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Title: Breeder and sportsman
Identifier: breedersportsma171890sanf (find matches)
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: Horses
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : (s. n. )
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222 ^fte fjfciecte? and j$pjorri$matt. Sept. 13 SALVATOR. â "turn on, old Time."âWallace. I Bpent the months of March and April, 1858, in the oity of New Orleans, and attended the Metairie races every day bat one. On that night I came home to the St. Charles Ho. tel, where I found an immense crowd in the rotunda, some of whom said, "Isn't it wonderful?" while others said, "Well, I don't believe it." On inquiriDg the cause of these Conflicting oomments, I was told that Mr. Richard's Ten Broeck's bay filly Prioress (afterwards winner of the Cesar- ewitch in England) had won a mile race in 1:45. There was no end of dissenting comments on the performance. A few years later I saw Idlewild cover the same distance at Louis- ville in 1:44J. end there were just as many doubters then as at New Orleans on the previous occasion. Then came the Blow and sure whittling down of the mile record by Mammona, 1:44J; Legal Tender, 1:44; Versailles, Herzog and Pompey Payne, all sons of Vandal, and each ran in 1:43£; Judge Curtis, 1:43; Alarm, l:42i; and ao along till Ten Broeck went out to "break the watch," and did so in 1:39$. I knew Salvator was vastly improved over his Suburban form; and lastly, because the race was to be run with a fly- ing start instead of a standing start like the Australian horses do it. Moreover, Salvator was to have the track all to himself, with nothing to interfere with him, while Frying- pan waited till the last available instant and then ran through a field of eleven horses. Had I been a bookmaker, knowing how Salvator had ontstripped all suoh contemporary horses as Longstreet, Proctor Knott, Galen and Spokane, I should have selected 1:37J as the mark and then laid odds on, rath- er than quit betting. Bat I am free to confess that 1:35A rather surprised me. When I was a boy I was told that Bay Middleton did a mile (private trial) in 1;35, which I would now be quite willing to believe, although I oannot trace it to any authentic source. A picture of Salvator lies before me, and in it I see a decided likeness to two famous Australian colts whose two- year-old performances were immenseâMatador and Abercorn. Matador won, the only time they ever came together, but Abercorn was unquestionably the better horse. There is a resemblance, and a very striking one, between these famous cracks, and now Salvator nukes it three-handed, Bave that he is a leggier horse than either of the two famous Australians. McDoeVs Defeat at Buffalo. There has been a good deal of chatter about the 2*22 race at Buffalo. The heat winners were McDoel, Mambrino Maid and Voncher. The other starters were Golden Rod, Yorktown Belle, Wonder and Prank B. This was a formidable field, says the Tnrf, Field and Farm. McDoel was the favorite and he won the first heat in 2:20)-. Mambrino Maid secured the second heat in 2.19) and the third heat in 2:214-. Voucher stepped to the front in the fourth heat in 2:21^, and was Bent off badly in the fifth heat, won by Mambrino Maid in 2:21 J. It was a fighting race from first to last. Hickok drove McDoel, and when the tide was running against him the judges asked him if he could not do better. He replied that he was doing the best he could with the horse, bat wonld be glad to surrender the reins to any one who could win with him. Djble was then interviewed, and he explained that Hickok was driving at his request and for his money. Doble had asked Hickok to get behind McDoel because Ed An- nan; and Jack were engaged the same day, and he was very anxious to win with both. He argued that it would be un- just to compel him to drive three nerve-racking races the same afternoon, and added that he wanted to keep himself ag
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p&Ebir^ ^£poR,rs lii'-i-!^;::;^--;^:,-:^'^ ;-;;' JOOi Last year a mare called Maori did a mile in a race inside of 1:40, but had a very light weight on her. This year the fast mile horses were out in full force. Racine, a California bred colt from Palo Alto, drove the center in 1:39J, and then Eavaloe, one of the get ot Joe Hooker, lowered it to 1:39). It was at this second demonstration that Mr. Haggin an- nounced his intention of sending Salvator to beat the mile record. On the morning of that day people were talking aboat the probabilities of Silvator's accomplishing the fact, and asked me what I thought about it. I never doubted what I heard about Australian performancesâthat Fryingpan did a mile in 1:38J with llSlbs. np, for I knew that he won a mile race with 141 lbs. op in 1:42;, beating Don Quixote, 108 lbs. and Malna, 119 lbs. Hence, when I was asked what I thought about the attempt, I said I thought he would do it in about 1:37. Everybody said 1 was crazy. They would bet even money against 1:38), but not a man would bet me 60 to 20 pgainst 1;37. My reasons for these predictions were first, that he car- ried 31 pounds less than Fryingpan on his famous 'perform- ance at Flemington; second, because the race was to be run upon a made track, instead of turf; third, because it was to »>e done on a straight course without a turn; fourth, because Yet this goe3 for nothing. Kingston, Blink Bonny, Flying Dutchman and Priam, were all very leggy horses, and as for Bay Middleton (who coald have ran over and killed any two of them), he was absolutely a weed. The outlines of Salvator are almost of the poetic order. The neck is strong, but so long as to preserve its symmetry. The head is large, and yet so exquisitely moulded as to appear small. The shoulder rakeB beautifully backwards, the barrel is round and full. The stifles are heavy enough for a quarter-horse, but the muscles of the gaskins are so long strung out, that the capability of going a long distance is amply secured. Take him for all in all, he is the highest type of an Amerioan race-horse whose maternal veins are reinforced with the riohest of all the choice life-ourrents of England. His breeding is exceptionally good, being by the English horse Prince Charlie, the "King of the T. Y. C'out of Salina by Lexington; 2d dam Lightsome by Glencoe; 3d dam Levity (dam of Ruric) by Trustee; aud 4th dam the dam of Alaric by Tranby. To this family trace Vandal, Hindoo, Hanover, Luke Blackburn, George Kinney, and scores of other race-horses, the very pick of the American stud. That such a horse is certain to become the sire of great raoers and many of them, 1b no vague conjecture. It is manifest destiny. T. B. M. fresh as possible for the Jack-Palo Alto race. The desire was earnest on the part of Doble to beat Rosalind Wilkes, Susie S. and Palo Alto with Jack, and the judges knew how the great reinsman, throwing his whole soul into a cloBely contested race, was likely to exhaust himself. Being assured by Doble that the driving of Hickok was perfectly satisfactory to him, the judges did not feel called upon to order a change. If we cannot believe a man like Budd Doble, who has spent a lifetime in building up a reputation for hon esty, who can we believe? The anarlers who have sent libels broadcast, act as if they wished to create the impression tbaj the only men in the world with the slightest pretentions to integrity are themselves. A lonely island in the sea, entirely out of touch with the throbbing heart of humanity, is the proper place for them. They are too sweet and pure for the practical walks of life. The programme for the eleventh annual fair, to be held at Los Angeles on October 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18th, will appear in the next issue of the Breeder and Sportsman. The association offer $1,000 for the 2:19 class trottinR and $800 for both the 2:23 aud 2:28 class. The side-wheelers eligible to the 2:17 class October let can compete for a $600 purse. The principal running race is the three-quarter mile handi- cap, for a purse of $700.

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