Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-23
BIG MATINEE OF
LOCAL HORSEMEN
DRIVING CLUB ENTRIES WILL
CLOSE MAY IT
HANDSOME CUPS WILL BE PRE-
SENTED TO WINNERS
Clever Novelty Race Is One of Fea-
lures of Program Planned by Anna
tours for May 31-Working
on Elks' Program
RY DAN PATCH


The Los Angeles Driving club will
hold their next matinee a week from
Monday and as that will be holiday
a large crowd can be counted on. From
the number OF inquiries from owners
and trainers as to when the entry
blanks will be out and when they
close a majority of the horses III
training may be expected to take part
in the different races and quite num-
Der will make their debut, notably
couple of -year-olds, one belonging
to w. A, Clark, and one to G. A. can
field. with as many more of that age
as care to try conclusions at mile
dash trotting.
The entry blanks were mailed yes
terday and the date of closing Is
Thursday, May q, so that the horses
entered may be carefully classlneu
and the program published in next
Sundays papers. Handsome cups Will
be presented to the winners and full
brass band will enliven matters be-
tween heats. One of the features OF
the program will be one of Dan
Hogans novelty races, this time one
that has not been seen here before.
The contestants will line up in front
Of the arandstand with only the brldles
on their mounts, their saddles being
deposited on the ground alongside them'
When the word go" is given they
must without help, saddle their
horses, mount and hike up the stretch
to the "a pole where each will find
his spurs lying on the track; these he
will have to dismount to adjust, re
mount and race back to the wire The
cup which is a handsome one, Will not
be awarded unless the spurs are prop
erly fastened on. Any style OF spur
L cd nd a G
lance. IA mile and return, the horse
must be as fast as his rider or the
prize will go to someone else. AS
usual every attention will be paid to
insure the comfort of the audience and
the marshals will see that there are no
delays between heats. AS soon as the
horses that have finished one are drlV-
en- off the track, those that are to take
part in the next heat will appear.
To cover the expenses of the cups,
band, marshals, etc, charge or 20
cents will be made at the gate, which
also entities a visitor to a seat in the
grandstand.
The different committees of the Los
Angeles Harness Horse association are
all hard at work arranging for the
races during the Elks' reunion ON July
IA, Is, 16 and II, when purses of from
$500 to $1,000 will be trotted for at Ag-
y
the coast has by this time received an
entry blank stating the conditions and
purses and classes, and following the
two meetings at San Bernardino and
San Diego all the best horses in the
state will be here. A feature Will be
the handicap trot for $1,000, divided into
five moneys, $500 to the winner, and
with most liberal conditions. This
should and undoubtedly will bring to
the wire a very large field, including
the fastest trotters in the state, but
with careful handicapping a horse that
can trot in 2:09 will have no better
chance than one that can only trot in
2:20, for the faster horse will start so
many feet per second according to his
speed, behind the 2:2O horse, who will
start at the wire.
Horses and Horoemen
viii Durfee, probably the best known
trainer in the state, met with bad
accident last week, as reported in The
Herald at the time He had just fin
ished working Carlokin, 2:0SA, a slow
heat and had pulled up and turned
round to drive off the track. He tapped
The horse lightly with a small piece of
a whip, not more than two feet long,
and Carlokin kicked, something he was
never known to do before, striking
Durfee with one hoof over the eye and
breaking his right forearm with the
other. Fortunately the blow on the
head was glancing one that did not
do much damage and the break is a
simple fracture of the large bone.
Though it will keep the trainer of the
best string in California out of the
sulky for some weeks it will not in
terfere with his plans of taking Car
lokn, Copa de ORC, Zomalta, Direct
Penn, Romeo and others east next
month, and by the time Detroit is
reached and the grand circuit opens he
will be able to team them himself.
At present Ben Walker and Frank
Wood are giving them their work.
while Durfee with his arm in a sling
and black eye looks on and holds the
CLOCK"
The news of the death of Velox.
20914, was received with sorrow by
every horseman in the state Though
his mark was only 2;09A he had dem
onstrated his ability to race round
2O4 last fall and by many was con-
sidered sure minute PAGER
this season, and with reason, as
in his race here last Thanksgiv-
ing day when he beat Copa de ORC
at matinee given by the Los Angeles
Driving club he paced quarters faster
than 80 seconds and well out in third
horse position. With his compact.
DlOcky Dullu, absolutely 1r1CtlOnleSS
gait and the thoroughbred blood so
close up, his dam being by Balboa, a
thoroughbred, it looked as if he not
only would be able to go one mile in
2 minutes, or very close to it, but re-
peat in very near the same notch.
Though it is a hard blow to his owner.
Mr.. McDoel. of Chicago, who gave
$500 for him last winter and to Dick
Mcmahon, his trainer, who counted on
having a great horse in the 2:10 class.
it will not fall as heavily on Mr.. Nc
Doel as it would have on a poor man.
who had his all invested in him as,
many have.
There were no sensational miles last
week at the track, except a 2-year-old
of w. A. Clark's worked a mile in
2:22A and one of c. A. Canfeld's at
about the same figure. The horses are
all getting good stiff repeats and the
track is alive with them from s a. m.
as soon as it is dry enough for them
to use it till noon or later. So far the
fastest mile was on May 1, when viii
Durfee drove his fathers horse AL
rnaders mile in 2:10A and as far as
| have heard that is the fastest so far
this year in the United States. The
horses in training at Memphis Tenn.
and through the south have not been
much faster than 2:13 so far on trot
and it is safe to say no PAGER any
where has worked as fast as Siegfried's
mile in 2:0Sla some weeks ago
Henry Delaney received telegram
last Wednesday announcing the death
% btc father at the age of ~ The