The age-herald., 1901-05-26
TrOtting, Pacing ovs:s ss@i.s Des.: .. si;ss s.
 BYAz cATFHn and Racing World

bred Sunol. 2.OS1z. Polo Alto, 20Sa4; and holders of all records on the trotting turf or the world from the yearling records of Norlaine and Adbell to the all-aged records of Sunol and Palo Alto, but 1t is doubtful If he ever secured so much pleasure and satisfaction from his pe- culiar theories of breeding and educating his hundreds of high-class animals as he did from that grand four-year-old race mare, Mauzanita, for she not only pos sessed those rare qualities of speed, cour- age and amiability sufficiently to make her the champion four-year-old of her day, but her conformation was of that beautious type and her disposition of such kindly and tractable quality that she became, even in competition with the most highly bred animals in existence, the fncomparable queen of them all. Of her great struggles and victories on the turf in her two three and four-year-old forms, the brightest pages of trotting his- tory are written, and to show her quality and her peerless racing instinct, we will reproduce only that celebrated contest between her and Patron, who was regarded by the trotting world as invin- cible before his colors went down before the California mare, and who was con sidered so great a racer even before he kicked off his swaddling clothes and don ned the habilments of horsehood that his owners had the desperate confidence to pit him against the 'old demon"-Cling- stone-in three in five battle of mile heats. We will let the driver of the mare, Charles Mayoni, tell the thrilling tale in his own way: "So when Patron and Manzanita met on October 2d, 1t was the event of the day. There were over one hundred thousand people on the ground. The night before, and the day of the race the Patron party were fairly bubbling over with confidence. My mare had improved steadily with every race, and felt sure she was better that day than she had ever been before. My friend George Fuller the driver of Patron, "the bulldog of Cleveland" informed me that Patron was going to make Manzanita set down." I told him that no living horse could make the four-year-old stop" and as a friend I advised George, in all sin cerity not to back his great stallion for much. When talking with party, an enthusiastic Patron man told Colonel John W. Conley that Patron had gone half" in los. Conley quickly responded: There Is no money hung up at the half, and furthermore, Manzanita went two halves in 1:0S the other day" The Colonel bet his money with confidence and pluck. As to the race, Patron had the pole and Eagle Bird the outside, with Manzanita between them. The starter, MT. Me Kinney, naQ trouble Tn getting us away, and warned me o keep Manzanita well back as she was scoring very fast. Fin ally, after dozen scores, we got away fairly even and Fuller started out im- mediately to find the 'soft spot' in my mare. I laid Manzanita right at Pa trons shoulder, and, when he shot by the quarter post in 034, I was going easy at his throat latch. He made the pace hotter, but at the half, in 1.071s, Man zanita was hugging him still closer, and I had not made move; we passed the three quarter pole locked head and head in 1411a, the mare going something within herself and Patron out to the last link, striving like the brave horse he was. The pace continued down the stretch hot and fast, but the mare never fiinched, and maintained the killing speed with reg ularity, and though Patron made a brave, heroic struggle, the Ally was his mistress and beat him out an eye lash in 217%
 The other heats were repetitions of the first. She clearly demonstrated her
 superiority over the mighty Patron on that day, which had often been questioned before. In the form she displayed that day she could out trot and out stay any four year-old that ever lived"
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