Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-24
RACE CANCELLED
FOR THIRD TIME
RAIN AGAIN PREVENTS SATUR-
DAY MATINEE
STORMS FORCE ABANDONMENT
OF EVENT FOR JAN. 80
Grand Gard Is Planned for February
22, and Washington's Birthday
Program Will Eclipse
All Others
BY DAN PATCH

1 has had to call off a proposed matinee
owing to the continued rainy SPELL It
was intended to give a grand matinee
January 80 with a most attractive
card, including one of Dan Hogan's
| popular novelty races, a feature that
| the proprietor of the Westlake stables
always makes a success of, and the
proposed one was to have been even
| more amusing than the last, which was
given November %. However, the
weather man has decided otherwise,
and the club now has set Saturday,
February 6, for an informal meeting
and carded the next grand matinee
for February %, Washington's birth
day.
Declaring off the meeting for Janu-
ary 80 is a great disappointment, as it
| was meant to- be part of the program
| of entertainment of the National Live
| Stock association that will be in ses-
| sion here at that time, and it was
hoped to give the visitors a chance to
! see some of the best horses in Califor-
MIA at their best, but even if the track
| is good enough to race over by January
| 80, which is very doubtful, none of the
| horses would be in condition to do
| himself justice before so critical an au-
| dience, for all the horses are, of course
short of work and unable to race any,
/
been compelled to get what little exer-
else they have had on the road for the
/ last couple of weeks; but if it clears off
| now they can get in q, couple or per-
| haps three workouts by February
6, and then an easy race and four or
| five more workouts will put them in
great shape for the races February %.
Every effort will be made to make
the matinee Washington's birthday a
memorable one. The cups will be hand
some enough to tempt any owner, the
music will be the best that can be en-
gagged. and the novelty race will be
something entirely new and unheard Of
| heretofore on the coast. The horses will
| be most carefully classified to insure
close contests, and everything possible
done for the comfort and pleasure of
the public.
Horses and Horsemen
About all the horses have been doing
at Agricultural park for the last two
weeks is standing in their stables and
| eating hay at $2S a ton and watching
the rain drops, or rather sheets of water,
descending and thanking their stars
| they are trotterS and not their unfOr-
| tunate relations, the runners, who arc
compelled to race through the mud
with the rain coming down in torrents
| on them, with the odds all in favor cf
in the heavy or slippery going, to say
nothing of the almost certainty of
| straining or rupturing a ligament, all
| for the sake of enabling a bookmaker
| to live comfortably at one of the best
| hotels.
Ted Hays shipped way Sunday last
| TO PleaSantOn with his campaigning
string, including Velox, Alsandra and
the 2-year-old Viaticum and the stall
| lion Bon Voyage, who will make the
season there.
Mort Demarest who drove Prince
Albert, 1:593z, to several worlds rec
ords before he was shipped across the
water, is spending the winter in Los
Angeles at the Van Nuys. and in
cidentally "bucking the books" at Santa
Anita.
Another equally well known person
age around the grand circuit tracks,
''Silver Bill' Riley, is in town., having
| arrived from Texas a week or ten days
ago after a serious attack of pneu-
monia. He has been regaining his
health rapidly since his arrival, not
| withstanding the unusual weather. and
soon will be- himself again.
A. B. Cox, who has a large stock
farm near Philadelphia and owns The
Leading Lady, was in Los Angeles last
week and out at Agricultural park
looking over the prospects" He
| bought several last year, among others
She, the dam of one of w. A. Clark s
sensational yearlings, and in foal to
Bon Voyage.
Mr.. Tiffn of Vancouver, who bought
Near Girl and shipped her north a week
ago, is still here and is looking for Il
mate to her, but so far has not been
able to see anything ''step'' on account
of the condition of the track. Red Boy
or Tough Nut ought to fill the bill.
Prices of prospective winners seem
prices. Velox, who sold for $4,000 a few
weeks ago, is now held at $4,000 Che
must have been making speed in his
stalD, and Kid Wilkes, that could have
been bought last fall for $1,000, is now
priced at $1,000. Live stock like that is
AS good as Standard Oil stock, if you
can realize on it.
/ All efforts to raise the money to keep
i Readville track seem to have failed
and it looks as if the last race meeting
has been held over the 'tWo-minute
track" 1t certainly went out in blaze
of glory, for it will go down in history
as the first association to try the handi-
cap system and hanging UP the largest
purse ($50,000) ever given for a harness
| race.
The death list of great trotters and PAGERS
for 1908 contains the names of some very
| notable horses, great sres well as great
performers. Among the record horses that
died during the year Admiral Dewey,
2:O434; Kruger, PAGER, 2:O4; Judex PAGER, 2O4A;
Coney, PAGER, 2:02; William Mac, PAGER, 2O5A /;
Alceste 2:07A; Harry Wilkes, 2:13h Little
Albert, 2:1O; Major Mckinley, PAGER, 2:O5A;
Wilson Addington, PAGER 2:0S% Young Hal,
PAGER 2:10A; Schley Pointer, 2:0S1R; Nutbear-
! er, 209%; Silver Coin, PAGER, 2:10; A Nut
PAGER 2:11A; Advancer, 2:11H; Cuba, PAGER
2:12A Choinetta Curtis PAGER, 2:12a4; Aliped
+ 2:15A Theodore Shelton, PAGER, 2:09s4; Budd
Bonner, 2:15A; Budd Crook, PAGER, 2:15k; Bob
| Madden. PAGER, 2:0S%; American Belle PAGER
2:13H Graenmont, PISA Napton Boy PAGER
2:11A Radio M, PAGER, 216A; Strange Wave,
PAGER 2:161h; S. H. T.. PAGER 2:16H: The As
Wilkes, PAGER, 2:17R Mephisto, PAGER PIT;
Prince Lock (2), 2:1S; Saint Patrck's Belle
PAGER 2:17A; Polly Carr, PAGER, 2:1SA; Miss
| Winifred. PAGER, 2:16A; Edward, 2:19; King
AL, PAGER. 2:194; Pierrot 2:19A; Minnie p
PAGER 2:10A; Duponter, PAGER, 2:205I; Grace
Darling. 2:21A Among the great sires, with
! and without records, which died were the fol-
lowing: Todd, 2:14s4; Baron Dillon. PIP; Brown
Hal, 2:121a; Cuylercoast, 211; Gowan, 2:13;
Leland Stanford. 2:2415; Sidney, 2:194; Tele-
phone, 2:1512; Waldstein. 2:221a; King Wedge
2:221a; In Fact 2:26% Pluck, 2:2414; Oak Leaf
2:2S; Jersey Wilkes, Sentinel Wilkes MiIroi
Mambritonian, Silver Cloud, Caution, 2251s;
Mack 2:2o1z.
4 Among these will be noticed George
A. Founders great colt, Prince Lock.
/ and A. E. Heller's Young Hal, both of
which died at Agricultural park last
fall; the former from Inflammation of
the bowels and the latter from blood
poisoning caused by picking UP a nail
and after suffering torture for two or
more weeks because the Society for
/ the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
could not and the California Mutual
Live Stock Insurance association would
not have him put out Of his agony,
though both were appealed to by Hell