. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Saturday, December 30, 1911.] THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN. Inside and Outside Track. Grand Stand, Cattle Sheds and Stables. THE PHOENIX RACETRACK. Military Encampment. Birdseye View taken at a height of 2000 feet from a Captive Balloon By C. A. Lowrie, of San Francisco. I The Getaway of Mosher. (By Wilber Field Smith.) °| ⢠⢠⢠⢠â t> ⢠â ⢠e ⢠t ⢠â¢:⢠⢠i â¢â¢ ⢠i ⢠⢠⢠â¢â¢.*-*.â¢-â¢-â¢-â¢.â¢-â¢-â¢-⢠We trotted races in December that year, for the autumn had been dry all along and the track good. Bob Allen, the lessee of Agricultural Park, g
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Saturday, December 30, 1911.] THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN. Inside and Outside Track. Grand Stand, Cattle Sheds and Stables. THE PHOENIX RACETRACK. Military Encampment. Birdseye View taken at a height of 2000 feet from a Captive Balloon By C. A. Lowrie, of San Francisco. I The Getaway of Mosher. (By Wilber Field Smith.) °| ⢠⢠⢠⢠â t> ⢠â ⢠e ⢠t ⢠â¢:⢠⢠i â¢â¢ ⢠i ⢠⢠⢠â¢â¢.*-*.â¢-â¢-â¢-â¢.â¢-â¢-â¢-⢠We trotted races in December that year, for the autumn had been dry all along and the track good. Bob Allen, the lessee of Agricultural Park, gave a fall meeting late in October, after the circuit was over, and the horsemen, when the meetings at Stock- ton, San Jose, and Fresno were concluded, came to Sacramento. Here a few succeeded in retrieving their falling fortunes before the long rains set in. Some of us were loth to quit the game as long as the weather remained good, so we made up all sorts of harness races, starting twice a week for gate money and small purses. Many an animal with a dilatory, delib- erate gait earned more dollars than he was worth, getting, mayhap, a record on the slow side of two- forty. It was halcyon days for that variety of track pounders. I remember driving one mare seventeen heats in three days, and getting good money with her all the time for inferior work in the contest with Father Time. In the middle of December racing came to a pause. The horses and the public needed a rest at any rate. But the compelling force was the rain. Everyone recognized its arrival as the end of harness sport for the season. The delegations from other California localities cheerfully packed up and with their bag- gage on express wagons trailed away to the railroad depot. The rapidity and joy with which the other grooms pulled out the side ropes and tied up the mouths of grain sacks, cast a shadow over the placid lace of Mosher. No doubt it was all very
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