Re: CAVALLS HISTÒRICS :

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Mira amb dic Joan ill podries dirme el teu tel. i ens veiem un dia ...Joan

el meu es 600 25 85 72



On Mon 15/02/10 4:33 PM , Miquel Llauradó m.lla...@ono.com sent:

El dia 1 de març de 1852 hi va haver una cursa de 9 milles entre
l'estaló roig-canyella "Sarco" ( probablement "Zarco" ) de pura raça
californiana i l'eugua negra importada d'Austràlia "Black Swan".
Les apostes foren molt altes. Hi ha diverses versions , però sembla
que cada bàndol apostava 25.000 dòlars més 500 egues, 500vaques , 500
ovelles i uns quants animals més.
"Sarco" el muntava un vaquero amb la típica sella californiana. El
genet de "Black Swan" era un jockey professional de raça negra, petit
i escarransit que va usar una sella de curses...
"Black Swan" va guanyar per poc...

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Copio uns fragments en anglès ( que inclouen altres cavalls : Canelo,
Ito, Pinto,...)

Pico, an avid gambler, enjoyed playing cards and betting on horse
races. He raised fine horses and raced them against those of other
rancheros. In 1852, one of the most famous races occurred between
Pico's "Sarco" and Jose Andres Sepulveda's "Black Swan". The race took
place in Los Angeles where the nine-mile course followed the route of
San Pedro Street out of town and back. Over $50,000 in cash, land,
cattle and horses were wagered by spectators. Sarco, bred in
California, lost to Black Swan, an import from Australia. Pico lost
$1,600 in cash and 300 head of cattle. Pico's carefree and reckless
ways were costing him. By the end of the 1850s, he had many debts
scattered throughout Los Angeles County and he owed over $45,000 to
creditors.





Don Jose's greatest love was horses and horse racing. He owned
hundreds of horses and loved to ride. The race between an Australian
mare, Black Swan, and Pico's stallion, Sarco, will go down in history
as one of the most legendary races of Southern California. Held on
March 1, 1852, the race inspired much excitement among early
California residents and, according to Thomas D. Mott, almost everyone
living between San Luis Obispo and San Diego attended. Black Swan won
the nine-mile-long race, which took place in Los Angeles, by 75
yards.
Robert Glass Cleland notes in The Irvine Ranch that "the wagers
included twenty-five thousand dollars in cash,...five hundred calves,
and five hundred sheep."
After the race Don Jose bought Black Swan and took her to San Joaquin.
Within a year the mare stepped on a nail, contracted lockjaw, and
died.


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August 16, 1851, Don Pio Pico and Compadre Teodosio
Yorba gave their printed challenge "to the North" with bold
defiance—"The glove is thrown down, let him who will take
it up"—for a nine-mile race, or four and a half and repeat,
the stake IDOO bead of cattle worth $20 per head, and $2,000
68 LOS ANGELES
in money; with a codicil, as it were, for two other races, one
of two leagues out and back, the other of 500 varas—$2,000
and 200 head of full grown cattle bet on each race. March
21st following, the nine mile heat was run two miles south of
the city, between the Sydney mare, Black Swan, backed by
Don Jose Sepulveda, and the California horse, Sarco, staked
by Don Pio Pico and Don Teodosio, the challengers. The
mare won by 75 yards in 19 minutes and 20 seconds. Sarco,
the previous spring, had run 9 Mexican miles in 18 minutes
46 seconds. Not less than $50,000 must have changed hands.
More deserves to be said of what the Californians tell of
this exciting race. April 2d the American mare, Nubbins, beat
the American horse, Bear Meat, on the Wolfskin track by 10
feet—distance 400 yards—for 400 cows. The year before Don
Jose Sepulveda's California horse beat Don Pio's American
horse half a length, for $2,000 in money and 500 head of cattle.
Probably the carera is still talked of at Santa Barbara, when
Francisco Noriega's horse, Buev de Tango, beat Alfred Robinson's
horse, Old Breeches, with a change of $20,000 among
hands.
In 1852 Don Andres Pico and Don Jose Sepulveda had
two races, one for $1,000, the other for $1,600 and 300 head
of cattle. October 20th Avas the exciting day of Don Jose's
favorite, Canelo, backed by Don Fernando Sepulveda, and of
Alisan, a Santa Barbara horse, backed by Don Andres Pico
—
for 300 head of cattle and $1,600 a side ; 400 yards ; Canelo
came out winner half a length.
The New Years' ball at Don Abel Stearns, "where all the
beauty and elegance of the city," says the editor in mellifluous
Spanish, "contributed that night to give splendor to the
dance," was followed on the tenth by two races. The end of
Lent, and all the grander festivals were partly enjoyed in
this way.
In 1853 was to be run the race of Ito, brought 700 miles,
against Fred Coy, stake $10,000. The natives were cautious
and it was forfeited; but in March Moore & Brady's horse,
John Smith, beat Powell's mare, Sarah Jane, for $2,100, by
about a length. In February, 1857, Don Jose Sepulveda's
horse, Pinto, easily beat Don Pio's Dick Johnson at San


