Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-19


May Bowdish, Elfin King, Sea Sick.
J. J. McCafferty bid up Dutiful from
S400 to $1,000 after the gray boy. won
the fifth race yesterday and toted him
over to the Weinberg barns. This
makes seventeen horses in the Wern-
berg stable.
Joe C. Neaon arrived yesterday from
Oakland and was at Ascot yesterday.
He owns several topnotch racers and
is campaigning his string at oakland.
Among his good ones are Callaghan,
Nealon and Royal Rogue.
Harry Mestayer, the Burbank mat
inee idol refuses to permit Gentle
Harry to run without carrying con-
fidence wager. He had a ten-spot on
to win and place yesterday and pulled
down $50 on the "hunch."
The timber toppers will be the at
traction at Ascot today. Half dozen
Of the best jumpers at Ascot are en-
tered i'm the steepleChase handicap and
as all are clean fencers the race should
furnish all the excitement and sport
desired.
Jockey w. Davis is making good
with the race-going public. He is one
of the best post riders at Ascot, al
ways gets his mount away nicely and
gives 1t ride that gets all out of the
horse that Is in him. His presence in
the saddle causes the price on his
mount to decline steadily.
Starter Dwyer and small party
of friends spent several hours Wednes-
day hunting ducks near Playa del Rey
and returned to Los Angeles with 100
as their reward. Their friends shared
their good luck and baked duck will
be the principal item on many bills
of fare for the next week.
A. w. Mackenzie and r. j. Mac
Kenzie, owners of the horses racing al
Ascot as the Kirkfield stable, arrived
yesterday from Toronto, Canada, and
will remain in Southern California for
one month or more. They are sons of
M. Mackenzie, railroad magnate of
Toronto and one of the wealthiest men
of Canada.
1t is related of Chimney Sweep that
he cannot get up a gallop on the dry.
but as his father suffered from indi-
gestion every time the sun shone and
could only be relieved by systemat tic
doses of slop. he was well played by the
"wise" ones who looked up his mud
running proclivities with profit to
L,
be / to 10 next out in this same going.
A prominent hOrseman at Ascot paid
Secretary Handicapped Jasper a neat
compliment yesterday. HE is the best
racing secretary in the United States,'
said he. He knows every horseman
and every horse at the track and in
nine out of ten times, he will have the
entry blank filled in and ready for the
owner before he asks for it if he sees
the owner coming to his office during
entry hours. With a map of the condi-
tions on his brain, he knows what
horses are eligible and the appearance
of the owner is his cue"
Barney Schrieber, one of the most
prominent turfmen and breeder of high
Ascot yesterday and will be in Los
Angeles for several days attending to
business affairs relating to his Ascot
division of racers. Schrieber is also
proprietor of Woodlawn, the greatest
breeding establishment west of the
Mississippi river. He has his best
racers at Oakland and his name tops
the list of northern owners in amounts
won this season, being nearly $25, ,00C
ahead of the game. Schrieber won a
nice sum on his entry in the nader
! two-year- race, Horace e, which
was beaten by Silver Stocking.
A negro created much amusement for
portion of the grandstand crowd
which was in his vicinity just before
the sixth race yesterday The horses
were going to the post when the negro
noticed a flock of "crows" flying to
the southward. "Whoopee" he yelled.
"Lookee thar Taking it for a
"hunch" he ran excitedly into the ring
and placed SO on Crowshade to win.
Several others took the "hunch" and
did likewise. When Crowshade gal
loped home the negro enjoyed life inn
mensely between the shouts and gaSps
as he held aloft his ticket and screamed
from joyful pain. One man who had bet
on Evelyn Griffin wanted to assassin
ate the negro for revenge, but was
restrained.
Racing officials and the race-going
public regret that this is to be Com
mencer" Dryers last week at Ascot
this season. Dwyer leaves Saturday
night for Oakland and will be relieved
at Ascot by Jake Hoffman, who begins
starting at the local track Monday
DWyer has made a remarkable record
at Ascot this season and has sent his
fields away to perfect starts in nearly
every instance. This will make Holt
mans task all the nardef, especially
in view of the accusations from the
north that Hoffman has been in poor
form for several weeks. AT his best
Hoffman is one of the best starters in
the country and is the strictest dis
ciplinarian in the business. He AND
Dwyer have worked as a team for many
years and are without peers in their
line BY arrangement of the jockey
clubs on the coast, Dwyer and Holt
man were secured to alternate at AS
cot and Oakland this season and this
arrangement is the cause of the change
| Saturday marking the end of the first
| half of the coast season.
A party of sixteen from Searchlight
were at Ascot yesterday, headed and
chaperoned by Foxy Grandpa" Per
kins. Foxy" renewed his right to the
title by placing all the wagers and clos
ing the day with a dividend He col
| lected an assessment from each mem
Der of the party and played lunches
to a standstill, winning five out of siN
races, which serves to show the rea
value of genuine dope A "hunch'
on Chimney Sweep netted 1920 and an
other on CroWshade, the second blacl
| horse of tha 6aU brOught In Sq6. TheS