. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Mabch 24,1900] ffitje gveebev and ^povxammu Afghan is quite a race horse at six furlongs, but a yellow dog at seven. Ostler Joe pulled up very lame after his last race, and it looks as if the black horse had seen his best days. After experiencing a long run of luck, Charley Thorpe, the "grand old man" of the saddle, met with a mishap at Tanforan Wedoesoay, which will chubo f';s retirement for some time. He bad the mount on .Nilgar in the final event, and as the big field broke away fror the dangerous seven- furlong post, there, occurred a general
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Mabch 24,1900] ffitje gveebev and ^povxammu Afghan is quite a race horse at six furlongs, but a yellow dog at seven. Ostler Joe pulled up very lame after his last race, and it looks as if the black horse had seen his best days. After experiencing a long run of luck, Charley Thorpe, the "grand old man" of the saddle, met with a mishap at Tanforan Wedoesoay, which will chubo f';s retirement for some time. He bad the mount on .Nilgar in the final event, and as the big field broke away fror the dangerous seven- furlong post, there, occurred a general go-as-you-please jostling match. Io the mix-up Nilgar went down. After the race bis unfortunate rider was carried to the paddock on a stretcher and later removed to^iie horde in town. An ex- amination reveaied the fact that be bad suffered a broken shoulder blade and a possibly fracture of one of his ribe, with Beveral minor Aruises. Much regret was expressed over the accident, as CharY'.v is a c*»neral favorite, not only with the public but with his' -other riders, several of whom ran to the scene of the accident after weighing in under the stand. Tanforan Park Summaries. With the departure of the better jockeys and the giving oi mounts to inexperienced boys, an era of .roueh riding has set in which causes the disqualification of some horse in nearly every race on the card. Jockey 8haw, who is doing the riding for Johnny Campbell's stable, is a bad race rider; on three different occasions last week he lost races by errors of judgment which would have been inexcusable in the veriest novice. VieuviAN, the half brother to Geyser, is a good colt and in bis race on Saturday made Sardine look like a common selling plater. Out breaking, and oat running her from the start he was in front all the way and won pulling up in 1:26£ for the seven furlongs. Since Mr. W. J. Spiers has taken charge of (he Baldwin horses, tbe red and black of the Santa Anita stable has been seen more frequen
Size: 2201px × 1135px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjecthorses, bookyear1882
