Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-25
CRACK HARNESS
HORSES COMING
WILL DURFEE AND STRING
SHIP HOME
Copa de Orc and carIokin, Owned by
s Los Angeles Woman, Included In
the ipments-Plannlng for
Thanksgiving Matinee
BY DAN PATCH


Coast horsemen are proud of the rec
ords of the two great racing stations,
Copa de Orc and Carlokin, the
property of Mrs. Bonfillio of F'igueroa
street, and their successful trainer and
driver. William Durfee, also of Los An
geles. They are on their way home
from Lexington, KY. where they wound
up a most successful campaign down
the grand circuit. Last Thursday they
and the rest of Durfee's combination
were at Newton, Kas., so they may be
expected at Agricultural park today o.
tomorrow. Their stalls are waiting for
them, as well as a hearty welcome To
their pilot.
Copa de Orc, 2:OSA, the PAGER, is a
6-year-old bay stud by NutWood
Wilkes, dam Athena, by Patron, and
was raised by his present owner; Last
year was his first on the turf, when he
took record of 2:071A. He raced SO
well and showed so much speed that
after a careful preparation last spring
1t was decided to send him east to do
battle with the giants of the grand cir
cult, and he nobly upheld the reputa-
tion of California, and especially of Los
Angeles, by lowering his record to
2:O3k at Buffalo and to put his mark
beyond question again paced In 2:OoA
at Columbus o.
The other is trotter, Carloldn, 2:0SA,
by Mckinney, dam Carlotta Wilkes,
2:221k, by Charlie Wilkes. He is a half
brother of the pacing mare, Inferlotta,
Carlokin is a bay stud, years old, and
has been raced since be was 2-year-
old, with the exception of last year.
when his feet troubled him and he was
laid up. He took a record as 3-year-
old of 2:19A and reduced that to 2:13E.
which mark he had when he went east
with his stablemate, Copa de ORC, or,
as the "groomsters" down the line nick
named him, "Cop re Coin" Carlokin
also won his fastest heat at Buffalo
and got a record of 2:0SA. He was
owned by C. Jones of Modesto, Cal.
till about a month ago, when Mrs.
Bonfillio bought him.
Next year his new owner should have
two great campaigners, good enough to
go anywhere and defeat the best in
their respective classes. Every one,
and especially the members of the Los
Angeles Driving club, of which Mrs.
Bonfillio is a member, wishes her the
best of luck, as she is in the game
partly out of love for horses, and her
only disappointment this year, and one
that she felt keenly, was that her
health did not permit her to be present
at the triumphs of her pets. She, how
ever, will see them perform here, as
they probably will both appear at the
Thanksgiving matinee. Copa de Orc
may go against the coast pacing record
to wagon. and possibly Carlokin will go
against the trotting record to wagon.
Horsemen and Horses
w. A. Glascock gives a luncheon
Tuesday to the old and new boards of
directors of the Los Angeles Driving
club and to Jake Levy, the speed ex-
pert" and chairman of the speed COM
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fast the horses will go round the table
at the Bristol about 1880 o'clock that
day. Talk about burning up a track" :"
the fire department had better station
an engine at the corner of Fourth and
Spring streets that afternoon.
The Driving club rooms are begin
ming to look very homelike and COM
Portable. A number of pictures of cele-
brated horses and matinee racers have
been hung and one wall is covered by
blackboards, on which the time of all
the workouts are posted each day, so
that anyone wanting to know what the
horses are doing at the track can walk
in there and get the official time of
each heat trotted or paced that morn
ing. Levy holds himself responsible for
their absolute correctness and stakes
his reputation as a "clocker" on 1t.
Silver Dick, 2:09A. the well known
gray PAGER, changed hands this week
for $780, the buyer being G. j. Donovan,
who will matinee him next winter.
Kid Wilkes, a racy looking sorrel geld
ing by Stanton Wilkes and out of half
bred mare, but the second dam q trotter
owned by w. L. Scott of Riverside, will
appear here in the Thanksgiving day
matinee. He was to have started at
Santa Ana last week, but the rain
made it necessary to call off the races.
He looks like good prospect, and a
member of the Los Angeles Driving
club offered $1,000 for him for a matinee
horse. He must be pretty we'll thought
of by those who should know, as he is
entered at Phoenix next month, and
the winners there will not have sine
cure.
Will Durfee will come directly here
from Lexington with all his string, in
Guiding Zomalta. Carlokin, Copa de
ORC and Del Coronado and then ship
the ones he has entered to Phoenix
after resting up three or four days,
but returning in time for the Thanks
giving day matinee here.
A number of out-of- town horses are
coming for the blue ribbon matinee on
thanksgiving day and some for the
free-for- -alls, so that the local horses
will have their work cut out for them
and the public will have a chance to
see how the home horses compare with
the visitors.
Applications for membership in the
Los Angeles Driving club are coming
in at the rate of one or two each day,
and not only from Los Angeles but
from neighboring towns, and new
blood, both human and equine, is what
is needed to keep UP the interest and
insure good racing at the matinees.
There will be a meeting of the board
of directors of the Los Angeles Driving
club on Tuesday evening, and the pro-
gram of the Thanksgiving matinee
probably will be made up then.
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