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HORSE GOSSIP OF THE MONTH.
Death of the Famous Irish
Racehorse Barcaldine.
Handicap Weights for the Brooklyn
and Suburban Races.
Ike Lilts of 2:09 and 2:13 Trotters and
tha Prominence of Ilambletonlan
Blood In Kdch—The Califor
nia Horses Show Up.
The grand old New Zealand horse Ti
railleur, which I named in last week's
article ac having fallen in the race for
the Melbourne cup and broken hiß
shoulder, has eince died of his injury.
Singapore, the other horse that broke
hia shoulder, is etill living and quite
likely to recover. Tirailleur waa a horse
that could have clearod $7500 a year as
a breeding stallion in America if some
body had got him, He wbb a large
brown horse, 16 hands 2 inches high,
and looked very much like old Enquirer,
now approaching the twilight of hie life
in Tennessee, Ido not remember ever
to have eeen a handsomer big horee
than the unfortunate Tirailleur. Then
hia breeding was eome'hiDg on the
Btiperb order. He was got by Musket,
by a long shot, the best of Australian
■ires. His dam was the imported mare
Florence Macarthy by .Macaroni, winner
of the Derby; second dam Morgan Ld
Faye, by Cowl, third dam. Lady Morgan
by Voltaire, and fonrth dam Miami,
winner of the Oaks, by Venison. His
owner, Mr. Gollan, always claimed him
aa the best eon of Venison, after Car
bine. I differ materially with him and
everybody else am~ng his friends. Ido
not believe he waß any better horße than
Trenton or Enfilade, to say nothing of
Martini Henry, Nordenfelt or Match
lock. Some man there are who imagine
their own geese to be swans.
The New York Spirit of the Timea haß
two contributed guesses at weights ior
the Brooklyn and Suburban handicaps,
one of which puts the top weight division
(over 120 pounds) at the following scale:
Brooklyn, guburban
Dr, Hasbrouck 130 182
Longstreet 128 183
Banqu«t I*B 132
Tammany 3 32
mratnmeath 123 127
Lamplighter 123 127
Judge Morrow I*7
Major Domo 119 120
Kingston 117 121
There waa nothing in the perform
ances of last year (which is the only
guide to the weights for tbe spring
events) to warrant any such imports as
the above on Dr. Hasbrouck over
Kingston, whom he defeated twice la. I,
year, but it must also be recollected
that Kingston defeated the Doctor twice
also. The most remarkable part of the
business is that this handicapper (Mr.
H. Judson) puts Strathmeath iv between
Tammany and Lamplighter. If either
of thone two great three year olds is en
titled to be given 132 pounds iv the
suburban, that horse is Lamplighter, as
he won eight races to Tammany's five,
and tbere is not only no reason why be
should be scaled below Tammany or
even put, upou even terms with tha
chicken - hearted Strathmeath, who
never won a race on hie courage in his
life. The other list puts the weights :->t
Brooklyn. Suburban.
Laugslreet 128 Lyi
Dr. Hasbrouck Jj>
Banquet. . 125 )3J
Htrathmeatli 123 187
lanimany 120
Lamplighter 121 125
La Tosca 117 121
Even that is unsatisfactory to me. Mv
own idea is: Longstreet, 132; Banquet,
130; Lamplighter, 128; Tammany, 127;
Strathmeath, 125; and La Tosca, 120.
The latter is a queer-legged mare, and is
liable never to reach the track in the
Brooklyn, which comes oil' two weeks
ahead of the Suburban ; and, granting
that she does start, she is likely to
break down before reaching the head of
the quarter-Btretch. What ever in
duced these wiseacres to give Kingston
107 in one handicap and 117 iv the
other, as against the weights impoeed
on Hasbrouck, the Lord "alone knows.
Neither he nor Dr. Hasbrouck is a Sub
urban distance horse, so far as public
performances go. One mile out, in
good company, has been quite as far aa
either of them wanted to go up to dat 3.
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That enthusiastic British turfman,
Colonel North, more commonly known
•8 "the nitrate king," has made quite a
large number of entries in American
races for the coming eeason. His horses
are now at sea on the steamship Tauric,
which sailed on Friday from Liverpool.
His entries for tbe Coney Island races
are: El Diablo, bay colt, 4, by Boner:,
the Devil, dam Tantrum; Iddlesltivh,
chestnut gelding, aged, by Uucas, dam
Mosque; High Commissioner, black or
brown horse, 6, by Lowland Chief, dam
Consolation, and Miss Simon, brown
filly, 4, by St. Simon, dam Josyan. For
the Sheepshead Bay handicap Iddles
leigh and High Commissioner are both
nominated, and also Bough and Beady,
brown horse, 6, by Quicklime, dam Euf
ford Maid.
In the New York Jockey ciub's met
ropolitan handicap Colonel North makes
five entries, bringing'the total to 66.
These five are Iddleßleigh, High Com
missioner, Bough and Beady, Miss
Simon and A;turo, bay horse, 5, by Pe
trarch, dam Belle Agnes, In the New
York Jockey club handicap Iddlesleigh,
High Commissioner and Miss Simon are
entered ; in the Toboggan Slide handi
cap High Commissioner, Arturo, Bough
and Beady, Miss Simon and Sir Fred
erick Eoberts, bay horse, 5, by Wisdom,
dam Candabar, and in the All Breeze
stakes High Commissioner, Arturo, Sir
Frederick Eoberts and Bough and
Beady.
