Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-02
BARNS
rs CRY AT
NEW TRACK
HIDALG0 TELLS OF DOINGS ON
LOCAL COURSE
STARTERS IN EACH FIELD TO
AVERAGE WELL
Well Known Racing Expert Discusses
Things Of Interest to Horsemen
and -Sangulnetti's
Hard Luck
BY H1DALGo

| IlhOhhUO
The finishing touches on Santa Anita
park will easily be completed by Wednes-
day night, for the roofers on the grand
stand were at work all day Saturday and
will easily have 1t covered in by tonight.
The betting ring and paddock viii not
and then things Will begin to assume a
tangible shape.
| And the cry is still, more barns, for
more horses on the way. There are 1902
! stalls already completed and 200 more
under way, so that the number OF start
ers In each field will average largely
above anything yet known In. California
The list of nominations to the various
stake races bears this out likewise being
nearly 13 per cent higher than In any
year while racing at Ascot park was In
progress.
There are so many horse owners coming
this year that have never before visited
California, that extra provision had to be
made for them. Senator p. II. McCarren
of Brooklyn, NJ Y, shipped out big
stable, only to have Johnny Edwards,
one Of the best two-year-oids at the east
this season. die at Ascot park shortly
after his arrival. The cause of his death
contracted on the overland journey. Pa
ter. black colt by imported Fatherless.
also died there shortly after reaching his
stable; and while he was not as valuable
as Johnny Edwards, yet he was decid-
edly usefu; horse for a long campaign.
The Maine stable Is the property of
two gentlemen who own four head.
among them that gay deceiver Pau
monck. for whom Harry Payne Whitney
paid $4,000 as yearling and sold him
subsequently for $1,000. 1t is good bet
his present owners did not give that
much for him, but there is no saying that
he will not win here.
Recollect that magnificent big bay horse
Won Tromp, that Billy Mckinney brought
out here last year? He was bred by
James r. Keene, who fills the same posi-
tion on the American turf that Lord Fa.-
mouth did In England, thirty years ago.
Mr.. Keene sold Van Tromp because he
Mr.. Keene sold Won Tromp because he
James Rowe. who Is the best trainer In
all of America, II there is such thing.
Mckinney brought Van Tromp out to
Los Angeles and won ten good races
with him. So with Paumonok, who ran
second to Peter Pan In the Brooklyn
derby. Behind him were Yankee Girl.
Frank Gill and Oran, in that race; and
we must not forget that Frank Gill is
| winner OF about $4,000 in purses and
| stakes in the season which has just
closed at the eastern tracks.
| So. say. don't be In any hurry to
| jump on Paumonok Just because Harry
whitney sold him for twenty per cent Of
| what he cost him. The colt Is by the
| great Watercress and out OF a full SIS
4 ter to a Smasher from Smashervi.le; and
IL this gIorioNs climate OF Southern
California agrees with Paumonok as
1 "A JTa,, IA 10
liable to be 'pestersome" as the late
| Colonel Jack Gambill would have put 1t.
| A very handsome brown stallion is
| Scarfell, by imported Shapfell (brother in
blood to the great Arme) out Of Blarche
of Devon by Fitz James, from Sonoma
| by Longf1eld, going back to that old No.
family that produced Volscion in the
pioneer days and the brilliant Mary
Hampstead In later years He is no
more than clever selling platter, but
there are a great many stake horses
that cannot begin to match him for quail
ity.
A very handsome colt is a yearling
named Malna, by First Part, out Of
Relna de Lima by Emporer OF Norfolk.
| He was bred by Atwood Sprowl OF Nor
walk in this county. and is as smoothly
turned as brook trout. I named him
after that great Australian horse who
won the Melbourne cup of 1884 with 135
pounds up in fed of twenty -eight
starters, covering the two miles in
3.3Oh or second faster than did Miss
Woodford (who then held the American
record for that distance) with eighteen
pounds less weight.
1 do not look for the Los Angeles colt
| to make any such performances as that.
but do believe he is the making of a
| good horse in the hands of any halfway
competent trainer. He has about as mas
culine look out of the face as any colt
have seen in years. and he recalls to
my minds eye the famous little Aristides,
| who beat the great Ten Brock as cas-
| lily as Ter Brock could beat anything
else. ~
This colt is strictly Los Angeles
| county production, as his breeder owns
both his sire and dam.
Phil Chinn, the youngest son of the
only Col Jack, il here with some good
| horses, including that great sprinter, Pre-
| tension, who Is about the fastest horse
| in America except the mighty Roseben
Mr. Chipn'e brother owns the great inn
| ported stallion Odd Fellow, eire of
| Tartan and a dozen other cracks.
don't say that Odd Fellow is the best
horse that ever was imported into Amer
| lea but do say that no horse has been
| imported into America since 1876 whose
breeding suits me as well; Gotten by
the urbeaten Barcaldine "a straight wins
| and one OF them with 1876 pounds up at q
mile and three-eights) out OF the Oaks
winner Geheimniss, who beat the Derby
winner in the ST. Leger OF that year. 1
could seek no further for what 1 deem
select breeding. Now then, take hon
yer at" Mr. Chinn is married to a
daughter of the late James B. Ferguson.
who officiated as starter at the Oakland
and Bay District tracks for many years.
Jacob Hoffman, who is to officiate as
starter at the forthcoming meeting at
Santa Anita park, arrived liere promptly
on Wednesday last, prepared to start the
horses on Thanksgiving day; and. up to
the time he left New Orleans there had
been no talk of postponment until De-
cember 7, but when he arrived at the
office in the Douglas block. he was tod
that he was "just trifie previous,
TaHa 10 <onnafhin0 of q xuaR In his Wav