St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-05
NO CLASH IN DATES.
Racing Authorities in the Twin
Cities Do Things Right.

To avoid clash with the Minnehaha
Driving parks summer meeting, which
will be held the first week in July, the
racing committee of the Minnesota
Driving club moved its dates back one
week, change that will be appreciated
by horsemen, as it will give them two
weeks racing at the Twin Cities. In
the hope of inducing the stronger stables
to include Hamline park in the chart of
their campaign in 1890, the new club,
whose president is the governor OF Min
nesOta, opened four stakes, three OF
which Will be decided on consecutive
weeks. As each of them is guaranteed
to be worth $4,000 at maturity. the
horses eligible to the slower classes will
find this meeting very acceptable. The
event for the first day of the meeting
calls for Il race between three-minute
performers, and will bring out a wealth
of new material, as the average green
horses Of to-day are frequently as fast
as many that have been before the pub
lie two or three seasons. The $50
stake will appear on the second days
card, and will be one of the first races
Flower City stake, if the West can SUD-
ply it in 1890, will appear. A similar
key to the probable starters in the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers stake at
Detroit will be found in the 2:24 class,
the guarantee stake for the third
day of the meeting. The fourth
event in the Offering is free-for-
all pace, with Johnston barred. 1t
should be the contest of the meeting,
with such field of possible starters as
Gold Leaf, Roy Wilkes, Hal Pointer,
Arrow, Bessemer, Gossip Jr., Budd
Doble, Adonis, Jewett, Willard NJ, Lii
liam, Argyle, Don Pzarro, Doctor NJ,
l.. c. Lee, Gray Harry, Fred Arthur.
Chimes E, Mike Wilkes, Wilcox. Ed
Amman, Frank Champ, Mambrino Han
MS and Prince Hal being drawn to an
edge. While the winner may not be
called on to reduce his record, he will he
asked to step three fast heats for the
first half of July. The entrance to each
of these stakes has been fixed at u per
cent, divided into three payments of
$50 each, the horses being named on
June 20, when the last one is due, and
should the entrance amount to more
than the money given for the race all of
it will be devoted to the purse. All
corners that are eligible May Is are
welcome TO these stakes, which are
guaranteed to be of advertised value.
There are only two members of the
Twin Cities circuit, but the pair are a
host in themselves. The formation OF
this racing confederation was a matter
of much thought and consideration, cul
minating in two first-class programmes
that surely will meet with the hearty
approval of horsemen. The dates fall
exactly right for those engaged in the
Northwestern circuit, the two Mime
sofa cities picking up the thread OF
argument. 1t is needless to say the rae
ing authorities at Minneapolis and St
Paul do things right. Nopurse of theil
coming meeting is less than $500, ano
the Minnesota Driving club at st. Pau
intends to hold its inaugural meeting
fifty by offering three stakes oil
$1,000 each for 300, 2:24 and 2:3(
trotters, with purse of the same
amount for the free-for-all pacing class,
barring Johnston. Collectively, the
two members offer the neat sum of S22,-
900. This sum is to be divided among
the 800, 2:30, 2:17, 2:25, ga 2:45, 2:2l
and 2:27 trotting classes and 2:2O, 2:40,
2:24 and free-for-all PAGERS. For the
purse races the usual fee of 10 per cent
Is charged.