Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-05
RACING AT BENNING
Second Autumn Meeting Opens There
Tomorrow Afternoon.
SPLENDID CONTESTS TO Be DECIDED
Every Stable of Prominence in the
Country Engaged.
RACES OVER THE JUMPS

The second fall meeting Of the Washing
| ton Jockey Club, which commences at the
| Benning race course tomorrow afternoon,
! will have engaged in it the largest number
of horses seen here for years. The class
of horses will be high, every prominent
| stable IN the country almost sending one or
| more representatives here. The recent
| rains have somewhat retarded preparing
the track. but Superintendent Lee and a
| large gang of men have worked almost day
| and night during the clear weather, and
| when the horses go to the post in the first
| race tomorrow the track promises to be
| not only safe, but fast.
| The meeting will be one Of fifteen days,
| closing Saturday, the Goth instant. The
| management of the club wisely determined
| that there should be no stake races this
| fall The purses however, are lib
| erai- enough to secure in each event
large field The racing: therefore.
| being under the auspices Of -he Jock
| ely Club. the American racing orsani-
| cation. will, as in the past, be free from
| all jobs as the rules and the determine
| ton on the part of the management to
| have clean, honest racing can possibly
make it.
| The present Washington Jockey Club was
| formed not for the purpose of gain, bat
with the determination to rescue racing in
| this section, at least, from the depths to
which it had fallen through the slIprem-
| aCy of the rambling element The club is
composed of such men as August Belmont,
| the chairman, and of the stewards of
| The Jockey Club, and a man who STANDS
| for all that is clean and sportsmanlike in
| racing; Frederick e. Mcclure, one of the
| best-known Washingtonans; A. C. Barney
| Woodbury. Blair. Ben HELEN, John Baker
| and others of like prominence in the best
| circles In washington. President S. 8. How
| land Is equally we'll known in the best cir
| cles tf Washington and New York, and in
the racing world occupies an enviable po-
sition- These gentlemen have from the first
| been lavish in their expenditure on the
! track and grounds, and in the management
OF the meetings which have been held at
u the Bennins course since they purchased
IT. and have placed the Washington Jockey
Club in the very front rank Of American
racing associations.
Through their management the people of
| TINS section have been afforded racing of
TIE very highest character. The attendance
at each meeting has comprised the best
class OF people. Every Objectionable fea-
tire has been removed and the attendance
| OF ladies has been particularly gratifying
During the meeting, which is to be inau-
gurated tomorrow, President Rowland will
nave as associates in the steward stand
gentlemen of the highest character and
well versed in racing. Mr.. Clarence McDon-
aid, the presiding judge of all the big east
ern meetings. will preside in the judges
made such remarkable success at the To-
ronto and Port Erie meetings, will WELD
the starters flag. Mr.. w. H. Barretto will
officiate in the timers stand and that vet
eran in the racing world Mr.. H. Crickmore
will be clerk of the course and the scales
Already has the stable room at the Ben
ming course been exhausted. the stables at
the old Ivy City course being called upon
to accommodate the overflow. Among the
well-known stables which had arrived up
to this morning were those of M. F. Dwyer,
| Turney Brothers, Jimmy Mclaughlin, ]. ].
McCaferty, W. P. Burch, w. c. DAILY r.
Bradley, ]. E. Madden. ]. A. Gray. Green
B. Morris. Bobby McKeefer Duke & WISH
ard. Philip Dwyer. Billy Haywood. r. w.
Walden, w. b. Jennings, John Hynes, F.
Dcggett. Frank Ryan, Fred. Millen and
| others.
Among the well-known horses which will
start here will be Plaudit the great two
year-old; DR.. Catltt Swift, The Manxman
Premier. Oxnard, Ben Elder, Requital
Peat, Old Saugus. Warrenton Good Times
Salvable, Benz ares, Flushing, Sly Fox
Dutch Skater, Deal, Campania, Forget ami
| many others.
1t Is believed that the reduction of the
jockey fees will have little or no effec. on
the attendance with the prominent Jockeys
and Simms. Taral. r. Williams. Martin
Bergen. Doggett. Littlefield, OConnor. and
about all the other crack jocks will ride
| during the meeting.
There will not be less than FIVE races each
day. and the regard of the Washington rae
| ing public for jumping races will be recog-
| niZed to the extent of number of hurdle
ard steeple chase events. The first race
| will be called each day at 2:15 thus insur-
| ing the return to the city before dark.
| Special trains direct for the track will
| leave the 9th street station at / and 40,
| returning Immediately after the last race.
| Tomorrows card calls for five races. Two
| at six furlongs. one at five furloags. one at
| mile and sixteenth and mile and a
| half: hurdle race over six hurdles. AS
| heretofore the club will refuse admittance
| to Objectionable characters.
| Change in n Racing Rule.
At meeting held yesterday afternoon
| the directors of the club changed rule 4.
part 3. that in the event of there being
| more horses entered in race than the
| width of the track will allow to start, those
| horses not drawn may. in the further event
Of scratches. start in the order drawn.
Speaking of the. amendment, President
] Rowland said: 1.-The change Is In the ma
| ture Of an amendment to govern future
| eyentsNof the sort in Jockey Club circles.
! Under the rule. as it now reads. only those
| horses that are drawn are eligible for the
| race on the next day. In overnight purse
events 10 often occurs that many of the
horses are scratched. These Withdrawals
leave room for other horses. though they
| have neter replaced them by any of the
| horses that failed to be drawn.
| For example the Benning track is seven
| " feet wide. and will accommodate four
| Teen horses. allowing five feet for each
morse. as per the rule. We will say that
! twenty horses are entered for the race and
| fourteen are drawn. and the other seven.
| by turn of luck, fail to materialize in the
| drawing. 1t struck me that we would bene-
| fit the owners of the other seven horses by
| substituting as many of them as the track
| allows, in case of any scratches II three
| out or the fourteen are scratched we will
| draw again for three of the lot that failed
| in the first drawing. The Indications point
| TO one OF the most successful meetings we
| have had In the history Of Bennng."
Tomorrow Entries.
The following are the entries for tomor-
| row:
| First race all ages: six furlonps n2l-wor
| renton. 105: Thomas Cat, lbs; Sly Fox, 1903;