The evening times., 1895-10-05
DID NOT PAN OUT RICHLY
Harness Horses Are Not Good
Money Drawers This Year.
Many Entries, Yet the PimlicO
Meeting Was Not Profitable.
Especial to The TImes.l


Baltimore. Oct. 5.-The Pimlico meeting
closed last evening. There was good
attendance, and the racing was fairly
good.
1t is said that though the meeting started
off under most encouraging conditions, it
has not been the financial success that it
was expected to be. 1t has resulted as most
of the harness meetings have this year.
About $14,50O was hung up In purses
and there were a Ia rye number of entries
for each event. The crowds, with the ex-
ception of yesterday, We're all that could
have been expected. The pooling privileges,
etc, were Literally paid for, and yet under
all of these favorable circunlsta noes, the
hackers of the meeting, report has it, will
come ont at the little end OF the horn.
If this is true, it may be that the harness
horse so far as Baltimore is concerned, will
be given 4 rest for some time to come.
Jake Patchen, j. H. Morrow's horse, won
the three-miiute trot at the Westminster
fair yesterday, taking the last three heats
in 2:3O 1-2, 2:34 / 4 and 2:35 1-2.
The Temple cup games at Cleveland have
been a great drawback to the harness horse
meeting now in progress there. On Wednes-
day and Thursday, though good card was
Offered each day, there was caly sprink-
ling of pc eople in attendance.
Racing will wind up In the North and East
in lew weeks, but there will be plenty of
1t in the South and West after that. With
st. Louis, New Orleans, Macon and San
Francisco z going in full blast, and the
shorter meetings at Nashville and other
places, there will be work for the horses,
or many of them. until the regular spring
meetings come again.
The race of Star Pointer at Terre Haute
on Thursday is likely to get him into IA con-
troversy with Joe Patchen and John r.
Gentry. 1t has already been suggested that
these three, with Robert j., ought to be
brought together at Lexington. 1t is
hardly probable that Robert j. would be
started in such a race, because both PointcS
and Robert are in the same hands. Beside.
the three heats put in by Star Pointer, 2:04
1-2, 2:04 "a and zoe 12, show him to be
capable of giving both Patchen and Gentry
all they will want to do, without the assist
= anec of his stable companion.
). Malcolm Forbes, OF Boston, in 1891
paid the late Leland Stanford S125,000
for the two-year-old trotting colt Arion,
whose record was 2:10 "a. A few weeks
ago Mr.. Forbes bought Bingen. another
two-year-old, paying $500 for h i'm.
This youngster was known to be able to
go a mile in 2:2O or a little better, but at
the Rigby course, Portland Me-, on Thurs
day, he simply astounded his new owner
by reeling off an exhibition mile in the re-
markable time of 2:12 1-2. No two-year-
old since Arion's performance has ap-
preached this.
The transfer of the National Derby from
Harlem to the St. Louis Jockey Club is
taken as an indication that George Haw-
kins and his associates dhave about given
up the hope they have been fostering
that they viii be able to operate 10 their
satisfaction on the Indiana tracks next
year. The National Derby for 1896 will
be worth about $50, 900 to the winner.
1t will be- therefore, an attractive event
for all good horses eligible tD it. Among
the entries already made are Ben Brush,
Crescendo, Captive, Kamsin, and many
Others now prominent as two-year-olds.
The distance is one and one-half miles.
Some energetic gentlemen OF Baltimore
have been trying for two or three months
to get up a horAp show, to be run on the
lines of the Madison SQUARE event 1t
seems. however, that their efforts have
not been fruitful. 1t is announced that the
promoters of the idea are still at work
pushing it along. but there is no likelihood
that show will be held this year