Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
ARRANGE GOOD
MATINEE CARD
DRIVING CLUB PLANS FOR
CHRISTMAS
WILL MAINTAIN STANDARD SET
THANKSGIVING DAY
Handicap, Novelty and Free-for-Alls
for Trotters and PAGERS Assured
as Features of Classy
Offering
BY DAN PATCH

BY DAN PATCH
The Los Angeles Driving club will
give another blue ribbon matinee on
Christmas afternoon at Agricultural
park, with the trifling charge of adj
mission of % cents to everyone, fnclud-
ing a seat in the grandstand. Every
arrangement looking to the comfort OF
the public that was a feature of the
last matinee will be made, and the tire
some delays between heats again will
be eliminated The standard set by the
matinee held last month, though high
one, will be lived up to at the next
and card is being arranged that will
be equally as attractive and insure as
exciting races.
There will be a free-for-all trot, in
which it is hoped the bay gelding,
Romeo, which won a heat last month
from the grand circuit star, Carlokin,
the black mare, Ida Millerton, trial of
2:101h, and Rapidan Dillon will be
among the starters, which, if there was
pool selling, which there is not, would
be even money and take your choice"
A free for-all pace which, with Copa
de Orc and Velox "out," will draw out
a large field of sidewheelers, all of them
able to step close to 2:10, and some of
them faster, for 2;10 will not win, bar
accidents. A 1920 trot and 2:20 pace
that will both go down in the teens,
and pretty low down at that also are
on the card. Another novelty race that
is guaranteed to be as screamingly
funny as the last one that threw the
occupants of the grandstand into
paroxysns of laughter, though entirely
different in every way, except that II
surely will be on horseback, is promised
handicap race for trotterS and
PAGERS is assured, and the management
is endeavoring, and hopes to succeed,
IN, oattfy,o 40 ffO0a1 LITTLE paPPT
Velox, for an exhibition to wagon,
nominally to beat 2:10, the coast record,
but really to show how fast the little
wonder can go to that hitch. From his
build and gait, the chances are that he
can pull four wheels a mile as fast as
he can pull two. In this case he Will
set a mark that will stand for many
long day. The program will not be as
long as the last one, so that the days
sport will be completed in plenty of
time to enable every one to get home
early enough for their Christmas dinner
engagements.
After the first of the year there will
be two matinees each month, one for
ribbons only, and with the services of
the band dispensed with, but otherwise
with all the formalities and rules en-
forced. These will be free to everyone
and will afford the members and their
friends lots of fun, as the horses Will
be as carefully classified as in the
grand matinee to follow, and the two
each month will keep the horses in the
pink Of condition and always on edge
without either becoming stale or start
ing short of work.
The brown stallion Dewey, with his
owner e. A Ingram, will start in the
free for all pace on Christmas day,
He is now on edge and the race he
won at the last matinee did him a lot
1F se hnrea that 1lVVq
has his speed and If he gets off right he
is hard to beat. He should be able to
beat 2:10 next time.
Romeo will start in the free for all
trot and his owner, William Garland,
probably will drive him this time. At
the last matinee he was separately
timed in 2:10h, with President E. ].
Delorey up, and won the second heat
in the free for all trot, beating Car
loltin. His last race has improved
him and he should race right around
2:09 on Christmas day.
Horsemen and Horses
Bisa, a full sister to Benvola, 2:O91a,
has been sold to Walter (Long Shot)
Cox, the New Hampshire reinsman.
for $4,000. She is years old and has
a record of 2:27A, though she was
second to General Watts as a 3-year-
old in 2:06A. She is headed already
for the M. and M. next year and all
the big stakes for the slow classes and
is touted as a 2:05 proposition.
George G. Moore of Detroit has just
purchased the 2-year-old trotting colt,
Robert c, 2:13h, by Peter the Great,
for $4,000, and will race him next
year, but under another name, as he
says that is only fit for a hobbled
PAGER.
San Francisco, that finished third in
the Readville handicap and earned
$4,000 thereby, has been turned over to
Ed Geers for next years racing. He
has a mark of 2:07%, gained at Co.
lumbus, Ohio.
James Farley the strike breaker,
lost by pneumonia his very fast and
game PAGER, Judex, 2:04A, at Column
bus Ohio, last week. He was in the
hospital there all the fall, having met
with an accident in a race at that
town, but had just been reported fully
| recovered and Farley was arranging
for his transportation home when he
was notified of his death.
Farmer Bunch, the well known Cali
fornia horseman, is located in Rich
mond, Va. for the winter.
Justo (3), 2:10A, will not be raced
next year, but will be on duty as the
head of the stud at Stoney Ford farm.
C. K. G. Billings, the owner Of Lou
Dillon, has quite a stable of saddle
horses, including Tempus Fugit, 2:07A,
Turley, 2:07%; Charlie Mac, 2:07&;
Alexander 2:09A; Frank A, 2:11A;
Delight Trial, 200, and Piquith mat
inee record, 2:14.
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