St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-25
500 HORSES here TODAY.
NEVER HAS axNLIRE SEEN SEcH AN
AGGREGATION
OF RENOWNED Race HORSES.

Fey FL Santa Anita Will Find
Dangerous Rival in Prince
Carl at the Derby-M ekota Has
Won First Place in Nine iiaces
This Year-Other Great Ones
Now at tho Track.
There is good deal of interest in the
opening of the Twin City running
meeting. and it seems as il nearly
everybody wants to attend. Some Of
those who want to go see their way
clear 10 do SO owing to the action of the
council in ordering the city offices
closed at neon. The greatest number
who are anxious for chance 10 go are
Ill the wholesale or retail establish
ments, and whose only hope rests in
general closing. Many Of the firms
have expressed willingness to close,
and when the others have been seen, as
they Will be today, II Is expected that
they will be found equally willing to
give their employees IA chance to attend
the first afternoons sport of the kind
given here in two years. Ii the closing
is general there is going TO be Derby
day crowd cut at Hamline "Wednesday
i'll every sense of the word.
Two more train loads of horses ar
rived at the iiamline race track yester-
day. They were unloaded as soon as
they reached the grounds and seemed
10 relish the change from the narrow
quarters in the cars 10 the spacious
stables which will be their homes for
the next thirty days. There were lot
OF good horses among the number. i'll
fact there are 10 better horses any.
where. in general, than those now
Quartered at Hamiine. or those Oh their
way here. There are stake winners
and handicap winners. and when Chris
Smiths string gets here there will be
record breakers OH the track. Among
those that arrived yesterday we're:
w. NJ. Rogers string includes Dillon
}, Sagwa, Pekin, Dart, Can't Tell
Jersey and Rogers.
a. j. Weston brought lXion. Prince
Imperial and Traverse.
u. \. Honig brought such good per-
formers as Chant, Dutch Oven. Charm,
Orphan and others.
p. NJ. West has Cedar Brook, Ida
MayeS. Islam.
rived. They were Grafton. Zampost,
Sir Charles and Draw Scott.
The Springfield stables have Wekoia.
Lombard. Red John. Denver and Myrtle
Arthur. Zee Mike, Excelsior and
Charles Dickey.
a. Carson is represented by Little
Jim. Craftsman, Shenandoah, Ihtimidor
and two twG-year-oIds.
c. L. LaHderS brought Jennie ". Yu-
eatan. Nativity, Pagan and Rars, IN
j. 3. White has Prairie Ciiip1, fort
" ORTIZ. Partlienia, Chiswiek and Long
Bridge l.. Ezell has Toby. Babe Muir.
ply, Meddler. Medior, Dungarven and
Rouble. Among the other horses that
came in were De Jure, Caroline Hanil-
ton. Corea, icionia, Daisy Bell, Alya
and Tit for Fat
Among the foregoing will be seen the
names Of three more Derby candidates,
which now make five on the ground
Yesterdays arrivals were Wekota. Long
Bridge and Cedar Brook. Weko,a is
considered avery fine three year old
He has raced more this year than any OF
the others, and has Won some good
races. He has faced the starter twentys
one times. end oat of this number has
received the recognition of the judge
no less than fourteen times. Ninc times
he was first under the wire, four times
he got second money. and once lie was
third. He has beaten large fields at
various distances, has gone The Derby
route successfully, is Il game horse, and
his owner thinks he has a good chance
TO win the big event next Wednesday.
Long Bridge is credited with winning
twice, and was unplacad three times.
He 100. may have look in at the
Derby.
As the Twin City Jockey club officials
have not been notified 10 the contrary.
they expect that Lucky Baldwin will
send Key FL Santa Anita lip 10 contest
for the prize. Prince Carl and Senator
1rby are also expected. As Prince Carl
was strictly in the big race which the
California mans horse won Saturday.
the latter would have no more of a
waik-away if lie came here than he did
then, and. il the race were run differ
emily from The way that one was, he
might not do so we'll If the great
three-year-old should be brought here
he would De a great drawing card; but
his absence will net deprive the Derby
OF being what it now prOmiSes-tke
best Derby run under the auspices of
the Twin CITY club. There will GER
ta!nIy be seven OF eight starters, and
most of them have shown Derby talent.
Secretary Frank Shaw returned from
the tracks yesterday op which the
horses now coming in have been racing.
He spent the last week at Laionia,
Chicago and ST. Louis, arranging for
the horses tha, came in yesterday or are
coming in lie morning. Thirty more
cars will reach here today, and their
arrival VIII run the number at the track
up to about $50 horses. possibly more.
Mr. Shaw found everything to his lik-
ing at the track Yesterday, where he
spent the day looking after the accom-
citations for the flyers yet to come.
Tkefe was a crowd around the stables
ali day, good many persons driving
out frOM tie two cities