Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-31
DRIVING CLUB IS
NOT DISCOURAGED
THIRD MATINEE RACE Is POST
P0NED, AS USUAL
EVENT Is ARRANGED FOR NEXT
SATURDAY
Big Card for Middle of February Pro-
posed, and Lovers Of Horses
Will Be Given Great
Pleasure
BY DAN PATCH


literally at Agricultural park for the
last three weeks, due to the continued
bad weather.
Once or twice during that period the
sun shone and the track team went to !
work with harrows and scrapers and
got the track in shape so the horses |
could get a workout the next morning, |
and everyone cheered up and prepared
to get busy; then during the night 1t
would pour rain and nothing could be
done
The Los Angeles Driving club had
intended giving a swell matinee yes
terday, not only for the benefit of the
local admirers of the harness horse
game, but for the entertainment of the
members Of the American National
Live Stock association. who would
have been their guests, but IL was i'm
possible to get the track in condition
to race over and even if that had been
! possible none of the horses was in
condition to do himself justice, even in
the slow classes, so it had to be de-
clared off.
This is the third matinee in success
sion with which the clerk of the
weather interfered and prevented. Not
discouraged however, the Driving club
mailed entry blanks yesterday to own
ers calling for a matinee next Satur-
day, February 6. for which no charge
will be made at the gate. The entries
will close Wednesday evening, Febru
airy 8, and 1t is hoped that enough
horses will enter to give a fair days
racing. OF course they all will be
short, but with two workouts between
now and then the most ought to be
able to go some and get ready for the
big matinee that will be given later in
the month for which a most interesting
card is being prepared, including a
double team race for PAGERS, a dash
for 3-year- -olds and a half-mile dash
for 2-year- -olds, besides one of Dan
Hazan's novelty races; and the pro-
posed one promises to be even more
amusing than the last, in which Mace
Greenleaf was revealed on a polo pony
arrayed in a pair of corsets and a Merry
Widow hat, and w. A. Glascock in a
very piquant Mother Hubbard, topped
with a baby cap. L. z. Mcclellan won
the handsome cup offered by the club,
but only by disregarding the rule of
making his toilet properly before START
ing.
If the weather will only stay clear
there will be good racing next Satur-
day. and the "best ever three weeks
from now. BY that time the horses
will all be ready and improved by their
enforced "let up" of the last three
weeks.
Bred in the Purple
No better bred stallion stands in the
state today than w. r. Murphy's bay
horse Red. Nick. He is by the great
sire of extreme speed, Mckinney,
2:11A. the sire of twenty with records
of 2:10 or better, and all gained IN
races and not against the watch
among them Sweet Marie-and very
nearly all of them trotters, though
though there are few PAGERS. such as
Coney, 2:02, and Zolock, 2;05A. Red
McK.'s dam was equally we'll red. |
Her name was Bonnie Red, and she
was by the great sire Red Wilkes, who |
has twenty-five or more to his credit |
with records of from 2:15 down to
2:06%, the latter mare being held by
Ralph Wilkes, who died shortly after
being bought by Malcolm Forbes of
Boston, Mass. and before he lad
nearly reached the limit Of his speed. |
All who knew him looked upon him as
the coming two-minute trotter. Red
NICK. is, as will be seen, an inbred
Wilkes, his second dam being by AL |
mont, 49, third by Norman, %, and
fourth by Pilot Jr., II. Pilot, Jr., was
the sire of the dams of Maud S., 2:0SA, !
and Jay Eye See, 2:10. So much for
the ancestors. Now for the individual. |
He is a rich mahogany bay, just a |
shade under 16 hands, and weighs 1850
pounds. though so symmetrically built |
that he does not show it at first sight |
Not until you look at his muscular !
quarters and stiffles and deep chest do |
you realize where the weight comes in. |
AS he stood stripped in his stall in J. H. |
Nance's stable at Agricultural park he !
reminded me very strongly of that |
grand stallion Florida. by Hambleto- |
nian, 10, owned in Orange county, !
New York, but Red is a better and |
rlcher color, Florida being light |
Red NICK is years old and has a |
few 2-year-old sons and daughters, all
good looking and good gated, but of
course as yet undeveloped. His crop of
yearlings are as nice looking a lot as
you would want to see both he and
ur or five of his get will be exhibited
at the Pasadena Horse show in March !
Red has never been systematically |
trained. Vance has had him a couple /
of months only at time, and even
with that limited amount of handling
has driven him miles in 2:23 and eighths |
in 161s seconds-a 2:12 gait. In harness
he is upheaded and puts on as much
style as drum major at county fair:
in the stable he is clever and kind as |
mare or gelding. He would unques-
tionably make race horse if trained, |
and will be the sire Of race horses.
A Prospective Record Breaker
Hal Mckinney will be 8 years old in
April, but any one seeing his owner, |
A. E. Heller, working him at Agricult- |
ural park would take him for at least A. |
He stands 16 hands high and built sall |
over" Heller is getting him in shape /
to go for the 3-year-old stallion record |
for PAGERS of 2:051a, which has been
held by Klatawah since 1898. He bases
his hopes on what the horse showed
him last summer as 2-year-oId, when
he stepped mile in 2:13 fiat, last half
in los, and the last quarter in 81 sec
onds-a 2:04 gait; and afterward
tramped half in 1:021a and a quarter
in 2S1h seconds. He looks as if he had |
a license 10 go as fast as any horse
His gait is absolutely frictionless, and
he certainly has the breeding, being
by Hal B. (2:04 1-4), dam Julia d. (the
dam Of Irish, 2:06) by Mckinney
GIL 1-D. Hal can go away from the
wire better than a two-minute gait, is
good headed and never makes a mis-
take; good disposition. never frets or
gets excited; is always ready to eat,
and has every attribute of a race horse
Horses and Horsemen
Explosion, the big bay pacing mare
that Frnd Ward carnnairnad Ia coo-