St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-21
Some of the Greatest Flyers
in the Country to Be at
Hamline in July.
Senator Hearst to Send Some
of His Youngsters to the
Initial Meeting.
"Lueky" Baldwin's String Go,
ing From Santa Anita to
Louisville.


spring outdoor sports, renewed in
terest is awakened in the initial run
ming meeting of the Twin City Jockey
club at Hamline. It's only little more
than ten weeks now when the impa-
tient steeds will be flying over the Ham,
line course, and ten weeks will soon
roll around. 1t is not too long time
TO complete all the arrangements nee
essary TO fix the stamp of success on
this meeting, and it behOoveS every we'll
WiSher of st. Paul and Minneapolis to
give the management every encourage
ment. The expenses of this meeting
will be over $4,000. But the gross
profits to the business interests of the
two cities will be, at low estimate,
fully $4,000, and this sum does not in
clude the indirect benefits to accrue
to the northwestern towns by reason
of great influx of strangers in the
most charming season of the year. The
two cities are, in the words of President
Arthur, who was here in SO, checked
in their bridal robes in summer" 1t
was pretty thought prettily expressed,
and yet it was the exact truth. The
summer climate hereafter is perfection.
And then there are so many rural at
fractions, to which art, architecture,
and landscape gardening have added
some later touches of beauty, that the
determination of the Twin City Jockey
club to hold its initial meeting in mid
summer was most happy thought. 1t
has served to fix the attention and Sc
cure the attendance of many people
who could not arrange their business
affairs so as to come at any other season
of the year: and many horSemen who
had heretofore given their best efforts
to advance the interests of some
Of the q Northwestern meetings,
are a little lukewarm towards their
sometimes favOrite meeting places. and
propose to transfer their allegiance to
the Northwest as an experiment at least.
As an evidence of this feeling it is
meeting at Louisville is altogether not
so encouraging as could be wished.
Edward Corregan has already contract
ed to have twelve cars waiting at Nash
vile at the conclusion of that meeting,
and it is said that more than hundred
horses will go direct from there to West
Side park, Chicago, instead of to the
Louisville meeting. This shows pretty
clearly that the number of horses to be
expected at Louisville in May cannot
reasonably be put at over four or five
do OCNCu
hundred have frequently opened the
meeting. This number will, it now ap-
pears. be about the aggregate at the
Hamline meeting in July. There are
b21 entries for the stake races, and there
will doubtless be fully 200 more entries
for the purse races. Writing of the
Louisville races, correspondent of the
Jockey Club says:
Undoubtedly the attack on the tookmakers
will no tho of banning q
Of stables. Then the unfortunate blunder
which caused George Hankins to withdraw
the finest stable in the West has proved
costly thing for the club. There are personal
differences which keep the Dryers. Haggin
and Green d. Morris away from Louisville,
and the bookmakers' fight and Hankins' dis
satisfaction have increased the compiled
TONS None of these things initiate against
the Twin City meeting. Numbers of stables
that will fight shy of Louisville this year will
be the more eager to jump into st. Paul
This, however, is but one of the elements
that will go to assure for your meeting an
unqualified success.
Comparatively few Minnesota people
realize sthe very great Importance to
Minnesota and indeed the whole North
west, of the coming running meeting.
1t is in certain degrees an experiment.
1t can be made an unqualified success if
substantially encouraged by public Spir-
tied citizens of means. Without such
encouragement accorded running inter
ests by leading Eastern capitalists it
would never have reached its present
proportions. The near approach of the
turf season in the vicinity of New York
can be realized by anyone who will take
trip on these pleasant mornings to
SheepShead Bay, GraveSend or Jerome
Pork. Th0rOughbredS whose aggregate
value runs beyond million are receiv-
ing severe preparations for the classic
stakes and well-arranged handicaps in
which they will contest. Slow gallOps
have given way to fast trials of speed.
The staying powers and fieetness of the
animals, young and old. are being tried,
and those whose legs are under SuS-
picion are asked to do work which will
soon tell whether they are sound enough
for racing purposes. The great i'm
provement in the thoroughbred horses
and the plentiful supply of good ma
terial render the work of trainer at
this time particularly arduous. A
horse, no matter how speedy,
must be very fit in these days;
in fact, quite OH edge, to win. Where
ten, indeed seven years ago, there were
but fifteen or twenty animals that could
do mile with proper weight inside of
1:43, there are now scores that can win
inside of 1:42, and hundreds that can
equal the time first named. For a mile
and quarter 200 is no longer re-
spectacle figure. Horses that can do it
with gOOd-SiZed fraction Topped off are
as plentiful as trotters in the 2:1S class.
The tWO-year-old that can run half
mile in fifty seconds has no longer any
MORTGAGE ON A JUVENILE STAKE,
and the Splinter that can be relied upon
TO beat :l6 in a three-Quarter-mile dash
is more likely to lose than win, because
of the development of horses that can
run below 1:15 with favorable condi-
tiOnS.
Much of this progress is owing to the
trainers art. Some of it is owing to the
acquired skill of Jockeys, and not a lit
tie to the advancement of knowledge in
breeding. No matter what the course,
its existence renders the life of trainer
busy one. He must discover the
weeds and cast them out and cultivate
the flowers to the top notch of excel
lence. This is what is now being done
at the tracks adjoining to New York
and at the private training grounds,
like those of August Belmont,
at Babylon, A. j. Cassatt,
at Chesterbrook, William L. Scott, at
Cape Charles, and d. D. Withers at
Brookdale. 1t is trainers business to
know just as nearly as possible the rae
ing capacity of the horses in his charge
In the case of the three and four-year-
old divisions this is easy enough, as the
evidence is furnished by their two-year-
old record: and it simply becomes mat
Ter of getting them into condition.
With the two-year-old lot the state of
affairs is different at this time
They have never performed in a
race. and this uncertainty will add a
rare element of enjoyment to the Twin
City races when the untried two-year-
olds pIance gayly on the track to prove
the mettle that is in them. They have
never performed in a race. Each
yOungster has his own peculiarities,