Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-27
PREMIER RIDERS OF THE EAST
ARE COMING
Participation Of High Class Perform
ers In Winter Meeting Creates a
Great Demand for Capable
Pilots In Races

WHICH generally attaCneS 10 Ine rum
ming of high class stakes.
With the coming of the eastern crack
performers follows the influx of the
best eastern riding talent and this sea-
son will witness the attendance of some
of the best jockeys in America.
Not the least among these crack
riders is Jockey w. Fisher who has
ridden many of the greatest horses ever
raced i'm America. Fisher Is under con-
tract to j. j. McCafferty and rides at
ninety-five pounds.
Fisher rode for J. w. Schorr, the
Memphis brewer, during the spring
meeting in the Tennessee city, and
piloted the Schorr candidates to victory
in several stake events at Montgomery
park. He also rode at st. Louis during
the spring meeting and finished well up
among the leaders in winning mounts,
although not riding with the regularity
of many other jockeys.
Fishers father accompanies him and
manages the business affairs Of the boy.
McCafferty is optimistic regarding
Fishers future and believes he will de-
velop into a star rider before the close
of the meeting.
McCafferty is one of the most capable
judges of riders in the world, having
been a crack jockey at one period in
best in the world when at the height of
his career.
Among the good ones in the McCaf-
ferty string which Fisher will ride
during the Ascot melting are Big Ben,
Charley, Colonel Rupert, Cutter, Hand
Maiden, Vino and Tim Payne.
Tim Payne won several stakes OF
Ascot last year and is in the best con-
dtion and ready for racing any day.
Several 2-year- -olds are also with the
McCafferty string, and from these 1t is
expected that at least one sensation Will
be developed before spring.
When Schorr sold his thoroughbreds
to S. C. Hildreth several months ago
Fisher was retained, and later, through
an arrangemtn between Schorr and Nc
Cafrerty, the crack rider was engaged
for the McCafferty stable.
Edward Cole, who will be one of the
associate judges at Ascot this season,
arrived yesterday. Col A. w. Ham
ilton, presiding judge, will come today
Tuesday night. Jake Beckley, who will
be Dwyer's assistant, will be in today
from Frisco. All the officials will be in
Los Angeles by Wednesday morning.
George Rose, the Chestereldian book
maker and turfman who outguessed
the talent in the east during the last
season, left Frisco yesterday for Los
Angeles Rose is reputed to have netted
nearly 100000 on the eastern season.
F. T.. Shaw and Rollick, fair selling
platers, broke down during races at
Emeryville last week and will never
again face the barrier. f. e. Shaw
brought home the money in his start
previous to the race in which he sus-
tanned the injury.
Boots" Durnell and his high class
string are expected in during the week.
Durnell was a prominent figure on the
eastern tracks during the past season
and his performers were successful in
many races with the best of them and
it is expected that Durnell will dupli-
cate his eastern successes on the coast
this season.
w. A. Pinkerton, head of the great
detective agency, is due to arrive today.
lie comes to complete arrangements FOR
policing the grounds at Ascot during
the season. The Pinkerton agency per-
forms similar service for all the eastern
tracks and the protection afforded the
public against touts and others OF an
undesirable class is considered one Of
the necessities by metropolitan jockey
clubs.
City park, the Corrigan course at
New Orleans, is to operate from No
Vember 80 to April l, 107 days. The
Crescent City Jockey club will operate
100 days. There is no prospect of i'm
mediate peace between the warning turf
bodies and it is probable that the only
result of the fight at New Orleans will
be the outlawry of racing in Louisiana.
Snow fell for four hours at Washing
ton, D. c., last Monday and it was a
question for some time whether the
meeting would continue the full fifteen
days allotted it This sort of weather
is calculated to cause the horsemen and
horses to pine for the May-day weather
of Los Angeles.
Racing at Hot Springs will not begin
before the middle of February, owing
to the severe weather which generally
prevails in that section during Decem-
ber and January. The opposition
tracks will race forty-four days, divid-
ing the time TO avoid conflicting dates.
Dick Welles will never race again.
Rome Respass, his owner, has retired
him to the stud and makes announce
ment that the retirement is permanent.
r. Eugene Porter, who operated ex-
tensively upon the eastern tracks this
season, will have a book on at Ascot
on opening day. Porter stopped off in
Chicago long enough to say: From
what l hear in New York and here,
the prospects for racing at Los An
geles are brighter than they were at
the outset of the previous two
years, There will be more and better
horses there and figure that the con-
servative penciler will have a first
class chance"
The stables of James Curl. T. A. Da-
vies, Louie Bonsack and Dick Williams
arrived yesterday from Oakland. |
Nearly one hundred horses were in
the shipment and these will be raced
throughout the Ascot meeting.
Included i'm the string of Dick Will |
liams. which arrived yesterday from
Emeryvllle, are Fireball, Lustig, Xxi, |
Good Cheer, Loyal Front, Alencon, |
Reservation, Silver Sue and several |
yearllngs. The Williams stable will |
be an important factor in the Ascot !
stakes in which its representatives are
entered.