. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. <s TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES.. Vol XVIII. No 17. Bo. S13 BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1891. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAB, ' L THE LA.8T FOUR-MILE HEAT RACE. Won by theVOld Reliable," Poster, after a Fine Struggle with Rutherford. RidiDg on the cable cars through the thickly settled por- tions of oar city toward the Golden Gate Park, my mind wandered back to the time when the last foui-mile race was ever run in California—a little over fifteen years ago. How time flies! it seems the older we grow the faster the years roll ronnd. The Bay D

. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. <s TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES.. Vol XVIII. No 17. Bo. S13 BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1891. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAB, ' L THE LA.8T FOUR-MILE HEAT RACE. Won by theVOld Reliable," Poster, after a Fine Struggle with Rutherford. RidiDg on the cable cars through the thickly settled por- tions of oar city toward the Golden Gate Park, my mind wandered back to the time when the last foui-mile race was ever run in California—a little over fifteen years ago. How time flies! it seems the older we grow the faster the years roll ronnd. The Bay D Stock Photo
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. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. <s TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES.. Vol XVIII. No 17. Bo. S13 BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1891. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAB, ' L THE LA.8T FOUR-MILE HEAT RACE. Won by theVOld Reliable, " Poster, after a Fine Struggle with Rutherford. RidiDg on the cable cars through the thickly settled por- tions of oar city toward the Golden Gate Park, my mind wandered back to the time when the last foui-mile race was ever run in California—a little over fifteen years ago. How time flies! it seems the older we grow the faster the years roll ronnd. The Bay District Track—my destin- ation—looks familiar, but around it on every side do I see that the march of progress has been "due west, " and houses dot the hills, while streets and avenues all lead to its old fences. How the whistles of the steam engines on the two sides awaken the eohoes of the past. But I mast return to the subjeot before me and give a history of the event whioh par- ' alyzed the running-horse industry of California for many years and made the public look with distrust upon the actions of all who endeavored to build up the spring and fall meetings of the racing associations ever since. t The great four-mile and repeat race whioh took place on the 22nd of February, 1876, attracted an interest that per- haps never was excelled in any part of the United States up to that date, and was only equalled by the attraction that draws the vast concourse to the track on Derby day in Ene- and. Here, like it, everybody made it a holiday, and with •l the closing of the business houses and the impressing into service of every style of vehicle and every kind of horse, from i the thoroughbred to the mustang, and at an early hoor in the mornine the streets were lined with them, the fine handsome barouche of the capitalist and the vegetable hawker'B spavined horse and rickety wagon: all were bound for the same destination—the track where the big race was to come o