The English papers are full of the
death of the famous Irish racer and
stallion, Bar-cald-ine (accent on the Bec
ond syllable) who died on the Bth inst.
from au abcess in the lungs. He was
the greatest horse of the male line of
Matchem in the known world. He won
three races in three consecutive days as
a 2-year-old, and in the following year
won the Baldoyle Derby and three
Sueen's plates ou the Curragh of Kil
are. Out of one of these races arose a
ecandal and the big bay colt was struck
out of all the rest of his 3-year-old en
gagements. In 1882 he was in retire
ment, but in the spring of his 5-year-old
form he came out as the prop
erty of Robert Fock and started
for the Westminster cup, where
Tristan wae a hot favorite though
carrying 138 pounds. Lucerne and Wal
lenetein (bred in America) were weight
ed below 130, while tbe big Irish horße,
with 135, was coppered at 10 to 1 by the
bookmakers, many of whom were afraid
to lav 2to 1 against Tristan. When the
flag fell, Barcaldine waited upon Tristan
LOS ANGELES IIERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1893.
till within about 200 yards of the post,
when he shot out and won in a canter
by six lengths. The consternation of
the ring was unspeakable and tbe Irish
were frantic with glee. One of the Dub
lin papers alluded to him aB "Our latter
day Harkaway." He won the Epsom
cup with 136, the great Northumberland
stakes with 130, beßides beating a choice
field three mileß at "Royal Ascot."
He then retired to the Btud as the
property of Lady Stamford. To judge
from bis picture, which hangs in Mr.
Clibboan's office in Sydney, N. 8. VV., he
was a horse of vast size and aubstance,
but very little quality. Hia conforma
tion was plainly that of his illustrious
progenitor, Melbourne. Hiß book was
always full at $1000 per mare, and he
proved a fortune to Lady Stamford.
Among hia get were Morion, alwaya
reckoned the best ol his year; Mimi,
winner of the Oaks and 1000 guineas;
Bartizan, Primrose Dame, Barmecide,
Curfew, Bar le Due, Dame President,
Barracouta, Lady Clare, Freemason,
Mercy, etc. Two years ago Lady Stam
ford refused an offer from India of
10,000 guineas for the horse, and it is
stated that several larger offers have
since been made.
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About six weeks ago I got a letter
from Mr, I'ierre Lorillard of New York
asking my opinion about the purchase
of a tirst'clasa Btallion. Knowing that
the former owner of Iroquois had about
six millions of people, in China and
Australia, chewing tobacco for him
while he was asleep, and that money
was therefore no object, I wrote him
back that Abercorn, owned by the es
tate of the Hon. James White, deceased,
of Sydney, N. S. W., wbb my own
preference over any horse in the world;
that by the terms of Mr. White's will,
the horse (as well as his sire, Chester,
Bince dead), was not to be ottered for
sale; and that I believed that an offer.of
£10,000 would fetch him in spite of the
will. Mr. Lorillard, knowing little or
nothing about the horses of the south
contineut as compared with those ot
England. ■ concluded to buy Barcaldino
and cabled an offer of £12,000 for
him, which was declined. Two
weeks after that message the great
horse died as above stated. Mr. Loril
lard can now make an offer for Abercorn
if he sees fit. He is Hi hands 1 inch high,
girts G feet 4 inches, and is just aa much
handsomer horse than Barcaldine as Sir
Modred is handsomer than Darebin,who
is, by the way, bred very much like Bar
caldine. The old 6cribe chargeß the
tobacco millionaire nothing ior this ad
vice.
Eight horses have trotted in 2.00 or
better, of which five made their records
in 1802. Four out of the eight made
their records on regulation tracks, aLd
the other four on kites. Those which
made their record to old fasbirned sul
kies, with big wheels, were Palo Alto
(dead), Sunol and Maud s. The other
rive, which had the benefit of the pneu
matic-tired sulky, are: Nancy Hanks,
Stamboul, Kremlin, Maltha Wilkes and
Belle Vara. There can be but little
doubt that, on a kite-eh»ped track and
with a bicycle *tilky, Maud B. could
have trotted in 2 :oi or better. And if it
were possible to recall the days that are
past and place en a track the only three
stallions that have beaten 2:09, I should
wager my money first on Paio Alto and
what was left I would play against a
heat under 2:11,
The 2:12 list has now been swollen to
greater proportions than the 2:30 list
bad in 1858, there being 30 horses in
that mark or better, of which 10 are by
George Wilkes' sons, while four are also
grandsons of H»mbletonian through
Electioneer and two through the line of
Happy Medium, All the other sires
have but one each, li anything else
was wanting to confirm the high esteem
in which the Wilkes blood is held by
breeders, this ought to settle it. In all
there are 28 in the male line of Bysdyk's
Hambletonian 10, while three others
are descended from the female line of
the "Hero of Chester," The old Bway
back bears the same relation to the
trotting stud of America thst Waxy,
who won the Derby of 1793, does to the
racing hlood of England. The three
galloping lineß of Touchstone, Hark
away and Irish Birdcatcher are very
neatly paralleled by George Wilkes,
Electioneer and Happy Medium at tha
diagonal gait. The Hon. James White
of Sydney once said to the writer: "Wa
breed great performers every year, but
we only breed great sireß cure or twice
iv a century." Hioai.uo.
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