The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-28
RACES AT TERRE HAUTE
POINTER AND PATCHEN no PACE
AGAINST THE RECORD TO-DAY.
Other Big Events on the Programme
Track in Condition for Fast
Time-Races elsewhere.
ecial to the Indianapolis journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 27-The har-
ness horse has taken possession of Terre
Haute with the arrival of Star Pointer and
Patchen yesterday There have been three
hundred horses at the track for ten days.
Among them were about two hundred that
are entered in the events of the week and
were brought here solely to have plenty
Of preparation. Others are coming in, ana
the good ones which were at Rigby Park,
Portland, Me-. last week left there Satur-
day night Among these are Frank Bogash.
2.04l4; Planet. 2:04s4 Bumpus 2O4s4: Ami
as 2:0734, and others in the stables OF Sal
isbury the Wilson's. Demarest. Scott Hud-
and Keyes. There are S15 entries for
the fifteen races, and of these eighty have
records better than 2;15. The fastest per-
formers of the year are to be here. and
horsemen are expecting that not only will
the meeting be a historic occasion by the
miles of Star Pointer and Joe Patchen to-
morrow, when each goes against Pointers
record of 1854, but that in several of the
races there will be such records as make
a meeting memorable. There is no differ
ence of opinion among the horsemen as to
the probability of Patchens time being
lowered if the weather is good. G. w
Marks, the owner of Patchen, said he did
not want any pay unless Patchen beat
Pointers record. He wanted to start his
horse the same day as Pointer is to 60,
and so Pointer is programmed for p. m.
and Patchen for p. m There is some
feeling between the two owners. In the
speculative gossip Pointers prospective
mile has been fixed al lbs and Patchen's at
1893. The track has been reclayed four
hundred carloads being hauled TO it from
the right of way of the Vandalia road,
some miles east of the city The clay is a
peculiarly Sprlngy quality. More than one
hundred men are at work with thirty teams
and after the clay had been put on to a
thickness of nearly foot it was rolled
and narrowed over and over again. Then
small army of boys was set at work pick
ing out all the pebbles. Now sprinkling
WAGONS anu nne-lootneu naIioWs are useu.
Horses have been worked for week on
the track and the horsemen say the track
is faster than in those years when it was
gaining the reputation of being the fastest
track in the country. 1t is five years to-
morrow since Nancy Hanks trotted and
Mascot and Flying Jib paced in 2:04 on the
track. making that record for the first time
for harness horses.
The association has made big pro-
gsramme for to-m2rrow; the first day. when
ed attendance. All railroads running into
the city have arranged for special trains
at low fares The thirty thousand
ton intends to make the feature of the
annual meetings. is down for tomorrow.
IL is Tor PAGERS eligible TO the 2;lS class
on June l. and fourteen have paid all the
entrance money. Among these are Sallie
Toler, 2:OSA; Parker s., Pipe; Satin Slip
2:10, and all the others with records be-
low 2:12. The same day there is the 2:17
class trotting $780, with twenty entries.
and among them Octavia, 2:11A: Geddes,
PIG; Eagle Flanagan, 2:122, and Philondes,
2:14%. There are twenty-seven entries in
the 2:2S trot, for 81, 800 and eight in the two
sters in the last race there are the cracks
of the year of the class including Gus Wal
BILE, 21734, and So Sure, who won second
the heats being in 2:24A and 2:25lb Lady
Moraya, pisa, is also an entry. 1t is taken
for granted that the two-year-old record
will be broken.
In all it is a $4,000 day, based on what
the horse owners will receive. and that does
not include the possible payment to Patch