Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-28
MATINEE TO BE
GIVEN MARCH II
|. A. DRIVING CLUB HOPES FOR
GOOD WEATHER
RAINS CAUSED ABANDONMENT
OF FOUR RACES
Great Card Of Harness Contests VIII
Be Witnessed ST. PatrIck's Day
10 the Elements Are
Favorable
BY DAN PATCH

The Los Angeles Driving club will
give a matinee March II, st. Patrick S
day, and will have a program that will
be treat to the lovers of the light
harness horse. This will be the fifth
matinee that has been announced since
Christmas, but all of the others had to
be declared off on account Of the
weather. Now, encouraged by the sun
shine Of the last week, it will try once
more to pull off a days racing.
The horses have all been getting their
work regularly for the last ten days,
and with three weeks more training
and after their rest of a month they
should all be at their best.
1t is proposed to have a free-for-all
trot and a free-for-all pace, mixed
handicap, 2:1S class pace and a 2:22
class trot, q novelty race arranged by
Dan Hogan, the proprietor of the West
lake stables, who made such a success
of the last one, and a slow trot, pos
sibly. The free-for-alls may be made
specials, but in any case 1t will be a
grand card and worth a great deal
more than the % cents charged at the
gate.
Will Be Red Letter Day
An excellent brass band has been en-
gagged to play 1.-THE eWaring Of the
Green" and the decorations of the
stands will be appropriate to the day,
and everything will be done by the
management to make it q day to be
remembered by all who are present.
The Los Angeles Driving club is en-
deaVoring to get an amendment tackled
onto the bill for appropriating $780, 900
for buildings and improvements N Ag-
ricultural park, and breeders, stock
men and exhibitors of all kinds who
are interested in county fairs are
watching closely and devoutly hoping
that the amendment will be accepted,
as it calls for the track to be kept
intact for racing and training pur-
poses, that the stalls shall be repaired
or rebuilt and the fence if torn down
shall be replaced, and the track leased
to the horSemen at reasonable figure.
With this clause in the bill all are in
favor Of having it passed and making
Agricultural park one Of If not the
most beautiful fair ground in the Unit
ed States.
Horses and Horsemen
Bon Voyage is promised a must sue
ceSsful season at PleaSanton. Ted Hays
writes that his book is filing rapidly.
This is only to be expected when 1T is
known that he has sired four yearlings
that have gone quarters in from SO sec
onds to 34A seconds on a trot; and
these are Just few that happen to be
in Los Angeles. There are others up
north as good, and one even has been a
quarter in 3215 seconds-a 2:10 gait.
''Silver' Bill Riley, who came here a
month ago to recuperate after his siege
of pneumonia at Dallas, Tex, found
the climate did not agree with him,
and his doctor advised a change. Last
Monday he left for Tucson A. T., and
a letter received from him says he
arrived all safe but tired out, that the
board is excellent, the climate dry and
warm, and he expects to be all right
in a few weeks. Few men have more
or better friends than Silver Bill, and
all look forward to seeing him as well
as ever in a short time.
Mart Demarest took a day off from
the runners and piloted Doc Tanner of
Cleveland, o., out to Agricultural park
last Wednesday, and both not only saw
the horses that were being worked that
day, but visited the others in their
stalls. DR.. Tanner was enthusiastic
over the grounds and pronounced it an
ideal place to train horses. Both he
and Demarest were lavish in their
praises of Carlokin's manner and con-
dition and predicted great things of
him this season. They both liked
Romeo, William Garland's gelding, bet
ter than anything among the pOssibili-
ties they saw. Tanner admired Lottie
Lynwood, the 2-year-old sister to So
mona Girl, so much on a halter that he
asked George A. Founder, the owner,
to have her hooked up and driven so
he could see her in action and be able
to tell his friends back east how she
acted in harness.
The reported sale of Arcolight to Dick
Mcmahon is said to be erroneous, as,
after looking the horse over, he was
not satisfied with him and declined to
consummate the deal. This will I'M
doubtedly wind up the negotiations for
taking the stations stable companion,
Mona Wilkes, east to race with the 2:04
PAGERS down the grand circuit.
Though the weather and track for
the last ten days have been good, none
of the horses got any fast miles, on &C
count Of their long let-up, but they are
now getting into shape, and the last
quarters of their miles showed that
the majority of them have their speed
and all they need is to be stayed up
to go the full distance.
L. E. Mcclellan has returned from a
trip through the lower counties, and
will be seen "honing'' his PAGERS, Man
dolin and Toughnut, into shape for the
st. Patrick's matinee.