Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-20
RENEW CONTEST
FOR CLARK CUP
MAKE THIS FEATURE FOR THE
NEXT MATINEE
WINNER OF FIRST LEG MAY BE
TOO SPEEDY
Development of This Fact VIII Dis
qualify Her-Medico, Which Won
at First Meet Held Here, Still
Alive and Can Race
BY DAN PATCH

At the next matinee meeting of the
Los Angeles Driving club, in October,
the second race for the Clark challenge
cup will be trotted by the horses of the
$3.50 class The first '1eg" was won at
the last matinee, on September IL, by
w. A. Glascock's bay mare, Lou II, by
Zombro, dam by Coniper. Lou III was
bought by Glascock from j. S. Stewart
the day before she won her race for an
even $1,000, and she looks well worth
the price, as she is half sister to
Idlewild, both having the same dam.
She is only years old and is as sound
as a new milled dollar. She is not a
big mare, but is strongly built and has
been a mile this summer in 2:14, with
the last quarter in 80 Ia seconds, 1903
clip. She is level-headed and has a
nice disposition, both in and out of har-
ness, and judging from her first race,
when driven for the first time by her
new owner, she looks as If she would
take kindly to the game and by next
year make useful race mare in almost
any company. Her chances of eventu-
ally winning the cup are slight, how
ever, for the paradoxical reason she
has too much speed.
Conditions of Cup Race
The cup presented by w. A. Clark,
1r.. is one of the handsomest and most
valuable that ever has been offered
for slow class 1t ~aally is given for
road horses, not race horses. for the
condition is that it must be won three
times in not faster time than 2:20 Ia.
A heat in 2:20 or better Will not be
counted as a LEG" on the cup, thus
combining 1t to horses that really cannot
l.. 90
bers who own horses that cannot beat
that mark and who have been shaved
out of the fun of racing them hereto
fore because they were not considered
fast enough. This will give them the
chance they are entitled to and foster
the interest in the matinees, and should
result in large fields and close and
exciting finishes, as no horse, under
this condition, will outclass his field.
The Herald publishes cut of the
trophy, which was designed by Tiffany
& Co., of New York, and is valued at
$500, as we'll as a cut of Lou n, the
winner of the last race The other
horse is Medico, 2:10 Ia, big brown
gelding, a winner in the first matinee
that the Los Angeles Driving club
gave, in 1898. His time was ZIG, and
at that time he was owned and after
ward campaigned by Joseph Desmond.
Medico now is 16 or II years old, and
his present owner, l. "A. Wood, says
he has a lot of his old time speed and
all his ambition left.
Injury Is Blessing
A group Of prominent members of the
driving club were talking horse" the
other afternoon at Levys cafe, when
one of them remarked what a fortunate
thing it was for Zomalta that she
bowed her tendon recently Answering
Inn frif
said: why if she had not done so she
would have been entered In all the big
stakes down the grand circuit, when
she would have met Spanish queen,
Fleming Boy, Jack Leyburn, Amy
Brooks, Margaret o and all the others
of that classy bunch, and she would
have been fighting the flag every trip.
But. after meeting with her mishap,
her owner, of course, would not pay her
entrees in q lot of $4,000 and $lu,Voo
stakes, with the chances 100 to 1 that
she never would be able TO meet any
of her engagements.
49, he sent her east with Durfee Tor
class races only, where the entries close
ten days ahead, so that IL she broke
down he would not be out anything In
addition to her shipping expenses, and
it took lot of nerve to do that. She
got into company that she could beat,
with the result that she has turned
out one of the big money winners In
Durfee's stable"
Will Durfee, with his all-star stable
and great aggregation of California
trotters and PAGERS, as the circus peo-
pie would call them, still is picking up
the coin as he journeys along. Copa de
ORC won again at Syracuse last week,
as did Del Coronado. and. rather than
get out of the winning habit, he slipped
over to Hamline the week preceding
the Hartford meeting. when there was
a break in the grand circuit racing, and
won $3.50 with Zomalta.
In view of the two handicap races
that are talked Of as feature of the
next matinee here, 1t might be well to