The St. Louis Republic., 1904-01-01
NOTES AND GOSSIP
OF The RUNNING TRACKS.

With the opening OF the Los Angeles
track last Thursday, new factor h9s
been introduced to Western racing. As
cot Park. as the new course is known. has
Joined forces With Tom williams's courses
| ana Is now part and parcel Of -ass- ss.socla-
tion which also fncfufes Seattle
Los Angeles is gIyng goodsized purses
Just at present. but IL remains 10 he seen
whether town OF its size VIII support a
course. Tracks have proved big successes
in smaller cities. and as the large tran
sient population of the city Has turned out
handsomely up 10 date the management
believes that the track will prove sue
cess.
The class OF horses there is reasonably
good-better than was expected at first
But no Brooklyn Handicap winners have
yet been stabbed there and room for i'm
provement In the matter OF horsefesh is
evident.
With three tracks. or rather, with three
cities holding race meets on the Coast.
even IL two of these places are burgs of
the size OF Los Angeles and Seattle, far
Western racing should become more OF a
feature than 1t has been in the past.
Joseph Seagram. member OF the Cana
dian Parliament, has purchased in Dns
land the 3-year-old colt Persistence and
win bring that youngster to this country
royal paddocks he also secured three
brood mares which he will bring to his
stud in Canada.
Mr.. seagram evidently intends 10 con-
and to keep on going. after the Kings
Plate. the feature OF the Canadian turf
This event Is for Canadlan-bred horses
which have not raced OUTSIDE the Domin-
ment. Joseph Hendrie and several other
well-known figures on the turf are con-
testants for this prize each year.
The Southerners are getting touch of
the 'set-rich-quick concern In all its
branches. An organization of that sort
located Mt Pensacola lately secured good
deal of Florida money and paid dividends
OF 5 per cent week promptly.
They also promised bonus OF 20 per
menced to roll in. Information to this eff
feet was forwarded to New York and
about 10000 was collected there for the
new concern. 1t was presumably collected
by agents and forwarded by expi ess.
This seems to have been what the pro-.
meters were waiting for They promptly
announced that unfortunate specula-
tionS' had made II necessary for them 10
put their business into the hands of a re-
ceivsr. and the Subscribers can now in
dulge in alterations with that official con-
cerntDg the remnants Of their donations to
the fund.
You never can ten just what sort OF a
break you are going to get in, this race
Schorr leading the list of winning owners
at New Orleans when all through the
long. and to him painful summer he was
hie ssabc o' 81 20 borse %n enough nn M md
turf to pay his forfeit list. II ever a man
headed out of the sunny South for the vel.
come North with. every promise OF beins
away up among the winning owners of the
year, Schorr did last spring.
1t happened to be one mans fortune TO
drop IN upon the Memphis track along in
q h. lrt Tll..V,
er was getting the Schorr horses ready
for that delightful meeting which Mem
phis holds early In the season. There were
the Memphis track. Everywhere one
went and every owner consulted concern
Ing his horses would say that his own
he had some fair lockers in his stable.
but always concluded with. Just wait un-
I'll you see old man Schorr's barn"
And that barn was a revelation. The
and as they were led out in succession
you did not know which one You would
take. The last one always seemed a little
better than the one. you had previously
looked over. Bays. chestnuts and browns.
all OF perfect breeding. splendid size ana
ideal conformation, they looked as for
under one roof. George Walker. the
administrative George
high In hope for them. He
> ayerai as good as Judith Campbell and
Elsyhap one as good as Endurance by
Right.
What happened to Schorr and that sta
bic everybody familiar with last seasons |
racing around the East knows. Sickness
setbacks of various linds. misfortune In
ms ny g1ises, came to them. Instead of |
big stakes the time came very
early in the racing when Walker and |
Schorr had to satisfy themselves with
overnight events of the smallest character.
Not all Walkers art as a trainer, coupled |
with Bullman's capacity as a rider. could |
put the Schorr horses where they early |
promised to be. During his entire racing |
life the old gentleman from Memphis has
had no such continuous series Of cisap- |
pointments as came to him in this last |
year.
In much encouragement he sold OF the |
better part of his horses and went home |
to Memphis. man broken in his racing |
spirit In the midst of it all he even lost |
Walker, that clever man making an ar
to train for a foreign owner.
The result is now turf history. He leads /
the list in winnings, mostly through Dusi- |
fuTs performance in the Preliminary Der |
by, and his prospects for the rest of the |
winter are RooI.