The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-16
Pike
EN- ROUTE
Goes to the Coast
to Purchase a
Horse.
HIS VIEWS ON
LOCAL RACING
Says That Carter Harrison Has
Resainsd His Lost
Form.

Red Pike O'Brien went away on
| the Alameda.
There is not a turf man in the ISL
every one calls him, and he is known
on the Mainland race tracks Just as
we'll as he is here.
He has worked around horses all his
life, runners and trotters but his af-
fections run to the former AS a rule
his connection with the sport of kings
has been in the capacity of rubber"
but now and again, when things came
his way, he has blossomed out as an
owner In the matter of caring for
and conditioning horse he has few
equals.
Pike" came to the Islands a year
or so ago with a shipment Of horses for
George Mckenzie, of Hilo. Since then
he has been a prominent figure in the
paddock and around the stables wher-
ever a race meet has been held. He
said yesterday that he was going di
rect TO the Rancho del Paso. at Sac
ramento. to procure horse for the
coming June meeting.
It's easy money" said he to an Ad-
vertiser reporter; dead easy money.
Why, can go over there at the back
end of the Frisco season and pick up a
plug for a song, which the owner don't
want TO pack over the mountains. l
won't give no $500 for him either, and
I'll guarantee that he'll make the
NUTS running down here look silly"
the recent meeting. He trained Carter
II. Harrison Jr. for his race with
Weller. He says that Weller won the
mile simply because he was the best
horse. Carter Harrison. he said. was
better than ever before in his life.
but the distance was too far for him.
He made the old horse hustle, just
the same" said pike" and fit and
we'll can undoubtedly beat anything
here at six furlongs. In the three
quarters of a mile handicap on the sec
ond day, il was n sin to start him.
He ran such a hard race the previous
day that he was in no shape to go,
and I told his owners so. They knew
it ALL however. and not only started
Harrison, but bet heavily on him
They lost their money, and deserved to
do so. Say! Youse racing men down
here are a lot of peaches"
The rubber further said that Messrs.
Clay and O'Rourke were so surprised
at Harrison's defeat in the second race
that they accused him of having
''doped" their horse.
Pike" thinks that Del Vista is one
Of the best middle distance horses in
the Islands. Royal Fan, he says, has
gone to pieces. and is no account what
ever.
According to him. Socialist is going
to be shipped to the Coast shortly. His
visit to Hawaii has been anything but
profitable to his owner, who is said /,
to have bet heavily upon him at Hilo. !
A little over year ago. after running /,
a mile in 1899. Socialist could not /!
have been purchased for 81 500 Geo. /
Mckenzie refused this amount for him. /
Socialist" remarked Pike lis an /.
inconsistent beast which can't pack :
weight. Look up the dope and you'll .
ind that whenever he has had not /
more than 105 pounds on his back he /
has run well, but that with from 10 .
% 115 pounds up. he has failed to get .
any of the money. The package of 12l .
pounds which he was asked to carry .
It Hilo was too much for him.
Bob Burns viii go up with Socialist