Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-24
Charter Oak Races.

Glance at the Great Programme. The great races at Charter Oak Park, with 12O entries, and premiums amounting to
 $19 ,O0O, will begin to-day, and will continue
 Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoon
 A great rush from all parts of the State may l be expected for the events. There will be
 five races each day. Among the famous
 starters will be St. Julien, Maud S., Hope full Sorrel Dan, Trinket, Hattie Hunter and Rowdy Boy.
 The opening day, to-day, has three trot- | ting races The '27 class includes such horses
 as Daisydale, Dan Smith, Glendale and Birdie O.; the '21 class, Noontide, Captain Emmons
 Richard, Voltaire, Sheridan and Monroe Chief; and the '25 class, Steve Maxwell
 Grey Chief, Unalala and Envoy. There will
 also be two running races, one of mile and
 half dash, and the second, two miles, over eight hurdles.
 On Wednesdays progra mme are two trot- ting and pacing race In the 'S class the 1 entries include Wilbur F., Kismet, Undine Nancy and six others the '19 class, Lucy, Hannis, Driver, Bonesetter, Charley Ford l and Etta Jones, and the pacing race, with Ben Hamilton, Change and four others. The two running races are one of mile heats, and another mile and half dash.
 Thursday is the ''big'' day The principal event will be efforts of Maud s. and St. Julien to beat their record of 2:114, made at Roches- ter. It is confidently predicted that they will do it, and from St. Juliens remarkable per 1 formance at Springfield last Tuesday, where he made 2:15 in the last heat of the open for all, there are some who predict that Maud S. will not prove herself the speediest horse of the two. The open to all, Thursday, has among the entries Hopeful, Darby, Trlnket and Great Eastern. St. Julien was in this class, but was drawn by agreement to contest for the special purse The 80 class includes Parana, Hector, Marlboro, Freeman, Edwin Thorne and others In addition to the above named races, there will be two running races,
 one of two miles, and another of mile heats.
 Friday closes the meeting and presents programme of three interesting events. The
 most interesting, perhaps, is the open to all for pacers, with Lucy, Rowdy Boy, Matt1e
 Hunter, Sorrel Dan, Sleepy Tom and Little
 Brown Jug entered. The '23 class of trotters
 includes Major Lord, Argonaut, Patchen, Wedgewood, Deck Wright, Iron Age and eight others, and the '25 class, the last on
 the programme of the meeting, Steve Max well, Charlie Champlin, Daisydale, Neia,
 Dan Smith, Lady Foxie and sixteen other en-
 tries
 Yesterdays Hartford Times says: Maud
 S., St. Julien, Trinket, Hopeful, Darby,
 Great Eastern, Hannis, Charley Ford, Dri-
 yer, Castleton, Etta Jones, Keene Jim and
 others who have trotted in the teens, besides
 scores of others who have crowded 2:2O, are
 here in prime condition. So are the fleet
 side-wheelers, Lucy, Rowdy Boy, Mattie
 Hunter and Sleepy Tom, the four that be-
 gan last year to reduce the pacing record
 to fine points, Sleepy Tom. the blind horse,
 whirling sulky around the circuit of mile
 in fifth heat in 2:124, the fastest in the
 world. This season he has met his equal in
 Sorrel Dan, while Little Brown Jug, who
 strides into his pacing gait as handily as
 Maud does into her trot, must not be over
 looked. Those that took their exercise yes
 terday morning moved as though their joints
 were oiled.