Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-04-15
RACING AT BENNIN0.

RACING AT BENNIN0.
Preparing for tho Washington Jockey Clubs
Next Meeting.
| week from Monday next the Washington
Jockey Club will throw open their gates for Q
spring meeting Of twelve days That the meet
ing will be a success, both in q racing point of
view and also financially, the energy and enter
prise OF the club management clearly evidences.
Recognising the value of stake races the club
opened six liberal stakes for the coming meet
ing and received entries comparing most favor
ably with the stake events Of the other racing
organizations Of the country, both as to num-
Der and quality. the hotel and primary stakes.
for two-year-olds, receiving SO and SO entries,
respectively; the Deanwood stakes. for three
year-olds, 10; the national capital stakes and
the Durang handicap, for the older division,
| % and 2S. respectively. and the metropolitan
steeplechsse stakes. 10.
| The stables making these entries are among
| the very best in the racing world land large
| fields Of high-class horses will make the first
venture Of the club in arranging stake events
one Of the racing events of the racing year Of
| 1898.
AT THE TRACK.
Although the meeting does not open for
| more than a week yet. there are already at the
track, ready to face the starter. not less than
| $50 horses The stable of Green B. Morris has
| arrived with Judge Morrow and ten or fifteen
| more high class ones, and from now on there
will be daily arrivals Of the big stables. In
| TACT. Secretary Draney is already at his witt
end to know how to place all the stables which
have applied for stable room. The track and
grounds are in excellent shape, many improve
ments having been made since the fall>meeting.
The first race will be called at 8 o'clock every
oft mud he
afforded the local race soers. The manage
ment of the club will take more than ordinary
prccaution to prevent the attendance OF objec-
tionable characters, and nothing will be left
undone to secure to the race-going public every
| accommodation and convenience.
MORE METHOD NEEDED.
Secretary Crickmore of the Monmouth Park
Association makes a suggestion that ought to
be agreeable to everybody connected. with the
turf. There is too little system and method in
the conduct Of American race tracks. The
starter, for instance, has not felt it incumbent
on him to mention to any one occurrences at
the post OF an ordinary nature, such IS the
| fning of jockey for disobedience or his sus-
pension for lmpertinence or rascality of some
kind. The mere fact that So-and-so is put down
Is reported in the course of time, but the public
| seldom learns the reason why. Matters occur
| at the post which even the secretary and the
judges know nothing about. but concerning
which they should be informed Immediately. 1t
is not the starters fault that this is 1t
is the fault Of the system. The judges
are in the same boat as the starter.
They often do things a mere matter
Of routine which nobody seems to think worth
| reporting for the edifcation of the public. Mr..
Crickmore thinks that the people who support
racing are entitled to all the news of the race
| track. and he would arrange matters so that
| they can get it. He believes that the calendar
of the English Jockey Club should be followed
In this respect. IL jockey gives offerse to the
| starter, and is fined or suspended, the full par
tcuiars should go record. There is no rea-
| son for keeping such things from the eye of the
public. OF course no effort is made to do that
| the trouble is that the board of control has not
thought Ii necessary or interesting to publish
such tribes. Mr.. Crickmore's suggestion is a
good one Everything that happens should be
! reported. and the local club would do well to
bear NJ. Crickmore's suggestions in mind
FORMIDABLE HANDICAP CANDIDATES.
The way Judge Morrow has been going at
Gravesend makes him a very formidable can
didate for the Brooklyn handicap. Indeed,
| there are any number of good horsemen who
believe Green Morris famous horse will surely
win the first great spring handicap OF the sea-
son, thus putting that event to his credit two
years in succession. Cassius, the handicap
hope of Walcott d Campbell's string. with Pes
sara. is laid on the shelf. The legs OF both are
that the stable fears Pessara will not train
again, while Cassius is pretty much in the same
| boat. Parvenue, with his ia pounds, is con-
sidered the most formidable Brooklyn handicap
horse now located at Morris Park. He ran eleven
races last year and WAS defeated but once
Another Brooklyn handicap candidate clearly
on the suspicious list Is Major Domo. He Is
going decidedly lame in his fore legs. He NAV
be got up to the suburban, bat i. is more than
likely that the old horse will a. best have TO
content his owner with one or two scratch purse
| races.
TRACK GOSSIP.
The Guttenburg delegation which is going to
race at Elizabeth is large one, and some of
the horses which have been laid up all winter
are being entered, so as to work them into con-
dition. Their owners boast that they are sure
| to get long price against them when they
| start. Gloucester is likely to be represented by
| some of the fastest sprinters from that track
The get of Rayon dor won in the aggregate
last year as much as S79.s36. This sum WAS
! distributed among for:y-slx OF his sons and
daughters, the larges. contributor being Ban
quet with S22.OSO to his credit, while his older
brother, Tea Tray, came next, with 1910, and
fourth on tho list il another brother Entire
with S4,2i6 The descendants of this grand
horse took part in no less than 826 races, III Of
which were wins.
Porter Ashes horses were ruled of at San
Francisco on Tuesday. Tom Williams sent east
| and had the board Of control forward to tie
Blood Horse Association the unpaid fOrfeits of
Ashe, amounting to $4,000. Ashe could not
pay. This move also shows the Blood Horse
Association acknowledges tho authority of the
board Of control.
meeting of the jockey license committee of
the Western Turf Congress was held at Lexing-
ton n.y., last week. when the following licenses
were issued: H. Ray. L. GeEo.es, c. A. Thorpe.
w. Perkins, C. Bryant J. West, L. Reif and
j. j. McCatferty. An important addition to
rule iG0 was made, which was 10 The effec. that
"if jockey should own in part or in whole
race horse in training he shall not be permitted
to ride horses other than his own on any course
Of this congress-"
Some of the trainers at Morris Park tel great
stories abou. Russell. No time is given. ba. lie
is said to be doing excellently at sIddleburg
farm. The Morris horses are not expected on
for two three weeks vet II Parvenue is
beaten in the Brooklyn handicap they expect
Russell to do the trick.
Will Elliott and Tiuv Tim are d. T. PuIsifer's
entries fo- the Coo American derby. Mr..
Pui,lfer has put up 500 on each in ths Winter
books. standing to win LOCO on Will Elliott
or sI5.GG0 On Tiny Tim.
The GuEtenburS managers have decided TO
race at their track directly after the close of
the Elizabeth meeting. There will oniy be
seven days OF the sport. however. toe dates
being from May 10 the 18th inclusive
total o. SIG, 80 was distributed at the New
Orleans winter racing meeting The Orwell
stable heads the list OF winners with s6,4a0; D.