St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-02
THE Ivy CITY RACES.
North western Horse Owners Inter.
ested in the Event.


ested in the Event.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, May IA good many
Northwestern horse owners are to be here
this week to attend the races at Ivy City.
which begins next Thursday, and are
promised to be the finest ever seen here.
The feature of the meeting is that Off days
will intervene. The opening day is Thurs
day, the 9th inst, and next days sport Will
be on Saturday, then Monday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday. The first days pro-
gram will commence with dash for six
furlongs for $50O-purse; next
comes a selling race OF one
| mile, and the third race will
be one of the events of the meeting, the
National hotel handicap, one mile and an
eighth. Some of the crack runners from
the best stables will start in this race. len
Brock, Col Sprague, Burch. Favor, Pom
tiac, Cardinal McCloskey, Bersan and
Swift are among the entries. The fourth
race will be sweepstake one and one
eighth miles and steeple-chase over long
course. On the second day, Saturday the
9Th, the first race will be mile, followed
by run of one and One-eighth miles for a
$500 purse. The Analosten stakes is the
third on the program, and the list of ell
tries includes the fastest three
| year-olds known. Biggermont will make
his first appearance in the three-year-
| form. She will have as competitors Dew
! Drop, PorticO, Bessie B, Saranac, Dey
Monopole and a number Of others. The
| fourth race will be a siX-furlong dash for
| all ages and the last will be run of one
and quarter miles for a purse of $500.
| The third day, Monday, the 10th, will open
with mile dash, Immediately followed
with the Faithful stakes for two year-olds.
The most promising Youngsters are entered
in this event, among them being Burch's
Eight to Seven, McMahon's Al Reed,
LIQUIDS Elsae Rosalind, Connor's Laynike.
Jennings Pocala. BoWies Valient and
twenty Others The third race of the day
Will be a handicap sweepstake, one and
| quarter miles: fourth seven-furlong
dash. and the fifth and last run of one
and one-sixteenth miles. The fourth day
will open with the Army and Navy stakes
one mile for all ages and some veterans Of
the turf will compete. Strathspey, Nc
Bowling. Col. Sprague, Swift, Chantilly
and Frank Ward will try this race. The
second is one and one-eghth miles for
horses beaten at the meeting. the third a
half-mie dash for maiden twO-year-
the fourth free handicap of one and one
sixteenth miles and the last race a steeple-
chase over long course for a $500 purse.
The fifth days program will open with
mile spin for three-year -olds and upwards
The second race, the Brentwood stakes is
for two-y ear-olds, in which there are twenty
nine entries. The third race is one-milo
dash for three year-olds and upwards. The
| fourth race, the Willard Hotel stakes, is
| for three-year-o one mile and one-eighth,
with thrty-one entries including Pasha,
Cato, Biggonet. Bessie B and Dew
Drop. The fifth race is a handicap sweep
| stakes, one and one eighth miles. The sixth
and last day will open with a six-furlons
dash for horses that have started in
selling race at the meeting and have not
won. The second race is sweepstakes Of
| Is miles for three-y ear-olds and upwards
The third race is the Riggs House stakes
for all ages, with II entries, IL miles, with
such entries as Ten Brock, Rcefield, Col.
Sprague. Pontiac Favor, Bersan, Valient,
and Elmendorf. The fourth race is one
mile for horses that have run and not won
at the meeting. The fifth and closing race
OF the meeting is a steeplechase over the
| long course for a purse of $500. The
| horses are nearly all quartered on the
| grounds now and they are in exceptionally
good condition.