The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-04-08
The MILE TRACK
Racing to Be Seen at Ka-
piolani Park Saturday.
The Best Horses Here VIII Per-
form-Some Records May Be
Broken-Holiday.

You can say" remarked one of the
race promoters yesterday. that the
special meeting scheduled for Saturday
next is now assured The weather
promises fair and all the horsemen are
settled in the determination to have
the thing on and over. For an extra
day it will beat anything ever before
attempted in Hawaii At no time in
recent years has the Jockey club offer
ed such a program as is now adver-
tised. There are lots Of horses enter
ed and the quality is high. The purses
are worth going after and then it is
likely that there will be some big side
wagers. All the horses are showing up
we'll in the training. Some very fast
work has been shown in harness and
there need be no surprise at all if re-
cords are smashed on Saturday after
noon. The track will be faster than
ever before. For this meet the promo
tiers will take special pains to look for
the comfort and general interests of
patrons. We are in hopes that the aft
ernOon will be a general holiday A
number of merchants who are in the
habit of continuing work on Saturday
afternoons even after the doors are
closed, have told us that they will let
their employees off at noon. The money
netted at the meeting on Saturday will
all go for further improvement of the
track. We are in hopes of showing Ill
timately that a horse can do just as
well in this country as in the States.
Better drivers are getting up and the
jockeys are getting the business of rid
ing down finer than in the old days
With the encouragement that We be-
lieve the public should extend, the
horsemen here will be able to give
good entertainments two or three times
a year"
Nigel Jackson, of the Police Bicycle
Patrol, is out to win the mile profess
sional wheel race to be given at Kapio-
QaDi park on Saturday afternoon, in
connection with the horse racing pro-
gram. He regards John sylvia (Manoa)
as his most formidable opponent,
though he does not at all underestimate
Sylvester. Sylvester is always in train
ing and Manoa can get ready for
warm mile on a few hours notice, if he
is in good health and just now he is
looking quite we'll A number of the
professionals do not care for this ev-
ent, but enough viii come to the
scratch TO make a good race. Jackson
is doing real downright hard practice.
Last Saturday and Sunday he reeled off
some very fast miles, halves, quarters
and Fights. Jackson believes he is en-
titled to a handicap, but being placed
on the scratch, announced his inten>
ton of riding to win from wire to wire
Several of the amateurs are hard at
work preparing for their program
on Saturday Allen Jones is
the favorite in the mile professional
The meet promoters declined last ev-
ening for business reasons to give
their list of entries for publica,
ton. The sole right of publishing the
program of the day has been given to
". Smithies. To protect Mr.. Smithies
against the fellows who might com,
pete with him after all his hard york,
the association will keep the official
list private till tomorrow. As the turf
men say. every race has filed" The
names of the horses in training have
been given and there is certain to be
large and fast fields for every event.
Betting is on in quite lively fashion
already. One notable wager was made
yesterday. 1t was $50 even money on
Sympathetic's Last in the running
race