. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. I'wiS**^ o!. XXIII. No. 18. U8 BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28,1893. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR FAMOUS RACES IN CALIFORNIA. |>rfblk and Lodi, Two Mile Heats, Described in the California Spirit of September 22d, 1865. rhe programme of speed announced by the directors of the ile Agricultural Society, to commence Monday, September .h, occasioned, as might have been expected, the liveliest erest throughout the State. The premiums and purses ered being liberal, and the inducements held out to the ners of fine stock to bri
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. I'wiS**^ o!. XXIII. No. 18. U8 BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28,1893. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR FAMOUS RACES IN CALIFORNIA. |>rfblk and Lodi, Two Mile Heats, Described in the California Spirit of September 22d, 1865. rhe programme of speed announced by the directors of the ile Agricultural Society, to commence Monday, September .h, occasioned, as might have been expected, the liveliest erest throughout the State. The premiums and purses ered being liberal, and the inducements held out to the ners of fine stock to bring their animals to the Union Park urse, under the auspices of the State Society, for competi- n, was an incentive to all interested to use their utmost ertions in preparing for the various contests offered them enter in. The fair was to be inaugurated by a tilt between i famous racers, Norfolk and Lodi, at two-mile heats, for ,000, and the immense throng in attendance gave unmis- ;able evidence of the anxiety evinced to witness those ble steeds in another encounter. Their race at San Fran- co was sauce piquant for this, and the wonder, so often pressed, whether Lodi could have vanquished Norfolk on b 23d of May, at the Ocean Race Course, was to be eluci- ted. As is usual upon such occasions the " croakers knew it all," d " croakers" had each found a mare's nest in connection th the race. In the first place Pilot, as likely a colt as ere is in the State, was to be entered, and the way he was to irm Lodi was a caution to the scion of Yorkshire. Then inters didn't care much to win, anyhow; it was the three- ile race on the following Saturday he was after. Then Lodi is out of fix, short of work, and a hundred other things too liculous to mention. Pilot did not enter, although it was iped some arrangement might be made whereby he might ow his prowess on the turf. A horse called Unknown, rraerly known as Heenan, a Belmont colt, entered by larles E. MeLane, Esq.,
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