Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-27
MANY MATINEES
WILL Be GIVEN
LOS ANGELES DRIVING CLUB
PLANS WINTER SPORTS
RACES TO FOLLOW ONE ANOTHER
IN RAPID ORDER
Banner Meeting Is Anticipated on
Washlngton's Birthday, When
Blue Ribbon Meet viii
Be Pulled of
BY DAN PATCH

The Christmas matinee of the Los
Angeles Driving club was great sue
cess in every way. The weather could
not have been better, the track was
exceptionally good, the crowds large
and enthusiastic, and the racing of a
very high order, especially in the free
for all pace won by Frank B. Lang
good horse, Siegfried, both heats in
ally, and just beating Dewey at that
after racing from wire to wire, almost
like double team.
Already the management of the Driv-
ing club is talking about and planning
the next entertainment. and the prob
ability is that there will be several free
matinees given in succession, the first
one about the middle of January, one
about the first of February, another
about the middle of February, and still
another, a blue ribbon meet, the ami
versary of Washington's birthday, Feb
ruary %, by which time all the horses
at the track will have had their let up
and started in for real work, and the
regular matinee brigade will have been
keyed up by the previous matinees to
. concert plICI1 anu Will DS III snaps u
give the regular compaigners all they
can do.
Special attractions will be on the
program, as at the Thanksgiving day
matinee, and the banner meeting of
the year is promised.
Colts Promise Speed
c. A. Garfield is the owner of Walter
Barker, a 6-year-old brown pacing
stallion by Heir-at-Law (2:O5 Ia. dam
Jane Johns, by Axtel, that, judging
from his first crop of colts, that are
now yearlings and beginning their
education at Agricultural park, prom
ises to be one of the great sires of
early speed, for out of the half dozen
colts and FLIES by him that Walter
Maben has in charge, one called Car
bon has worked a quarter in "a ga sec
onds, and there are two others that
can go as fast as soon as Mahen secs
lit TO ask them; and all the others
have stepped quarters better than 81
seconds. A peculiar thing is, that
though Walter Barker is a PAGER and
the son of a PAGER, though Heir-at-Law'
was trotting bred and had a record of
2:12 at that gait, vet all the colts he
gets are pure gated trotters, and Car
bon, the fastest and best gated of the
lot, is the son of a mare by O'clock,
2:0o IA, pacing.
NOldulGf Dy LOHlDIOs d E-yedI-Ol0. Is
also owned by c. A Garfield, and is
one of the handsomest, best gated and
fastest colts of his age in the state
He is a bright bay, Is ga hands, and
his dam is Mamie Elizabeth (2:20) by
Red Regent, second dam by Chimes.
He is the only colt in the state who
has seven dams in his pedigree that
have produced performers and whose
sons and daughters are producers. Vo-
lante has worked miles in 1923. with
halves in 1908, and quarters in SO sec
ondss and in none of his work has
Maben, his trainer. asked him to ex-
tend himself.
Horses and 4orsemen
That was a great matinee on Xmas
day at San Bernardino. Two track rec
ords were broken-one by green horse,
kid Wilkes by Stanton Wilkes, owned
by w. L. Scott, which trotted the mile
in 2:10% and beat r. Ambush, which
formerly held the matinee record of
2;lSA. The free-for-all pace was won
by Delilah, which beat Mac O'D. In
2:091s, also lowering the track record
for matinee PAGERS.
Kid Wilkes is a very racy looking
gelding. He is a light chestnut with O
long white strip in the face and two
white stockings behind. He will be five
years old next spring and is by the
trotting bred PAGER Stanton Wilkes,
and his dam nearly thoroughbred, be-
ing sister (full sister, am informed)