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RACING GOSSIP GOSSIPThe Gossip The California Lucretia Laurentian Borgia Borg four mile rec recd ¬ ord Ford of last Thursday would carry more signifi signified ¬ cance cancel to judges of racing quality if the filly 4yearold by Brutus Bruits Lidette Ideate had raced better As it was she ran four miles on dress parade in 150 AWt Wt 145 14854 in total 150 3 37 5 i2M and 7 11 The Boots filly beat Ten Broecks Brocks tin cup record of 7 15 J madeat maddest Louis ¬ ville vile twentyone twenty years ago There is much noise about the falling of the record Why Any fair sel seal ¬ ling plater platter properly prepared can beat ancient records at all distances over two miles Thats Hats mere progress in breeding tracks and handling Joe Harveys Harvey mare Wheel of Fortune ran I IL L miles under 12 pounds in 2 065 equalling equaling Ruinarts Ruminates and the California record at Oakland last Saturday Wneel Newel of Fortune is a good mare She has au antipathy for weight Ive I've always followed the Wheels career with inter ¬ est Joe Harvey her owner is a character The mares name mirrors the game he had when he bought her He ran a big roulette wheel which in the winter of 189394 defaced the old Bay District tracks ring I spent that winter in California Lucky Baldwin adver adverb ¬ tised tied a yearling sale at Bay District for the morning of Christmas day 1893 It was a bitter cold and dreary Christmas morning full of fog and sleet I went out to see the horses sold Three were disposed off on the square Prices were bad and the other sales were phony1 Mark Elias made the phony sales for Baldwin I stood beside Harvey when a noble chestnut filly by Gano Guano out of Jenny B by Glenelg Genteel was offered Theres Theresa a lovely filly said I to my ¬ self but so that Harvey heard me She was Do you think so queried Joe I know so said I and going over to Barney Schreiber asked him to buy her He bid up to 475 fittf fitful Harvey got the filly for 500 and named her after bis bias wheel That was four yeara year ago agoSince agnostic Since Harvey has owned Wheel ofwFortune she has run like au honest mans horse as the table below will show Years Baces Aces Won 2 3 nnp Ann 1894 3 1002 1895 17 9413 1896 20 8435 1897 16 5344 Total 4 56 23 11 8 14 I
