Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-10
MOLL|E M'CARTr'S
GARDEN CITY CUP
california-Bred Mare Won $685.
600 for Her Owner in Great
Race at Chicago.
Defeated Flower of the Eastern
Turf in Struggle Over a
Distance Of Ground.
By G. G. Pettus..

By G. G. Pettus.
A well-known eastern turfman, just from
Los Angeles, who went out to Arcadia,
where Elijah J.-otherwise called Lucky
Baldwin is building race track says there
is no chance of the new plant being COM
pleted in time for an opening next month,
as stated: that while the Baldwin enterprise
has secured the cooperation of George
Rose. and will be completed all right, 1t
will not be in time to open right after Ascot
closes, as originally intended.
At Arcadia. built around Santa Anita
ranch. Baldwin is the whole show. He Is
-mayor of the town acknowledgements
of all he surveys''-in real estate. And the
veteran breeder and turfman is greatly es-
teemed by the Arcadians, and in nearby
Pasadena as well.
His extensive investments thirty years
ago in the beautiful Santa Anita valley. of
thousands of acres of wild land. made him
one of the pioneer land proprietors of the
valley and now. in his eightieth year. when
he is bit 'land poor" his neighbors are
doing their part toward helping him to util-
ize his vast property in and around the
IA nch.
in 1876. at Sar Francisco. proved. defeat
for his horses Grinstead and Rutherford he
was goine TO sell the two stations to the
highest bidder. He had zone on east the
year before to Sa ratoea and pa id $4,000 for
the two horses 10 win the Frisco $40 0O0
purse. at four-rnile heats. with one or the
other. But Grfnstead got lame and Ruth
erford could or'v run second to the Oregon
horse Foster. ridden bv William Lakeland.
the developer of Electioneer. the Futurity
winner.
Then Rudt1 Doble the famous reinsman
and Raldwin's son-in-law. said to the dis
annointe1 aSnirart for turf hOnors: Look
here Old man. Don't sell those stations.
Send them down to Santa Anita. buy some
GOOD thoroughbred mares and start a breed
ing farm You can raise colts there as
good or better than those east take them
hack over the mountains and beat the Ken
tucl-v colts their own ground"
Baldwin fell in with Doh'e's suggestion.
and long before Haeein's Rancho del Paso
farm was started Santa Anita had become
fnmOus as a birthn1ace of great winners.
Five American Derhies. and classic events
on every race course east except New Or
leans. fell to the wearers of the "black red
maltese cross" and his horses went hack
over the mountains each fall laden with
honors.
Daughter Of Four-Milers.
Two of the first mares that Baldwin Sc
cured for stud matrons at Santa Anita
were Clara D. and Jennie B.. by Geneg.
August Belmont's great race horse and sire.
And then he paid stiff price to Theodore
Winters for the great little mare Mollie Nc
Carly after she had been beaten nv Ten
Brock at Louisville. took her back east
the following summer and won the largest
bet OF his turf career with her at Chicago.
Mollie McCartv's whole career was ro-
nance. part Of which could be written bv
the veteran Matthew NJ. Allen. who trained
the mare for Theodore Winters as two.
three and four-year-old. With her Allen
won the $4,000 purse at San Francisco IN
November. 1876 at four-mile heats. Mollie
being only an understood three-year-old at
the time. George Howson rode the filly in
the race.
The filly looked to me at that time not as
large as many two-year-olds. and then the
next summer I saw her win under Allen 8
handling at Sacramento other races at a
distance, including one at twO-mile heats,
in time close to the record. BY Monday
Hennie Farrow Mollie McCartv traced to
noted four-milers through both sire and
dam.
Monday. raced by Francis Morris Of
Throes Neck n. Y. father of John A.
Norris. was by Cotton out of the great
four-mle mare Mollie Jackson raced by
Cant T. G. Moore While McCartys dam,
Hennie Farrow. was the dam of the four
miller Privateer also Moore's horse. who.
after winning a four-mile race at Jerome
Park. fell after passing the finish appar-
emily deadi But after the vets had worked
over him for half an hour he got up and
walked to his barn.
Monday and Hennie Farrow were brought
to California by Winters shortly after he
purchased Norfolk at Paterson. where that
great colt won the Jersey Derby. Like
Norfolk. they made the Journey from New
York by sea-via the isthmus of Panama
and reached the Winters ranch in Yolo
county in good shape. There Mollie Nc
Carly was foaled In 1873
After Winters great little mare had
beaten everything on the Pacific coast her
owner was about to retire her to the stud.
as he did not care to go into an eastern
racing campaign. But Budd Doble finally
persuaded him to lease him the mares rum
ming qualities for the season of 1873. and
that summer she was matched against Ten
Brock at four-mfle heats at Louisville.
The race took place on July in the pres
ence of 10000 people. The heat was some
thing fierce. 1902 in the shade, and both
horses felt it keenly the mare the most Of
the two. for after leading in the first heat
for three miles she collapsed. and Ten
Brock distanced her in slow time.
Beaten by Ten Brock.
Both the Harper and Doble parties, how
ever. had an interest in the gate receipts,
which helped to stand off the losses of the
Californians over the mares defeat, and
they evened up that score by a victory at
Minneapolis several weeks later on their
way back to the coast.
At Hamline Park the Twin City Jockey
Club track, Mollfe McCarty, in the Mime
apolis cup. two miles and a quarter. de-
feated the best horse in the northwest, L.
Staples Governor Neptune. son of Brown
Dick. Neptune was well backed. but the
little mare from the Pacific slope beat him
cleverly in 4.011a.
The mare did not run any more that
year GS7S. and was shipped back to Cali
fornia early In October. The next spring
Baldwin bought her from Winters and en-
tered her in the Latonia. Garden City and
Saratoga cups. as well as other lons-dis-
lance events east
Mollie trained we'll that spring though
then six-year-old, that Baldwin and Son.
in-law Doble determined on a coup with
her at Chicago. and, shipping her east
early In June. they went direct to Chicago
lodging her Latonia cup engagement. for
several reasons one being that a win there
entailed a penalty in the Chicago event.
At the Chicago Driving Park track Mollie
McCarty did everything that was asked Of
her in impressive fashion, and week be-
fore the race showed her trainer a trial Of
two miles in $50. AS this was half Sec
ond faster than the record at the distance,
held by Gen. Abe Bufords Inflated Nc
Whittier. Baldwin Doble and Trainer l.. r.
Martin were in ecstacies. and began to look
round for first-class jockey for the mare.
George Howson, who had ridden Mollie In