Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-25
WESTERN HORSES
WIN RICH EVENTS
California Colts Ridden by jockeys
Developed on Coast Tracks Win
Big Features-Notes of
the Turf

1t was distinctly and decidedly a western
victory which last Thursdays suburban
handicap at Sheepshead Bay recorded. A
western horse, ridden by western jockey,
beat another horse which was trained out
side the effete east for first money, and
this second one was also ridden by boy
from this part of the country.
Added to the Suburban 1t was certainly
a California day, and those who followed
the winter dope in their fight for the coin
beat the bookies to it for many thousand
dollars In addition to Nealon's victory IN
the big race Firestone, Thomas Williams
colt, which showed so much class at
Emeryville this season, won the first half
of the big event and showed the colts and
stations of the east now they do Things
out our way.
And maybe our own jockeys weren't in
line for honers. w: Dugan, who rode at
Ascot for Barney Schneider. piloted the
winner of the feature race; Sandy had
the leg on Firestone, and little E. Dugan,
after riding a clever race in the Suburban,
came along and copped the fifth event at
fair price.
Tommy Sandy and Eddie Dugan are
developments of the winter season at Oak
land. Neither lad was heard of on
metropolitan track before a few weeks
ago, although Sandy had sported colors
on the big turf before he was in the spot
light. The lads work on Montgomery in
the Suburban was not considered of the
best by the experts at the track, but con-
sidering that the boy who beat him, w.
Dugan, is one of the most finished riders
on the turf today, Sandy did fairly well.
There was little dispute in local sport
Nealon. Dispatches from New York said
that Durnell; John w. Gates and Barney
Schreibet each claimed half interest in
the clever Sain colt, but those VINO Know
in the least fuddled- because OF these re-
ports.
Gates the Angel
AS is we'll known on the turf Gates is
the angel behind the Durnell successes,
and in allowing 1t to slip out that he
owned part of the horse Gates was simply
telling something that has been known for
years-that Durnell was simply MS STAPLE
manager and did not really own the pig
interest in the horse Is clear, as ne sold
but half interest in the racing qualltles OF
the colt when he signed his name to the
papers which gave Durnell, or Gates,
right to put their colors up when Nealon
went to the post
The eastern bookies showed clearly how
entirely they .despised winter form by tne
and Nealon. Ten to, one against the
former and twice that figure about the
latter was the way the high stool brigade
at Sheepshead esteemed them, and mad
not the far western contingent been there
with the coin to back their favorites 1t
would have been fine day for the
bookies.
The Gates clique is credited with having
cleaned up between $4,000 and 100000 on
Nealon's victory, while Tom Williams fol-
lowers remembered Firestone's rare form
earlier in the year and took heavy chances
on the colt at the good price offered!
But it seems that the east will never get
over the feeling of contempt it processes to
have for the west and its products in the
line of horse flesh. The prices laid against
ANYTHING from this section of the country
are always liberal in the extreme, and
even repeated examples of how overlaid
they are do not affect things to an appre-
ciable extent However it is just as well.
for those who go to the metropolitan turf
from this section fatten their bank rolls
thel eby.