St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-17

ed second money, and so on. The stakes
will be divided as follows: If four or more
starters, fifty per cent. to winners; twenty
five per cent. to second; fifteen per cent.
to third, and ten per cent. to fourth. If
but three starters sixty per cent. to win
ners, thirty per cent. to second. and ten
per cent. to third. The stakes to close
May 10. The practical operation of this
plan is to reduce the trotting of horses i'll
races to dashes, whereas the present system
requires race OF heats. Such stake and
race as is here proposed was never before
attempted. but y careful examination OF
the details appears to show that the plan is
practicable. In the first place each horse
will trot heat against every other horse in
the race. The result therefore, is that if
there be five starters each horse will be re-
quired to trot four heats, and if six starters
five heats. One great benefit of this plan
is that six single contests or heats with but
one competitor would not be near so hard
on horse as three heats. in a field of nor
SEES, with tedious scoring. To illustrate
this, let us suppose that the following
horses are nominated and will start: Harry
Wilkes, st. Julien, Clingstone, Majolica
and Trinket. If five horses are started ten
heats or single contests will be required to
complete the contest, and that no horse
shall be called upon to trot in successive
heats the contests may be arranged as fol-
lows:
First Contest-Maiolica against Harry
! Wilkes.
Second Contest-Trinket against Clingstone.
Third Contest-St. Julien against Majolica.
Fourth Contest-Harry Wilkes against
Trinket.
Fifth Contest-Clinstone against ST. Julien.
| Sixth Contest-Trinket against Majo
| a., =
Julien.
Eighth Contest-Majolioa against Cling
stone.
Ninth Contest-St. Julien against Trinket.
Tenth ConteSt-Cling stone against Harry
Wilkes. So
The way to get at the division of the
purse is as follows: Suppose that Harry
Wilkes defeats all his competitors and wins
four contests. giving him stmoney. Then
suppose st. Julien defeats all but Harry
Wilkes, winning three contests and losing
one, giving him second money. Then that
Ciingstone defeats all but Harry Wilkes
and st. Julien, winning two contests and
losing two. giving him third money. and
that Majolica beats Trinket, but loses to
the rest, winning one and losing three. and
getting fourth money. Trinket loses all
and wins no part of the stakes. According
to the terms of the proposition in the adver-
tisement each horse puts into the general
fund, or rather stakes. $500, making So, 500.
To this the ASSOCIATION adds $500 for each
starter, making sc, 500. bringing the total
amount of stakes to So, 600. The aSsOcia-
ton adds $3.50 for each starter for the sep
arate fund, aggregating ST., to be di-
vided by number of contests. AS it re-
quires ten contests, divided by ten. this
gives purse of S125 for each contest, of
which the winner takes 500 and the loser
$25. Each horses winnings, according to
the above summary, would be as follows,
according to the figuring of the SPIRIT of the
Times:
Harry Wilkes wins first money in stakes $50
per cent?, 81, 500, and first money in four
contests. $500; total winnings, $1,000.
st. Julien wins second money in stakes, (25
per cent? 81, $50: first money in three con-
tests, $500, and second money in one contest,
S25; total winnings, 1,575.
Clingstone wins third money in stakes Q5
per cent, $3.50; first money in two contests,
$500, and second money in two contests, $50;
total winnings, $1,000.
Majolica wins fourth money in stakes 40
per cent, $500; first money in one contest,
SIG0. and second money in three contests, S75;
total winnings, $3.50.
Trinket wins second money in four contests
ISIS each), 500. Grand total of winnings,
S6,250.
Amount of stakes, $4,000: amount of sep
arate fund, $1,250; totals, S6,250.
Among some trotting horsemen there is
rapidly-growing tendency toward single
dashes instead of three-in-five-heat races.
Among those who are very strong against
heat races is Mr.. D. w. Woodmansee. The
plan of the Rochester association, when put
in practice, will probably determine the
matter one way or the other, and will then
be either generally adopted or rejected.