Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-27
ARRANGE PACE
HANDICAP RACE
SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY
MATINEE
ARRANGED UPON BASIS OF REAL
RACING ABILITY
Members of Los Angelica Driving Club
to lnaugurate New System OF
EquaIizing Horses in Fea.
ture Events
By DAN PATCH

The Los Angeles Driving clup WIN
give matinee next Saturday, the en-
tries for which will close Wednesday
evening with Secretary ]. A. Edwards.
The feature of the afternoons sport
will be a handicap race for PAGERS at
mile and a quarter. The directors OF
the club have adopted The Herald sug-
gestion and will modify the penalty,
and not take 80 feet a second as the
basis, as all the other clubs have Deen
doing for some unaccountable> reason
That basis presupposes horse capable
of trotting or pacing at the rate OF y
mile in Las, which is ten seconds raster
than Dan Patch ever has gone with a
wind shield and runners alongside to
prompt him. For a grand circuit hand
leap for q large purse which would at
tract the highest class trotters, such
as contended for the $4,000 purse at
Readville, a handicap of Al feet, which
is a 2:0S gait, the time Allen winter
made at Boston, would seem to be
about right; but at the matinee here
next Saturday 80 feet, which is approx
imately a 2:16 gait, would be better
and insure a closer finish.
The starting of the different divis-
ions will be accomplished by the use OF
flags in the hands of starters, chosen
from members of the club, each having
control of the horses at the different
marks, and when the judge at the
mile and a quarter mark sees that all
the flags are down he will give the sig
nal to start. There will be several
rehearsals of the starting judges before
the day of the race, to avoid mistakes
and delays Saturday.
A good band has been engaged, and
the number of horses that have re-
fttrr
matinee, and that will take part, should
insure good sized fields in the different
classes; and with the novelty of a
handicap and the second race for the
Clark challenge cup for 2:30 class trot-
tiers on the program, large attend
ance may be expected.
Lou H. will not have the easy race
she had last time, when she won the
first leg on the cup, as then she had
only one horse to beat. Next time
there will be a number of other COM
petitors for the valuable trophy, and
as the conditions prohibit horse from
ktinning a leg in faster time than
2:20A, watches in the hands of drivers
will not be permitted.
Colt Doing Nicely
J. H. Williams colt by Audubon Boy
Q:59%), which, by the way, he has
named Jimmie Gatcomb. after the
owner of the stud, has been weaned
and is doing well. . For the last couple
of months he has been sick and was
thin and lifeless. He had some stom-
ach or blood disorder that manifested
itself in an eruption on his neck and
TANKS, but now his coat is smooth and
glossy and is eating as much IS any
horse in the barn. 1t will not be long
before he is as big and good looking as
the three other colts by the same sire.
that are owned by Powder, Messmore
and Sapavido, and they are handsome
enough to satisfy any owner.
George A. Powder has returned with
his string, after a successful campaign
up north, and all his horses are look
ing well. Prince Lock, which won his
2-year-old stake in 2:1S, is as fine as
silk. He is in good flesh and looks
more as if he were just going to the
races than he does like he had been
through his first campaign. The pet of
the Powder stable. though, is Lottie
Linwood, full sister to Sonoma Girl.
She is only a yearling, but looks like
an exceptionally big 2-year-old; and
very few of them have the chest, Shout
ders and quarters developed as she has.
She Is a dark chestnut, with white
stockings. and strip in her face, the
best of legs and feet and a perfect
neck. So far not horseman who has
seen her has been able to pick flaw in
either her conformation, manners or
general appearance. Added to all this,
she went a quarter last spring, before
she was ''let up in 36 seconds-a 2:24
gait. 1t is the general belief at the
track that Founder had her made to
order. She would have no trouble in
the show ring to win enough blue rib
bons to make herself a blanket.
Worth While, the brown '4-year- old
stallion by Allerton, in Walter Maben's
stable, is pleasing that trainer. Though
he is very green yet-for he has had
very little handling and everything is
new to him-he tramped a quarter the
first time he was called upon in So Sec
onds, and has a nice way of going.
The defeat of Minor Heir by The Eel,
and the second heat in 2:041S by Lillian
r., were the principal subjects of con-
versation at the track last week.