Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-30
WEEK FULL
or SURPRISES
AcRoBAT's MILE IN 1887 SIS A
coAsT RECORD
SANTA ANITA TRACK PROVES A
FAST ONE
Experts Measure Loop for Second
Time and Find Distance More
Than a Mile--Bookles :
Hard He
NY HIDALGO.

The pnst week has been one of s. :
prises and broken records up to Saturday,
when the horses ran we'll to form and the
H,use of Bondage got nearly wiped on
thu face of the earth.
Monday Gene Wood, Hereafter, Acrobat
and Creston were winning favorites, wnlie
rIihlick and First Peep were well played
second choices. so the books were pretty
we'll hit and all that saved them was
the comparatively small attendance on
that day
Acrobat won at &. mile in 1:3S without
beng extended for an three jumps in
the race and could easily have equaled
the worlds race record IL necessary
Creston ian a great race on that day,
covering six furlongs Il lib 2-5 with llo
pounds up, a great performance for =
year-old.
Tuesdays racing was of a moderate
character Avontellui winning at mile
and a quarter in 2:07. They talk about
Santa Anita being fest track; 1t has to
when horse OF his class runs to any
such figures as those. There was one
good race that day, a five-furlong sprint
won by Scarfell in 100. beating Tea Cress
and Inrerlude. Scarfell is a very hand
some horse and can go crucial pace for
anything under a mile Only two favor
ties won that day, so that the poor book
makers laid up something to pay for the
natzOth.
-ood Things Uncorked
Wednesday, saw two good things un-
,--ked Ouardi and Colonel Bob. The
former belongs to the Arnell stable, in
which +. j. Kelly of Chicago is the prin-
cipal owner.
His trainer. George w. Poole, who was
always called the bishop" while he
trained for big Ed Corrigan, bought
Ouardi last October. rather at the chagrin
of Mr.. Kelly. who did not fancy the
horse
Now that Ouardi has won two races in
fast time and run one bangup second to
B ron Esher Mr.. Kelly begins to think
that -.'the bishop" knows thing or two
himself.
The other marked event of the day was
the victory of Colonel Bob, who reeled off
six furlongs in Ill 3-5 without being well
extended. This was within fifth Of the
worlds record, made by the great Rose
ben. On the sane day Old Timer, in
receipt of five pounds from Magazine and
three from Stanley Fay, won at mile
in 1871 4-5 equaling the coast record made
by Lisaro on the 18th inst. Magazine
and Stanley Fay went out and ran their
heads off, while Old Timer avoided the
early pace and came on with wet sail.
Thursday John Drinks old marc, Line
Of Life, at odds of 10 to l. came home in
time to win by head in 1:26 at seven
furlongs. That same day Acrobat, from
the Carman stable, covered a mile in
1877 3-5, within a fifth of Dick Welles'
record for the fastest mile run on a
circular track in America. He carried 10S
pounds. good weight for a 3-year-old.
However, 1 consider Acrobats race the
better of the two, as Dick Welles' race
was made against time. while Acrobat
defeated field of horses with compare
tive ease.
Makes Fast Time
Saturday A. G. Dunlap's filly, First
Peep, won a clever race of one and
half miles in 2:SS over a slow track, with
-nii-ety-two pounds up, beating that great
long-distance mare. Mamie Algol, and
Kinsman. both of them 5-year-olds. Ellie.
by st. Carlo, who holds the three-mile
record, was scratched on account of the
sloppy going, as was also Avontellus,
who won at a mile and quarter Tues
day. Arimo. who won several good races
last winter at Ascot park, won nicely at
mile in Al is from Chimney Sweep and
Critic. Ruscimo, just off railroad jour
ney beat a lot of maidens at five fur
longs in a hard drive from Green Goods,
who got a bad ride. La Gloria beat
Waterbury and General Haley at six fur
longs. Norfolk. from the Hobart barn,
gave sound threshing to field of nine
the latter being about the handsomest
big horse at the track.
King Wilda, a Texas horse owned by
H. I. Batchelder, wor the closing event.
The second choice in the race and played
nearly as heavily as the Texas horse,
was Red Reynard. who blew up and left
the bookies to pay off on three horses.
This closed up the third week of racing
at Santa Anita park with more fast races
r / in that period than ever occurred on
any other American race course.
Many Fast Races
The following fast races have been run
during that period; In 1:40 and slower
than l:S9 we find Harry Scott. E. L.
Fryer and East Emo. In 1:S9 and slower
than :3S are Kilter, Frank Flittner, The
Sultan, Golden Shore, Glenecho and East
End. In slower than 1887 we find Lisaro,
1881 40, and Old Timer at the same notch.
And Acrobat has two single miles within
u G same week in .3S with 10l pounds and
1887 20 with 10S, the latter being the bet
ter performance of the two by weight
and by time. And there are men al the
track who are more familiar with the
Carman horses than myself who tell me
that Riheman. in the same stable, can
run circus rings all around Acrobat
Six furlongs in 1:13 is what may be
called a fast race. Yet In the nineteen.
than eight races run at this distance In
1:13 or better, and five more between lib
and 1:14. And there have been three races
won at five furlongs inside of one min
ute This means that Santa Anita park
is the FASTEST track in all America, with
out being positively unsafe under foot
During the first week Of the meeting
men said to Tom Lottridge and myself:
You fellows over there are too speedy
altogether. Your watches must go around
the dial in about IS seconds" My answer
was a request for them TO time the races
themselves and compare watches with
us after we had hung out the results
Since then our work has been fully cor
roborated by watches in the hands of
such experiences trainer as Messrs. Har-
ry Mcdaniel. w. J. Spiers, c. w. Bald
win. Ira Glasscock Cy Mulkey and his
son Horace, with several others whose
names have escaped me at the present
writing.
Time Correct
The next Ling was that the track was
short of it's ostensble distance So Mr..
Baldwin sent for two experienced engin-
GERS and had them measure the total
length of the track-one and one-eighth
miles. after which they measured the
intermediate distances-half mile, five