Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-08

- successful IN the clubs
history. for. in an intel
ligent spirit Of liberal
ity, the club will at this meeting offer purses
large enough 10 attract the best stables Of both
the east and west. Among the stables that
have written for accommodations are those Of
J. A. q A II. Morris, NJ. F. Dwyer. walcott
Campbell, ]. ]. McCafferty, W. NJ Derrick,
BOYLE Littlefeld, Brown Rogers, Green r.
Morris, w. b. Jennings. W. c. DAILY, Z. J.
Dryer 4 Son. FoXhan Keene, Vim. Lakeland
and many others. Such famous stables. together
with the numerous small ones which will COME.
indicate that the horses which will be engaged
will be both numerous and of high class.
The program for the first six DAYS OF the
meeting has already been announced. and that
for the remaining days of the meeting will be
announced later. The program announced
evidences the fact that the conditions Of the
various events have been carefully arranged 40
as TO give every horse show for the money.
The races on the fat of all distances from half
a mile TO mile and half, although the shorter
distances prevail The people Of this section
particularly are fond Of long-distauce races.
and the club would make a hit by giving good
purse for four-mile dash
Bearing in mind the great partially Of the
Washington racing public for jumping races a
number Of steeplechase and hurdle races viii
be run On Friday, the 2lst instant, an extra
read;
Steeplechase sweepstakes Of sI0 each. with
$500 added. of which $50 10 second for horses
owned in Maryland. Virginia and the District
OF Columbia, the property of members OF recog-
nized hunt clubs thirty DAYS prior to race.
Thoroughbreds to carry 100 pounds, halfbreds
$50 pounds. Gentlemen riders Professional
riders to carry seven pounds extra. The steeple-
chase course.
STABLES AT THE TRACK.
Already number of stables are at the track
and more will almost daily arrive. it being ex-
pected that at least 200 horses viii be here for
the meeting. Among the horses already at the
track are:
F. I. Mller's Larchmont. Syracuse. Captive,
Dora, Heel and Toe gelding and George W.
j. $. Owens Gertie. two-year-old, by Bother
alton; Blanche c., by Willful; Romany FLY,
Nassal FLY and a half-bred, by sanford.
W. p. Burch's Foxmede, knick knack, Rose
Washington and yearling.
Robert Neville's Lady Superior, Lady woos-
ter and an Ochiitree fiily.
G. r. Thompkins' Can Can and Margherita
Peter Smalls Flip Flap.
Chesapeake stables Gold Wave, Troublesome.
Tom Tough, Our Maggie and wo-year-old by
Rambler.
J. II. McAvoy's Kirkina.
George Jennings The Sorceress, two-year-
old by Imp. Leopold Adicinda
Geo. t. Leach's Bellevue, Theirs L., Ella and
Lovrette.
sellman Bros Yellow Rose, Senator and Jim
Banks.
Mr.. Geo. NJ. Oyster Of this city will be the
presiding judge. his associate being Mr. Victor
Smith OF the New York Tribune Jimmy Rowe
will handle the flag. The club will not sell the
betting privileges as an entirety, but will dis
pose OF the betting stands singly, as is done by
the great eastern clubs
THE SPOOL ROOM EVIL"
The New York Tribune has this to say OF the
pool room evil: The pool rooms must 60 or
the race tracks are ruined. The attendance at
the Gravesend course the present meeting has
been the siimmest in the history of the Brook
Ign Jockey Club. Ii is said on good authority
that there are 800 pool rooms doing business
on the Gravesend races in this city, The
average attendance in each is estimated at 200,
but that is certainly excessive. The number
may be 100. which would give total of 50, 900
persons playing the races on the commission
plan-which never existed. This is an outrage
Henry Clay Di:mas, the tall sycamore of the
betting ring and the manager for the Western
Union Telegraph Company Of the pool room
end of the racing business, said a day or two
ago that it WAS impossible TO get on in the
betting ring at Gravesend more than 81 900 or
81 500 on 2 TO l shot The ring is played out
The class of bookmakers is lower than ever be-
fore. There is but a handful of big men.
public have withdrawn, leaving the ring to the
tender mercies of a common rabble OF
'shyster' gamblers, who know no more about
making book than hog knows of holidays"
KINesToS's ooNoUERoR.
Lampiighter who by his easy defeat OF
Kingston, has shown himself to be the greatest
horse in training in this country today, is a
horse of remarkable courage; game to the core
he will fight in race until ready 10 drop from
exhaustion. He is the same way in his stall il
opposed. Buck, the colored man who rubs the
colt and whose knowledge of horsefesh is the
result Of twoscore or more years of experience.
having been a grown man at Rancocns when
Matt Byrnes was boy doing legs" as Buck
puts it, says that ''Lamplghter is a curios hoss
for fact" He wants to be tied Just So and
he will stand just SO long one particular
place. Then he wants TO move, and il not per-
mitted to there is going to be a fight Used
with discretion there is no trouble, but the in
slant force is brought into question somebody
is going to get hurt. When brought out to be
saddled for a race he scents the battlefield and
is all eagerness to join the fray. His bony
head, exquisite in its contour, is raised as high
as he can get it and constantly the move.
Although q man. and in some instances two
men, are at his head, he keeps Trainer Hug
gins and his assistants busy in order to adjust
the trappings. The same scene is enacted
when q race is over and he il being cooled out
1et IN his Work ne Is rluuen DIV Jimmy, a
seventy pound mite Of an English lad, IN whose
hands he is perfectly tractabls.
''RAIsE THE wEIaHrsr'
II has been demonstrated time and time again
that rs soon As a jockey arrives at a stage when
he should have years Of success and honor be-
fore him he has to dwindle into insignifcance
because Of the absurd desire Of secretaries to
take weight off horses. How many today ever
think of Jimmy" Mclaughlin? Yet be il on
the track every day. In the prime Of life, and
able, II it were worth his while, 10 ride at about
l23 pounds. Fitzpatrick l. only seen on rare
occasions. and that at the great cost Of injur-
ing his health and running his constitution
Hayward seldom rides, and then only for the
Burridge Brothers. Murphy has SO far made
no engagement for next season, for the simple
reason that jockeys of his weight are seldom az
forded an opportunity ofgetting across a horse.
and Garrison's daily average in the saddle would
be an exceedingly Insignificant computation.
The board Of control has taken over the charge
Of turf affairs with the intention Of raising
racing to level to which il Is entitled. Let the
increase of the scale of. weight be one Of its
chief considerations. Let IL aim to impress
secretaries and trainers Of handicaps that
feather weights and incompetent midgets should
not be one Of the ruling elements Of the turf.
Let it assume an attitude which would give
riders Of ability an opportunity TO pursue their
avocstion after they have passed the precocious
stage of knickerbockers and cigars - big Is
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