The San Francisco call., 1904-07-30
COAST HORSES
GET THE MONEY
TrOtterS and PAGERS Bred i'll
California Are Sensation
of the Grand Circuit

Nothing startling in the way of
speed has been shown this week by
the trotters and PAGERS at PIeasanton,
where the California circuit opened last
Wednesday, but there has been good
clean racing and a large attendance
every day. 1t is expected a big crowd
Will be present to-day to witness the
close Of the programme. Several Of the
2:24 class trotters that start for the
$1,000 prize at San Jose one week from
to-day viii be given a try-out in the
Livermore stake of $1,000, which is
down for decision this afternoon.
Much interest is being taken in the
$1,000 Breeders Futurity to- be decided
at San Jose next week. Six three-year-
old trotters have been paid up for this
race and there is a chance that Zom-
bros three-year-old record of 2:13,
made in 1895 and which has not been
equaled in California since, may be
shaded. 1t is reported that one of the
three-year-o TO start in this race at
San Jose has worked a mile in 2:15 and
another in 2:16. so there is every chance
Of a horse race for first money.
The six colts on which starting pay
ment has been made are Calamanca,
bay colt by Mckinney, dam Russie
Russell by Bay Rose, owned by James
H. Gray Of Santa Rosa; Marvin
Wilkes, bay colt by Don Marvin, dam
Nora S by Sable Wilkes. owned by
Walter Mastin of Sacramento; Murray
NJ, bay colt by Hambletonian Wilkes.
dam Anna Belle by Dawn, owned by
F. r. Garnsey Of Santa Ana; Carlo
kin, bay colt by Mckinney, dam Car
lotta Wilkes by Charley Wilkes. own
ed by c. L. Jones of Modesto; True
Heart, bay filly by Nearest, dam Cam
ma by Norway, owned by T. w. Bar
stow Of San Jose; Geraldine, bay filly
by Zombro. dam Gypsy by Nucleus,
owned by w. H. Coleman of Los An
geles. First money in this stake will
be $1,000, with 5000 additional to the
person who nominated the dam Of the
winner and 800 to the owner of the
winners sire at the time the colt was
bred.
Ten trotters are expected to start in
the two-year-old division of this stake.
They are high-class lot. The record
Of the stake, 2:22H, made by Almaden
last year, will be broken. The San
Jose track is in fine shape and fast.
George G, 2:12h, the $4,000 trot-
ter, is in the hands of that master
reinsman, Ed Geers, and will start in
the big stakes in which he has been
entered on the Grand Circuit. 1t was
at first thought his new owner, Mr..
Brady of Albany, n. Y, would reserve
him exclusively for matinee racing,
but now that he has sent the horse to
Geers the public will have an oppor-
tunity to see just what the son of
Homeward can do when pitted against
the pick of the Eastern stables.
California horses are winning money
in nearly every race in which they
start on the Grand Circuit. Three Nc
Kinneys have entered the 2:10 list
since the season opened. That great
sire now has eleven representatives IN
that exclusive list. The three new
ones are China Maid. 2:05k; Nora Nc
Kinney, 2:091k, and Sweet Marie, 2:1O.
Charles A. Durfee Of San Jose sold
Mckinney two years ago to an Indiana
man for $25,o00 and the present owner
could doubtless get much more money
for the horse now. No other horse
ever had as many 2:10 and 2:15 per
formers at his age and but two or
three of the older sires have as many.
The betting on the harness circuit in
California this year is all on the suc-
ton and pari mutuel plans. At Pleas
anton this week a trial was given the
Australian system by running one of
the mutuel boxes on the totalizator
plan. u failed Of patronage. Those