The evening times., 1895-09-18
GOOD RACING AT PIMLICo
Big List Of Entries Promised for
the Coming Meeting.
Great Interest in the 2:O7 Pace and
2:IO TrOt as Many Speedy Ones
VIII Start in Them.
,snecial to the Times,

Baltimore, Sept. 1S.-EntrleS Tor tne laii
| meeting at the Pimlico Driving Park,
which begins September 80 and closes
| October 4, have been coming in rapidly
| 1t is expected that by Monday next,
| PAGERS and trotters will have been amed
| for the various events.
There will be three races each day, for
| which purses aggregating $l4.5OO have
been hung up. Interest seems to have
| settled upon the 2:1O trot ard 2:07 pace.
| For the pace the purse is $l,5O0, while
| for the trot 1000 is offered.
For the other races purses ranging from
$500 10 81 900 each have been offered,
| and a good field of entries for each has
already been booked.
Arrangements. have been made to run
special trains between Washing gtOn and
Baltimore each day.
AT the autumn meeting ofthe Coney Island
Jockey Club Sl53,S75 in stakes and
purses were distributed among the winning
horsenen for eighty flour events. or
this amount Dave Gideon won $50, ,06O.
Henry of Navarro is said to be the best
tempered running stallion ON the turf.
He has great, limid eyes that fairly speak
his intelligence, and he seems to know all
about everything that goes on around him.
He is SO gentle that child can handle him.
Handspring, Dwyer's crack two-year-
old, that was kicked by Axiom while al
the post for the Futurity, has about re-
covered, and IL is expected will be started
before the Gravesend meeting closes. The
colt had a narrow escape from injury Tor
life. and as he is considered tn have but
one. il any, equal among the colts OF the
year. Dwyer is highly pleased at his
speedy coming around.
1t was said that the defeat of Domino by
Henry of Navarro year ago was take2
very much to heart by James r. Keene,
but that he feels his IDOLS recent defeat
even more sharply, and that IL he could
withdraw from the two match races yet
to be run without having his action looked
upon as uusportsnianlike, he would gladly
do 81. 1t is not loss of the money involved
in the matter that makes Mr.. Keene feel
as he does, but pure affection for Domino,
and the regret il gives him to see him CON
uuered. Everyone knows that Domino
did more for James r. Keene than any
horse ever did for his owner" says turf
writer.
AS 4 wo-year-old he won greater
amount of money than was ever before
credited to a race horseiD this country. Fof
lowing. as it did, Keene's disastrous wheat
speculatoDs, it virtually saved him from
complete financial ruin. 1t was, indeed.
tt k,a rod nf
that the fiDancier's affection for the noble
animal is only degree removed from idol
airy? This is the true reason why Domino
has not been subjected to the hard course
of training necessary to fit him for his
engagements. The fear of injury in pre-
pairing him has been ever present, and he
has been indulged where other horses would
have been pressed"
The eastern and western turf reporters
seem wholly unable to settle the matter of
Just how much money Riley Grunnan
really won on the victory of Henry Of
Navarro over Domino. Some say it was
500 900, others that it was $780, 900.
Either sum should be quite satisfactory to
the pluDger, for if he won 100000 that.
added to the winnings he was credited with
for two or three weeks previous to the Ma
varre Domino race, would bring him to-
tai winnings for three weeks into the
Deighborhood Of quarter of million
OF dollars.
If Grammar has these winnings he should
make haste to plant and sail close to the
wind hereafter, for his path has not been
of roses only. He has tasted the bitter
as well as the sweet that the pluDging
business holds. He started on shoe
string, ran it into tannery, then dropped
the tannery. When he began operations
at the Saratoga meeting his bank roll, SO
the wise ones -say, contained $50, little
more than a shoe string to men OF his kind.
Now he has another tannery. Lightning
hit Riley twice, but IL he should return to
the shoe string it is hardly likely that it
will hit him again.