Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-04

FINISHES CLOSE
AT DRIVING PARK
INFORMAL MATINEE BRINGS
OUT FAST HORSES
MANDOLIN BEATS JOE MceREeoR
I'M 2:f6 PACE
Caroline Captures 2:14 Trot from
coIdennut and Zombretta-Fresno
Boy Takes First Event from
Major Clifford

The informal matinee held yesterday
at Agricultural park by the Los An
geles Driving club, at which the horses
were classed by their matinee records,
from a racing point OF view was a pfll-
liant success.
Owing to the lack of entries, from
different causes, there We're only three
races on the program, and two of these
had but two starters, and the third
hal only three contestants; yet none
were won in straight heats. The 2;l4
trot was nip and tuck from wire 70
wire in all three heats, the winner
getting the decision by a close margin.
In the 2:16 pace, two horses Went
like a double team, and did the half In
1:04 ga, and the mile in 2:l2.
A better day could not have been de-
sired for it was warm and yet with
enough air circulating to make 1t pleas
ant, and the track was good. Although
it was very light and apparently, on
paper, an uninteresting program, ana
that it was really more of workout
to get the horses In condition FOR the
big matinee on May l for the beneht
of the Elks' entertainment fund, than
q matinee, the grand stand was COM
fortably filled, and there We're several
automobiles and carriages in the IN
field.
The first race was for named horses
and brought out French Boy and MAJ.
Clifford. The latter made break IN
the first heat and the chestnut geloing
had no trouble in winning in 23l; but
in the second the tables were turned,
and Fresno Boy was the one to lose his
feet, and the gray beat him in 2:29. The
third heat was a horse race, and IT
looked like Mai. Clifford would win
until almost the end, when Fresno Boy
outlasted him and won, but the gray
gelding made him step in 2:22 3-4 TO
do it. Major Clifford went a good race
and came near getting q matlnee rec
ord of 1928.
The 2:l6 pace brought out Mandolin
and the Salt Lake PAGER, Joe McGregor
in Fred Wards stable, owned by
Charles H. Thompson and driven by
John Baker. He is compactly built
bay stallion, good looking enough for
horse show, by Fergus McGregor, ne
by Robert IIcGregor, the Monarch OF
the Homestretch," as he was called,
and the sire of the great Croesus. Joe
has a world of speed and demonstrated
it by stepping the half in 1904 3-4, but
he could not carry that clip all the way
home, and Mandolin won in 2:12. In
the second heat Mandolin left his feet
and, though he recovered, he could not
make up his lost ground, and Joe won
in 2:15 Ia.
Joe McGregor made a break on the
first turn and when he caught tried
gamely for the heat and race, but could
not quite reach Mandolin, who was a.
the wire in 2:15.
The third race was the 2;14 trot. and
Zombretta (2:1334), Goldennut 2:16
and Caroline (2:19) came down for the
word, the latter having the pole. ON the
second attempt they got the word to
good start, and Caroline kept her nose
in front all the way and won in 2;lS.
In the second heat Zombretta took the
pole on the first turn and was at the
half mile post in 1908 IL, with Golden
nut Tapped on her, and Caroline two
lengths back. and continued so to the
rs pole, when Goldennut moved UP
and won by half a length in 2:lS L.
Caroline trailed the other two, who
raced like double team until well into
the stretch, when she crept up on the
outside and won the heat and race by
a head in 2:201a.
Summaries:
Named horses, mile heats. two in
three:
Fresno Boy, w. A. Glascock....1 2 i
Mai. Clifford, r. 1. Prescott ....2 1
Time, 231, 2;29, 2:e2 ga.
2:18 pace, mile heats. two in three!
Mandolin, l.. E. Mcclellan ......1 l
Joe McGregor, John Baker....2 l 2
Time, 2:12 2:15 IA, 2:15.
2:14 trot, mile heats, two in three:
Caroline, w. James ..,...........1 J.
Goldennut, George w. Ford. ...3 1
Zombretta, Charles Saddler - 2 3
Judges-F. A. Coffman, DR.. w. A.
Connolly and DIR. Hubbell Starter-E.
J. Delorey. Timers-Austin Moore,
John H. Nickerson and f. w. Folsom.