Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-15
TROTTERS SHOW
DESIRED CLASS
OWNERS DECIDE TO GO AFTER
BIG PURSES
IDA NlLLERToN AND ROMEO
ALREADY ARE CHOSEN
Program apd Entries for ThanksgiV~
ing Day Matinee to Be Announced
One Week Hence-Horses
Coming from Phoenix
Bv DAN PATCH

Los Angeles and Southern California
have furnished the grand circuit with
many of its stars. and probably Will
continue to do so for all time to come.
! Already there are a few good ones in
/ sight for the next grand circuit season,
and while no Somona Girl or Sweet Ma
! rie may be developed in 1909 from the
| coast bunch, several good horses will
go from Los Angeles to the campaign
on the big circuit. Two good ones al
ready are being mentioned as among
| those that will be shipped east next
| year-Ida Millerton and Romeo.
Ida Millerton is owned by Henry N.
Henderson, a member of the Los An
geles Driving club and one of its board
| of directors, an old-time horseman and
one who can go back to Flora Temples
day and tell one of the horses and
horsemen who fiourished on the old
fashioned track on Long Island and
at Beacon park in Boston. If he had
only had Ida in 'them days." what a
| sensation he would have created.
Ida Millerton is a handsome, racy
looking black mare, 15% hands high,
| by Millerton, he by the great sire AL
lerton, and her dam is by Areton. Hen
derson bought her as a 2-year-old, four
years ago, from George Easton, and
she has kept improving steadily all
the time.
She has a race record of 2:21, a
matinee record of 2:131a and a trial of
2:101a, and that is not her limit. either
Next year she will be campaigned over
probably one of the big eastern circuits
and in the meantime will be decided
/ factor in the free-for-an trots in the
matinees.
Another Crackerjack
Romeo, a bay gelding, by James Mad
! ison, the property of William Garland,
also a member of the club and its vice
president, is another one of the many
good things owned in Los Angeles. He
| is about the same height as Ida Mil
| lerton and very compactly built, with
| the best of feet and legs. He is one
of the best gated horses at the track
and has a world of speed.
Ever since he was put in Walter
Maben's hands last spring he has been
! improving steadily and now can step
mile in 2:10 or better. In fact, he
has worked mile in 2:10 fiat and with
something in reserve at that. Doing
! halves in 1903 and a fraction are as
| easy for him as the same distance in
1;06 or 1907, apparently. He seldom,
If ever, makes a break, does not pull
and is as level-headed in company as
an old campaigner.
After he gets his education in the
matinees here this winter he, too, will
be sent east to fight for the money
and honors among the best in this
country 1 predicted 2:0S for him next
year early last summer, and now. L
am willing to lower that second or
so. With his breeding. conformation
and frictionless way of going, and good
headed enough not to fret and worry,
he should go all the heats asked of
him and all at pretty near the same
notch.
Thanksgiving Day Matinee
| Preparations for the harness races at
Agricultural park on November rs are
going steadily on. The members Of the
Los Angeles Driving club, who We're
supplied with tickets to sell to their
friends, seem to be doing a land-ofaee
business, judging by the way money
and checks are coming In to the treas
drer, as well as requests for more
tickets to sell. The private boxes,
holding four and six persons, can be
| secured from the secretary at an addl-
tional charge of 81 and SO, according
to location. These boxes are In two
tiers nearest the track, and are fur
nished with chairs and are more COM
Portable than the grand stand seats,
though they all have backs and are
wide enough to be comfortable.
Entry blanks were mailed Thursday
| to 127 horse owners, many of them
! members of driving clubs in neighbor-
| come in, The first one was that fast
PAGER and hero of many matinees at
Agricultural park, Siegfried, owned by
Frank Moore.
A first-class band has been engaged
and will play between heats, and also
traverse the principal streets in troll
ley car before the races on ThanksglV-
ing day. so that no one can plead as
| an excuse for not having gone that
he did not know or had forgotten there
were to be harness races there that
day.
Next Sunday the full program viii
he published, with a list of all the
horses entered, and that program Will
be carried out with a rush. There Will
be no tiresome waits between heats, as
| marshals will be on horseback 10 gai-
lon to the stables ten minutes after
one heat is finished to get the horses
I ont for the next, and as three races
will be sandWiched, the horses in the
| different races will have the requisite
/ time TO cool out. Even while the track
is being gone over with brush harrow
to get 1t like a billiard table or parlor
floor for Copa de orc, 2;oSh, TO make
his attempt to lower the coast record
for wagon, the novelty race will be in
progress on the home stretch.
copa de ORC After Record
That Copa de ORC will lower the rec
. ord is a IO1eSOnt tpiltidoioLif eAiS Si'AS
question being how, much he Will re-
duce it. The general opinion seems to
be that he will set 1t at figure that it
will remain a shining mark for other
good pacers to shoot at for long time
to come.
Dan Hogan, who has charge of the
novelty race, is besieged by inquiries
as to what the boxes, which are
most important adjunct, contain and
what use the contents are to be put
to; but he retains a SphinX-like silence
or says to the public: "You wait and
see." and to contestants: "You can bet
you will know when you open them.
| Don't worry, you will get all that is
coming to you. I mean all that's in
them" The fact that the only Dan
furnishes the mounts looks to a man
up a tree like there might be a little
African in the wood pile. Still, the
participants are all good riders and, it
goes without saying, game men.
There seems to be little friction at
present between the state board that
acts as trustees of the grounds and
track at Agricultural park, and the
Los Angeles Driving club. their ten
ants; but do not let anybody for an
instant imagine that it will affect the
Thanksgiving matinee in any way.
shape or manner. 1t is "the one best
bet' that the matinee will be the larg-
| est, the best and the most successful