Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-13
HORSEMEN BUSY
IN PREPARATION
HARNESS ENTHUSIASTS ARE
TRAINING ENTRIES
FAST ANIMALS WILL COMPETE IN
JULY EVENT S
Much interest Being Taken In Work.
outs of Trotters and PAGERS, and
Track at Agricultural Park
Presents Busy Scene
BY DAN PATCH

In anticipation of the race meetings.
in Southern California beginning at
San Bernardino the last of this month
Agricultural park presents busy ap-
pearance these mornings from o'clock
till noon and even later there is not
moment when ten or fifteen horses can
not be seen working OUT and as many
more warming up the reverse way OF
the track, while still others are being
logged on the exercise track in the in
field. Watch in hand, numbers of own
ers and trainers and men interested In
the horses lean over the rail catching
the quarters, halves or miles OF their
favorites as the case may be and com
pairing notes with their neighbors on
the different performances while up in
the prandstand not few ladies take as
deep an interest in what is going on
as the rest of the spectators. All Oh
which shows the general interest In the
coming races and by the time the cir
cult reaches here on the 14th, 10Th,
18th and 18th of July the horses that
have raced the two weeks previously
at San Bernardino and San Diego Will
put up such contests here as have sell
dom if ever been seen in this neck of
the woods.
There are sensational performers in
almost every class. For instance, IN
the first race on the first day the 2:2O
pace, Cora, that H. e. Armstrong OF
Pleasanton bought short time ago
for $4,000, will appear. She has been
mile in 2:O7 recently at her home
track, and after she has had race or
two at San Bernardino and San Diego
ought to be able to step record
breaking mile here. Whether she will
be able to beat field of older horses,
however, is open to argument. she
was years old only last Christmas
day. A local horse, Siegfried, owned
by Frank B. Long, which won the
handsome silver cup given by the Polo
club at the last matinee, has worked
close to 2:08 and this is his own track
that he knows every inch of. Cora
will have not only to beat him but
nine or ten others. Can she?
Kid Wilkes, the sensation of last
Christmas matinee at San Bernardino,
when he beat Athashan, 2:09A the
first time he was ever in a race and
that H. e. Armstrong paid $4,000 for, is
in the 2:20 trot. Whether he will be as
good in a large field of horses as in
his workouts is not yet known. That
he has almost unlimited speed every
one comedies, but it takes speed and
a whole lot other things to win races,
and there are thirteen entered ina that
class.
The PIP class looks as if it might be
anybody's race. Emily w, Fred Wards
stake winner of last yeF :, will take a
lot of beating before the money is paid
out. Charlie T and The Statesman,
the former from Pleasanton with
Charlie d. Ryder up. and the other
from Sacramento, are the two visitors
49, aT- @o,bnr
not be hospitable or polite to beat
them.
Feature Is 2:o7 Pace
The 2:O7 pace promises though, to
be the race of the meeting and one
that will go down to local history as
the hardest fought out contest ever
seen in Southern California. Six horses
will respond when Starter Smith gives
the word, Solano Boy, Hymettus, Bon
ME Sternway, Delilah, Tom Murphy
and Josephine. -Four of these have
held worlds records either for their
age or sex and not one outclasses an
other. If they were starting in han
dicap they would all be on the same
mark" If there was to be bookmak
ing on the race the boards would read
Gwen money and take your choice"
There is only one safe prediction to
make in regard to it, they will all
know when it's ended that they have
"been to the races and the winner
will have gone the race C his life.
In the 2:15 pace there are nine en-
tries. one of them Dawn o. Light. from
way up in Aberdeen, Wash. Her own
or, w r. Mcbride, must think very
we'll of her to undertake such long
trip. Joe McGregor, owner in Salt Lake
City, has a world of speed and is in
the same class, and the Mormon horse
beat Seigfried in one matinee.
There is only one local horse, Rapidan
Dillon, owned by Jos. H. Bohan, en-
tered in the 2:15 trot all the others be-
ing strangers; one, Zombronut, owned
in Portland. Ore, the rest from Sacra-
mento, Chico. Warm Springs and other
places in California.
Then in addition there are the two
colt races for trotters and PAGERS in the
Garfield stake. w. A. Clark has Bon
Vivant entered, which worked a mile a,
week ago in 2:19, last quarter in 81 sec
onds, and G. A. Garfield has Carbon,
by Walter Barker, in the same race,
that is about as fast, and is a race
horse from wire to wire, to say nothing
of twenty others from all parts of the
coast. The last payment in this stake
Is due ON June Is.
Horses and Horsemen
w. G. Durfee will ship east this week
with his string. May he have even bet
he had just as good horses now as then.
and in better shape. Carlokin's feet
are in a great deal better shape, and
Zomalta has apparently had no trouble
with her tendons. Almaden in the slow
classes, should be "oil in the cam" and
no horse has a license to beat Carlokin
in the 2:09 class. Altogether his pros
poets are bright
A number of horses changed hands
last week and a number of others are
being dickered for now.
L. e. Mcclellan started the ball roll
ing by selling Ell Diablo, 2:09A; Buck,
trial of 2:17; Red, record of 2:20; Dulce
2:20, a PAGER, by General Benton, with
a foal at foot by that game little race
horse, Alsandra, that Ted Hays cam
paigned last year and sold to Dick Nc
Mahon this spring. F. Johnson was the
buyer, but what the price was Is hard
to tell as lot of real estate figured in
the deal, but 1t seemed satisfactory to
both parties. The Alsandra colt alone
is worth corner lot.
The owner of the bay mare Caroline
that won the only two matinees she
started in in 2:19 and 2:1S, beating such
a.. has decided to sell her rather than
carry her over to next year. She was u
mile in 2:17 as three-year-old She is
now 5, and has this year shown quar-
tiers in :311a and halves in 1:05h. She
has not made break this year. either
in her work or races. What a brood
mare she would make with her DISPOSE
tion and size and speed, and only five
wears old. She can be seen at Henry
Delaney's barn at the track
Il J. Delorey is "honing'' a couple of