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CALIFORNIA THREEYEAROLDS A good judgo of racing sends the following gossip from San Francisco to DAILY RACING FOKII FOKIIYou You might bo interested in some of the turf gossip of the Coast and as 1 have more time than anything else I will send you some of my ideas of form and some of the news newsIn In the first place I do not believe there is a real good horse in training in California either among the youngsters or the older divis ¬ ion and yet there are so many useful horsej and as a consequence so many well balanced fields that the racing is about the best I have ever seen from a spectacular point of view viewUnless Unless some one has a sleeper buried I am certain that there is not a good threeyearold in California I had a great faith in Casper and from last spring thought that he was about as good as Algol or Typhoon Ho has disap ¬ pointed his stable grievously until lately When ho started first he ran about half a milo and blew up the next time he went a trifle further but not until the last ten days has he shown any ¬ thing but a flash of speed Good Times beat him handily at seven furlongs early while it took his life to head out Estaca for the place I aw both of these colts race at St Louis and Eitaca was well tried out there with the best HP could not make them gallop On his racing it looks as though Candelaria would have to bo the second dependence of the Burns Water house string in threeyearold races over a dis ¬ tance of ground He is a grand looking big colt by Midlothian a whole lot larger than the ma ¬ jority of this horses get and would be pretty nearly a good horse if he was a little more ro buat and a bettor doer in the stable On form just now Barney Schreibers gelding Aquinas by Belvidere is the best threeyearolds in train ¬ ing on the Coast He gave Candelaria a colt a pound in actual weight and beat him and then made Howard S and Casper look awfully cheap all with weight up at seven furlongs It was probably not a fair test as Howard S cannot run in the mud still it must be admitted that a horse at home in all kinds of going is a more useful racing machine than one that must have a track made to its order Early too Zamar II on form classed right up with the others But later racing dispels this idea ideaSizing Sizing up the twoyearolds of last year in the whole expanse of American racing supremacy it narrows down to two colts Algol and Ogden Many Eastern ciitics will take exception to this doubtless claiming that Ornament must take rank with the two first named I saw Ornament race at St Louis where he hooked up twice with Algol and Typhoon The first time ho broke from behind went to the front and after knocking Algol to his knees on the far turn and nearly carrying Typhoon over the fence at the head of the stretch finished outside of the first three Moncreith winning a race which in my opinion did not belong to him The colts met again this time on a good track and all with weight up Ornament got away badly but I have always thought that he could have bean no better than third had he gotten off clear Algol laid within a length of Typhoon and gal ¬ loped over him when he got ready I firmly be ¬ lieve that Algol on that day was the best two yearold in America He trained off from that race but was himself again in the late fall fallTyphoon Typhoon went East and beat Ornament again Again the claim was made that Orna ¬ ment should have won I have before ma the form chart published at the time in RACING FORM It shows that Ornament was off sixth and Ogdon seventh seventhAt At the quarter Ogdon was still seventh and Ornament was sixth yet Ogden won by two lengths and Ornament was unplaced The foot notes said that Ornament was shut off at the far turn and could never get up with the fast pace sot That seems to have been Ornaments trouble whenever ho met Typhoon viz that he could not keep the fast pace set setI I do not say that Typhoon and Algol will be better threeyearolds than Ornament but I do believe that as twoyearolds they held him safe at any kind of a race I am not taking any ¬ thing from the son of Order either eitherMartin Martin has always been given the credit of throwing the race away on Typhoon in which Ogden boat him Of course as I did not see the race I cannot judge but I think Ogden was the better horse that day Typhoon is one of those rapid going colts that will do about all he can without any punishment He carries his head high in the air too high for my fancy and a boy that sits still and holds his head up will get his best race out of him Martin rode him in his maiden race at St Louis and in most of his winning performances afterwards and prob ¬ ably thought he could get his best race out of him by sitting still I think so too tooTO TO BE CONTINUED