Gabriel, for $3,000; and March 5th, Don Jose beat the Gonzales
brothers at San Fernando for $2,000.
Through the later years heavier stakes than any we have
mentioned were lost and won by Don Juan Aliba and others,
except, perhaps, that of Black Swan and Sarco. Of a very
early day some of the races occupy many pages of the archives.
One tasked the best ability, as alcalde, of the venerable
Don Manuel Dominguez: one drew out a profound
decision of Don Jose Antonio Carrillo, of the Supreme Court.
The governor did not disdain to lay down rules for racing.
In his manuscript diary we have the authority of Mr. Francis
Melius, visiting Los Angeles from one of the Boston ships
at San Pedro, for the race of Moses Carson, brother of Kit
Carson, on January 20, 1840. Mose had a heavy bet on two
races for that day. The first he won, despite the salt that
—for luck—had been put in all the holes of the stakes on the
course, and of the little bag of salt and wax candle and silk
cotton astutely concealed in the mane of the opposing horse.
But it ruined Mose's reputation, and mayhap damaged his
purse. He was set down as an hechicero (sorcerer) by his
Sonoranian antagonist, and the second race fell through.

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COMENTARIS :
La Alta Califòrnia d'abans de la febre de l'or és molt interessant des
del punt de vista dels cavalls i l'equitació.
Crec que ja he comentat en algun moment alguna anècdota del pare Magí
Català , "el sant home de Santa Clara", nascut a Montblanc i que de
jove no se'n privava d'enllaçar ossos de nit amb els indòmits vaquers
californios.

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[Miquel Llauradó]

El passat diumenge 14 de febrer va morir Elmer Bandit als 38 anys.
Elmer Bandit era un cavall mig-àrab que participava en raids amb la
seva propietària i amazona Mrs. Mary Anna Wood.
L'any passat va batre el rècord de distància recorreguda en ràids.

Més informació a la revista on-line The Horse.com.
( Subscripció gratuïta : http://www.thehorse.com/Register.aspx )
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Miraré si trobo una bona imatge per a penjar-la als nostres arxius.

Elmer Bandit era de capa liarda, darrerament en fase blanca o canosa.

[Miquel Llauradó]

"...On the day Hoyt left Tascosa the Kid rode in leading is favorite
race horse , a spirited chestnut sorrel named Dandy Dock..."

Les dades sobre William H. Bonney , alias Willy the Kid , són poc
precises. És difícil destriar entre llegenda i realitat en la vida
d'aquest famós pistoler.
El paràgraf anterior parla d'un dels seus cavalls favorits que consta
en una acta de venda simulada per a legalitzar un obsequi al seu amic
Mr. Hoyt.
De fet la cosa és més complicada encara perquè sembla que el cavall
era robat , havent estat assassinat el sheriff antic propietari...

El mantell del cavall Dandy Dock ,"chestnut sorrel" , és una varietat
del pelatge sor, roig o alatzà amb matisos metàl·lics que recorden el
coure brunyit.
( Hi ha altres acepcions de "sorrel" ).