Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-13
RACING AT
NEW TRACK
WAS GREAT
0NY ONE OR TWO NUMBERS
MARRIED PROGRAM
LESSON OF ASCOT FORGOTTEN
BY MANAGERS
Farce Of Allowing Twenty Minutes TO.
New Book Re-enacted for Books
Heneflt-Tlme Was
Fast
NY HIpALGo.

By HIDALGO.
Saturday closed the thirtieth day Of rae
ing at Santa Anita park and cav the
fourth race Of the meeting run by 2-year-
ODDS. so-called The beautiful chestnut
f1lly Achieve won her second race, peat
ing Mr.. Carman's Coffee Princess the
latter being a good filly but not equal 10
Achieve. who is better grown and de-
welcomed than most Of the 3-year-olds you
see. She ran both he races in exactly
the same time 80 2-5 seconds, and with
the same weight.
The racing through TIE week was good
although Wednesdays program was a
wretched connection. with three races at
six furlongs and the other three at seven
which seems like bad judgment In the
handicapper's office, unless at least two
of them were what are known as splits
There should always be at least one race
of a mile or upward on each days pro-
gram. Il may not please the bookles as
well. but it will please the public better;
and without the dollarc of the dear peo-
pie what will the bookies do?
Chippewa, a horse from Canada, was
the real hit of last Monday and won from
Progress and Blondy as he liked. The
latter horse is what is called bad
actor" and invariably delays start, out
when he once gets off he certainly does
fly. On this occasion he got Off at least
twenty yards to the bad and was barely
beaten a neck for the second place. stan
lev Fay. on the Same day. beat Water
bury and Orilene at seven furlongs in
1924 Is, and two days later repeated in
The same time to beat Critic and Lisaro.
Baron Essher on that day carried Ill
pounds and beat field of nine in 1:52 40,
which is about the fastest race of nine fur
longs run here with any such weight up.
Tuesday saw one of the old-time long
shots pass under the wire at 100 to l. His
name is Alleviater and he was bred by
w. F. Schultz OF Kentucky. The second
horse was Old Colony at so to l and the
third was George Swain at 40 to l. There
were two good horses in that race which
carried the bulk of the public money, but
were never prominent at any part OF the
race The trainer of Alleviator, whose
name is Rothert. said to me after the
race: II expected he would be about %
10 / and gave a friend Of mine to play
him for a place. You can judge of my
establishment when he came back and
gave me ticket calling for 5000 to s.. So
/ sent back S. more to play him at 81
straight and So to show. oh, can't COM
plaintiffs is a pretty good poor man 5
country, anyhow
Fast Time Wednesday
Wednesday had I. bad card and yet
there were some good races at those short
distances. I append the time for the two
distances:
SIX FURLoNGs sEvEN FURLoNGs
Harvel. 102....1:12 2-5Tim. Wen 105. .l;25 20
Bambro, 1os....1:1s 1-5Stanly Fay 102. liza l-5
Norfolk 110.....1:13 RUSTIC. SILK Stiles 40
There is no other track in America where
such time as this has been made in a day.
None of these races constitute broken
records, but there IS no such average to
be found in the history of any other meet
ing ever run in America. Bambro is a
very handsome 3-year-old that was
brought out here year ago and is owned
by the same parties that own Alleviator
He had no sooner reached Ascot park
than he contracted a violent cold which
laid him upon the shelf for the whole of
that meeting His stable companion Of
the same age called Balbus. and son of
the same stallion-imported Alvescot-won
several races here, notably the Wood
lands stakes.
One day l said: Mr. Rothert, you have
a very good colt there" YES" said Mr..
Rothert, ''he is a good colt. but there is
a sick one in the next stall to him that
can beat him at any old game in the
world" That colt was Bambro. who won
his first start on that day; and mighty
handsome colt he is. by the way. OF
course any horse of good speed can win
at six furlongs, but this colt looks to me
very much a horse with a future. His
owner has entered Macias in the Los
Angeles derby, and in my belief before
he gets through with it he will wish he
had nominated Bambro in his stead Rey
Hindoo is good colt, bred right here,
but before the Los Angeles derby comes
around he will be so stale from running
in short races against older horses that
Il Is a good bet that he will not be one
4 itfftz 81 Vi ii he CT re ar all
Thursday saw the FIRST real sensation
of the new track. a dead heat between
Waterbury anu Rapid Water in a high
weight handicap at six and a half fur
longs. Waterbury gos in with liz and
could have stood iii with the same result.
Into this race Sam Hildreth's big horse
Rapid Water was sent with 126, having
three pounds o@ by the English scale.
while Carmans big horse was favored at
least twelve pounds by the same rating.
They ran a dead heat in LII AS, the last
six furlongs na,ing been done in Ill, the
fastest race 1 have timed In forty-eight
wears. This was a Observation-Disclosures
the fastest race ever run In California, If
not in all America.
Old Farce Enacted
The old farce of a horse scratched at
post time and twenty minutes for new
book" was enacted on Tuesday. If the
people who own Santa Anita park want
to gain the confidence Of the public let
them drop out 'all SIGH conducts as
those" l am aware that the rule has
prevailed on all American tracks for
years untold, but it would not be recog-
nized for a moment on any track in Eng
land, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand,
France or Germany; and 1t is no wonder
that the English correspondents of the
London papers, over here to repor.
sporting events, denounce it as a rule
made in favor of the bookmakers and
against the interests of the public.
In the betting before post time, the
price against Rip Rap, the ultimate win
ner OF the race. was to l and In some
books as high as Z. When 1t came to post
time Red" Walkers horse Begun was
scratched for lameness, and Immediately
the new book showed Rip Rap at to 2
In come books and to l in others
What the judges should have done was
10 have fined the strawberry blonde from
Canada about 800 for bringing a crippled
morse on the track at ALI He was II
straight. to i place and to 1 a show
How could any such prices affect the ring
unless they found they had got In wrong +?
don't suppose there were five bets made
In Begun In any one of the books in the
ring. outside of the field book" where
The gentle pikers most do congregate.
rhe lesson of Ascot park, evlnced in the