St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-28
AMONG The HORSES.
The Twin City Jockey Club.
Meeting in Progress at
Hamline.
A Score Of Good Races, Excite
ing From Start to s
Finish.
Entries for To-Day's Events
at Saratoga, the Eastern
Horse Haven. e
Rascality on Race Tracks
Points for the Breeders
Whips and Tips. =

Four days of the ten allotted to the
Twin City Jockey club for its second
annual meeting have elapsed, and of
the twenty races run in the first section
of the meeting all but one OF two were
exciting from the time the starter tapped
his drum until the horses passed under
the wire at the finish OF the thou
sands who have been in daily attend
ance at the meeting, there are few who
have found fault with the painstaking
efforts of the jockey club management
to popuIarize running races in the
Northwest, or the results of the races.
AS yet the meeting has not been faint
ed with jobbary. and there is not sus-
picion even that the races have not
been run on the square. Fayorites have
been outfooted by the rankest OF out
siders, but on these occasions the con-
ditions were favorable to the light
weighted long shots. As for the
Derby, the blue ribbon event of the
meeting. no prettier or more exciting
race has been run on the Western turf
this season, and the best horse finished
first, as he did in the Hamline stakes
Saturday. But it will be well for the
management of the Jockey club to, re.
member that the principal support OF
this meeting, as of the first, comes from
the city OF st. Paul. With the single
exception of Derby day, when a few
hundred people from Minneapolis
passed through the turnstiles, there has
not been corporals guard from TIE
Flour City at the meeting. A train OF
six coaches would have been ample to
transport the aggregate attendance from
Minneapolis on last Thursday, Friday
and Saturday. For the sake of keeping
peace in the family, it may be good
policy to call it Twin City meeting, but
the plain fact is Minneapolis is not in
1t. Outside of the half-dozen governors
Of the jocky club who reside in Mime.
apoliS and the representatives OF the
press of that city, few Minneapolis
tans take any interest in the meeting,
and whatever success attaches to it is
due to the patronage of st. Paul peO-
A9le and the hustling ability of Seere-
fary Frank Shaw. The only mistake
made by the management of the meet
ing so far was made on Saturday, when
the mare Bertha, by Branlble-Lucia,w was
permitted to run in the sweepstakes for
gentlemen riders. 1t was an injustice
to the gentlemen who entered their
horses, accompanying the nomination.
with $40 each, and also to the publics
which expected a contest between local
SaddlerS, and not a walk-Over by all old
campaigner. The mare Bertha has
been in training and running con-
tinuously since the beginning of
the winter meeting at New Orleans in
December. 1888. In 1889 she ran in
thirty-five races, winning two and fin
ishing second and third in majority OF
the others. This year she started III at
the New Orleans winter meeting and
has been at it up to date, winning sew
eral races at long odds. II there is ever
to be another gentlemen'S race III eon-
nection with Twin City meeting it
will be uphill work securing nominal
tons unless it is distinctly understood
thatssbottled goods,'' such as Bertha, are
barred. Speaking of "bottled goods"
there is plenty of it at Hamline, but the
Jockey club management has given it
out in plain Anglo-SaXOn that the first
attempt at in-and-out running will re-
suit in the expulsion of the offenders.
Presiding Judge Burke can scent job
berry two days ahead, and the critical
knowledge of racing possessed by Col.
Riley, his associate in the stand. stands
between the Innocent, but spOrt-lOying
public and the sharks. Except for the
Bertha farce, there have been no clouds
OH the meeting so far. and Secretary
Shaw can be congratulated on the sue
cess of his endeavor to provide good en-
tertainment for the patrons of the
Jockey club. There are five events on
the card for to-day, the entries and
weights being as follows:
First race three quarters Of a mile. for
two-yearolds-Mary c, 10S; Harry Ray, Ill;
Michael, Ill; Virgin, lis; Rose Howard,
lis; Onlight, lis; Liniithgow, l1S; All
archist lis.
Second race one mile, West Hotel handi-
cap-Heron, 10; Prince Fortunatus lilo {:
Woodcraft. 1903; Cashier, 1903; Warpeake,
100: x. SO. Lord of the Harem, 81; La
mont, 80.
Third race. mile and an eighth. Twin City
Oaks-Hefter Shelter, III; Louise Forest,
| liz; Lillian Lindsey. lib.
Fourth race. one mile, selling-Gen. Cald-
well, II: Polemus. 81; Monyk, 80; David.
| lO4; Oklahoma Kid. 1OS; Catherine B, no.;
| Vice Regent. ia; Kbaftan, II.
| Fifth race, mile and sixteenth-Verge
| dor, 1902; Davidson los; DR.. Nave, 102;
| Joe Blackburn. 109; Delmar, 115.
| Selections: First race, Anarchist and Rose
Howard; second race, Heron and Prince
| Fortunatus; third race. Heller Shelter and
Louise Forrest; fourth race, khaftan and
Catherine B; fifth race, Joe Blackburn and
Nor