The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-02
THE RACES AT KENT
Large Number Of 2:30 Horses
in the Stables.
RECORDS ARE TO BE BROKEN.
Promising Young Horses From Cali
fornfa-Running Entries to Close
Tonight--some Notable Flyers

The entry books of the running depart
ment of the Kent racing fair will be closed
for the last time tonight. The trotters,
which we're entered previous 70 May 70,
are all on the track. and are being coached
and cared for carefully, and exercised on
the new track. Yesterday and all last
rieht sprinklers were driven over the
course. and the drags and heavy rollers
folIowed in their wake. The finishing
souches will be put in on the grand stand
today
The association has made an especial
endeavor to make the races OF unusual m
terest for obvious reasons. Not only Is 1t
the first event gwen by the order. but it is
the first fair trial that has ever been given
the Kite track, and the friends OF straight
stretches are quite anxious to have good
vork to show as an argument for their pet
theory. So great deal of care has been
taken to have no other defects that would
ACCOMPLISH inconvenient results, which
ungenerous critics might be only too ready
to interpret as the fault OF the new
fangledn curves of the kite.
Horses with records between 2:26 and
2:30 predominant in the entries for the
Kent races, as they have for all time past
In events of similar nature. Gold Elsie,
sorrel mare with ambition to be record
breaker, is among them. She is from q
descendant of Woodburne by Sam Purdy.
and has mark of 2:291z. Maud Patchen,
a4year-old FLY, sired by Patchen, Will go
on with record of 2:261z, which she will
try to lower if it is necessary to do so to
win first money. Costello, the brown stall
lion PAGER, has gone mile in 2;27. Hyias
Boy is son of Hylas. and his dam Is Dy
Pilot Temple. He has record OF Z:Z5ta.
Brilliantine got record OF 2:30 even at
Sacramento few days ago.
Other California horses have come north
To contest on Washington tracks. A.
Martin, of Yreka. CAL, has an s-year-old
bay geIding, Klickitat, who has galoped
some, but never surprised any one so far,
which he still has confidence in. Cloud
burst is from the same stable. He is B.
year-old and has yet to make his first start
in running contest. Cyclone and Eddie
r. are from Starkey's stable in San Joa-
quin county, in the same state. The
former holds a record of 0:34H for the
three-eighths distance, but Eddie R. has
no record.
Jesse Bros, of Walla Walla, have four
horses in the entry list. Regal is bay
horse by Regent, out of Maggie Bebe.
Wall Street is a sorrel 3-year-old, who
was sired by Coioma and damned by
Steamboat. Homely Girl is bay FLY,
years old, with Homeless for her sire
and Whey for a maternal ancestor. The
bay stallion Sir Henry is new to the ways
of the American track. As runner he
has put his mark at 42k on the English
turf over two years ago, when he was in
the 3-year-old class His sire is Hamdon
and his dam Lady Henry, a famous
British brood mare. Sir Henry has a
three-quarter record of LIE, and is con-
sidered one Of the best horses on the
track.
The imported stallion Bonnie Scotland
Is represented by the bay colt Bonnie
Glenn, who was sired by Glen Dudl ey.
His dam is Bonnie Maggie. whose sire was
the famous Bonnie Scotland himself.
Belle McGregor, another name suggestive
of bagpipes and haggin, is by Robert
McGregor, out of a mare named Belle.
J. ii. Butler is the owner of Belle Nc
Gregor. His home is at Boise City, Idaho.
]. w. McLeod's brown stallion Delcho,
whose record of 2:291 is homemade,
having been won on the Tacoma track
last year, is another of the contestants.