The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-21
RACING PROSPECTS RUN HIGH.

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RACING PROSPECTS RUN HIGH.
New Jersey sport observation-disclosures
days Opening at Linden.
The racing at the New Jersey Jockey
Club track at Elizabeth certainly shows
daily Improvement. There was a vast
difference between that of Saturday and
the opening day, while the programme
for today is really an excellent one. The
rain which fell this morning will not
only in no wise injure it, but will be a
benefit, instead, laying the dust which
has been growing deeper daily.
The Dwyer Brothers had a reputation
for being unlucky over at their Brooklyn
track, rain having spoiled every meeting
but the last held there. In Elizabeth just
the opposite is the case. Fine weather
marked the opening, and kept on improv-
ing, the horses meanwhile pounding the
track into condition, as only horses can
improve a new track, and just when it is
most needed, and just at the right time,
in the night, q few showers fall to settle
the track.
1t seems almost a pity that at the con-
ference Of race track owners an agree
ment was not reached whereby the
Dryers should have taken the last half
of October and the Linden Park people
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former track is got into good condition
the horses will leave to break in q new
one. Work over at Linden is decidedly
backward. Owners say the new track is
not fit to run on, and they are the best
judges. OF course the association has
dom all in its power to prepare it tho
roughly, but the wet season has retarded
work. Today men are hard at work, and
tomorrow still further effort will be ex-
pended, nc stone being left unturned to
make the track as fit for racing as pos
sible.
Linden Park is on the line of the Penn
~syivania Railroad, just beyond Elizabeth,
the new race course being just south Of
that town. The opening is announced
for Wednesday next, the first race to
begin at half-past one P. M. Here is the
first days pregTamme;-as
FIRST RACE-A sweepstakes for all
ages, of so each, with $500 added, stakes
divided between second and third. Win
ners in 1889 OF 81 900 net in an overnight
event, to carry 5 lbs; twice, or once of
5000, z lbs; thrice, or ono of $1,000, IL
lbs. extra. Non-winners in 1889 of 81, 200,
selling races not counting, allowed Z lbs;
of $3.50, 10 lbs; of $500, Is lbs. Maidens
three years and upward, 5 lbs. additional
allowance. N allowance for winners of
IS. 1000. Seven furlongs.
SECOND RACE,-A sweepstakes for all
ages, of $25 each, with $3.50 added, of
which $3.50 to second; third to receive 800
out of stakes. Winners in 1889 of 81, 900 to
carry 5 lbs; 5000, Z lbs. 50, 600. 10 lbs. ex-
ira. Non-winnerssin 1889 of $3.50 allowed
IL lbs. of $500, Is lbs; selling races and
handicaps when carrying less than weight
for age not counting. No allowance for
two years olds beyond z lbs. One mile and
half a furlong.
THIRD RACE-A sweepstakes for all
ages, of S25 each, with $3.50 added, of
which $50 to second; third to receive
1889 of 81, 800 allowed 5 lbs; of 81, 1000,
z lbs; of $3.50, 10 lbs, selling races not
counting. No allowance for two-year-
olds beyond z lbs. No allowance for
winners of $1,000. One mile and a fur
long.
FOURTH RAcE.-A sweepstake for two
year-olds, of $40 each, with $500 added,
stakes divided between second and third.
Winners of three or more races, 5 lbs. of
four or more, z lbs. extra. Maidens
allowed 10 lbs; if beaten. Is lbs. Five
furlongs. FS#M
Fifth Race-Ag selling sweepstakes for
all ages, of $40 each, with $500 added,
stakes divided between second and third.
Winner to be sold at auction for So, 900; if
for less, 1lb. allowed for each 500 less.
Weights 5 lbs. above the scale. No allow
ance for two years old beyond IL lbs. One
mile.
Sixth Race.-A selling sweepstakes for
all ages, of $40 each, with $500 added.
Winner to be sold at auction for So, 600; if
for less, / III. allowed for each 500 to
81, 900, hen 2 lbs. for each 500 less, No
allowance for two years olds beyond 14lbs.
Six furlongs. RATAPLAN.
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