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RACING GOSSIP In the line of officialism officials the current Racing Calendar publishes the Eastern forfeit list Such information was needed There are screams in the air about the publication and threats via the cheapness of telegraphic cor coir ¬ respondence despondence in the dailies about libel suits Bosh 1 When a man incurs an obligation he pays it if ho can and is honest If he cannot pay in the present he does in the nearest possible future futureThere future There are some owners in the list who are there solely by neglect Theyll They'll settle quickly The other fellows should be known There is no more reason for turf debt than mercantile debt A welcher belcher is a wolcher wolvers in every avenue The calendars list covers fifteen big pages and foots up 79447 It covers only the Jockey Club tracks The Western array is just as large It should bo tabulated and published publishedMarcus published Marcus Daly Dally about 8000 Dave Gideon about 12000 Gideon Daly Dally the Thompsons Thompson and the Keenes Keeners are the heaviest creditors Mar ¬ cus cubs Daly Dally and Dave Gideon have been most severely punished by Eastern owners There are not many Western nien mien in the list The heaviest Chicago debtors are C H Smith 1950 and B V Connolly 550 Voters win of the Metropolitan Handicap was not far out of line The English colt was a high class twoyearold toehold and is beautifully bred But in the general racing of 1896 The Friar and Challenger were better Eastern colts than Voter and of the Western f ow in the East Ogden Typhoon II and Georgo George Rose held him safe Voter won the White Plains Winged Foot Billow of 1896 and was third in the Great East ¬ ern Bern to Ogden and Typhoon II and second in the Sapphire to The Friar Voter is not in the Brooklyn or Suburban Handicaps HandicapsLittle Handicaps Little Bobs four miles at Oakland in 72454 under 100 pounds is next to Star Rubys Rubs the best performance in a race for California Can ¬ did carried 97 pounds and ran the distance in 7 24Vi in the Spreckles Speckles stake of 1896 at Ingleside Ingles Star Ruby carried 109 pounds The Guide has Candor down as running the long route in 724 which is an error Marigold ran it in 720M with 106 pounds up in 1893 in a race against time and thats hats the fastest time for four miles over made by a mare Wildidle Twiddle held the California fourmile Fourier race record 72554 made over Bay District course as far back as 1875 Ashland was the first horse in the Golden State to beat 7 50 He ran it in 74954 in 1859 Langford Clangor shortly afterward ran it in 743 and October 18 1S73 his son Thad Had Stevens ran a second heat of four miles in 730 carrying 115 pounds This is the best second heat on record Katy Peases Pleases win of the big end of the 25000 stake was in the fall of 1874 Her time was 743 73654 In 1883 May D beat Ella Doane Dane and Lucky B in 736 flat and in 1893 Marigold won a fourmile Fourier race in 728si She was a daughter of Katy Pease Shortly thereafter the Thornton Horton Stakes were instituted and Gilead Gilled a grandson of Katy Pease won in 7 32 over a very slow track
