Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-22

the Liverpool Cup.
[NorE-Breeders throughout the State are re-
quested to keep this department informed of
purchases sales, foals and all other matters of
| interest connected with breeding and the turf
in their respective localities.
STAKE TROTTING RACES.
The GLOBE last week mentioned the fact
that the Chicago Jockey and Trotting club
had decided to make programme of stake
trotting races for its July meeting, instead of
offering purses as has been the universal
! practice in the past. The GLOBE then en-
dorsed the new departure. In fact it has
been pet theory of this paper since it's
horse and turf department was established.
The GLOBE now has the programme decided
upon and regrets to see that the new depart
ure stops short of the mark it had set .. e.,
the stake to 60 to the first horse,
the second horse saving his entrance only.
Instead, the Chicago plan gives the first
horse 65 per cent. of the stakes, 20 per cent.
to the second and Is to the third. This fair
ly approaches the GLOBE position, but hav-
ing made three moneys, we fear the Chicago
managers have erred in requiring but three
entries to fill and two to start. Under such
stipulation dishonest horsemen can COM
bine and by dividing the stake make the race
jockey hippodrome affair, and thus keep
alive that browning evil of the trotting turf,
and which under the system of purses was
fast sapping its life. For these reasons the
GLOBE is of the opinion that there should be
five entries and three to start, with the stakes
divided into three moneys. However, the
practical working of the new departure may
show the Chicago management in the right
and the GLOBE in the wrong. The first meet
ing will pretty we'll decide the point.
In the meantime the GLOBE believes
the Chicago club has taken a step
that will place the trotting turf
on higher and more honorable plane than
it has occupied since the early days of match
races, and it trusts its first meeting may be
such a success as to compel the early adop-
ton of the stake plan by the leading associa-
lions of the country.
The programme at Chicago is as follows
FIRST DAY.
1. Dunton's Spirit of the Turf Stakes-Open
to all stations; $500 entrance, half forfeit,
with 81 600 added.
2. Novelty Carriage Works Stakes-Open to
all horses that have never trotted better than
2:27; $3.50 entrance, half forfeit, with $3.50
added.
SECOND DAY.
8. The Haverly Stakes-Open to all borses
that have never trotted better than 2:21; 5000
entrance, half forfeit, with 81 600 added.
4. The Sherman House Stskes-Open to all
horses that have never trotted better than
$40; $100 entrance, half forfeit, with $500
added.
5. Breeders Stallion Stakes-Opsn to all
stations that have never trotted better than
2:3O; 800 entrance, half forfeit, with $500
added by J. II. Haverly.
THIRD DAY.
6. The Dow Stakes-Open to all horses that
have never trotted better than 2:23; 5000 en-
trance, half forfeit, with 81 900 added.
z. The McAvoy Stakes-Open to all horses
that have never trotted better than 2.34: 300
entrance, half forfeit, with $500 added.
8. Special stake, to be announced hereafter.
FOURTH DAY.
have never trotted better than 2:19; 5000 en-
trance, half forfeit, with 81 900 added.
TO- The Armstrong & Bride Stakes-Open to
all PAGERS; $l50 entrance, half forfeit, with
$3.50 added.
IL. Chaplin Gore Stakes-Open to all horses
that have never trotted better than $50; $lG0
entrance half forfeit, with $500 added.
IL. Willoughby, Hill & Co. Stakes-Open to
all horses that have never trotted better than
2:25; 500 entrance, half forfeit, with 1000
added.
The races are to be three to five in harness
under the rules of the National Trotting as
ISOLATION, stakes to close May 3, 1880.
One-half the entrance money is forfeit, and
becomes due at the time of making the en-
I'll hoI fhnao xuhn ofort
becomes due and payable at o'clock of the
night previous to the race, at the Office of the
club, No. ZIG Monroe street, after which
made shall DO considered drawn, and will
not be permitted to start.
Any forfeits not paid before the race will
by paid by the club to the winners Tin pro-
portion to their winnings) by orders on the
and if such order is not paid within five days
after the race, the horse, owner and nomi-
nator will be suspended by the club until
paid, as provided by the rules of the National
Trotting association.
For the benefit of horsemen who may not
understand the workings of the stake plan
we give an illustration prepared by the
Chicago club management.
For instance, a stake when the added money
is 81 600 may reasonably be expected to figure
up somewhat as follows:
Ten entries with 300 forfeit. ..........S1 900
Five starters with 800 additional. ..... 500
Added m oney by the club. 1000
Total value of stake. 81, 500
Dividend, 65 per cent. to first, S1,625; 20 per
cent. to second, $500; Is per cent. to third,
1915.
To compete for this amount, the owner or
nominator becomes liable for 800 forfeit, and
if starter, for 800 additional, total of 5000,
and of course does not pay or become liable
for the second payment, unless he thinks his
horse has at least a reasonable prospect of win
ming.
On the old plan, an owner entering his horse
for purse of $4,000, becomes at once liable
for 10 per cent. of the amount, or $3.50, with
no chance of drawing out and saving portion
thereof in case his horse should prove unfit,
and in no case can he win more than s., $50.
RINGERS AND IDENTIFICATION.
T. H. a.. hno