. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XXX. No 25. No. 313 BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1897. STTBSCKrPTION THREE DOLLARS A YEAH NEW YORK RACING GOSSIP. A Poor Lot in the Brooklyn Handicap—The California Horses Now at the Far East. P. J. Dwyer's Apology, New Yoek., June 10.—Comparisons are odiouB. To say that one section of a country is better than another, to com- pare the manners and customs of one city in order to decry that of another place, smacks of local egotism and a narrow mind. A gentleman will not do it. He would as soon break all laws of hospitality by accepting a
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Vol. XXX. No 25. No. 313 BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1897. STTBSCKrPTION THREE DOLLARS A YEAH NEW YORK RACING GOSSIP. A Poor Lot in the Brooklyn Handicap—The California Horses Now at the Far East. P. J. Dwyer's Apology, New Yoek., June 10.—Comparisons are odiouB. To say that one section of a country is better than another, to com- pare the manners and customs of one city in order to decry that of another place, smacks of local egotism and a narrow mind. A gentleman will not do it. He would as soon break all laws of hospitality by accepting a friend's invitation to dinner and then making disparaging remarks about the ser- vice as to make odious comparisons of manners, customs and things in general of an alien nature. And yet, in the face of all this, I am compelled, through force of circumstance, to draw a comparison—I hope it will not be thought an odious one—between the racing as seen in California and the "sport royal" as witnessed in New York and its environs. The struggle for the Burns Handicap was sharp, long- drawn oat and brilliant; the one for the Brooklyn Handicap lame, of short duration and mediocre. The winner of the former stake, Ruinart, was, and is undoubtedly the best horse in California at the distance—a mile and aquarter. Howard Mann, the winner of this year's Brooklyn Handicap, is of a class far below Ruinart's. The son of St. Carlo carried 116 pounds and overcame difficulties; Howard Mann carried 106 pounds, and. with everything in his favor, won a "; The struggle of Ruinart's may be aptly termed grandly mag- nificent. He ha J nothing in his favor and won his race solely on bis merits, carrying weight and beating a fast, strong field of handicap horses after a severe struggle from start to fin- ish. Howard Mann, on the contrary, had everything to his liking, weight, condition of track and non-interference. But *'Tod"—he of the pink shirts, large cigars
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