Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-18
THE SPRING MEETING.
One Week From Today Racing st Benning
Begins,

One Week From Today Racing 1t Bsn.ing
Begins,
ryAUaURArIy6 THE EASTERN CAMPAIGN ron f7E
SEASON OF 1S92-HoRsEs ARRIVING At THE
TRAcK-THE pUMBLANK HUNT Guns MEET At
IVY crrY-EARLY MORNING VISITORS.
Today week, the 25th the Washington
Jockey Club throws open its gates and thereby
inaugurstes the eastern racing campaign Of
1892 Did necessity exist, the club could be-
gin its meeting at once, for every detail has
been carefully and thoroughly attended to and
the finishing touches given to the track.
The horses are now beginning to come in 50
rapidly that it is very doubtful If sccommoda-
tons can be found for all stables desiring to
run here. During the past week N. T. Doush-
er arrived with two horses. the Auburndale
stable with six. VIM. Saunders with five, mostly
two-year-olds BY Jacobite; the Randolph stable
with four and Frank Van Ness with India Rub
Der and five others. There are now at the
track more than one hundred horses and sew
eral carloads are expected soon from the
northern tracks.
Despite the statement published in New
York the track is in excellent shape, and the
trainers and owners now at the track state
that it is one OF the best in the country, being
both safe and fast.
The cold and wet weather Of the past few
days put back some horses. but not to any
alarming extent. No real fast work has yet
been done, the owners and trainers preferring
to put their charges through easy moderate
work. The coming week, however, the horses
will get move on them and some fast work
may be expected 1t may be stated that the
horses are worked between daylight and 10 or
IL o'clock III the morning. and no moro inter-
esting sight could be wished than the prepare
ticn which a racing stable gives its inmates.
Already these morning preparations are at
tracing numerous visitors to the track, and
the crowds during the early hours Of the days
between this and Monday next promise to be
unusually large.
A very interesting question will shortly be
settled in the OF Ed. Corrigan agt tho
Coney Island Jockey Club. In the last futurity,
run at Sheepshead Bay last September, the club
compelled by the courts to allow Corri-
gan's Huron to start. The club had previously
informed Corrigan that HurOn's entry was
VOID, but be insisted that il was not, and, APP
peaing to the courts, the club was ordered to
permit the horse to start. 1t did so and Huron
finished second to His Hi2bncss. Iorkyille
Belle being third and Dagonet fourth. Acting
under the instructions Of the club the judge
entirely ignored Huron and placed Yorkville
Belle second and DaGonot third. In fact,
Huron was ignored both in the race and in the
betting. To punish Corrigan for appealing to
the courts the club notified him that il would
in tho future accept no entries made by him,
and he thcreupon appealed to the courts to
compel the club to accept his entries. The ac-
ton Is of grave Importance to all racing asso-
Citations, involving. as il does, the question
whether jockey club is private corporation
with powers TO exclude whomsoever it pleases
from Its track. without assigning any reasons
or is q quasi-puDlic corporation, bound to rec
ognize certain Obligations.
The club contends that it is an organization
in the nature OF private corporation and that
II can refuse TO receive such entries as il may
see fiji to refuse. The case is one O. unusual
interest and importance. and its decision will
be awaited with no little impatience by the
racing world.
Tenny is now reported to be not SO lame as
he was a week or ten days ago. The SWAY
back will evidently be made ready for the
Suburban, for which he is quoted at 20 10 /.
Nontanas price in the Metropolitan has been
reduced from 30 to rs to l, and in the Sub
urban the big colts price has been cut down
from 20 to 10 to l.
The MEETING of the Ontario Jockey Club,
which begins at Toronto ON May *. should be
a success. feature Of the sport will be The
cross-country events for hunters ridden by
gentlemen, members of any respectable hunt
club in Canada or the United States.
The starters who will handle the flag on the
different race tracks this year are as follows:
Caldwell at Gutenberg and Saratoga Rowe at
Gravesend. Sheepshead Bay, Morris Park.
Monmouth Park and Washington; Sheridan at
Park. Chicago: Ferguson at New Orleans, San
Francisco, Lexington. Louisville, Denver and
St. Paul; Merrill at Little Rock; Chinn at East
st. Louis; Walker at ST. Louis: Pettingill ut
Gloucester and Garfield Park, Chicago, and
Gilman at Hawthorne Park, Chicago.
RACING FIXTURES FOR 1892
Memphis. Tenn April IL" Chicago Hawthorne Park,
April 35-liay : shcepahead Bay '1N'
Nashville I iH;il June ls-'uly
Lexington. conn ~ AA'''-' June % July IL
s. AgFl May 10 Chicago 'Tn,9S s rrsl
April 30-June q Brighton Beach ~
Louisville. KY. May u 90 Juiy-August-
Brookiyn;N. u. Nay 16-:s Monmouth Park
L.'0n'' Mi 2y.. "a ~ 20
Nay 5iTs "a st. fu july ma Angus. ID
Toronto, Ont, May 24-2s sheepshead Bay
May as-June Ii lBrooklyn' NY, 'ep' ~
York sa c~S York s5ptb Cub
Montreal. June "a-July q October lis
Tuesday last Badge, with 1l2 pounds up,
ran a mile at Gutenberg in L4ll5, the fastest
nile run this season.
Sunol will within week or 80 be shipped to
Meadvlle, Pa, where Marvin will endcavor to
lower her record Of 2US1l on the kite track
there.
1t is said that the election OF republican
mayor In Jersey City will have the effect OF
destroying the political ring under which the
Gutenberg track has fiourished FOR so long.
1t is believed that the Elizabeth track will
throw open its gates this spring. probably
about the 10th of this month. Should it do so
the Guttenburg track would suspend. The
betting privileges, which viii probably be un-
der the charge of H. Stedeker. will be operated
in different way than heretofore. Instead OF
the men making book under the present
stand system they will parade the lawn and
accept bets on the mod" similar to the way it
is conducted in England.
The Dumblaue Hunt Club has engaged the
Benning track for its two days meet next
month. The 18th and 10Th of May will prob
ably be the dates chosen. rather elaborate
program is being prepared and the meeting
will be notable one.
THE COURTS.