:53 at Brighton Beach, during the present meeting, she broke (to the extent of half a second) a track record that had stood since 1879. California horses are great.
 Applegate and McMeekin of Lexington Ky, have sold to Charley Patterson (for- mer owner of OrnamenD, the brown Consideration. $lOOO-the highest price paid in years for a racer of such a ten der age. The youngster was foaled Jan uary 24 and when but a few days old the firm refused S1000 for 1t, then $3500 from E J. Mcdonald of New York.
 Passaic. a two-yearrold. by Imp. Sir of weeks ago at Brighton Beach track for S275, won the first time he started in the colors of his new owner, R; Earle. Char ley, Littlefield JT; probably wishes he bfnation sale Bannock sold for s2700, and a two-year-old sister to Song and Dance and Frank Jaubert for $400.
 It looks now as if the officials of the Jockey Club of England would so arrange matters that the classic Derby, run at Epson, would be worth 91o.0O0 to the owner of the winner in 1900. This action is rendered necessary on account of the French Derby being worth 50 per cent more than its English prototype at the present time